10 Huge Revelations You Missed From Star Trek: Prodigy

8. Big 3D Printer

Protostar Borg Star Trek Prodigy
Paramount

Meals, clothing, and other small items replicated from thin air has been a thing since TOS, and Prodigy has taken the concept to the next level.

Aboard the tiny Protostar, where space is at a premium, Starfleet installed a vehicle replicator. So far the show has seen the Runaway ground vehicle as well as a shuttle partly constructed in Dreamcatcher, as well as a sub, used to save the whale in Asylum.

It's a radical space-saving technology that Voyager would have benefitted from immeasurably - just how many shuttles did they lose along the way?

A point to note here; these three replicated shuttles numbered 6,7, and 8 - what were the first five vehicles created?

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