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| Original network | Netflix |
| Original release | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) |
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The second season of the American animated television series Star Trek: Prodigy follows a group of young aliens who join Admiral Kathryn Janeway on a mission to find the original crew of the USS Protostar, and to learn more about Starfleet as they train to be warrant officers. The season was produced by CBS Eye Animation Productions and Nickelodeon Animation Studio in association with Secret Hideout, Roddenberry Entertainment, and Brothers Hageman Productions. Kevin and Dan Hageman served as showrunners.
Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, and Dee Bradley Baker voice the young warrant officers, with Jimmi Simpson, John Noble, Robert Beltran, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, Jameela Jamil, and Wil Wheaton also providing voices for the series. Nickelodeon ordered two seasons of Prodigy in April 2019 and the Hageman brothers were attached as showrunners. Ben Hibon was announced as director and creative lead in August 2020. The writers split the season into two 10-episode "mini-arcs".
The series was moved from Nickelodeon to Paramount+ in February 2021, and the second season was set to premiere in late 2023. Paramount+ canceled the season in June, but it was picked up by Netflix that October. The 20 episodes were first released in France on france.tv on March 22, 2024. They were released in the U.S. and other territories on Netflix on July 1, 2024.
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| 21 | 1 | "Into the Breach" | Ben Hibon | Kevin & Dan Hageman | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
| 22 | 2 | Andrew L. Schmidt & Patrick Krebs | Aaron J. Waltke | |||||||||
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A year after the Protostar crew's aversion of the destruction of Starfleet, Admiral Janeway recruits Dal, Rok Tak, Jankom Pog, Murf, and Zero to join her aboard the newest incarnation of USS Voyager. At first excited, the recruits are disillusioned because as cadets, they are not allowed to work alongside Janeway, and are snubbed by Nova Squadron, an elite Starfleet fighter pilot squad, led by a young Vulcan named Maj'el. After some unauthorized spying, the cadets discover that Janeway is mounting a secret rescue mission to find Chakotay with a cloak-enabled ship called the Infinity. Janeway swears the cadets to secrecy, but Maj'el overhears Dal discussing this and tries to stop the cadets from moving the Infinity. During the melee, the craft is accidentally activated and sent into the wormhole prematurely. Meanwhile, Gwynn's attempts to win the trust of the present-day Solum fail as she discovers that Ascencia has manipulated the leaders into believing that Gwyn is a threat, prompting them to order her capture. Gwyn escapes and reunites with Ilthuran, the Diviner's younger uncorrupted self.
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| 23 | 3 | "Who Saves the Saviors" | Sung Shin | Erin McNamara | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
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With Ilthuran's support, Gwyn challenges Ascencia to a duel. Dal, Jankom, Zero and Maj'el are captured by the Diviner's men and find themselves in the same holding cell with Captain Chakotay and his first officer. In spite of his best efforts to not disrupt the original timeline, which could result in Gwyn never being born, Dal ends up dropping a phaser which Chakotay uses to get into the Protostar to escape, causing Gwyn to physically phase in and out.
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| 24 | 4 | "Temporal Mechanics 101" | Ben Hibon | Keith Sweet II | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
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Dal, Zero, Jankom and Maj'el receive a strange message reading “Save Gwyn”. Dal, Zero and Maj’el find Gwyn who's phasing in and out and in great agony. The group deduce that Gwyn had been displaced by time due to their actions disrupting the original timeline. Zero suggests they build a time machine and Dal gets a hands-on lesson in Temporal Mechanics as they convert the Infinity into a time machine. Ilthuran finds Gwyn and comforts her. While phasing in and out of time, Gwyn hears a voice from beyond saying, "You Must Stay Together". Dal's group manages to find Gwyn and bring her back to USS Voyager, where the Doctor places an interphase armband to keep her stable in the present timeline. Meanwhile, Murf is shown communicating with a stranger.
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| 25 | 5 | "Observer's Paradox" | Ruolin Li & Andrew L. Schmidt | Jennifer Muro | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
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Gwyn puzzles over the voice she heard in her vision and blames herself for not preventing the civil war on Solum. Murf creates a mural that appears exactly like the spiral Gwyn saw in her vision. The group tries to understand Murf's continual incoherent babbling by converting the universal translator, which fails humorously. After several attempts, they turn to Rok for help. Rok is reluctant but is persuaded by Gillian the humpback whale in Cetacean Ops. Working with Rok, Murf dives in the water and sprouts a tail and fins, which enable him to swim. Gillian translates "Find Me" and a set of coordinates from Murf's words. Gwyn experiences another phasing attack, which finds her floating in space and seeing a spiral and the voice from her previous vision saying, "Find me before they find you". The vision is followed by clinking screeches before Gwyn is pulled back to the prime reality. Gwyn tells the others of her vision and discoveries.
