The second season of Star Trek: Prodigy arrives next week. We now have image previews for the season.
Prodigy season 2 pix
All 20 episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy land on Netflix on Monday, July 1st. Here again is the season synopsis:
In Season 2, these six young outcasts who make up the Prodigy crew are assigned a new mission aboard the USS Voyager-A to rescue Captain Chakotay (voiced by Robert Beltran) and bring peace to Gwyn’s (voiced by Ella Purnell) home world. However, when their plan goes astray, it creates a time paradox that jeopardizes both their future and past.
We have 14 images spanning the whole season (so SPOILERS ahead).
ICYMI: Trailer
A trailer for the season was released last week. Check it out…
Season 2 of Prodigy will stream on Netflix globally (excluding Canada, Nordics, CEE, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Belarus and Mainland China) and season one is currently available on SkyShowtime in the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe with season two coming soon. Season two has launched in France on France Televisions channels and Okoo. TrekMovie is trying to confirm details on a release of season 2 in Canada.
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Can.not.wait!!!
I’m rewatching season 1 again (currently on episode 7) with a bit of Voyager thrown in for good measure mainly focusing on Janeway and The Doctor episodes and it all feels like visiting old friends each and every time.
This show just gives me all the great Trek feels I have had since the 70s. It’s a little bit of VOY, TOS, TNG and ENT all rolled into one for me. In other words, it’s pure Star Trek. And I have missed the 24th century.
July 1st can’t get here fast enough.
I would have to say, I really liked Prodigy S1. Even though it is animated, it has a live action feel to the show and the story has been good. And the opening theme is great, perhaps the best music of NuTrek, not counting the Picard S3 closing credits haha!
I see nothing yet scheduled for Canada. Too bad, because I did re-sign back up to Netflix for the first time in about 10 years to watch their take on the Three Body Problem. Hope they announce something soon for us fans north of the border.
Wait, you guys still don’t know when the show will air in Canada yet? That’s crazy. I assumed it would just be on the same cable channel as the others. I hope it gets rectified soon but as you know there are other options in the mean time.
But of course you know my feelings about Prodigy very very well. And I would say if this WAS a live action show it would be a huge hit IMO. Maybe not as big as Picard or SNW, but definitely bigger than Discovery. Hopefully season 2 will be as good as season one but all indication is it is.
As for The Three Body Problem I liked the show so much I started reading the original novels. I’m on the second book right now in fact. They are really good so far. The audiobook of the first book is narrated by Rosalind Chao. :)
Please please please let this be a hit on Netflix. I so want seasons 3,4 ,5 …
Thanks for adding the episode numbers! Y’all are the best!
A lot of these do a great job of showing how beautiful its art style is IMO, and give a great taste of what’s to come in season 2 (even if a lot of them do come from the trailer). I’m just so ready for it to come already.
Subscribing to Netflix for one month just for this!
Cetacean ops, yeah baby!
Season 1 of Prodigy is on the CTV app in Canada. For which a cable subscription is required, and I think, (can’t confirm because I don’t HAVE cable) you need to have access to the CTV SciFi channel. Which is so stupid. Honestly considering a VPN at this point. I want to support the show, but I literally can’t here.
VPN Netflix is the way.
It honestly looks really good! The second half of the first season was really quite good because it was way more Starfleet oriented so this season should be a real treat. Also these serialized shows are in my opinion much more enjoyable when you can watch the episodes at will. If the first season was more like that I think more people would have stayed tune. Also I think Netflix has a higher bit rate which should make watching such a beautifully computer animated show that much more enjoyable.
I am very much looking forward to this season. With the exception of Picard season 3, so much of NuTrek has been mostly a miss for me since 2009. So much of the writing has been subpar. There is very little depth in the stories and just doesn’t have the same glow in the story telling and the themes you got in the golden age of Trek from 1966-2005. With a few exceptions here and there very little of it hasn’t come close to what made those classic shows and movies so special for me.
That was until I finally watched Prodigy and it brought me back to the thoughtful and clever stories pre-2009. The characters felt like real characters and not just archtypes or caricatures. They actually care about canon snd nothing feels out of place like it does in Discovery and SNW. They use fan service but once again when it feels appropriate and lot less of it compared to awkwardly throwing in Kirk on SNW or their strange use of the Gorn. You don’t have new characters related to legacy characters as a feeble attempt to make fans care more about those characters like they did on Picard, SNW and Discovery. It just makes the universe feel infinitely smaller when someone is Spock’s sister, Data’s daughter or Khan’s whatever. 🙄
Prodigy feels like its own thing on one hand but a loose sequel to Voyager on the other to draw older fans like me in but without having to know anything about that show for younger and newer fans. But it captures the spirit of classic Star Trek that frankly I wasn’t sure we would ever get again. I do realize SNW has tried to capture it again and it feels closer to the older shows for sure but it just feels too surface level with subpar writing and making the characters feel like they are in high school. And it doesn’t have to feel like a silly sitcom in most of the episodes. That’s a big reason why I can’t even force myself to watch LDS and I know how popular that show is too.
