NewsDavid PowellStar Trek: Prodigy

In Comic-Con trailer, Kate Mulgrew’s Captain Janeway tells the crew of Star Trek: Prodigy, “We’ve only just begun”

NewsDavid PowellStar Trek: Prodigy
In Comic-Con trailer, Kate Mulgrew’s Captain Janeway tells the crew of Star Trek: Prodigy, “We’ve only just begun”
The U.S.S. Protostar, as seen in the Star Trek: Prodigy Comic-Con 2021 trailer

The U.S.S. Protostar, as seen in the Star Trek: Prodigy Comic-Con 2021 trailer

JULY 25, 2021 - Following her appearance on the Star Trek: Prodigy Comic-Con@Home panel, Star Trek: Voyager’s Captain Janeway, Kate Mulgrew, tweeted that she can’t wait to share Prodigy with everyone this fall. She helpfully supplied the trailer, which dropped during the panel.

In the trailer we see our new heroes yearning to escape their incarceration in an apparent labor camp on a desolate planet and gathering around a wrecked Federation starship. Dal, voiced by Brett Gray, is the first to decide to get away. Despite fears of getting caught, we then see Dal’s fellow adventurers coming together: Zero, a Medusan, voiced by Angus Imrie; the Brikaran Rok-Tahk, voiced by Rylee Alazraqui; Jankom Pog, a young Tellarite, voiced by Jason Mantzoukas; Murf, an adorable blob, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker; and new alien Gwyn, voiced by Ella Purnell.

One of them asks, “What is all of this?” “All of this” turns out to be the U.S.S. Protostar, NX-76884, their “ticket out of here.” As we see the ship rising toward the stars, a familiar voice promises, “We’ve only just begun.” That voice belongs to Kathryn Janeway, who will appear as an emergency training hologram, and who, according to Mulgrew during the Comic-Con panel, is “devastatingly beautiful” and driven to help the others succeed and to hand it off to the next generation.

For more on the Comic-Con panel, featuring Mulgrew and the rest of the new crew, head to Comic-Con International’s YouTube channel. Star Trek: Prodigy will premiere this fall on Paramount+, Nickelodeon, and the CTV Sci-Fi Channel in Canada.

David is a contributing writer for Daily Star Trek News on the Roddenberry Podcast Network. He is a librarian, baseball fan, and book and movie buff. He has also written for American Libraries and Skeptical Inquirer. David also enjoys diverse music, but leans toward classical and jazz. He plays a mean radio.