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| 26 | 6 | "Imposter Syndrome" | Sung Shin | Jennifer Muro | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
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Dal and his friends create holograms of themselves to take their places while they attempt to take the Infinity. Trouble ensues because their holograms are programmed to believe they are real. Rok and her hologram decide to work together rather than against each other to find a solution. Dal and friends manage to board Infinity. Unknown to them, their holograms have switched personalities due to a glitch.
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| 27 | 7 | "The Fast and the Curious" | Sung Shin & Sean Bishop | Erin McNamara | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
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The Protostar crew take the Infinity through a Borg conduit, which transports them to an uncharted planet inhabited by a Kazon. The Kazon has Dal, Rok, Gwyn and Jankom captured while Zero and Murf stay behind. Dal/Jankom and Gwyn/Rok are pitted against each other in a rigged and dangerous rat race around the planet's core. Dal saves Gwyn and Rok but discovers that one of the Kazon's racers is a robot. Meanhile, the Kazon's erratic behavior leads Zero and Murf to uncover a mind control device on him, which they disable. The Kazon then reveals that the planet was a pilot training facility, until the computer became sentient and went rogue, arranging pilot deaths one at a time until only he remained. The computer reveals itself to Zero and further explains its warped agenda, before arresting Murf with a mind control device and capturing the others. Zero declares that they are all biological beings and reasserts faith in the others before crashing into the computer's core, causing an explosion that destroys the entity. Zero's containment suit is severely damaged, making independent movement impossible, so Zero is carried and they all continue on their way. On board Voyager, a suspicious Maj'el follows holographic Gwyn to her quarters, where a strange entity tries to destroy the hologram, mistaking it for the real Gwyn. The creature vanishes after realizing its mistake and Maj'el enters the quarters to find Gwyn gone.
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| 28 | 8 | "Is There in Beauty No Truth?" | Ruolin Li & Andrew L. Schmidt | Keith Sweet II | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
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Zero makes contact with another Medusan who offers to give Zero a new body. Gwyn convinces Dal to help Zero and the group detours to Ovidia IV, where the message came from. There, they discover that the resident Medusans and other non-corporeal beings have been using carbon-based matter from the planet's surroundings to create physical bodies for themselves, providing them the senses of touch, smell, and taste. Since this also will allow Zero to interact directly with other corporeal beings without harming them, Zero agrees to the transfiguration. The operation is a success and Zero takes delight in experiencing newly given senses and participates in the Feast of Senses – a celebration and rite of passage on Ovidia IV. At first happy for their friend, Dal and Gwyn learn from the Medusan leader Ion that because their bodies degenerate outside Ovidia IV, no one wants to leave and give up their senses. Dal and Gwyn discover that Zero is participating in the "Running of the Nazamon", in which participants experience the sense of fear while feeding and fleeing from the Nazamon, a manta ray-like creature. Dal, Gwyn and the others manage to find Zero and tell him the truth. When Dal is snatched up in the Nazamon's gaping maw, Zero bravely jumps to Dal's rescue. Trusting the Nazamon to use its senses and their friends down below, they ride the Nazamon to safety. By the time they reach the finish line, Zero thanks Zion for the experience and ultimately decides to risk leaving Ovidia IV with the Infinity crew as they had risked their lives to reveal the truth. Ion respects Zero's choice and wishes them luck. Meanwhile, Janeway, The Doctor and Commander Tysses discover the holographic imposters and hunt down Gwyn's hologram, who tells them about the possible message from Chakotay. The Doctor discovers that the ship's computer log has been altered and holographic Gwyn tells of the clicking noises from the creature that tried to erase her. Fearing the worst, Janeway sets a new course to find the real Gwyn before the creatures do.
