I thought it was cancelled with no season 2? What's the story behind the show, anyway? From what I saw it didn't feel like Star Trek and felt more like a show that was mostly done but was remade into a Trek show.
Season 1 seemed a lot like Star Wars to me, at least at the beginning. Gwyn may as well be wielding a light saber and her father and his assistant robot might as well be Darth Vader and General Grievous.
Season 2 was planned for Paramount+ but was cancelled, but CBS got Netflix to pick it up. Netflix hasn't released it in the US or in English yet.
Season 2 was released in France due to a miscommunication, but last I checked it was still on france.tv. You need a VPN to stream it, and there are no subtitles or English dub.
Spoilers follow. Hopefully I got everything right, and I did leave a bunch of stuff out, but don't click the spoilers unless you're sure you want to.
Spoilers: Season 1 had
the kids escape a child slave labor colony in an experimental spaceship, the Protostar, that the Federation had lost, and which Chakotay had been captain of. Janeway's crew on the Dauntless detect that it's jumping through space again, so Janeway, now a rear admiral, returns to the Delta Quadrant to find if Chakotay is still alive. She initially assumes the kids are pirates or murderers or something like that but, learning that they are child refugees, eventually gets them to Earth and agrees to train them as warrant officers. The Protostar is destroyed, along with a holographic version of Janeway who had been training the kids to run a spaceship because the hologram couldn't fit on their USB drive. Chakotay turns out to be stuck in the future, but was able to send a couple messages back.
Season 2, episode 1, which I watched in French, a language I don't speak,
starts with a new spaceship, which is bigger than Voyager and the Protostar, and which is led by Janeway. The EMH from Voyager shows the kids around the ship. Before long they're out near Mars, you can see the polar ice cap. Dal complains that he has to actually read books and study. I think Janeway said some of the books belonged to Picard. Rok-talk is eating normal food instead of nutri-goop, and appeared to be teaching a class on science or math. She got to see what I think was cetacean ops judging by the sounds. Jankom Pog doesn't get along with Dr. Noum, but that's just how Tellarites are. Zero kept looking at his hands, which have been upgraded from the old ones that were all janky, so I think he might still be uncomfortable with the new ones. At the end, the kids learn there is a cloaked ship in the cargo bay. Only Janeway and two other members of the bridge crew are shown to have previously known about it.
It's sad that the release of both seasons was botched, plus the action figures and video game. The idea was to make a Star Trek show that kids could get into and watch with their parents. The video game actually lets you put in a code from action figures to get in-game stuff, but they weren't released at the same time as the game. And the first season was released at 3:00 AM EST, on school nights, with a long hiatus between the first and second half. Now the second season is only viewable to French people and weirdos like me who have a VPN and use it to watch a show for kids.
