Star Trek: Prodigy Reveals First Look at Captain Janeway
Star Trek: Voyager) reprises her role as Janeway, but with a twist. In Prodigy, Janeway is the built-in emergency training hologram aboard the show s starship. Executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman revealed the news during today s First Contact Day panels. They also confirmed that the new series occurs in the Delta Quadrant in the year 2383, five years after Janeway led the USS.
Voyager and its crew home from that same region of the galaxy in the final episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy during the Star Trek Universe New York City Comic Con panel in 2020. Mulgrew said, I have invested every scintilla of my being in Captain Janeway, and I can t wait to endow her with nuance that I never did before in
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“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is beaming up five more to its cast.
Babs Olusanmokun, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush and Melissa Navia have joined stars Ethan Peck, Anson Mount and Rebecca Romjin on the Paramount+ series, which started production on Friday. You can a video announcement of that here.
The series follows Spock (Peck), Captain Pike (Mount) and Number One (Romjin), all of which were introduced in Season 2 of “Star Trek: Discovery.” “Strange New Worlds” will follow the three in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Begins Production, Adds Five to Cast
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The announcement came in the form a video featuring series leads Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, and Ethan Peck, as well as newly added series regulars Babs Olusanmokun, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, and Melissa Navia. The full announcement can be viewed above.
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“Strange New Worlds” is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike (Mount) manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise before Captain Kirk. Mount, Romijn, and Peck all made their first appearance in the “Star Trek” universe during Season 2 of “Star Trek: Discovery.” Romijn stars as first officer Number One, while Peck plays Science Officer Spock.
When the Star Trek entered streaming with Star Trek: Discovery, the franchise was able to branch out in various ways that wouldn’t necessarily work in a broadcast network universe. They’ve done one off episodes and even brought back Sir Patrick Stewart in Picard without making him produce 24 episodes a season. Another spin-off series has found a journey on the Paramount+ (previously CBS All Access) streaming app. They’ve animated a crew of a lesser known Starship to give us an insight on a crew not on the USS Enterprise. Now for people who are in a situation where streaming isn’t a good option because of a lack of bandwidth or collectors of Star Trek shows, I Star Trek: Lower Decks – Season 1 /i arrives on Blu-ray in May. Beyond the episodes will be hours of bonus features of what went into animating these bold new adventures. Here’s the press release with all the details from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment: