Prodigy’s Kate Mulgrew & Team Deep Dive Into Season 2

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 fulfills the mission of ​​the animated series to bring Star Trek to a new, younger audience. Led by Kate Mulgrew, Brett Gray and executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman, all 20 Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 episodes premiered on Netflix on July 1 and Boasting a 100% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.

in Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2, the young Starfleet hopefuls of the USS Protostar launch into An adventure that touches every aspect of Star Treks vast canon and multiverse. Along with Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran), Star Trek legacy characters like Wesley Crusher (Will Whitten) return to help Dal R’El (Brett Grey), Gwyndala (Ella Purnell), and their friends, Face old enemies and new in a journey that spans space and time.

Screen Rant Had the pleasure of chatting with Kate Mulgrew, Brett Gray, Kevin Hageman and Dan Hageman at San Diego Comic-Con about all aspects of Star Trek: ProdigyAnd why season 2 is so deeply satisfying.

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 is one of the best seasons of Star Trek ever produced

Screen Rating: Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix. All 20 episodes drop on July 1. Everyone should watch it. I’ve seen the whole thing three times already.

Kate Mulgrew: Do you really? what do you mean

Screen Rant: It is, honestly, one of the best seasons of Star Trek I have seen everything. This is also the consensus. I’m sure you’ve seen the love online. Please, all of you, tell me how you feel about the love and the validation. Especially after everything to get it on Netflix.

Kate Mulgrew: Well, we feel that. So it should go ahead, right? That would be the assumption. Netflix caught it, thankfully, now we wait to see if it will have a future. What it must have. Because not only did it deserve that, but wouldn’t it be a tremendous loss if it wasn’t? You said it was some of the best Star Trek TV you’ve seen. So, tell us what?

Screen Rant: Well, first of all, it not only evokes the vast canon of Star Trek And did it in a way that was very respectful but also forward-looking, but it also told an incredible story of growth, and change, and heroism. It was emotionally satisfying. It was beautifully rendered and animated. So I could go on, but this is not about me.

Dan Hageman: Also the music. Nami [Melumad]s score.

screen rant; Yes, Naomi’s score.

Kate Mulgrew: Deeply satisfying. That’s a wonderful way to put it.

The Hagemeans share how they brought Star Trek: Prodigy to Netflix

“We were paused in the moment right before Chakotay and Janeway got together.”

Kevin Hageman: And let me just say, imagine we were in the middle of season 2. The show… we got a call that it was just going to stop. It wouldn’t be any more, it would never get free. From that point to suddenly, the fans, the plane flying over Netflix, the support, the love, able to finish it. And we’re like sitting behind the scenes and making this thing go, ‘This needs to be seen. What if this is just deleted?’

Dan Hageman: I also think we were stopped… We stopped at the moment right before Chakotay and Janeway got together. So I like to believe that Janeway and Chakotay’s cosmic energy…

Kevin Hageman: Shippers…

Dan Hageman: Brought T together, finished the show, and brought it to the screen on Netflix.

Kate Mulgrew: I said, let’s talk about sex. Are we talking about it?

Screen Rant: Wow.

Kevin Hageman: It’s getting hot in here, Kate.

How Kate Mulgrew joined Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1

The actor said, “You’re going to have to give me a minute with this one.”

Screen Rant: I’d like to go back a few years, actually.

Kate Mulgrew: Let’s go back! (laughs)

Screen Rant: Out of the blue a few years ago, you get a call from the two gentlemen and they ask you to bring Janeway back, play Janeway again in a cartoon. Tell me how you felt about that?

Kate Mulgrew: I didn’t get a call from the guys. Unfortunately. I would love that. But I did get a call from Alex Kurtzman, who thinks you know Mantle, and he said, ‘How would you feel about the return of Janeway in an animated series called Prodigy?’ And I actually said I was a little bit… on my back foot about it, because I said, “You’re going to have to give me a minute with this.”

You know, playing Janeway in Voyager was life-changing for me. Huge. And she chose herself. She has never diminished in my imagination or in my practical life. So the idea of ​​doing it now, a cartoon, I thought, I don’t know. Is this the right step? Will this be good? And then he gave me the story, and I talked to some of my friends, who were very familiar, and they said: You are out of your mind. To be able to bring this [the] Young, to children, and to carry it on trans-generation. What an opportunity. And then I met the Hagemans and I fell in love. And then I met the Dingle Bangle.

Brett Gray: (laughs) Hey, it’s me.

Kate Mulgrew: And I’m so glad I did. It was, to use your words, deeply satisfying – the whole trip.

Screen Rant: Well, we’re all thankful you did. We are all so grateful.

Kate Mulgrew and Brett Gray playing Admiral Janeway and Dahl switching bodies

screen rant; I’m glad Brett and you are both here together. Ever since season 1, I’ve been dying to ask you about that episode when you switched bodies and played each other. Please tell me about playing board, and board playing chain.

Brett Gray: That was awesome.

Kate Mulgrew: That was fun, wasn’t it?

Brett Gray: I was so scared.

