Star Trek: Prodigy executive producer gives update on Kathryn Janeway’s ship

What is up with Admiral Kathryn Janeway’s ship from Star Trek: Prodigy?

Star Trek: Prodigy as a show promised us a lot and I feel they’ve delivered. One of the ways they delivered is bringing a show like Prodigy into Star Trek canon by associating the show with several characters from another series; Star Trek: Voyager. By bringing in Voyager characters, like Kathryn Janeway and Chakotay, the scope of the show feels larger and more involved.

The wonderful thing about Prodigy is that it didn’t just give us the return of one Janeway character either, but two. In the series, the bulk of air time that Janeway gets is via a holographic rendering of her. The character is still played by Kate Mulgrew, but it’s not the “real” Janeway.

The “real” Janeway is on the show, however. She’s a Vice-Admiral with Starfleet and she has her own swanky new ship, the USS Dauntless. It’s as if the Voyager was stretched like putty and given some harder edges. That said there is some confusion over the ship.

Fans are confused about Kathryn Janeway’s ship in Star Trek: Prodigy

The ship was named after a fake ship the Voyager ran into during the crew’s time in the Delta Quadrant. An alien by the name of Arturis tried to kidnap Janeway and Seven of Nine, and return to term to Borg space as a sort of revenge for the destruction of his people. The destruction that he pins on the crew of the Voyager.

So when the ship’s name came up as a question on his timeline, Prodigy’s Executive Producer Aaron J. Waltke tried to clarify the details of the ship.

Several things that Waltke revealed included the fact that the new ship took the name as some sort of way to take power over it. After all, the crew probably had a traumatic experience with it before, reclaiming that fear and turning it into something you own is a big-time move.

Waltke also said the ships look so alike due to Voyager having scans of the original Dauntless. He also explained that the ship is not an NX variant, as NX’s are usually prototypes and Janeway’s Dauntless is the first fully realized version of the Dauntless, the one after the prototype.

The last interesting revelation is that the USS Dauntless is part of the Dauntless-Class ships that Starfleet has.

Here’s hoping that we see more of the Dauntless in Prodigy.