It looks like Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) won’t be the only member of the Voyager cast to appear on the new Star Trek: Prodigy series coming to Nickelodeon. TrekMovie reports that Robert Beltran (Chakotay) revealed that he will add his voice to the animated series.
Beltran made the announcement during an appearance at the 55-Year Mission convention in Las Vegas. “I don’t know if I’m supposed to say this or not yet,” he began. “I’m working on this voiceover/animation thing that Kate Mulgrew is doing, Star Trek: Prodigy.”
It’s unclear whether Beltran will voice Chakotay or another character, but it’s welcome news regardless.
Voyager’s Robert Beltran joins the cast of Star Trek: Prodigy
On Voyager, Beltran’s Chakotay was a member of a resistance group, the Maquis. and ultimately became Janeway’s first officer after their ship was catapulted into an uncharted galaxy.
Prodigy revolves around a group of young aliens who escape their imprisonment and find an old ship buried in the sand. Janeway appears in the form of an Emergency Training Hologram who helps them raise the ship from the sand and escape.
Given that Janeway is a hologram, it’s entirely possible that other members of the Voyager crew are holograms as well. Voyager’s ship doctor, played by Robert Picardo, was a hologram, after all.
Mulgrew is excited about the project, which she hopes will inspire new generations of Star Trek fans. “It’s really, I think, going to capture the imagination of little kids,” she said during an appearance on the Dennis Miller + One podcast. “And if they can sit with their mothers, who watched me in live-action, and their fathers who loved the other guys, we’ve got a family affair and that will bring it full circle.”
Star Trek: Prodigy was given a two season order. The first season is scheduled to launch this fall on Paramount+ before airing on Nickelodeon.
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