Star Trek: Prodigy is an American animated television series created by Kevin and Dan Hageman. It is the tenth Star Trek series and was released from 2021 to 2024 as part of executive producer Alex Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe. Prodigy is the first Star Trek series to specifically target a younger audience, and the franchise's first solely 3D animated series. It follows a group of young aliens in the 24th century who find the abandoned starship Protostar and learn about Starfleet.

Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, and Dee Bradley Baker voice the young crew of the Protostar, with Jimmi Simpson, John Noble, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Robert Picardo, Jameela Jamil, and Wil Wheaton also providing voices for the series.

This list includes the main cast of Prodigy, guest stars with recurring roles, and other noteworthy guests.

Cast overview This section includes cast members who appeared in main or recurring roles:

+ Star Trek: Prodigy main cast Actor Character Appearances Season 1 Season 2 Brett Gray Dal R'El colspan="2" Ella Purnell Gwyn colspan="2" Jason Mantzoukas Jankom Pog colspan="2" Angus Imrie Zero colspan="2" Rylee Alazraqui Rok-Tahk colspan="2" Dee Bradley Baker Murf colspan="2" Jimmi Simpson Drednok colspan="2" The Lorekeeper John Noble Ilthuran / The Diviner colspan="2" Kate Mulgrew Kathryn Janeway colspan="2" Robert Beltran Chakotay Robert Picardo The Doctor Jameela Jamil Asencia / The Vindicator Wil Wheaton Wesley Crusher

+ Star Trek: Prodigy recurring cast Actor Character Appearances Season 1 Season 2 Bonnie Gordon Ship computer colspan="2" Jason Alexander Noum colspan="2" Daveed Diggs Tysess colspan="2" Billy Campbell Thadiun Okona Ronny Cox Edward Jellico colspan="2" Sunkrish Bala Zeph Michaela Dietz Maj'el Grom Susanne Blakeslee Kathon John Pirkis Borom

Main characters Dal R'El Dal R'El (voiced by Brett Gray) is a 17-year-old "maverick" of unknown species who takes the role of captain on the USS Protostar. Dal later learns that he is an augmented human with DNA from multiple alien species. Reckless and snarky in the beginning, Dal learns about leadership and shows that he truly cares about his friends and crew mates abroad the Protostar. In Season 2, Dal wrestles with his gradually growing sense of self-doubt, partly due to seeing a vision of himself refusing to take on the mantle of captain at Wesley Crusher's Time Traveller home-base. He develops a mentor-apprentice relationship with Captain Chakotay, who advises him that being in command is being there when needed. Dal plays an important role in helping Gwyn defeating Ascencia, and was temporarily recruited as a Nova Squadron fighter pilot after one of the original squadron pilots was injured. By the end of season 2, having discovered the true meaning behind his vision and taking Chakotay's advice to heart, Dal appoints himself as first officer of the new Protostar-class ship, the USS Prodigy, giving Gwyn the role of captain instead.

Gwyn Gwyndala (voiced by Ella Purnell) is a 17-year-old Vau N'Akat nicknamed "Gwyn" who dreamed of exploring the stars while growing up on her father's prison asteroid. A talented linguist, she has learned many alien languages. The daughter of the Diviner, Gwyn secretly wants her father's approval – only to discover that by doing what her father wishes her to do, she is letting innocent people be harmed by his tyranny. Gwyn only slowly gains the trust of the Protostar crew, but once it is established that she is no threat, she becomes a very reliable ally. A fierce fighter, she wields a Vau N'Akat heirloom – a shapeshifting metallic arm band that can transforms into any weapon such as a spear or a shield. In Season 2, Gwyn travels to Solum to prevent civil war. Her attempts to gain the trust of the Vau N'Akat elders are botched by Ascencia the Vindicator. However, Gwyn finds Illuran, the Diviner's younger self and is able to prove to him that she is his daughter from the future. The actions of Dal, Zero, Jankom and Maj'el saving Chakotay in the future, accidentally jeopardized her existence, trapping in a time paradox where she has to wear a temporal armband to stop her from fading from existence. In her state, Gwyn becomes a target to the Loom, inter-dimensional scavengers who feed on dying timelines. She receives messages from a mysterious stranger (assumed to be Chakotay, but later revealed to be Wesley Crusher) saying that she and the others "must stay together" and to "find him [Wesley/Chakotay] before they (the Loom) [does]". She, Dal, Zero, Jankom, Rok, Murf, and Maj'el are able to find a grizzled Captain Chakotay and the Protostar. Gwyn was instrumental in helping Chakotay regain his spirit and confidence. She is able to defeat Ascencia, save Solum from civil war, and save the timeline. At the end of season 2, Gwyn becomes the captain of the new Protostar-class ship, the USS Prodigy.

Jankom Pog Jankom Pog (voiced by Jason Mantzoukas) is an argumentative, wisecracking 16-year-old Tellarite. Having been born before the Tellarites joined the Federation, he awoke on a long-range sleeper ship. He handles repair duties on the Protostar as the appointed chief engineer. Jankom Pog often refers to himself in the third person, which is revealed to be because while repairing problems on the sleeper ship, the AI constantly made Jankom identify himself when talking to it.