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| 29 | 9 | "The Devourer of All Things" | Sung Shin | Jennifer Muro | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
| 30 | 10 | Sean Bishop | Aaron J. Waltke | |||||||||
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| 31 | 11 | "Last Flight of the Protostar" | Ruolin Li & Andrew L. Schmidt | Diandra Pendleton-Thompson | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
| 32 | 12 | Sung Shin | Alex Hanson & Aaron J. Waltke | |||||||||
| 33 | 13 | "A Tribble Called Quest" | Sean Bishop | Keith Sweet II | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
| 34 | 14 | "Cracked Mirror" | Ruolin Li | Erin McNamara | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
| 35 | 15 | "Ascension" | Sung Shin | Erin McNamara, Jennifer Muro, Diandra Pendleton-Thompson, Keith Sweet II & Aaron J. Waltke | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
| 36 | 16 | Sean Bishop | Alex Hanson | |||||||||
| 37 | 17 | "Brink" | Ruolin Li | Diandra Pendleton-Thompson | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
| 38 | 18 | "Touch of Grey" | Sung Shin | Jennifer Muro | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
| 39 | 19 | "Ouroboros" | Sean Bishop | Kevin & Dan Hageman & Aaron J. Waltke | July 1, 2024 (2024-07-01) | |||||||
| 40 | 20 | Ruolin Li | ||||||||||
Star Trek franchise producer Alex Kurtzman said in January 2019 that a "kids-focused" animated Star Trek series was in development.[5] Nickelodeon ordered two seasons of Star Trek: Prodigy in late April 2019, and Kevin and Dan Hageman were attached as showrunners.[6][7] Ben Hibon was announced as director and creative lead for the series in August 2020.[8] In February 2021, ViacomCBS announced that Prodigy would debut on the new streaming service Paramount+ along with the rest of the Star Trek Universe.[9] Paramount+ confirmed the second season order in November,[10] and it was revealed to consist of 20 episodes in January 2022.[2]
In June 2023, Paramount+ canceled the series. The crew were reported to be completing work on the second season while CBS began looking for a different streaming service or network to release it on.[11] Waltke soon confirmed that the season would be completed on schedule.[12] In August, the Hagemans said they were confident the season would be released and active discussions were taking place.[13] They added that work on the season was expected to be completed in December.[14] Later in August, after gathering 33,000 signatures in a Change.org petition and raising money via GoFundMe, a group of Prodigy fans paid for a plane to fly over the offices of Amazon, Hulu, Apple, and Netflix with a "Save Star Trek: Prodigy" banner.[15] In October, the series was picked up by Netflix and the second season was scheduled for 2024.[16] Kurtzman attributed this to the efforts of the fans.[17]
The Hagemans completed writing for the last two episodes of the season by February 2022.[18] First-season writer Aaron Waltke was promoted to co-head writer and co-executive producer for the second season,[19] and explained that both seasons were split into two 10-episode "mini-arcs" each.[2] He described each one as a "self-contained arc, but with plenty of story threads that you could pull to have it continue on to the next".[3] After the young protagonists' mentor, a hologram of Kathryn Janeway, sacrificed herself at the end of the first season, the second sees them joining the crew of the real Admiral Janeway as "warrant officers in training". The Hagemans said their new mentor was an opportunity for growth, and they would not be "coddled" in the season like they were with Hologram Janeway.[20] They also teased that Janeway and the protagonists would be on a new starship in the second season after the destruction of the USS Protostar and USS Dauntless in the first season. This was later confirmed to be the USS Voyager-A, a new version of Janeway's ship from the series Star Trek: Voyager.[21][13] Dan Hageman said there were "two really big engines" in the season that were established in the first season finale: a message from Captain Chakotay in the future, and Gwyn's decision to try prevent her homeworld's future civil war.[22]
Kate Mulgrew reprises her role of Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager.[23] The voice cast for the series' young protagonists includes Brett Gray as Dal R'El, Ella Purnell as Gwyn, Jason Mantzoukas as Jankom Pog, Angus Imrie as Zero, Rylee Alazraqui as Rok-Tahk, and Dee Bradley Baker as Murf.[24] John Noble and Jimmi Simpson also star as the Diviner and his robotic enforcer Drednok, respectively.[25] Mulgrew revealed in January 2021 that voice recording for the second season was about to begin.[26] Recording for the last five episodes began by July 2022.[3]
The Hagemans said in October 2022 that the series' search for Robert Beltran's Captain Chakotay from Voyager would continue into the second season,[27] and that other "legacy characters" from previous Star Trek series would also be included.[28] That December, Ronny Cox—who reprised his Star Trek: The Next Generation role of Edward Jellico in the first season—said he was also probably returning for the second season.[29] In August 2023, Robert Picardo was revealed to be reprising his role as the Doctor from Voyager in the second season.[13] Waltke said the Doctor would have a recurring role in the second season mentoring the main characters while Janeway is busy.[30] In June 2024, ahead of the season's release, Beltran, Cox, and Picardo were confirmed to have recurring roles in the season, along with Jason Alexander as Dr. Noum, Daveed Diggs as Commander Tysess, Jameela Jamil as Asencia—all returning from the first season—and Michaela Dietz as Maj'el.[4][31]
The Hagemans released the first clip from the series at the Star Trek Las Vegas fan convention in August 2023. The clip confirmed the appearance of the USS Voyager-A and revealed Picardo's return as the Doctor.[13] A trailer and key art were released in June 2024, ahead of the season's premiere.[4]
The season was set to premiere on Paramount+ in late 2023,[32] before it was canceled by the streaming service.[11] After the series was picked up by Netflix, the season was expected to be released in 2024 on that service in the U.S. and most international territories,[16] except for Canada and countries where SkyShowtime (a combination of Paramount+ and Peacock for some of Europe) is available.[33] All 20 episodes were made available in France on france.tv on March 22, 2024,[34] which surprised the Hagemans who initially described the release as a "leak". They soon clarified that the early release in France was legitimate and caused by a miscommunication.[35] All 20 episodes of the season were released on Netflix on July 1, 2024.[33]
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