When we hired our fantastic director, Ben Hibon,
he brought this amazing sensibility,
and beauty, and style.
[Dan] And groundedness.
And groundedness that just won us over right away.
Seeing the design of the characters for the first time,
I will never forget that.
That look has separated us
from so much of the other animation that's out there,
and I think what Ben did
was created something truly special.
I get to be a part of something completely new
in the Trek canon that is sort of stamped.
We wanted the animation style not to be so stylized
that it's its own thing,
and Prodigy is gonna sit over here,
and all the other Star Trek shows are over here.
We wanted a grounded sort of realness and a reality,
so that we can have that character from a TOS,
-Okona. -Or TNG or Okona.
Captain Okona at your service.
The Outrageous Okona
who can just step out of one show into ours and vice versa.
Well, this is this awkward.
Now we're creating a new version of awesome.
Animation allows us to be more cinematic in scope.
Oftentimes, in some of the older Star Trek shows,
you never saw outside the windows,
because that all costs money to show that.
That's the reason why we have all windows on our bridge.
We wanted to give the opportunity
to see the amazing galaxy around them,
and the beauty of that.
In its animated form,
we can appeal to a demographic
that we have not heretofore done.
So you have Dal, when he first discovers the ship,
and you have that music that starts to go,
and you see the ship, but then you just sit on Dal's face,
and his jaw dropping,
and his eyes going larger than saucers.
To be a part of the Star Trek canon
in a way that no one has ever seen it before.
It's extremely cool.
They have to bring to the animated character
a certain kind of sharpness, a keenness,
something that is very, very tangible.
Each person has their 10 faces
that they pull on a daily basis,
and I know Gwyn's, now that I've seen it.
It's like some smirks, or sighs, or eye rolls.
When they break off into space,
And Gwyn is seeing the stars for the very first time.
[Kevin] Yeah, it's beautiful.
The most distinctive thing for me is her eyes.
How big her eyes are,
and when she sees the stars for the first time
and there's that, like, breathless moment,
you really see for the first time, like, an innocence.
What audience is going
to appreciate this more than children?
Their imagination is made for the ideology of Star Trek.
It's made to embrace it.
It's made to love every aspect of what it stands for.
This is wish fulfillment.
And we want to take the audience
and go on these fantastic adventures deep in space.
I mean, I love the way the show looks.
It looks like a movie, it's like art,
it's beautiful, like the layers, the lighting,
and it's stunning.
If you wanna see the CGI, gorgeous color,
incredible animation, Star Trek,
you have to watch Prodigy.