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When Paramount made the surprising determination to return on a greenlight for season 2 and take away season 1 from its personal streaming service, Prodigy out of the blue and infamously turned the primary Star Trek present in a technology the place episodes largely legally inaccessible to view in the USA. In a slight bit of fine information immediately, that’s not the case.
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At San Diego Comedian-Con throughout, sarcastically, a panel supposed to have fun 50 years of Star Trek animation’s legacy for the reason that launch of the traditional Star Trek The Animated Sequence, Paramount confirmed that episodes 11 by way of 20 of Prodigy season 1 can be, as beforehand reported, receiving a bodily launch on blu-ray and DVD on September 26. Additionally introduced was that, as of immediately, the episodes may also be obtainable to buy digitally within the U.S.—which was beforehand the case in worldwide markets, now bringing the U.S. to parity.
Trek followers could grumble that they now must buy what was, only a month in the past, half and parcel of the Paramount+ subscription they paid for (and certain nonetheless are paying for, in the event that they’re watching Unusual New Worlds). However despite the fact that digital possession remains to be largely imperceptible, the prospect to have Prodigy’s first season obtainable as a bodily launch is a rattling sight higher various than having episodes misplaced solely on this period of tax-cut-driven streaming erasures.
Star Trek: Prodigy’s second season, which was in post-production for a launch someday later this yr when Paramount+ reneged on its renewal, is at the moment being completed with the intent that CBS Studios can store the sequence elsewhere.
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