Kate Mulgrew discusses the potential of a Star Trek: Janeway spinoff and her ideas on the abrupt cancellation of Star Trek: Prodigy. After seven heralded years because the Captain of Star Trek: Voyager, Mulgrew returned as Admiral Janeway (and Hologram Janeway) within the short-lived however beloved Star Trek: Prodigy.
The primary feminine Captain to guide a Star Trek sequence, Kate Mulgrew’s Janeway impressed a technology of followers. Captain Janeway paved the best way for Star Trek on Paramount+’s cavalcade of feminine Captains, which now consists of Academy Award winner Holly Hunter, who leads Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as Captain Nahla Ake.
TrekMovie‘s Laurie Ulster spoke to Kate Mulgrew at Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s world premiere purple carpet in New York Metropolis. Mulgrew confirmed she and Star Trek govt producer Alex Kurtzman “are speaking” a few live-action Janeway spinoff.
In 2024, Mulgrew dismissed a Janeway pitch that she “did not perceive,” however Kate is open to reprising Janeway, though “it needs to be one thing fairly nice.” Learn Mulgrew’s quote beneath:
“That’s proper. If it’s good. It’s attainable. However it needs to be one thing fairly nice.”
“I simply suppose that it’s very, crucial to stick to what we’re doing right here, which is the message of hope, the mission of promise, pleasure, hazard. And Janeway’s thoughts is the thoughts of anyone who can go wherever at any second, on a dime. And I’d like to return to that, however provided that it’s glorious.”
Kate Mulgrew additionally mentioned how Netflix not ordering extra Star Trek: Prodigy is a poor means for Janeway’s legacy to finish:
“That might be too dangerous, as a result of they truncated it. They abbreviated it. They didn’t give it its head. They didn’t fulfill its promise. And whether or not they did it deliberately or not, or out of boredom or out of ennui, or out of an excessive amount of content material, or no matter they had been considering, by way of Janeway’s legacy, it’s not one of the simplest ways to exit, is it? A cartoon that didn’t see its potential. It was nice, but it surely wasn’t—it must get to the end line. The entire legacy factor is… it’s truthful, but it surely’s additionally about ego.”
Kate Mulgrew wasn’t conscious that Star Trek: Prodigy‘s rights on Netflix had expired, and that her animated sequence is not out there to stream. Mulgrew elaborates on the “disgrace” of Prodigy having no streaming residence:
“Oh, is it misplaced now? So it’s someplace floating. However that is the story of genius in Hollywood. Dan and Kevin Hageman are geniuses. All people is aware of that. And so they created one thing that I believe crammed a deeply wanted gap. The children—the little children, not the youngsters, not the younger—the little children, who’re absorbent sponges in the case of issues just like the Prime Directive, understanding that if I take your hand, we will do that higher collectively. The very sound tenets of Star Trek.
And he or she had such an eclectic crew. And I cherished being the hologram and the captain and the admiral, and it’s only a disgrace. However in fact, we may stand right here all night time complaining about why the nice issues went away.”
Netflix’s 18-month choice on the rights to stream Star Trek: Prodigy expired on December 31, 2025. Nevertheless, Paramount+, which abruptly canceled and purged Prodigy from its streaming service in 2023, hasn’t re-added the animated sequence to its slew of Star Trek content material. The one solution to watch Star Trek: Prodigy now could be to personal it on bodily media.
On the finish of 2024, Kate Mulgrew dropped information at a conference that Alex Kurtzman approached her a few live-action Janeway pitch that she rejected, saying, “I’m unsure it has the entire parts that I would want to have.” Nevertheless, Janeway stays eternally in style, and Mulgrew would reprise her iconic position in the proper undertaking.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has ties to Kate Mulgrew’s work in Star Trek: Prodigy. Admiral Janeway, her holographic doppelganger, and The Physician (Robert Picardo) mentored the younger heroes of the USS Protostar after they joined Starfleet Academy within the late twenty fourth century. 800 years later, The Physician is an teacher on the Thirty second-century Starfleet Academy.
The way forward for the Star Trek TV franchise on Paramount+ is up within the air. Though Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds will every have two seasons premiering in 2026 and 2027, Paramount Skydance is reportedly making Star Trek streaming content material “a precedence.” Whether or not Star Trek: Janeway will probably be favored among the many many percolating pitches for brand spanking new Star Trek reveals stays to be seen.
Star Trek: Prodigy was essentially the most unfairly mistreated Star Trek sequence of the fashionable period, particularly contemplating the extremely prime quality of the present. Whereas it does not appear like Star Trek: Prodigy will return, Kate Mulgrew’s epic run as Kathryn Janeway will hopefully nonetheless get a becoming conclusion that correctly honors the previous Star Trek: Voyager Captain’s legacy.
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2021 – 2024-00-00
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Dan Hageman
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Dan Hageman
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Dan Hageman
