

Ben Hibon was announced as director and creative lead in August 2020, and it was revealed in February 2021 that the series would debut on Paramount+ before airing on Nickelodeon. The Hageman brothers were set as creators and showrunners, and Nickelodeon ordered two seasons of Prodigy that April. Kurtzman first mentioned the series in January 2019, and it was confirmed a month later. It follows a group of young aliens who find the USS Protostar, an abandoned starship.īrett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, and Dee Bradley Baker voice the young crew of the USS Protostar, with Jimmi Simpson, John Noble, and Kate Mulgrew also providing voices for the series, the latter reprising her role as Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager.

Prodigy is the first Star Trek series to target younger audiences and is also the franchise's first animated series to solely use 3D animation. It is the tenth Star Trek series and was launched in 2021 as part of executive producer Alex Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe. “All I said was, ‘What?’ ” Kellar recalls.Star Trek: Prodigy is an American animated television series created by Kevin and Dan Hageman for the streaming service Paramount+ and the cable channel Nickelodeon. He picked up the phone to hear a breathless Day explaining that the platform had been attacked.

Kellar was sitting in his mom’s living room six time zones away near Austin, disassembling a DVD player so he could salvage one of its lasers.

Something was very wrong.ĭay jumped up, spilling his food on the floor, and ran into his bedroom to call Dillon Kellar, a co-founder of Indexed. But he knew enough to be alarmed: A user had bought up certain tokens at drastically deflated values, which shouldn’t have been possible. “If you didn’t know what you were looking at, you might say, ‘Nice-looking trade,’ ” Day says. The colleague had sent over a screenshot showing a recent trade, followed by a question mark. The text was from a colleague who worked with him on Indexed Finance, a cryptocurrency platform that creates tokens representing baskets of other tokens-like an index fund, but on the blockchain. 14, in a house near Leeds, England, Laurence Day was sitting down to a dinner of fish and chips on his couch when his phone buzzed.