The irony about Prodigy is a lot of the characters are literally high school age and feels more well rounded and mature at times. I didn’t expect that at all.
I know a lot of old fans have been divided on NuTrek the last 15 years and just feel it’s mostly been a turnoff for many just as much as I’m aware others have truly enjoyed all the new shows and films which I applaud. I’m certainly not suggesting everyone hates this new era of Trek (nor should) but sadly I was in the former camp until the last year or so.
So it’s very surprising for me a show designed for preteens have captured my heart and attention again I haven’t felt since Enterprise went off the air.
And it truly feels wonderful!
“The characters felt like real characters and not just archtypes or caricatures. They actually care about canon and nothing feels out of place like it does in Discovery and SNW. They use fan service but once again when it feels appropriate and lot less of it compared to awkwardly throwing in Kirk on SNW or their strange use of the Gorn.”
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“Prodigy feels like its own thing on one hand but a loose sequel to Voyager on the other to draw older fans like me in but without having to know anything about that show for younger and newer fans. But it captures the spirit of classic Star Trek that frankly I wasn’t sure we would ever get again.”
All very well stated, and I wholeheartedly agree about the irony that this “preteen/teen” show feels more grown-up, well written and overall well rounded than any of the other recent shows! 👏😎 (Just imagine if they could’ve made it an actual live-action show! 👍👍)
“So it’s very surprising for me a show designed for preteens have captured my heart and attention again I haven’t felt since Enterprise went off the air.”
I think a lot of people agrees with you! :)
And I know I said this before but I am happy you have finally loved something in the modern era out of the gate.
“There is very little depth in the stories and just doesn’t have the same glow in the story telling and the themes you got in the golden age of Trek from 1966-2005. With a few exceptions here and there very little of it hasn’t come close to what made those classic shows and movies so special for me.”
It’s very funny reading statements like this, because there were people who said the exact same things about the old spin offs shows back in the day when they compared them to TOS. A great example came from this very board from an article written by Mark A. Altman (which I’m sure you and everyone knows) who literally wrote a piece called “Star Trek Lives” back in 2006. I always love reading past Trek articles and reviews and found that one a few weeks ago.
Annnyway, I bring it up because in the article, he was very busy praising JJ Abrams and how the first Kelvin movie was going to redefine Star Trek as we know it (apparently) and he literally called all the spin offs at the time including TNG and DS9 as ‘outdated’, ‘bland’ and would be forgotten in a few years time. He literally called them ‘unwatchable’…in 2006. He was convinced the spin off shows just didn’t live up to what TOS was at the time and no one was going to even care about those shows anymore once this brave new world of the JJ Abrams brand of Star Trek started lol.
It’s pretty comical today considering he wrote that nearly 20 years ago and YET not only does he himself talk about those same old shows with much higher esteem and praise today, he talks about them more than any of the new shows (not counting Picard season 3 since it brings back the type of Star Trek he was denouncing back then) and including the Kelvin movies.
But it really does prove that as fans A. nostalgia always has a way of catching up to everything eventually (which is how many looked at TOS itself 20-30 years ago of course) and that B. views can just change in time (and the old shows, ironically, have all aged very well and why they are still so popular). But the same way you talk about all the old shows today and how modern Trek can’t hold a candle to them I will guarantee you many will be saying the same thing about Picard, Lower Decks, Discovery and etc in 20 years time when whatever is next in the iteration will be seen as grossly inferior. And I know others in fact do like those shows now but of course many of us still loved the old shows back then too.
But of course that’s after fans hail the next thing as the ‘savior’ of the franchise as many did believe the Kelvin movies and even Discovery would do before they start dumping on it when it doesn’t reach that height, ie, Disney Star Wars lol. Yes that too will have just as many gushers in time as well. Time truly is a flat circle in fandom. ;)
Now all that said, you know I don’t disagree with some of your issues. I like SNW more than you but as I have always stated the canon issues and the forced fan service does it no favors, but it does really feel like Star Trek. I love LDS but get why others hate it too.
But I will say even though there is certainly a division in the fandom it’s not as bad as it was just a few years ago when it was just Discovery and Picard or the dreaded days of STID lol. And no matter what, say what you will about Star Trek fandom, it’s nowhere close to the vitriol of where Star Wars fandom is these days. I mean you see what is happening over The Acolyte, yikes!!!! Discovery almost feels like TNG in popularity compared to how that’s being treated lol.
eww Chakotay
kinda disappointed in the Voyager-A design (its not bad)….i’m with capt. freeman, i hate it when every ship gets all sovereign-y