Star Trek: Prodigy
2021–2024NickelodeonNetflixAnimation
Made for viewers who had never seen a Star Trek before, and it shows in the best way — the Protostar streaks through bright, candy-coloured space on a theme with more wonder in it than most of the grown-up entries.
Star Trek: Prodigy kept one opening title sequence, 94 seconds long, across seasons 1–2.
At 94 seconds, it opens well above the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Nickelodeon in 2021, when Top Boy, Big Mouth and Cobra Kai were also on the network.
The opening titles
Seasons 1–2
94sNami Melumad's theme over the Protostar outrunning a proto-warp wave. Carried over unchanged when the show moved to Netflix for its second season.
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