Today at the big Star Trek Universe panel held during New York Comic Con, the first extended look at the returning Star Trek: Prodigy season beamed down — offering fans their first real look at the adventures to come, and a few surprises!

Along with this look at the next run of episodes — which includes characters dressed in Starfleet-inspired clothing, underwater adventures, an encounter between the Prototstar crew and a blue-shirted Starfleet officer, and a visit to a Borg cube — Paramount+ today announced that one-time Enterprise-D captain Edward Jellico is returning!

Promoted since his appearance in the “Chain of Command” two-part episode, actor Ronny Cox voice four-pip Admiral Jellico in a recurring capacity throughout the next ten Star Trek: Prodigy episodes, seemingly a superior officer to our three-pip Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew).

A fan-favorite “nemesis” to Commander Riker and the Enterprise-D crew, Jellico served as interim captain while Captain Jean-Luc Picard ventured undercover into Cardassian territory in “Chain of Command,” as Federation and Cardassian forces tiptoed up to the brink of war after bogus weaponry intelligence lured Picard into a trap.

While Jellico has appeared in Star Trek novels since that two-part episode (most prominently in the New Frontier series), this will be the first time Jellico has been seen on-screen since “Chain of Command, Part II.”

Jellico is the second Trek actor to return for the fall run of episodes, after Billy Campbell who will be reprising the outrageous Captain Thadiun Okona.

Here are a few other images from the upcoming Star Trek: Prodigy adventures!

Star Trek: Prodigy will return on Thursday, October 27 to Paramount+ in the United States and on October 28 in Latin America, Australia, Italy and the U.K; the series is said to air “later in the year” in South Korea, Germany, France, Austria, and Switzerland.