Zero Zero (voiced by Angus Imrie) is a Medusan – a noncorporeal, genderless, energy-based lifeform – who wears a containment suit to stop others from going mad at the sight of them. A telepath, Zero is very open-minded, empathic and compassionate and extremely wary of accidentally harming others – especially after accidentally and temporarily taking away a part of Gwyn's memory at one point in the series. In season 2, Zero gains a corporeal body which allows them to feel sensations for the very first time. Zero's body eventually breaks down, forcing them to return to a containment suit. However, at the suggestion of The Doctor, Jankom perfects and upgrades Zero's design, incorporating sensory inputs so that Zero retains the ability to feel even in their containment suit.

Rok-Tahk Rok-Tahk (voiced by Rylee Alazraqui) is a shy, 8-year-old Brikar. Despite being large and strong, she defies being typecast as the ship's security officer and instead develops an interest in science. A natural animal lover, she has an affinity for cute, furry creatures and has a bond with Murf. Rok later become the ship's science officer and her affinity for Murf causes a Starfleet Academy professor to suggest that she major in xenobiology. In season 2, Rok is assigned to the Cetacean Ops on board Voyager for her training. She is at first reluctant to participate in Dal's "cockamamie schemes", devoting her studies to join Starfleet over getting into trouble. However, she relents after realizing the severity of the situation involving Gwyn's existence. During her tenure in Cetacean Ops, Rok befriends the resident humpback whale Gillian, who helps decipher Murf's message. In the episode "A Tribble Called Quest", Rok accidentally creates a Tribble/Brikar hybrid, later called a Bribble, while trying to assist a Klingon scientist modify his genetic serum to reduce the Tribbles' reproduction rate. At first embarrassed and ashamed over her mistake, Rok warms up to the Bribble, especially after it protects her and the crew from the aggressive Tribbles. As a result, Rok adopts the Bribble as her pet.

Murf Murf (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) is an apparently indestructible Mellanoid slime worm with good timing and an appetite for ship parts. The character was initially added as a joke, with Dal arriving to find a "semi-sentient blob" had joined the crew, but the writers soon fell in love with the idea of having a "dog-type character" in the series that children would enjoy. In the second half of the first season, the writers gave Murf a character arc beyond "just eating things", with the character evolving to have a more humanoid form. Murf ends up becoming the ship's security officer, a role that he proves to be quite adept at due to his surprising strength. In season 2, Murf continues to study to be a security officer with his instructor commenting that he may not be understandable, but Murf is a shoo-in for the security track at the academy. Murf receives a message from what turns out to be Wesley Crusher directing the crew to meet with him. In order to decipher it, the crew finally figures out how to understand Murf: being descended from an aquatic species, Murf is best understood underwater and by other aquatic creatures. As a result, the Voyager-A's humpback whale Gillian is able to translate the message for Murf's friends and Wesley also appears to be able to understand Murf's seeming gibberish. Murf also begins to be able to speak simple phrases such as going "pew, pew, pew, pew, pew" while operating the Protostars phasers in battle.

Drednok Drednok (voiced by Jimmi Simpson) are the Diviner's and Asencia's deadly robotic enforcers. Co-showrunner Kevin Hageman said the robot was "very still, and silent, and soft-spoken", which contrasted with the more driven personality of the Diviner. Simpson described Drednok as a more verbose version of the character Maximilian from the film The Black Hole (1979).

A third Drednok, dubbed "System Killer," appears as the main antagonist of the video game Star Trek: Prodigy Supernova.

A friendly Drednok called the Lorekeeper appears in season 2 which also features a number of Drednoks as soldiers under Asencia's command.

The Diviner's Drednok Appearing throughout the first half of the first season as the Diviner's enforcer and lieutenant, Drednok serves as the overseer of the Tars Lamora prison colony until the kids' escape in the Protostar. Drednok subsequently aids his master in the search for the stolen ship. After receiving the Protostar's coordinates from the Ferengi Nandi, the Diviner hacks into its vehicle replicator and creates a copy of Drednok who attempts to return the ship to his master while it's caught in a temporal anomaly. Gwyn manages to eject Drednok's copy into space, but the Diviner uses its head to send a message threatening the other slaves at Tars Lamora to get the crew to return. During a final confrontation on Tars Lamora, Drednok is overpowered by the freed slaves and decapitated.

Asencia's Drednok A bronze-colored Drednok who serves as Asencia's enforcer. During her time on the USS Dauntless, Drednok is hidden as a piece of furniture in her quarters and he helps Asencia to escape after she successfully launches the living construct to destroy Starfleet. Drednok continues to serve Asencia throughout her rule on Solum, helping to enforce her tyranny. During the final battle, Drednok engages Murf in a fight, only to be decapitated and dropped into a pit of gathering energy.

The Lorekeeper A white-colored Drednok who is described as being little more than a library with legs by Ilthuran. The Lorekeeper serves as the caretaker of the Arcanum, the Vau N'Akat's reliquary of history and knowledge, and the lorekeeper of the Vau N'Akat. Ilthuran takes Gwyn to the Lorekeeper for information on how to prove her legitimacy and get the leaders of Solum to listen to her, although Gwyn briefly mistakes the Lorekeeper for the Diviner's Drednok. When Gwyn returns to Solum with the Protostar crew, she finds the Lorekeeper hooked up to cables in her father's observatory and she activates him to find out who had been sending messages following Ilthuran's capture. The Lorekeeper reveals that it was Asencia who then interrupts before the crew can get anything more out of him. However, it turns out that the Lorekeeper meant the younger version of Asencia who was working with Ilthuran to overthrow her tyrannical future self.

The Diviner/Ilthuran