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Star Trek: Prodigy is an American animated television series created by Kevin and Dan Hageman for the streaming service Paramount+ and the cable channel Nickelodeon. It is the tenth Star Trek series and was launched in 2021 as part of executive producer Alex Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe. Prodigy is the first Star Trek series to target younger audiences and is also the first to use 3D animation.

Plot
In 2383, five years after the USS Voyager returned to Earth at the end of Star Trek: Voyager, a motley crew of young aliens find an abandoned Starfleet ship, the USS Protostar, in the Tars Lamora prison colony. Taking control of the ship, they must learn to work together as they make their way from the Delta Quadrant to the Alpha Quadrant

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The idea of the younger audiences version of Star Trek is interesting. Considering that the show was produced by Nickelodeon.
 * 2) Prodigy's visuals are among the most awe-inspiring in the franchise. From the Used Future of Tars Lamora, to the intricately-detailed interior of the Protostar, to the splendor of interstellar space, the animators clearly spared no expense, and help prove, along with Star Trek: Lower Decks that animation is a viable medium for Star Trek shows.
 * 3) For Star Trek, it is not afraid to show the target audiences with darker elements, like the pilot episode has children being enslaved in a dangerous mine, under threat of Cold-Blooded Torture at the claws of a violent and sadistic robot that looks like something you'd see in a Terminator movie. There's plenty of humor to offset the horror, but still, for a kid's show, that's dark, so it was well executed.
 * 4) Lots of well written funny moments, like Jankom and Rok discover the mess hall and Janeway introduces them to the food replicators. Jankom sheepishly admits that he’s short of credits, but once Janeway tells him it’s free, he orders a massive plate of Tellarite food. That said, the comedy isn't overused.
 * 5) Awesome voice acting, especially with Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, and Dee Bradley Baker being highlighted example to voiced the young crew of the USS Protostar.
 * 6) An excellent soundtrack by Nami Melumad that were well fitting for Nickelodeon and Star Trek standards, especially the theme song by Michael Giacchino, who supervised Melumad's Short Treks work and also composed the music for the Kelvin Timeline Star Trek films.
 * 7) Drednok and the Diviner are exciting and fun villain of Star Trek franchise.
 * 8) Features guest starring cast, such as René Auberjonois, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Leonard Nimoy, David Ruprecht and Gates McFadden who appears as a hologram and archival audio.
 * 9) Very likable and believable characters, such as Dal R'El, Gwyndala, Jankom Pog, Zero, Rok-Tahk, Murf and Kathryn Janeway, who must work together to going on the adventure.
 * 10) Several actor have reprised the roles.
 * 11) * Kate Mulgrew returns as Kathryn Janeway, albeit as a hologram and not the real person.
 * 12) **Kate Mulgrew also reprises the role of the human Vice Admiral Janeway.
 * 13) *Robert Beltran also reprises his role as Chakotay.
 * 14) *Gates McFadden makes an appearance as a holographic Dr. Crusher.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The dialogue for Spock, Scotty, Uhura, and Odo in "Kobayashi", all of which was lifted from their respective series, is very choppy, especially in Spock's case, which reuses his lines from TOS, TNG, and even Star Trek (2009). Though given how most of them have passed away, there really weren't many options.
 * 2) Holo-Janeway falls here occasionally. Doesn't help that she's the Token Human of the group and thus her CGI model is subject to more scrutiny.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the show has an approval rating of 89% based on reviews from 9 critics.[50] On Metacritic it has a score of 68 based on reviews from 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".