5 Star Trek: Voyager references in Star Trek: Prodigy’s first look at Season 2
By Chad Porto
The Doctor
Another reference to Star Trek: Voyager was of course the big debut on the show; the return of the Voyager Doctor, once again played (voiced) by Robert Picardo. The Doctor became many people’s favorite character on Voyager, and his evolution was one of the better long-term arcs the franchise ever did.
Once, just a computer program brought to life by bending light. The Doctors developed things like hobbies, passions, and even romantic feelings.
He debuts on Star Trek: Prodigy by not only revealing that he’s a hologram, something the kids find very fascinating but also introducing himself as Kathryne Janeway’s “dear friend”. And if that wasn’t funny enough, he dubs himself further a “hero of the Delta Quadrant”. While it’s not untrue, you know it’s a bit over-embellished.
The Doctor will once again take over the guiding of young and impressionable minds, as the Doctor served as a sort of father figure for Kes and later Seven of Nine while serving aboard The Voyager, so it’s only fitting that he’ll once again serve as an escort of such to the children, as he takes them to the Voyager II.
While all that is great, the best bit of it wasn’t just the callback to the Doctor but to the series’ first doctor, Leonard McCoy, when he side-steps a bag thrown at him and he calls back that he’s a “doctor, not a butler”.
A similar set of lines made McCoy from the original series a house-hold name.