10 Greatest Star Trek Moments In 2024
6. We Second That
There are moments in life where you just have to scream Klingon expletives into your Starfleet-issue pillow. The cancellation of Star Trek: Prodigy mid-post-production of season two last year was one of them. Fortunately, Trek fans don't sit around. They take to the skies. The 'Prodigy Plane' worked (thank you, Michele Stokes). Netflix was looking up out the window.
From the lowest of 2023, there was the highest of 2024, if not of the nearly 60 years. Released all at once on the streaming platform on 1 July, season two was a total triumph. Not since the Dominion had an arc been handled with such elegance. Not since, well, the previous season had animation been so beautiful. The story was gripping, the young characters as richly engaging as ever. Admiral Janeway was badass in her tank top, and Chakotay had more to do than in all the seasons of Voyager combined.
Last year, we were twice treated to the USS Voyager in all her glory — on her way to becoming a museum in Twovix, and at the Fleet Museum in The Bounty. This year, the first letter of plenty in the alphabet was added to become the Voyager-A. Speaking of ships, the second of Prodigy did wonders for all those who believe in J/C, particularly in the standout episode Cracked Mirror.
The second season's end reached one of the darkest places — the synth attack on Mars. From it, Janeway and the new crew of the USS Prodigy found the light, the hope of exploration, the hope of Star Trek. In all that, Prodigy — seasons one and two — should be lauded and applauded as a "kids' show". For, like the best of those, it helps the adults shed the bitterness, the arrogance, of age.