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Star Trek: Prodigy captures franchise quality essence and themes better than Discovery, Picard on Paramount+ even as a kids show / content purge dump Inside Amy Schumer

Star Trek: Prodigy Creators Release Massive Sneak Peak of Show’s Cancelled Second Season

Things looked shockingly bleak forĀ Star Trek: Prodigy at the end of June when the series was abruptly canceled and ripped from Paramount+ despite it being one of the bestĀ Trek series in ages and the second season already being well into the works. In fact, it was so far into the works that in a bid to get the series picked up somewhere else the show’s creators released and extensively long teaser for the premiere episode to stir up interest. The extended scene, which debuted at a panel STLV: 57-Year Mission, was dropped with little fanfare on StarTrek.com but consists of a clip of the first season and features a surprising guest star.

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Yes, that’s right. Robert Picardo is again back as the Doctor, the Emergency Medical Hologram that helped Voyager make it through the Delta quadrant. However, that isn’t the biggest surprise return as it appears that Prodigy‘s second season was going to be set on a new version of Voyager (The USS Voyager-A), captained by Admiral Janeway (for some made up reason) with the young cadets on a special mission to help analyze the wormhole they created when they blew up the Protostar at the end of the first season. Nearly the entire ragtag crew of that ship is back as well, with Dal, Rok-Tak, Zero, Jankom Pog, and Murf joining on the mission. Meanwhile, Gwyndala is off on a peace mission to hopefully save a planet that appears to be at war in the future, where Captain Chakotay is trapped.

Of course, we may never get to see any more of this second season of the show. Thanks to the tax breaks and write-offs that Paramount+ receives when it removes shows,Ā Prodigy’s first season is currently unavailable to stream and is only available digitally or on Blu-ray. There’s been plenty of fan protest asking for the series to return on another streamer but nothing concrete has emerged.

Series creators Kevin and Dan Hageman did, however, have this to say about the show: Our talented and dedicatedĀ Star Trek: ProdigyĀ team is hard at work on Season 2 and all of us canā€™t wait for the world to see it. Itā€™s just too good.ā€

That makes it seem pretty likely that season 2 is not only still being made but may have a home soon, fracturing theĀ Star Trek content onto multiple streamers. That may not be ideal for those wanting a one-stop shop to watch all theirĀ Trek but if it means we get more ofĀ Prodigy than it’s not a bad thing.


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Matthew Razak is a News Writer and film aficionado at Escapist. He has been writing for Escapist for nearly five years and has nearly 20 years of experience reviewing and talking about movies, TV shows, and video games for both print and online outlets. He has a degree in Film from Vassar College and a degree in gaming from growing up in the '80s and '90s. He runs the website Flixist.com and has written for The Washington Post, Destructoid, MTV, and more. He will gladly talk your ear off about horror, Marvel, Stallone, James Bond movies, Doctor Who, Zelda, and Star Trek.