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Now We Know What Captain Janeway Is Doing on Star Trek: Prodigy

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Published on April 5, 2021

Image courtesy of Paramount
Rendering of Captain Janeway and crew on Star Trek: Prodigy
Image courtesy of Paramount

Last fall at NYCC it was announced that Kate Mulgrew would return to the role of Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Prodigy, an animated show about a group of teens on an abandoned spaceship. What wasn’t exactly clear was how Janeway would fit into this premise. Earlier this year a few more details came out: the teens are “lawless” and all different alien species, and the show will have 10 episodes in its first season.

As part of today’s First Contact Day virtual celebrations, Paramount+ released a first look at Prodigy‘s Janeway, and explained her relationship to these mysterious teens—the show is set in the year 2383, in the Delta Quadrant, and Janeway is the ship’s built-in emergency training hologram.

So that means it’s not exactly Janeway, but a programmed version of her—which raises a lot of questions about how and why that program was created. Who asked the formidable Janeway to act as a training instructor? When did she have time for this? Can holograms still enjoy coffee?

Prodigy is the first Star Trek show developed for a young audience, but a new target audience doesn’t mean they’re breaking the Trek mold; the official description says the show will “follow a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search for a better future.” These kids don’t know anything about their ship or about Starfleet, but doubtless holo-Janeway has a lot to teach them.

Here is the full preview of the character art:

Rendering of Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Prodigy
Image courtesy of Paramount

Star Trek: Prodigy will premiere on Paramount+ later this year. If you would like to watch the Prodigy First Contact Day panel, it will eventually be uploaded on the Paramount+ YouTube channel.

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Molly Templeton has been a bookseller, an alt-weekly editor, and assistant managing editor of Tor.com, among other things. She now lives and writes in Oregon, and spends as much time as possible in the woods.
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