Star Trek: 10 Reasons Prodigy Is The Best Series Of The Kurtzman Era
5. High Calibre Baddies
Casting in Westworld's Jimmi SImpson as Dreadnok and John Noble (Fringe) as his pixel-chewing boss The Diviner has been a masterstroke for the series.
Father to Gwyn and also therefore one of the last two remaining Vau N'Kat, the Diviner has run the Taus Lamora Mining Colony for at least 17 years to locate something (read USS Protostar) with the main cast being among the residents. The two voice actors, alongside Kate Mulgrew, add respectability and resonance to the series.
The Diviner's relationship with his daughter is now terribly damaged since he chose the Protostar over her although that family tie will always remain. It plays into Star Trek's core ethos with Prodigy choosing to build on its characters' backgrounds and make them integral to the story. Viewers can't deny that Dreadnok's spidery abilities as he honed in on the crew on Murder Planet didn't send a chill down the spine of even the only slightly arachnophobic!
Yet there's also that more basics to the series which will keep younger interests. A classic villain and his henchman who are there to be thwarted and ultimately defeated. It works on multiple levels just as Star Trek should.