Kate Mulgrew: Linguistically, it was challenging.

Brett Gray: Lingo. Linguistically.

Kate Mulgrew: I had to learn how you spoke.

Brett Gray: Same.

Kate Mulgrew: Right?

Brett Gray: Yes.

Kate Mulgrew: That must have been hard. (laughs)

Brett Gray: It was deeply satisfying.

Kate Mulgrew: But you got it, guys. You were good. You were nice. In the booth, you always said, ‘Why don’t we do it again? Let’s just try it again.’

Brett Gray: And I will say I totally tried to really throw you for a loop. I was going for it, really. I was like, oh, if Kate’s going to do a dal, I’m going to give the most dal, because I just wanted to hear her do it. (laughs)

Dan Hageman: When we recorded their lines, we had them record their lines so that the other person could hear how they were saying the lines.

Screen Rant: Is there ever a point for either of you where you’re like, ‘You’ve gone too far’?

Brett Gray: No, I was ready. I was so excited to do it. Because it’s so common sense—

Kate Mulgrew: Fantastic idea, right?

Brett Gray: I was like, so I’m playing in the Admiral’s body with the Admiral’s voice, but I’m dumb? I was like a – I was like, wait, what’s going on? How do I even do that?

Kate Mulgrew: Star Trek at its best.

Brett Gray: Yes, totally.

Kate Mulgrew: I dug it. That was really fun. And you know what it means to say ‘I dig that?’ Or is that old school.

Brett Gray: I do. I mean, we say Doug.

Kate Mulgrew: Is this antique?

Kevin Hageman: She’s not really digging anything.

Brett Gray: We say…

Kate Mulgrew: What are you saying?

Dan Hageman: Chief.

Brett Gray: Oh, we definitely say hat. Cap is like when you think I’m lying.

Dan Hageman: Chapel is a lie. I’m thinking bet.

Brett Gray: You bet. Yes, bet too.

Dan Hageman: My bad. My bad.

Kate Mulgrew: Now wait a minute. I just said I dug it. And you give me what you would say. Your generation.

Brett Gray: We don’t say Doug, but we understand.

Kate Mulgrew: I think you should just say excuse me.

Brett Gray: Yeah, that’s cool. This is sad.

Kevin Hageman: Don’t they deserve it…we think they should have some live-action buddy cop shows. They are paired up together, and only comedy ensues.

Kate Mulgrew: Buddy Cops? Cops?

Brett Gray: Not cops. We’ve seen that a lot, right?

Kate Mulgrew: Yes, too many cops. Too many police. Too many robbers. What will we be?

Brett Gray: I feel like, I don’t know. It has to be something that no one would ever think of. Like, it must be the weirdest way we’d even know each other.

Kate Mulgrew: Killers.

Brett Gray: Do it. Let’s do it.

Would Janeway adopt Dal? Inquiring minds want to know.

Screen Rant: This is so funny because I would ask if Janeway could adopt any of the Protostar kids so they could live in your farmhouse, why would that be Dal? And it turns out, here it is.

Kate Mulgrew: In my farmhouse?

Screen Rant: Yes, when Janeway retires at the end, she moves into a farmhouse, briefly.

Kate Mulgrew: I don’t know about Dal on a farm.

Brett Gray: I don’t know if I would want to do that.

Kate Mulgrew: With the little cows and the little sheep. You might get lost.

Brett Grey: There’s one episode where Holo Janeway has us doing the team-building exercise. And we’re chasing the chicken and trying to get it. So I just don’t think that would go well. (laughs)

Kate Mulgrew on Janeway & Chakotay in Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2

Screen Rant: Kate, I have to ask you about Janeway and Chakotay. I love their reunion and the portrayal of their relationship in season 2. There are JC fans who have been waiting for them to be a couple forever.

Kate Mulgrew: Why? I’m asking you because you know your stuff, and everyone told me that you know your stuff. Why?

Screen Rant: Okay. Because they are two people who were thrown into an incredibly unique situation, and they brought out the best in each other. And together, they fit, what is it? 200-300 people back home over seven years.

Kate Mulgrew: 165 complement.

Screen Rant: Thank you. Thank you, Admiral.

Kate Mulgrew: He was the Mackies. He was my enemy. And you wanted us to become not just friends – lovers.

Screen Rant: Not me. Everyone.

Kate Mulgrew: But what?

Screen Rant: Because you deserve it.

Kate Mulgrew: What do I deserve?

Screen Rant: Janeway deserves romance. She deserves a happy life outside of…

Kate Mulgrew: Okay. I got lost in the Delta Quadrant because I skipped the gas station with 165 people, right? 175,000 light years from home. And I’ll say, “Chakotay, in my ready room. You know what I’m talking about.” As the first female captain no, big big mistake.

Screen Rant: But now.

Kate Mulgrew: But what now? Now, I’m not. (laughs) Yes, now I’m not.

Screen Rant: But now, Admiral Janeway and Captain Chakotay, reunited in season 2.

