“Seven Seasons At Least”: Star Trek: Prodigy Creators Hope To Emulate TNG & TOS Success

Star Trek: Prodigy creators and showrunners Kevin and Dan Hageman have plans for the show to run seven seasons like Star Trek: The Next Generation, and possibly emulate TNG and Star Trek: The Original Series by making the leap to feature films. After a tumultuous 2023 that saw Star Trek: Prodigy abruptly canceled by Paramount+ and rallied behind by a #SaveStarTrekProdigy fan campaign, the beloved animated Star Trek series is set to premiere on its new streaming home, Netflix. The Hageman brothers hope finding a global audience on Netflix will lead to true, TNG-like longevity for Star Trek: Prodigy.

In an interview with Collider to promote Star Trek: Prodigy season 1’s Christmas Day Netflix premiere, Kevin and Dan Hageman spoke about how “at the end of episode 40, there’s a nice wrap-up,” but that they also leave “exciting teases” for what could come next in Star Trek: Prodigy season 3. Dan Hageman revealed there’s “at least” a seven-season plan for Prodigy, the bar for Star Trek series longevity set by Star Trek: The Next Generation, while Kevin Hageman mused about the similarities between Prodigy and Star Trek: The Original Series. Read their quotes below:

Dan Hageman: There’s threads of what’s next. If we’re lucky enough to go to season 3, I’m really excited about where the show can go. We wrote this thing to go seven seasons, at least.

Kevin Hageman: I hope people will look back at our show and be like, ‘Oh my god, they followed the footsteps of The Original Series. It got canceled, they got brought back to life. Oh, here comes Star Trek the motion picture.’ Why not?

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How Fans Can Help Star Trek: Prodigy Get Seven Seasons Like TNG

Seven seasons and a movie?

Hopes for Star Trek: Prodigy’s future are pinned on the animated series finding a new audience on Netflix, which is a bigger streaming service than Paramount+. Potentially, Star Trek: Prodigy could become the most widely seen of the current Star Trek series if garners the audience it needs, and fans believe the show deserves. While Star Trek: Prodigy season 2’s 2024 debut on Netflix is assured, a great deal hinges on viewership of Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 when it premieres on Christmas Day.

The best way to help Star Trek: Prodigy continue into season 3 and beyond is to binge the show on Netflix repeatedly, as well as bring others into the fold. Netflix tracks repeat viewings of episodes as well as how much of an episode is watched. The more people repeat binging Star Trek: Prodigy on Netflix, the better. If Star Trek: Prodigy‘s current fanbase and the hoped-for legions of new fans work together and repeat binge, it would show Netflix that there is rampant desire for Star Trek: Prodigy season 3, and even more after that.

Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 premieres December 25 on Netflix, and Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 will be released on Netflix in 2024.