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The latest Star Trek animated series is here with the debut of Star Trek: Prodigy. Here is a spoiler-filled recap of the series premiere episode.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1, Episode 1, “Lost and Found,” streaming now on Paramount+.
The latest Star Trek series is here with Star Trek: Prodigy, a new animated show that returns the iconic franchise to the lawless expanse of the Delta Quadrant, outside of the usual jurisdiction of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets. And while Starfleet itself may not appear directly in Prodigy just yet, its presence is felt, as the animated series’ cast of teenage misfits stumbles across a Starfleet vessel with a familiar commanding officer available as a hologram training program.
Star Trek: Prodigy opens on the faraway prison colony of Tars Lamora, where a teenage dreamer named Dal works in a hard labor mine for oppressive overseers who have taken away universal translators to prevent the convicts from communicating amongst themselves. Dal is interrogated by one of the brutal enforcers, Drednok, about the whereabouts of Fugitive Zero, resulting in Dal making a break for it. He is pursued by robotic guards throughout the prison planet’s landscape only for the power to be shut off to the entire grid, barring his escape attempt.
Elsewhere on Tars Lamora, a teenager named Gwyn works as a translator for her father, the Diviner, who oversees control of the entire mining empire he has established on the planet. The Diviner tasks his daughter with tracking down Dal and using him to locate Fugitive Zero, with Gwyn warning Dal that he only has a limited amount of time before Drednok intervenes and interrogates him with much less agreeable methodology. Searching for Fugitive Zero back in the mines, Dal is reunited with Rok-Tahk, an imposing Brikar with whom Dal previously got off on the wrong foot during his recent escape attempt. After Rok saves his life from an avalanche of rubble, Dal and his rocky friend discover an abandoned starship unearthed by the avalanche.
Inside the starship, the Starfleet vessel the USS Protostar, the ship’s translation systems allow Rok and Dal to finally converse with each other before they discover Fugitive Zero hiding on board. Zero is revealed to be a Medusan, a being comprised of pure energy who wears a containment suit, as seeing a Medusan in their natural form drives most species insane. Zero reveals they were used by the Diviner as a weapon before they escaped, with the trio encountering a Tellarite mechanic named Jankom Pog. Using reverse psychology on Jankom, the mechanic agrees to repair the Protostar and help the group escape from the Diviner and Drednok while Rok recruits a sentient blob named Murf to join the hearty band.
As Zero and Jankom repair the Protostar, Dal is captured by Drednok when he refuses to divulge Zero’s location to Gwyn. Dal is sentenced to hard labor on Tars Lamora’s harsh planetary surface, only to escape and return to the Protostar while offering Gwyn a chance to escape her father’s control by joining them on the starship. However, Gwyn has inadvertently led Drednok and his robotic troops right to the starship, with Drednok revealing that the Diviner had been mining Tars Lamora for the Protostar all along. The resulting skirmish causes the Protostar to become dislodged from its resting place and slide towards a chasm. Meanwhile, Gwyn boards the ship with the intent to apprehend Zero on her father’s behalf.
Zero and Jankom restore operational power to the Protostar just in time to avoid plunging to their doom as Dal activates the ship’s deflector ships and knocks a pursuing Drednok off the ship. Activating the Protostar’s phaser banks, the makeshift crew manages to blast their way out of the mines and escape into the vastness of outer space, with Gwyn and the others marveling at the cosmos’ beauty. As the crew seeks guidance on where to go and how to fully operate the ship, a hologram of Kathryn Janeway appears on the bridge, with the misfit ensemble unaware of who she is. However, the Protostar is far from safe, as an enraged Diviner back on Tars Lamora angrily tasks Drednok with tracking down the starship and bringing it back at any cost, setting the events of Star Trek: Prodigy into motion.
Created by Kevin and Dan Hageman, Star Trek: Prodigy streams on Paramount+, with new episodes released on Thursdays.
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