Fresh details on Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova have been revealed in Outright Games' first digital showcase, OG Unwrapped, with the upcoming multiplatform title from developer Tessera Studios scheduled to depart spacedock on 14th October 2022.
The game is coming to all current platforms (and Stadia — zing!), but we're obviously most interested in Switch, not only because we're living the Nintendo Life, but also due to the fact that this will be the first Star Trek game to grace a Nintendo platform since 2007's Star Trek: Conquest on Wii.
As featured in Outright's presentation, Supernova is a third-person action-adventure game using the characters and setting from the Paramount / Nickelodeon series aimed primarily at kids but starring Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager. Well, a hologram of Janeway, at least, but Mulgrew is contributing her voice for the game as well, as is the rest of the original cast.
The game is set approximately one-quarter of the way through Season One of the show and features local co-op play for two players controlling the characters Dal and Gwyn as they journey across three "very different" planets. You'll apparently be able to explore and customise your ship, the Protostar, as you puzzle and phaser your way to saving your friends, your ship, a whole bunch of aliens, and a planetary system before its sun goes — you guessed it — supernova.
Must it always have galactic import? Universal stakes? Celestial upheaval? Yes, of course. It's a video game! Here's a round up of some of the features from the offical blurb, plus some screens:
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JOIN STARFLEET – Play as Dal R’El and Gwyndala, and rescue their scattered crew. Play solo or in 2-player cooperative mode in this exciting action adventure.
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GO BOLDLY – Explore the alien worlds of Orisi, Mirios and Taresse, each with its own hostile environments, puzzles, challenges and mysteries.
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FIRST CONTACT – Make first contact with a new alien species, learn about their history and discover their secrets.
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CUSTOMIZE THE PROTOSTAR – Collect iconic trinkets from the Star Trek universe and use them to customize the Protostar.
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Written by Kevin and Dan Hageman who also wrote The Lego Movie
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Hit cast, including Kate Mulgrew as Hologram Janeway, Brett Grey as Dal, Ella Purnell as Gwyn, Rylee Alazraqui as Rok-Tahk, Angus Imrie as Zero, Jason Mantzoukas as Jankom Pog and, Dee Bradley as Murf
If you're outside the US, you may not have had the chance to catch the series yet, but as a show focused on bringing in the, ahem, next generation of Trekkies, it's been generally well-received by fans. It has certainly proved less divisive than some of the other Trek shows in this abundant latest era for the franchise.
Outright's family-focused output should give you a very good idea of the young target demographic for Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova — however, given the paucity of Trek-based gaming on Nintendo systems recently, we'd wager there'll be many Earl Grey-ing fans out there hoping Tessera Studios can turn in an engaging experience for all ages.
Let us know below how you think Star Trek Prodigy is shaping up. And, as always, how many lights you see.
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Interesting
But I have never watched Star Trek. Should I watch it?
Ah Janeway for the bday month! I’m ready. There is coffee in that nebula!
Give me Janeway ALL DAY!!! Why she's not popped up in Picard yet I'll never know as Seven is in it and Mulgrew's performance is ICONIC. Defo here for this one and it looks beauts.
@anoyonmus My dad and I tried watching it together. He's a Star Trek fan going all the way back to the '60s, and I'm a fan going back to the '80s. By episode 2, we both decided that Prodigy was too heavily geared toward kids for us to enjoy it. There's nothing wrong with that of course. It just doesn't have the kind of wide appeal I was hoping for. So that's a long way of saying that no, I don't recommend it if you're not a kid. There are plenty of other Star Trek series you could check out, though. Star Trek: The Next Generation is a classic. Or if you want to start with something newer, you could check out Star Trek: Discovery. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is good too, but I don't recommend getting into that one until you've seen the first two seasons of Discovery.
I’d rather have a Deep Space Nine game or Elite Dangerous.
I’m pretty excited for this, even if only for the fact that new Trek games are starting to trickle out. I hope a decent Lower Decks game gets made.
@BLAZINOAH agreed
I never would have thought this was Star Trek from looking at it. I'll pass on this, but it's awesome they have Kate Mulgrew
Looks nice. A kid would love this.
@NWC what is woke about this game to you?
@NWC Dude, just say you're not a Star Trek fan.
@anoyonmus Uh, yes. It's only one of the oldest and greatest science fiction franchises of all time, just as good, if not better, than the U.K.'s own Doctor Who.
@anoyonmus @InJeffable And technically, you don't want to watch Season 2 of Discovery, or Strange New Worlds, until you've seen the TOS episodes "The Cage" and "The Menagerie."
Technically, "The Menagerie" is "The Cage," but as an episode-within-an-episode, which serves as a retelling of the story of "The Cage" to the characters in "The Menagerie." I will not spoil anything for you, though, because the events of both episodes tie into the second season for Discovery as well as Strange New Worlds.
In fact, "The Cage" is the original pilot for Star Trek, with Christopher Pike as the Captain of the Enterprise, before the show was reworked, with the second pilot being "Where No Man Has Gone Before," which introduced us to Captain James T. Kirk. They then reused most of the footage from "The Cage" to create "The Menagerie."
I love Star Trek, even Prodigy, but Star Trek games have a bad track record for critical reception, so I'm going to wait for the reviews to come out before I make any decisions.
It looks interesting so far, but it's a little disappointing that you can only play as two of the characters instead of all of them. Each one can have their own unique abilities. Heck, you could even do it like Lego Star Wars, and switch between the characters in your "party" at will, utilizing unique abilities with each character to solve puzzles and access hidden areas.
Part of me wants to support Star Trek, any Star Trek, on the Switch. But I haven’t seen Prodigy or any of the recent shows and fear I just wouldn’t get into this game, other than hearing Capt. Janeway’s hologram.
Maybe I’d try a demo version? Otherwise I’m just too busy and too old to bother.
But I’d jump all over a more simulator/rpg style game that mixes exploration of Federation and uncharted space with resource management, ship to ship combat, and away party missions in a more traditional Trek way.
Strange New World is okay, but I'm not a fan of most of the current series. I like my Star Trek like I like my philosophy classes. Lots of of conversations about morality and little to no lethal force.
I'll trade this for the SNES TNG game for NSO.
Oh goodie. Another 'top down and away' camera angle game. That makes it a probable pass unless this game gets incredibly positive reviews. :/
I don't know much about Star Trek, except that people hate it these days.
Looks like a great start to gearing up your little ones for some Trekkie love!
I'll be grabbing it to play through with my little buddy
Hmmm... wanted to write: "1st day buy for the license alone.". Then I saw the video. Seems like to be some kind of... comedy Star Trek?
I'm a bit irritated now.
@MetalMan said: "I don't know much about Star Trek, except that people hate it these days."
I love it!
THERE ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS
@McGruber go on the internet and look it up thanks Bye!
@JasmineDragon Wrong thanks
The game promotes woke stuff thanks
@NWC I don't know what you define as woke stuff but usually when people complain about that, they are just hateful people. Hope that ain't you. Have a good day
@NWC Then you must have been watching with a blindfold and earmuffs on, because you missed pretty much EVERYTHING Gene Roddenberry stood for and eveything that was the actual point of Star Trek from TOS to Discovery and beyond. Trek was woke from before it even premiered on TV. Why do you think the original Number One was a woman? Why do you think there was a racially diverse, multinational crew on the bridge of the Enterprise? Why do you think Star Trek was the first TV show to ever feature an interracial kiss? (Answer: Roddenberry was 100%, unironically, sometimes almost embarrassingly "woke" and so was Trek, in every single incarnation).
Just started the series. As always watching Janeway knock a ragtag group into a crew is a blast.
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