Star Trek Prodigy has had an interesting trajectory, going from Paramount+, then being canceled, and then revived on Netflix shortly thereafter. The second season premiered this past July in its entirety, with all 20 episodes. The show focuses on a group of young aliens, led by Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew reprising her role from Star Trek: Voyager) on a mission to find the original crew of the USS Protostar.
Season 3 of the show hasn’t been confirmed yet, but Mulgrew is hopeful. Despite this, the cast and showrunners are even thinking about moving the series over to live-action or a possible movie down the line if it’s not renewed.
“I want people to grow up with these kids,” executive producer Kevin Hageman told GameSpot at Comic-Con. “I want to see them grow up and become full-fledged adult Starfleet officers.”
“I think live-action, I would want to see movies, animated movies, anything,” Dan Hageman, executive producer added. “We really love the show.”
Brett Gray, who plays alien Dal, said he’s ready to play him in live-action. “Somebody just ask me to do it.”
Kate Mulgrew, a Star Trek alum, has already done both live-action and animated versions of her character and said that the animation for the series moved her.
“I loved it. And I cannot, and I know it sounds cloying, I’m anything but cloying,” she said. “I thought their concept and then when I saw the animation, I thought it was remarkably and astonishingly good. And the stories are, I think, unparalleled. Probably because it’s not strictly Star Trek, right? You’re letting them all learn. The beauty of it is that these children are sitting next to their mothers, who watched me on Voyager, [who are] sitting next to her mothers, who watched a Patrick Stewart.”
Outside of Star Trek shows like Prodigy, Lower Decks, and Strange New World, a prequel movie is in the works with Toby Haynes (Andor, Black Mirror) directing.
