Star Trek Day Brings a New Look at Star Trek: Prodigy

The USS Protostar crew is again simply in time for Star Trek Day, debuting a take a look at the mid-season premiere of Star Trek: Prodigy, the animated youngsters’ present set throughout the Trek universe.

In the clip featured beneath chances are you’ll hear a well-recognized house captain together with his signature roguish panache. Yes, that’s proper: Billy Campbell has joined the season one voice solid with a recurring position as Thadiun Okona, formally reprising his Star Trek: The Next Generation position. (It’s good timing, because the younger crew may have his assist.) Campbell joins a recurring voice solid which additionally consists of Snowpiercer’s Daveed Diggs (Commander Tysess), She-Hulk’s Jameela Jamil (Ensign Asencia), Jason Alexander (Doctor Noum), and Robert Beltran (Captain Chakotay), alongside major crew voices Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway) and Brett Gray (Dal R’ El).

“From early on in the writers’ room, we knew we wanted Captain Thadiun Okona to return and become a questionable guide to our impressionable crew,” govt producers Kevin and Dan Hageman mentioned in a press launch. “It was so much fun to not only explore where Okona’s outrageous life has taken him in his later years, but to also work with Billy Campbell who effortlessly fell back into the role of Okona like he had never left.” Okona beforehand popped up on a season two episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Here’s how Paramount+ describes the remainder of the Prodigy season: “[as] the hopeful crew makes their way towards Starfleet, their dreams are threatened when they discover the USS Protostar harbors a weapon designed to tear the United Federation of Planets apart. To make matters worse, the real Vice Admiral Janeway is on a manhunt for the Protostar, eager to uncover what happened to her missing former First Officer Chakotay. With these two ships on a collision course and destruction on the horizon, the fate of the Alpha Quadrant hangs in the balance.”

Star Trek: Prodigy will make its mid-season return Thursday, October 27 on Paramount+.

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