We’re just a few days away from the premiere of Star Trek: Prodigy, and during yesterday’s Sunday NFL coverage, CBS released two new clips from the upcoming series debut.

The first clip from “Lost & Found” features purple teenager Dal (Brett Gray) trying to make his escape from the Tars Lemora mining asteroid, where he and the other members of the Star Trek: Prodigy cast begin their adventure — as he races towards (hopeful) freedom, he’s watched by The Diviner (John Noble), the overlord of the prison colony.

The second preview clip adds the hulking Brikar girl Rok-Tahk (Rylee Alarzaqui) to the scene, as she activates the USS Protostar’s systems — and much-needed Universal Translator — after she and Dal find and board the mysterious Federation ship.

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In addition to these new teases from Thursday’s series premiere, we’ve also got some words from the returning star of Star Trek: Prodigy — Captain Janeway herself, Kate Mulgrew — who we spoke to as part of a roundtable interview session during New York Comic Con earlier this month.

First, the actor tells us about how she worked with the Prodigy creative team to lend her input into the animation character design of her holographic Janeway character:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMWTXLpsur8

“We were in very close collaboration, because it’s important to me that my physical features be exaggerated in just the right way — it’s easy to get that wrong, but these animators did it beautifully — so that the eyes are a little enhanced; the face, I think itself is a little shortened, a little square; the mouth is more facile.

Children need to respond to the eyes, the mouth — and the hair, which, you know, was diabolically difficult for real Janeway. These guys, Kevin and Dan Hageman, are just terrific to work with.

There’s a genius to animation. I haven’t given enough thought to myself. And being a part of this is teaching me that it’s a very rare and very excellent form of art. I mean, it’s a craftsmanship that I have to stand back and sort of say, wow!

These are men who are not only incredibly smart and very gifted, but who can somehow enter into the imagination of a six year old kid and produce the dialogue that would be in accordance with that personality.

It’s wonderful. Wonderful to be a part of it. I’m learning!”

She also told the assembled press outlets about her feelings on returning to voice Janeway after so many years away from Star Trek, and how she enjoys the new role Prodigy holds in introducing the franchise to a younger audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfJIA0XuBT8

“To go into the minds of the young will be thrilling — and I’m so surprised we didn’t do this earlier, that ‘Star Trek’ didn’t do this earlier. And I’m absolutely delighted and honored to be the one to take it in.

To have her in my pocket like that, Janeway, and to have her spring out with such alacrity and such vivacity makes me… pleases me very much. And it’s a pleasure. And at this point in time, 26 years later, it should be nothing short of a pleasure.

But I had to sit on it for a minute because my creation of Kathryn Janeway was not only wholly invested, but I have to tell you very, very defining. And that was a decade of my life that never ended. It just keeps going on and on. So the significance of Janeway is very apparent to me if I’m going to step into some recording booth and bring her to life again, I better understand that.

So after considering that for about two days, I said, I’d love to do it. And it’s been great.”

We’ll have more coverage of the impending Star Trek: Prodigy debut as the week continues, so keep your sensors locked here on TrekCore!