
Dal later learns that he is an augmented human with DNA from multiple alien species.

Although a second season was set to premiere in late 2023, the series was canceled by Paramount+ in June 2023 the studio is to complete post-production of the second season and seek a new home for the series.

The series was met with positive reviews from critics and received a Children's and Family Emmy Award. The next 10 episodes of the first season were released on Paramount+ from October to December 2022. The series began airing on Nickelodeon on December 17, 2021. Star Trek: Prodigy premiered on Paramount+ on October 28, 2021, and the first 10 episodes were released until February 2022.

It is produced by CBS Eye Animation Productions and Nickelodeon Animation Studio in association with Secret Hideout, Roddenberry Entertainment, and Brothers Hageman Productions. Ben Hibon was announced as director and creative lead in August 2020, and it was revealed in February 2021 that the series would debut on Paramount+ before airing on Nickelodeon. The Hageman brothers were set as creators and showrunners, and Nickelodeon ordered two seasons of Prodigy that April. Kurtzman first mentioned the series in January 2019, and it was confirmed a month later.

It follows a group of young aliens who find the USS Protostar, an abandoned starship.īrett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, and Dee Bradley Baker voice the young crew of the USS Protostar, with Jimmi Simpson, John Noble, and Kate Mulgrew also providing voices for the series, the latter reprising her role as Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager. Prodigy is the first Star Trek series to target younger audiences, and is also the franchise's first animated series to solely use 3D animation. It is the tenth Star Trek series and debuted in 2021 as part of executive producer Alex Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe. Star Trek: Prodigy is an American animated television series created by Kevin and Dan Hageman for the streaming service Paramount+ and the cable channel Nickelodeon.
