Summary
Star Trek diehards have been waiting with bated breath for the first look at the newStarfleet Academyseries. Well, the San Diego Comic-Con has certainly provided in that regard.
Star Trekhas become the flagship of Paramount+’s streaming offerings over the past decade. 2016’sStar Trek Beyondfailed to ignite the box office in the way that Paramount Pictures was hoping and has leftthe feature film franchise stalled out ever since. As Chris Pine’s James T. Kirk has been grounded,Trekhas had multiple successful series head straight to Paramount+ to the delight of the fandom. Live-action drama seriesDiscovery,Picard, andStrange New Worldshave been joined by animated seriesLower DecksandProdigyas well as an anthology collection of shorts aptly titledShort Treks. In all, theStar Trekfandom has gotten dozens upon dozens of hours of original content sinceStar Trek: Discoveryfirst debuted in September 2017. That doesn’t mean they aren’t looking for moreTrekgoodness andStarfleet Academyis on the way to provide that in spades.
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con served as the official coming-out party forStar Trek: Starfleet Academy. The full main cast was on hand for everyone to behold, major details were made available for the first time, and a teaser trailer was finally released for everyone to behold after a lengthy wait.And, yes, don’t worry…the end of the teaser trailer provides a first look at Paul Giamatti’s part-Klingon, part-Tellarite villain Nus Braka.The creative team surely knows about the excitement surroundingGiamatti’s addition to theStar Trekfranchise.
TheStarfleet AcademyTrailer Provides More Of That TrademarkStar TrekGoodness
And How Great Is Holly Hunter’s Voice?
Starfleet Academytakes place after the events ofStar Trek: Discovery, where the entirety of Starfleet has been away from Earth for more than twelve decades. The show will follow a new class of Starfleet cadets on their journey to becoming full-fledged officers. Of course, Holly Hunter’s Captain Nahla Ake gets star billing in the trailer as she is undoubtedly the most famous face in the show’s main cast. Ake also serves as chancellor of Starfleet Academy and looks to guide a new generartion of Starfleet while captaining the USS Athena.
“We look at the generation now that is inheriting all of this division and all these major issues. We wanted to create a show that anchored us back to [Gene] Roddenberry’s essential vision of hope. How do you find it, how do you rebuild it?” - Alex Kurtzman
Fans were also introduced to the main cast, including Sandro Rosta’s Caleb Mir, Karim Diané’s Jay-Den Kragg, Kerrice Brooks’s Series Acclimation Mil (aka “SAM”), Bella Shepard’s Genesis Lythe, and George Hawkins’s Darem Reymi.Returning to theStar Trekfranchiseare Tig Notaro, Mary Wiseman, and Oded Fehr ofDiscoveryand Robert Picardo ofVoyagerandProdigy. There was no word on who She-Hulk herself, Tatiana Maslany, will be playing in the series, but they can’t give everything away from the jump, eh? Also, Giamatti gets about three seconds of screentime and he is clearly already the best thing about the show.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academyis set to debut on Paramount+ sometime in early 2026.
