The Christmas 2023 first season announcement on Netflix
A series of "Star Trek Logs" began being released on Instagram throughout the second half of the season. These short videos consist of in-universe personal log recordings from Kathryn Janeway, posted after each new episode. [1]
Prodigy's first season was used by the Star Trek franchise as the stopgap measure to ensure an uninterrupted and continuous weekly supply of new Star Trek television productions from November 2021 onward until the end of 2022. This was achieved by breaking up the season in several parts, and using each of them to bridge a production gap between the other Kurtzman-era productions. 2022 therefore became the first year that has featured a new Star Trek (television) production every week and the first (and only) time the franchise had managed that feat in the context of their "Star Trek Universe" all-under-one-roof franchise concept, instituted a year earlier.
As has become increasingly commonplace in the world of animation, the CGI animated ones in particular, most of the actual animation was outsourced to foreign animation studios and their employees, typically located in low-wage countries such as either mainland China, India or both. In Prodigy's case one of these concerned the Bangalore, India-based Micros Animation studio (originally of French origin), [2] which became nominated in 2023 for an Indian Ann Award in the most prestigious category for their work on the first season of the series, an award they did not win however. One of their (otherwise uncredited) employees though, did win the individual one in its most prestigious category (see: below). [3]
After Prodigy was removed from the franchise on 26 June 2023, [4] it became streaming serviceNetflix who picked up the show for their platform, committing themselves to stream the show's second season, which was nearing completion at the time. The pickup was made public on 11 October 2023, with the concurrent announcement that the first season too would be made available on the streamer during the 2023 Christmas season as a warming-up. [5][6]
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On 1 November2022, Prodigy's first season was nominated by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the first annual Children's and Family Emmy Awards (a Daytime Emmy Awards spin-off) for an Emmy Award in two categories, including one of its most coveted categories, that of "Outstanding Animated Series". [7][8] A Johnny-come-lately sound category nomination followed suit on 2 November 2023 for the season's Part 3. [9] In this, the show has thereby essentially followed in the footsteps of its illustrious Star Trek: The Animated Series predecessor when it was included in the inaugural nominee lineup in a corresponding category of the then newly instituted Daytime Emmy Awards back in 1974. But like its predecessor, it failed to secure the win on its first run, though winning the lesser one on 11 December 2022. [10]
Instituted in 2019, the Ann Awards are Indian animation industry accolades awarded for achievements by that nation's companies and production staff working in the field, [11] and is emblematic of the prominent place India has over the past few decades come to occupy in the animation segment of the worldwide motion picture industry.
2022/23 Star Trek: Prodigy Season 1 awards and honors
Sound Mixing and Sound Editing For An Animated Program (for Part 3)
Otis Van Osten, Josh Eckberg, Brittany Ellis, Matt Klimek, Ron Salaises, Michael Wessner, Aran Tanchum, Vincent Guisetti, Tommy Sarioglou, and Nami Melumad[14]
Dan Hageman (executive producer), Kevin Hageman (executive producer), Ben Hibon (co-executive producer), Patrick Krebs (supervising producer), MacGregor Middleton (producer), Aaron Waltke (co-producer), Julie Benson (co-producer), Shawna Benson (co-producer), Chad Quandt (co-producer), and Jennifer Gay (producer)
