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3 reasons Star Trek: Prodigy is a spiritual successor to Voyager

By Chad Porto

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 10: (L-R) Moderator Dawnn Lewis, Kate Mulgrew and Brett Gray onstage during Paramount+ Brings Star Trek: Prodigy Cast And Producers To New York Comic Con 2021 For Premiere Screening & Panel at Javits Center on October 10, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Paramount+)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 10: (L-R) Moderator Dawnn Lewis, Kate Mulgrew and Brett Gray onstage during Paramount+ Brings Star Trek: Prodigy Cast And Producers To New York Comic Con 2021 For Premiere Screening & Panel at Javits Center on October 10, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Paramount+) /
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LAS VEGAS, NV – AUGUST 11: Cast of “Star Trek Voyager” participate in the 11th Annual Official Star Trek Convention – day 3 held at the Rio Suites and Hotel on August 11, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV – AUGUST 11: Cast of “Star Trek Voyager” participate in the 11th Annual Official Star Trek Convention – day 3 held at the Rio Suites and Hotel on August 11, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) /

Introduces a new class of ship

Like with the USS Voyager on the series Voyager, Prodigy introduced fans to a brand new model of ship as well in the USS Protostar. The Voyager was the first Intrepid-class ship that fans got to see, and USS Protostar was the first Protostar-class ship to get introduced to fans; making them obviously the first of their kind to have huge roles in the series.

Voyager was a smaller, sleeker ship, that was considered among the fastest in the fleet. You’ll get different opinions depending on how you ask, but Voyager was arguably the fastest ship in the fleet, not due to its raw speed, but the endurance that it runs at. The Enterprise-D could only maintain Warp-9 for a short period of time, but the Voyager had shown to be able to run hotter and longer due to its advanced Class 9 warp drive.

Its top speeds exceeded just about any other major starship the Federation had at the time. The Protostar has exceeded that, but that’s mostly due to some potential time-travel hijinks and their use of an actual protostar as its source of power.

So both ships are new, both ships are fast and both ships are a bit smaller than others in the series. One Reddit user really did his work and figured out that the Protostar is just smaller than the USS Voyager but still bigger than the Defiant and the original series Enterprise.

The fact that the Protostar was designed to look like Voyager a bit and have nearly the same length as Voyager really helps seel the idea that Prodigy is the spiritual sequel to Voyager.

The only thing that makes this even more convincing is if these new characters have a link to Voyager somewhere.

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