The Star Trek Day news keeps coming today, as today we’ve finally learned when the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy will be back to continue its first-season adventure!
After a nearly 9-month break, Prodigy returns with the next ten-episode run of episodes Thursday, October 27, following the USS Protostar crew’s escape from Tars Lemora — but with a secret weapon embedded within the ship’s systems, capable of disabling and seriously impacting other Federation starships.
Released today is a new clip from the second half of Prodigy Season 1, where Dal (Brett Grey) and crew are on the run from Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and her USS Dauntless — where it’s clear the kids have learned about the danger carried aboard Protostar, which would infect the Dauntless through communication channels.
In addition, the dashing rogue Thadiun Okona — last seen manning the DJ booth at Starfleet’s hottest party last year — returns as a recurring character in the upcoming Prodigy story, with Star Trek: The Next Generation guest star Billy Campbell returning to voice the now-eyepatch-wearing privateer.
From the formal announcement:
Billy Campbell will be joining the season one voice cast with a recurring role. Campbell will reprise his “Star Trek: The Next Generation” role as Thadiun Okona, a roguish space captain who’s constantly outrunning trouble caused by his own tactics.
When he runs into the young, impressionable Protostar crew, he’ll soon discover they are in more hot water than he is. Campbell joins previously announced recurring voice cast members Daveed Diggs (Commander Tysess), Jameela Jamil (Ensign Asencia), Jason Alexander (Doctor Noum) and Robert Beltran (Captain Chakotay).
“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,” said executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman. “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 Cambell who effortlessly fell back into the role of Okona like he had never left.”
Campbell, of course, first revealed this news himself all the way back in February 2021, however it’s nice to see it finally confirmed by the studio with this new look at his character.
Finally this new preview also gives us some great new views of the USS Dauntless starship, as it seems Admiral Janeway’s pursuit of the Protostar will serve as the main storyline for the fall run of episodes.
From today’s announcement:
In the remaining STAR TREK: PRODIGY Season One episodes, as the hopeful crew makes their way towards Starfleet, their dreams are threatened when they discover the U.S.S. 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.
(Also, Murf seems to be transforming into some new form, which it seems we’ll have to wait to learn more about in October!)
Let us know your thoughts on the new Star Trek: Prodigy developments in the comments below!
Star Trek: Prodigy will return on Thursday, October 27 to Paramount+ in the United States, Latin America, Australia, South Korea, and the UK; the series is said to air “later in the year” in South Korea, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, and Switzerland.