For old-school Trek fans, the Janeway of old is a welcome friend. Mulgrew leans into the warm tonal quality of her voice, which she modulates wonderfully in the early episodes. As expected, she steps back into the role perfectly.
Of course, the most recognizable and anticipated voice of them all is Kate Mulgrew’s, as she voices Hologram Kathryn Janeway. Through a series of misadventures on the job, Dal connects with other miners who will become his de facto posse: the erudite fugitive robot, Zero (Angus Imrie), essentially a child laborer Rok-Tahk (Rylee Alazraqui) the contrarian mechanic Jankom Pog ( Jason Mantzoukas) and a sentient eating-machine blob known as Murf (Dee Bradley Baker). They are the yin and yang of the series, as Dal exists on charisma and impulse while Gwyn is the extremely well-educated conformist that is learning the truths of her father.
As the colony rebel and smart aleck, Dal’s already got a reputation as a troublemaker, which puts him on the radar of the colony owner, The Diviner (John Noble) and his extremely competent older teen daughter, Gwyn (Ella Purnell). But he’s got ambitions to escape and get off planet to see if he can discover more of his own kind, and a future that he can choose.
The main protagonist is Dal (Brett Gray), an orphan boy of unknown species stuck doing manual labor in a remote mining colony. Tara Bennett gave the first half of Lower Decks Season 2 an 8, writing that it gained "even more confidence in mixing comedy with away mission hijinks and character progression." In addition to live-action series Discovery and Picard, Paramount+ also has another animated show, Lower Decks, on its roster. What about Star Trek's other animated series?
The pilot, “Lost & Found,” is an engaging one-hour premiere that ably sets the stage for the core ensemble: a rag-tag group of mining colony refugees who accidentally discover, and escape in, the long-hidden Federation ship, the USS Protostar.
An original CG-animated half-hour series made as a joint enterprise with CBS Eye Animation Productions and Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Prodigy has the slick look of a high-end movie but is scripted with a tone that caters to a tween sensibility.Ĭreated by Kevin and Dan Hageman ( Trollhunters), Star Trek: Prodigy is set in 2383, which lands post the Voyager series in the Trek story timeline. But the latest, Star Trek: Prodigy, is unique to the whole franchise for being the very first series created within the mythology for a younger audience. If you’re a Star Trek fan, you’re existing in a full-out Trek-aissance with the variety of Trek universe series already here and coming soon to Paramount+.