Summary
The first official trailer forStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2 has been released, and it’s packed full ofStar TrekEaster eggs that can be easy to miss.Premiering on Netflix on July 1st, and releasing all 20 episodes at once,Prodigyseason 2 will reuniteStar Trek: Voyager’s Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) with the Doctor (Robert Picardo)as they embark on a top-secret mission to rescue Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran) from an alternate timeline. Joining the returningVoyagercharacters areProdigy’s young leads, Dal R’El (Bretty Gray), Gwyndala (Ella Purnell), Rok-Tahk (Rylee Alazraqui), Jankom Pog (Jason Mantzoukas), Zero (Angus Imrie), and Murf (Dee Bradley Baker).
CBS Studios have revealed the newStar Trek: Prodigytrailer for season 2, which contains more of the dazzling visuals that audiences have come to expect from theStar Trekanimated series. TheProdigyseason 2 trailer also gives the first proper look at the USS Voyager-A in action, as it takes flight and combats various threats. Watch theStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2 trailer below, which is packed full of tantalizing teases andStar TrekEaster eggs:
Everything We Know About Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2
Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 joins season 1’s episodes on Netflix in summer 2024 so that all 40 episodes will be available on the streamer.
15Admiral Janeway Is Drinking Coffee Again
But just a small pot.
AfterStar Trek: Prodigyseason 1 madeJaneway a tea drinker, it seems like she’s back to drinking black coffee in season 2. InProdigyseason 1, Admiral Janeway stated that her doctor had advised her to cut back on coffee. Given the stressful nature of the USS Voyager-A’s complex mission, perhaps Janeway feels that she needs caffeine to get through it. While Janeway may have relapsed, her coffee intake is clearly being monitored by The Doctor, who won’t be shy in telling her that she’s had enough.
Admiral Janeway first gave up tea in theStar Trek: Voyagerfinale, “Endgame”, also on doctor’s orders.
14A Lurian From DS9 On The USS Voyager-A
It appears that Dal R’El and the rest of theStar Trek: Prodigycharacters aren’t the only young warrant officers serving on the USS Voyager-A. In a brief scene in one of Voyager’s corridors, three other warrant officers are seen, one of which looks like a Lurian.Star Trek’s best loved Lurian is Morn (Mark Allen Shepherd), who propped up Quark’s Bar in all seven seasons ofStar Trek: Deep Space Nine. This young Lurian won’t have much time for socializing, as they’re part of Janeway’s time-traveling rescue mission.
13Murf On Vulcan
Amok Murf?
As the Doctor explains that everyone has a role to play on their new mission, the trailer cuts to Murf holding a clutch of weapons. Quite how Murf ends up in ritual combat remains to be seen, but it seems very likely that this scene is taking place on Vulcan. The orange skies and the ancient structures that surround Murf reflect similar images of Planet Vulcan inStar Trek, from the iconicKirk and Spock fightin “Amok Time” to the stunning Vulcan vistas inStar Trek: The Motion Picture.
12Prodigy Introduces A New Vulcan Character
Michaela Dietz plays Maj’el
A new Vulcan character is seen interacting with the regulars during theStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2 trailer. The recurring cast list forProdigyseason 2 includesSteven Universe’s Michaela Dietz as Maj’el. As the rest of the recurring cast are characters who also appeared in season 1, Ma’jel is presumably the Vulcan character seen in the trailer. She’s also almost certainly named afterStar Trek’s Grand Dame, Majel Barrett, who played Number One, Nurse Christine Chapel, and Lwaxana Troi over a 30-year period.
11Bearded Chakotay
Prodigy season 2 is The Search for Chakotay
There’s only a fleeting glimpse of Captain Chakotay in theStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2 trailer, but it speaks volumes. Janeway’s mission to rescue her former Number One is the driving force behindStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2. After he abandoned the USS Protostar, Captain Chakotay and his crew were grounded and stranded in the Delta Quadrant. The trailer’s single shot ofChakotay inProdigyseason 2shows Janeway’s former Number One with a full beard and longer hair, looking up to the stars, perhaps hoping for rescue.
Voyager’s Chakotay & What Happened To Starfleet Hero In Star Trek: Prodigy
What happened to Voyager’s Chakotay is the biggest mystery of Star Trek: Prodigy season 1, and it will play a major role in Janeway’s season 2 story.
10Has Gwyndala Joined Starfleet
Gwyn wears a variation on the Prodigy crew’s Starfleet uniforms.
At theend ofStar Trek: Prodigyseason 1, Gwyn chose to leave her friends behind to prepare the Vau N’Akat for First Contact with Starfleet. However, in the trailer forProdigyseason 2, it looks like Gwyndala has also been recruited as a warrant officer. Gwyn’s Starfleet uniform has the colors reversed, which either means that she’s on a higher rank than her former USS Protostar crewmates, or that she’s serving aboard Voyager in a different capacity. Either way, the synopsis forProdigyseason 2 teases that the crew is also tasked with saving the Vau N’Akat home world, which means she could serve on Voyager in a diplomatic capacity.
Although he seemingly sacrificed his life inStar Trek: Prodigyseason 1, the Diviner (John Noble) is listed by CBS Studios as a returning character in season 2.
9Giant Tribbles?
The Prodigy crew are menaced by fluffy balls.
It’s not clear what they are, but at one point in the trailer, Dal and the crew are menaced by giant rolling balls of fluff. As Dal orders his crewmates to fire phasers, Zero notes that the spherical creatures are “unphased”. It’s possible that these aren’t Tribbles, especially asStar Trek: Deep Space Ninerevealed that they had gone extinct by the 24th century. However, Contable Odo (Rene Auberjonois) brought one back from the 22nd century, creating another Tribble epidemic. Is it possible thatDS9’s Tribbles spawned even larger offspring?
8Does Rok-Tahk Have A Mini-Me?
Or has Rok-Tahk discovered a new life form?
It may be that the creatures aren’t giant Tribbles at all, and are actually larger versions of the cute creature Rok-Tahk is holding in her hands. The tiny alien life form looks like a cute space hedgehog, which would match the larger creatures that advance on Dal and Zero earlier in the trailer. Perhaps rather than Tribble fur, the spheres are covered in giant hedgehog spines. There’s also another opportunity, which is that Rok-Tahk has found another member of her species, given the similarities in color and physiological make-up.
7A New Klingon Villain
Who is the eye-patch-wearing Klingon warrior?
There’s also a brief glimpse of an eye-patch-wearing Klingon who points a phaser at presumably a member ofStar Trek: Prodigy’s young crew. It’s unclear who this Klingon is, or whether they’re a one-off villain or a recurring antagonistic presence inStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2. What it does show, however, is thatProdigyseason 2 will continue to delight in playing in the huge sandbox that is theStar Trekuniverse.
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6Holographic Janeway Is Back!
Is this a flashback or has Hologram Janeway been rebooted?
She’s just in the corner of one shot, but Hologram Janeway appears to be back inStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2, after apparently sacrificing herself at the end of season 1. Interestingly, the poster artwork forProdigyseason 2 shows two starships, thenew USS Voyager-A, and what looks like the USS Protostar. Given that time travel is involved inProdigyseason 2, it’s certainly possible that the Protostar is recovered from an earlier point in the timeline, resurrecting Hologram Janeway in the process.
