What an absurd journey Star Trek: Prodigy has been on. The promising Trek animated series suffered an unjust and abrupt removal from Paramount+ last summer, leaving its second season in the lurch, until Netflix announced it would pick up the series… and only for that sophomore season 2 to accidentally show up on international streaming services earlier this year. But now, at last, it looks like Prodigy is preparing to head out of drydock the right way.
Trekcore reports that Netflix has begun promoting the second season of Prodigy in the user interface of its streaming apps with a July 1 release date, after the debut season of the kids series—which follows a young cast of alien teens who come across an abandoned experimental Starfleet vessel, the Protostar, and use to travel the stars in the hopes of becoming Starfleet Academy students—hit the streamer on Christmas Day last year. No further details about the rollout of the season have been confirmed yet.
There’s hope that more seasons could come if Prodigy does well for Netflix—Netflix becoming the saving grace for a popular animated series after it was unceremoniously dumped by its original platform, where have we heard that one before? So however it rolls out, Trek fans interested in Prodigy’s future should be ready to get streaming from next month—and help show that Star Trek shows can live long and prosper beyond the constrains of Paramount’s attempts to make its in-house services the definitive “home” of the franchise.
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