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WISH UPON A PROTOSTAR

IN THE 55 YEARS OF ITS EXISTENCE IN pop culture, Star Trek has explored every kind of mood and tone across television, film and in animation. But what it has never done is aim unabashedly at a younger audience. Sure, families around the globe have watched the myriad of iterations together and there have been teenage characters like Wesley Crusher to bring in younger interest, but no Star Trek series or film has been made just for a child audience – until now, with Star Trek: Prodigy.

The CG animated series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Roddenberry Entertainment and was developed by Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout, which is currently steering the creative behind all of the recent series.

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