Summary
Star Trek: Prodigyco-executive producer Aaron J. Waltke says that season 2 on Netflix will present a"grand unifying theory"to explain howStar Trek’smultiverseworks. All 20 episodes ofStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2 will be released on Monday, July 1st, on Netflix.Time travel is integral toStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2, as Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the teenage former crew of the USS Protostar embark on a mission to rescue Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran) from an alternate timeline 52 years in the future.
Appearing onAll Access Star Trek: A TrekMovie.com Podcast,Aaron J. Waltke discussed time travel inStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2. In regard to past or future iterations of characters like Asencia (Jameela Jamil) and The Diviner (John Nobke) appearing, Waltke told hosts Anthony Pascale and Laurie Ulster thatStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2 willnot only addressStar Trek’s multiverse, but also explain how it works.Check out Waltke’s quote below and listen to theAll Access Star Trekepisode in the link above.
If you think that we only talk about time paradoxes in this season, you would be very mistaken. I’m trying to figure out how to say this without sounding too grandiose, but we actually strove to do the impossible and create a grand unifying theory of how the Star Trek multiverse works. And we explore that pretty thoroughly in surprising ways in this season.
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.
Prodigy Is The Perfect Show To Explain Star Trek’s Multiverse
Star Trek: Prodigy can boldly do anything
Star Trek: Prodigyis the ideal show to address and explain howStar Trek’s multiverse works. As a CGI animated series,Star Trek: Prodigyisn’t bound by the same production limits as live-actionStar Trekin terms of depicting people and places across the Multiverse.As long asProdigycan get permission to secure voice actors, anyone from anyStar TrekTV series or movie can potentially appear.Star Trekhas been a multiverse since the invention of the Mirror Universe inStar Trek: The Original Series, and J.J. Abrams’Star Trekmovies as well asStar Trek: Discoverymade clear that multiple alternate timelines exist inStar Trek’s expansive timeline.
Aaron J. Walke previously said Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 would touch upon every other iteration of Star Trek.
Admiral Janeway and the USS Voyager-A’s mission to save Captain Chakotay from a dark alternate future looks likea springboard forStar Trek: Prodigy to play with time travel and, perhaps, alternate realities.There are bound to be manysurprises inStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2, and the young heroes led by Dal R’El (Brett Gray) and Gwyndala (Ella Purnell) could encounter familiar faces from otherStar Trekuniverses. Aaron J. Walke previously saidStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2 would touch upon every other iteration ofStar Trek, and fans will hopefully understandStar Trek’s multiverse better by the end ofStar Trek: Prodigyseason 2.
