Prodigy

Star Trek: Prodigy (shall we call it “PRO?”) follows a motley group of teenagers who discover a derelict Starfleet vessel and use it to search adventure, meaning, and salvation.

The show was announced on July 23, 2020 at Comic-Con@Home during the Star Trek Universe panel and is the third animated series of the venerable franchise and the first computer-generated-animated series. The show premiered on Paramount+ in 2021 as part of an effort to bring Star Trek to the Nickelodeon audience.

All episodes are listed for each season. Each episode is indicated with either a “W” for watch or an “S” for skip. I also opted to order my viewing in “chronological order” as best determined by the initial stardate given in the episode. If there isn’t a stardate, I placed it where it made the most sense relative to the other episodes. Eventually, each title will link to a post that discusses the reasoning for seeing an episode and skipping an episode.

Lastly, episodes that are “essential” are indicated with an * in the Ep. No. column. Essential episodes are selected on a number of factors including character development, other cannon connections, and cultural impact. In other words, these often are best of the best of each season.

Season One

Set five years after the adventures of the U.S.S. Voyager comes to an end, a disparate group of alien youth escape from a mining prison aboard the N.X. Protostar, an abandoned experimental Federation starship.

Ep. No.TitleStardateSee/Skip
Part I
01×01 & 01×02*Lost and FoundUnknown | 2383W
01×03*StarstruckUnknown | 2383W
01×04Dream CatcherUnknown | 2383W
01×05Terror FirmaUnknown | 2383W
Part II
01×06KobayashiUnknown | 2384W
01×07First Con-tactUnknown | 2384W
01×08Time Amok607125.6W
01×09A Moral Star | Part IUnknown | 2385W
01×10A Moral Star | Part II61103.1W
Part III
01×11Asylum61209.5W
01×12Let Sleeping Borg Lie61284.3W
01×13All the World’s a Stage61296.9W
01×14Crossroads61302.7W
01×15MasqueradeUnknown | 2385W
01×16PreludesUnknown | 2385W
01×17Ghost in the MachineUnknown | 2385W
01×18MindwalkUnknown | 2385W
01×19*Supernova | Part IUnknown | 2385W
01×20*Supernova | Part IIUnknown | 2385W

Season Two

Season Two of the Emmy-nominated series premieres on Netflix in 2024, following an extensive online and air campaign to save the series from “cancellation” after it’s removal from Paramount+ in June of 2023, even after CBS/Paramount had renewed the critically acclaimed series. With work nearly done on the second season, Netflix picked up the show for its platform.

Ep. Np.TitleStardateSee/Skip