Some interesting reflections on how the live action writers’ strike may improve the marketability of Prodigy to a new platform, as well as enable work to begin on a third season.
This would of course been a good reason for Paramount not to cancel and pull Prodigy when they have a gap in Star Trek releases ahead in 2024.
I always appreciate a callback to DC Fontana’s smart employment of writers for TASunder the exception that they could write one animated episode without violating the strike rules.
There was a writers strike for most of season one. A provision in the contract permitted one episode to be written for an animated show if the writer had no previous animation writing credits. So, DC Fontana reached out to TOS live action writers, to science fiction authors (Larry Niven!) and Walter Koenig (who played Chekov) to see if they would be willing to take on an episode.
As far as I know, TAS season two is the way it is because the show was canceled, but 6 episodes had already been greenlit.
Wow so many neat facts! The cancellation mid season is rough but at least we got six