Netflix has set July 1 for the release of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2, per the streamer’s app. Netflix picked up the series last October after Paramount+ decided in June to remove a number of originals, including Star Trek: Prodigy, from the platform in a cost-cutting content write-down and not to proceed with the previously commissioned 20-episode season of the animated show which was already in the works.
This marks the third home for Prodigy, which originated as a Nickelodeon series given its younger skew that does not match the rest of the franchise.
The series then migrated to Paramount+. Star Trek: Prodigy follows a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search of a better future.
These six young outcasts know nothing about the ship they have commandeered – a first for the Star Trek franchise – but over the course of their adventures together, each will be introduced to Starfleet and the ideals it represents.
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