There’s little information known about the upcoming kid-centric animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, beyond the show’s setting revealed last month, but this week returning franchise star Kate Mulgrew let slip some interesting details on how the show’s young cast meets her new portrayal of Kathryn Janeway.

In an interview with Dennis Miller on the Dennis Miller + 1 podcast released on May 12, the returning Star Trek: Voyager lead shared the first details on how the alien cast of Star Trek: Prodigy — all from the Delta Quadrant, as the show picks up just a few years after Voyager‘s return home — meets her new incarnation of Captain Janeway, a holographic training program found on an abandoned Starfleet ship.

While the Prodigy details come at the 23-minute mark in the full interview, Twitter user @SansSobriquet has clipped the relevant portion below.

Five kids are incarcerated on an obscure planet in an uncharted part of the galaxy. They escape from their imprisonment and race across the planet to find a defunct starship buried in the sand of the planet’s surface.

They go [into the ship], and of course the prison guards are coming after them, and they can’t get [the ship] up, and the shields won’t run — and suddenly, somebody hits a button, and bloop!

‘Hello kids, I see you’re a little bit stuck here. Can I help you out?’

It’s Captain Janeway, in a holographic form.

It’s really, I think, going to capture the imagination of little kids. And if they can sit with their mothers, who watched me in live action, and their fathers who loved the other guys, we’ve got a family affair and that will bring it full circle.

Mulgrew’s return to Star Trek was first announced last October, and just last month we got our first look at the intrepid captain’s new animated look as part of the April First Contact Day news tsunami.

Beyond that, however, no details on the show’s additional voice talent — or a release date — has been announced by Paramount+, where the show will initially debut before later re-airing on Nickelodeon.

Keep your sensors locked on TrekCore for all the latest Star Trek: Prodigy news as it breaks — and let us know what you think about this new bit of info about the show’s storyline in the comments below!