Fans of 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Fly Banner Over Netflix In Ongoing Effort To Save Canceled Series
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Star Trek: Prodigy, the third animated Star Trek series, aired its first ten episodes on Paramount+ from October 2021 to February 2022. There was a mid-season break of eight months before the release of episodes 11-20 starting in October 2022. Despite stellar reviews of the first season, Paramount+ scrapped plans for the second season and removed Star Trek: Prodigy completely from the streaming platform in June. Paramount+ was toting itself as “the home of all things Star Trek” but that nomenclature is now out the window with the change. CBS Studios and co-showrunners, Dan and Kevin Hageman, continue to send the second season through post-production while over 33,000 Star Trek fans have petitioned the show’s cancellation on Change.org. It was soon announced that this fan effort was also fundraising on GoFundMe to rent a plane for skywriting as a marketing campaign.
Fans made it so! On Thursday, August 24, a banner declaring, “Save Star Trek Prodigy,” was flown over the offices of several streaming platforms in Los Angeles, including Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. The clear banner in the sky notably hovered near the Netflix offices for about ten minutes, hoping to raise attention due to Netflix having streaming rights to the Star Trek titles before Paramount+ acquired them. The loyal Star Trek fandom has always been integral in keeping the shows on air, such as when Star Trek: The Original Series was almost canceled after the second season. On X (formerly Twitter), Dan and Kevin Hageman cheered on the fanbase. “This is incredible. We owe these Trek fans a pint and our lifetime devotion. Blessed to have people like all of you in our stratosphere.”
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Several of Star Trek: Prodigy’s executive producers and writers were at the 57-Year Mission fan convention earlier this month when they shared that the team is “99% confident” in their mission to get the second season of Star Trek: Prodigy on another streaming platform soon. According to TrekMovie, executive producer Aaron Waltke commented that the team has been so excited to launch phenomenal tie-ins with already established shows, such as Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Picard, and that audiences will soon “see all those threads start to wind together in this amazing grand tapestry.”
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Sources: Hollywood Reporter, TrekMovie, Memory Alpha, X
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