Star Trek: Prodigy co-creator Kevin Hageman has revealed his biggest wish for future episodes of the Star Trek animated series. The story of Dal R’El (Brett Gray) and the former crew of the USS Protostar will continue when Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 premieres on Netflix later in 2024. All 20 episodes of Prodigy season 2 are prepped and ready to go, meaning that Kevin and Dan Hageman are looking toward what’s next for the Star Trek animated series.
Kevin Hageman explained his one wish for Star Trek: Prodigy in a discussion at TrekTalks 3‘s Producing Trek Panel, which helped to raise over $109,000 for Hollywood Food Coalition. During the panel, brothers Hageman discussed Star Trek: Prodigy with Star Trek: Voyager writer and producer Brannon Braga. While Dan Hageman revealed that Star Trek: Prodigy season 2’s release date is a mystery, Kevin Hageman outlined a desire to do longer-form episodes. Read Kevin Hageman’s quote, and watch the panel at the 03:44:42 timestamp below:
Kevin Hageman: As I look back on Prodigy, my one wish would be: I wish we could have had longer episodes. To be able to do a 40-minute episode, it would have allowed us to sit on moments longer and dramatize stuff even more. Because right now, it’s just so fast.
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Will There Be A Star Trek: Prodigy Season 3?
Kevin Hageman could get his wish if Star Trek: Prodigy is renewed.
Kevin Hageman is talking in the past tense at TrekTalks 3, so it seems likely that Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 won’t feature any longer episodes. Instead, Prodigy season 2 will likely be peppered with occasional two-parters like season 1. The only hope for Kevin Hageman to realize his ambition for 40-minute episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy is if Netflix renews the show for season 3. It’s unclear how likely a Star Trek: Prodigy season 3 renewal is at this stage. In considering this, Netflix will examine the statistics for Prodigy season 1’s Christmas Day release alongside how many streams season 2 gets when it premieres.
It’s also unknown whether the specifics of Netflix’s streaming deal for Star Trek: Prodigy allow them to commission new episodes. When Paramount+ canceled Prodigy, they allowed the Hagemans, Aaron J. Waltke, and the production team to complete the remaining 20 episodes and sell them to another streaming service or broadcaster. It’s hoped that there is a contract stipulation that will allow for future negotiations between Netflix and Paramount to ensure that Star Trek: Prodigy can continue to tell the story of the young Starfleet recruits and fulfill Kevin Hageman’s desire for longer episodes.
Star Trek: Prodigy
Star Trek: Prodigy is the first TV series in the Star Trek franchise marketed toward children, and one of the few animated series in the franchise. The story follows a group of young aliens who find a stolen Starfleet ship and use it to escape from the Tars Lamora prison colony where they are all held captive. Working together with the help of a holographic Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), the new crew of the USS Protostar must find their way back to the Alpha Quadrant to warn the Federation of the deadly threat that is pursuing them.
