Star Trek: 10 Secrets About The USS Protostar You Need To Know

10. Those Other Places

In the extras for the season one DVD and blu-rays, the Hagemans explain that there were certain aspects of starships that they knew they needed to bring back to both help acclimatise new viewers and also to nod to the Star Trek franchise history - a Greatest Hits if you will.

One such piece was the holodeck. An element of Star Trek since its (sort of) introduction in The Animated Series, it would arrive fully formed in Encounter at Farpoint and lead into a whole series of appearances right through TNG, DS9 and Voyager. Murf is the first Prodigy character to take a stroll in the simulated environment before Janeway takes Jankom and Dal on a quick tour of its features. Skydiving on Ceti Alpha V you say? Why not!

The budget did constrain the number of sets that the behind the scenes team were able to bring to the screen although they would produce the Captains' Quarters, the bunk room and the brig.

Where the cost restraints did make them work a little smarter was in building sections of corridors and rooms which could be interchanged, have displays added and change from being a corridor on the Dauntless to a corridor on the Protostar - much in the same way as redressing sets in live action Trek!