WHEN THE HAGEMAN BROTHERS – Dan and Kevin – first pitched Star Trek: Prodigy, an animated canonical series aimed at a younger generation, they warned executives it wasn’t going to be a traditional Nickelodeon programme.
What we got was, arguably, one of the best Star Trek series ever; grand in scale, epic in design and scary in all the right places. This wasn’t “Star Trek for kids”, this was Star Trek for everyone.
“If we wrote younger, it canon. It would be like, ‘Who are these characters? And why are the villains goofy?’ or whatever,” Dan says. “That’s one thing we always wanted to do. Something that reaches all ages is to make sure that the villain has a real threat. A real three-dimensional character with real stakes. They’re not going to slip on banana peels, they’re really going to do their best to try to stop these kids. And it’s up to the kids to live up to that moment.”
