Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman thanked the fans for saving Star Trek: Prodigy at New York Comic Con, and executive producer Aaron J. Waltke offers an exciting update about Prodigy season 2. On October 11, Star Trek: Prodigy‘s creators and co-showrunners Kevin and Dan Hageman announced that Netflix is Star Trek: Prodigy‘s new streaming home, 4 months after the beloved, all-ages animated series was canceled and purged from Paramount+. Star Trek: Prodigy season 1’s 20 episodes arrive on Netflix later in 2023 and 20 all-new episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 are coming to Netflix in 2024.
As reported by TrekMovie, Alex Kurtzman opened NYCC’s Star Trek Universe panel by thanking the fans for saving Star Trek: Prodigy with their passion and creativity, such as garnering 34,000 signatures in an online petition and hiring a plane to fly a #SaveStarTrekProdigy banner over Los Angeles (including Netflix’s headquarters). Read Kurtzman’s quote below:
Before we get started I want to just clear the elephant in the room. Star Trek: Prodigy is back! And Star Trek: Prodigy is back because you guys brought it back. What you did has not been since since TOS. Star Trek belongs to two entities: Gene Roddenberry and the fans. That’s it. And it is because of you, because of your almost 35,000 signatures on that petition, a plane over Netflix, and they heard you.
So from the bottom of my heart, because we love Star Trek: Prodigy so much, and Dan and Kevin Hageman, and Kate [Mulgrew] and the entire cast and crew, I just want to be able to thank you. Thank you so much for what you did, it was incredible, truly.
On October 17, Star Trek: Prodigy executive producer Aaron J. Waltke posted an exciting update on Twitter/X about the progress of season 2’s final batch of episodes. Check out his post below:
Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Picks Up Where Season 1 Left Off
Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 ended with five of the ragtag young crew of the USS Protostar becoming the warrant officers of Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). The kids hope that serving alongside Janeway will allow them entry into Starfleet Academy, and the Admiral’s mission is a daunting one: Janeway plans to time travel into an alternate 25th-century future timeline in order to rescue the stranded Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran) from the hostile world of Solum. Meanwhile, Gwyndala (Ella Purnell) left her friends to travel to late 24th century Solum in hopes of preventing the tragic events of the Vau N’Akat’s homeworld’s First Contact with Starfleet.
At August’s STLV: 57 Year Mission convention, Star Trek: Prodigy‘s executive producers unveiled the first 4 minutes of the season 2 premiere which came with two big surprises: The Doctor (Robert Picardo) from Star Trek: Voyager joins the animated series as the young heroes’ new Starfleet mentor, and he brought the kids to Admiral Janeway’s new starship, the Lamarr Class USS Voyager-A. The pieces are falling into place for a thrilling and expansive new adventure in Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 that promises to touch upon every other Star Trek series, thanks to the fans who made Prodigy‘s warp to Netflix happen.