Kate Mulgrew: In an animated series. (laughs) We could reunite. What do you think, guys?

Dan Hageman: We can never answer that. This has to be a thing. We saw Moon League.

Kate Mulgrew: Here’s what I think. I think tension is the word. Always keep the suspense, will they or won’t they?

Brett Gray: Or have they?

Kate Mulgrew: Only their hairdresser knows for sure.

Brett Gray enters Gwyn & Dal’s relationship

Screen Rant: Brett, I love Dal and Gwyn’s relationship too. Let’s talk about it.

Brett Gray: Same. Yes, I’m rooting for this. I hope that happens. I think they would be great together. And I think that both of them should experience love in this way, with such opposite upbringings and ways of life, that they should come together in this way, I think that it will bring out the best in both of them.

Kate Mulgrew: But where are you going? Where are you really going with this idea? How long can this be sustained?

Brett Gray: Well, I think that…

Dan Hageman: This is our problem.

Brett Gray: This is for you. (laughs)

Screen Rant: It’s a good problem to have.

Kate Mulgrew on Star Trek: Prodigy’s Mirror Universe episode

Screen Rant: I personally love Mirror Universe and the Mirror Universe episode that will be screened at your panel. Kate, you have to play evil mirror Janeway. Tell me about it.

Kate Mulgrew: Heaven! Bliss. Because Janeway is very good, right? She is eminently respectable. Brave woman. I mean, she has her faults, but she’s a nice person. To be able to fly that, as an actor, is pure pleasure. Especially in a booth where you can get away with murder, and have done many times. (Laughs) And they go, ‘Yeah! More murder!’ Yes, really satisfying to do that.

Screen Rant: Deeply satisfying.

Kate Mulgrew: Because, of course, it resides in me, doesn’t it?

Screen Rant: I think we’re seeing some of it now.

Wesley Crusher’s comeback in Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2

Screen Rant: Another home run in season 2 is Wesley Crusher. Wil Wheaton coming back, which was fantastic. And the best version of Wesley we’ve ever seen Star Trek. Plus as a side benefit, we got the first meeting ever of Admiral Janeway and Dr. Beverly Crusher, his mom. Let’s talk about that because it’s all Star Trek History is made by your show.

Kevin Hageman: Oh, it’s a joy. I mean, we have a writer, Jen Murrow, in our room, and when she was growing up, she had a Wesley Crusher poster on her wall. She was the biggest crush on him. And she brought him up to the room, what if we bring him back?

Dan Hageman: She also became friends with Will at that time. And she is one of his biggest fans.

Kevin Hageman: But he’s the original woman from Trek.

Kate Mulgrew: He is. That’s right.

Kevin Hageman: He is. And he disappears, sort of, in TNG. And you’re kind of left with this great great mystery of who he is. I imagine a lot of writers might have been afraid to touch this character, because he’s like the Time Lord. What are the rules there? What can he do? Is he strong too? And we just had a blast in the room cleverly using him, bringing him back, finding out what the next chapter of Wesley Crusher is.

Dan Hageman: We like the idea of ​​a time lord who didn’t have time to see his mother. That’s where it is.

Kevin Hageman: It’s so resonant, so emotionally…

Kate Mulgrew: Story of every mother and son, isn’t it?

The team reveals their Star Trek: Prodigy Season 3 hopes

Screen Rant: I have to ask you all what we are all waiting to hear about, which is Star Trek: Prodigy Season 3? Do you know anything? Can you tell us something? Besides, do we all want it?

Dan Hageman: Kate, go ahead. Leave chain.

Kate Mulgrew: We fully expect it. And too many afterwards. It is excellent animated television. I don’t think there is anything that can compare to it on television. And the fact that – we don’t wait – but I think that this period must arrive and we must deal with it.

Screen Rant: Kevin and Dan, is this a case where you can’t start any work on season 3 until you know, or do you have like a bunch of ideas just sitting there waiting to go?

Kevin Hageman: Really, we have a lot of ideas. I think the hardest part, and it’s just the state of television today, is our production. All are gone. They have been gone for about a year now. So we’re hoping there’s a new season, but it’s almost like starting from scratch.

Dan Hageman: But they are ready to run back. We have a great crew, and we all…

Kate Mulgrew: Will they come back?

Kevin Hageman: Oh yeah.

Kate Mulgrew: Can you retrieve them? Aren’t they going to other things?

Kevin Hageman: They’re gone, but they loved working with everyone on our show. They love this show. We love the response that comes from people.

Kate Mulgrew: You see what it does? It inspires loyalty. Fierce loyalty. on every level.

Kevin Hageman: We use love, not fear, in our productions. It seems to be working.

About Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2

In Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2, the six young outcasts who make up the Prodigy crew are assigned a new mission aboard the USS Voyager-A to rescue Captain Chakotay (voiced by Robert Beltran) and bring peace to Gwynne (voiced by Ella Purnell) home. World. However, when their plan goes awry, it creates a time paradox that threatens both their future and their past.

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The first two seasons of Star Trek: Prodigy are now available to stream on Netflix.

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