With its holiday debut on Netflix, Star Trek: Prodigy is getting a second life on its journey to boldly expand the universe created by Gene Roddenberry almost 60 years ago. The animated series is aimed at a much younger audience, with kids being able to gravitate towards new characters. However, like all good Star Trek, Prodigy is a series fans of all ages can enjoy beyond its connections to the universe’s past. When Star Trek returned to CBS and Paramount, it did so with a number of new series of cinematic quality. Shows like Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Lower Decks appealed to different segments of the larger fandom. Yet, all these shows have one thing in common: they are unquestionably for adult fans.From the violence to the language freedom streaming provided, the franchise chose to “age with” the fanbase, hoping to attract adults who wanted a more mature window into this universe than the TV-14 series of the past provided. However, Star Trek: Prodigy represents the opposite approach. The colorful cast of non-Starfleet characters discovered the universe for the first time, like its audience. The inclusion of characters from the past, particularly Kate Mulgrew’s Kathryn Janeway, also creates connective tissue to the all-ages fare from the 1990s. While the show does serve as a spiritual sequel to Star Trek: Voyager, the most important thing Prodigy does is expand this storytelling universe in ways necessary for it to carry on another 60 years.Beyond Hologram Janeway, audiences learn Voyager’s Chakotay was the first captain of the protype long-distance vessel. One of the central characters, the genderless Zero, is Medusan, which is a Star Trek alien species that dates back to The Original Series. Frequent Voyager villains the Kazon show up, along with holographic representations of classic characters in the Season 1 episode, “Kobayashi Maru,” using archival dialogue from past shows. Sure, these are treats for the parents watching with the kids hearkening back to “their” Star Trek. However, the young audience the show was made for doesn’t have nostalgia for Voyager or Spock or even the iconic USS Enterprise-D bridge.
With its holiday debut on Netflix, Star Trek: Prodigy is getting a second life on its journey to boldly expand the universe created by Gene Roddenberry almost 60 years ago. The animated series is aimed at a much younger audience, with kids being able to gravitate towards new characters. However, like all good Star Trek, Prodigy is a series fans of all ages can enjoy beyond its connections to the universe’s past. When Star Trek returned to CBS and Paramount, it did so with a number of new series of cinematic quality. Shows like Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Lower Decks appealed to different segments of the larger fandom. Yet, all these shows have one thing in common: they are unquestionably for adult fans.
From the violence to the language freedom streaming provided, the franchise chose to “age with” the fanbase, hoping to attract adults who wanted a more mature window into this universe than the TV-14 series of the past provided. However, Star Trek: Prodigy represents the opposite approach. The colorful cast of non-Starfleet characters discovered the universe for the first time, like its audience. The inclusion of characters from the past, particularly Kate Mulgrew’s Kathryn Janeway, also creates connective tissue to the all-ages fare from the 1990s. While the show does serve as a spiritual sequel to Star Trek: Voyager, the most important thing Prodigy does is expand this storytelling universe in ways necessary for it to carry on another 60 years.
Beyond Hologram Janeway, audiences learn Voyager‘s Chakotay was the first captain of the protype long-distance vessel. One of the central characters, the genderless Zero, is Medusan, which is a Star Trek alien species that dates back to The Original Series. Frequent Voyager villains the Kazon show up, along with holographic representations of classic characters in the Season 1 episode, “Kobayashi Maru,” using archival dialogue from past shows. Sure, these are treats for the parents watching with the kids hearkening back to “their” Star Trek. However, the young audience the show was made for doesn’t have nostalgia for Voyager or Spock or even the iconic USS Enterprise-D bridge.
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