In the wake of gathering 33,000 signatures in a petition on Change.org and raising money via GoFundMe, fans of the animated series “Star Trek: Prodigy” ramped up efforts to find a new home for the series.
The group contracted a plane to fly a “Save Star Trek Prodigy” banner over the Los Angeles offices of Amazon, Hulu and Apple and Netflix today, including circling the latter on Sunset Boulevard for 10 minutes.
The series was famously axed in a wave of cost-cutting measures by Paramount+ ahead of its planned second-season return. Production company CBS Studios made it clear the almost finished twenty episodes of the second season would be completed in an effort to find a new distributor.
Co-showrunners Dan and Kevin Hageman took to Twitter to praise the efforts of the fans, saying: “This is incredible. We owe these Trek fans a pint and our lifetime devotion. Blessed to have people like all of you in our stratosphere.”
Previously the Hagemans said they have “faith the show will be picked up by a new home to help grow our fervent fan base and inspire the next generation of Star Trek fans.”
The series marks the first “Star Trek” series to target younger audiences and follows a group of teen aliens in the 24th century who find an abandoned experimental starship.
The series also serves as a sequel to “Star Trek: Voyager” and features Kate Mulgrew reprising her role as Kathryn Janeway. The first season is available for purchase on digital platforms now and is coming to disc on September 26th.
Source: THR
