A daybreak of a brand new future, a rousing speech from a Federation captain, a younger squad of cadets mixing and mingling, a number of references to Deep Area 9 and Voyager… if the previous couple of years of recent Star Trek wasn’t for you, Starfleet Academy is working arduous to win you again.
At Saturday’s epically sized Star Trek Universe panel out of the 2025 San Diego Comedian-Con, Starfleet Academy co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau took to the stage to introduce the latest present to the slate. Whereas a Muppet model of Unusual New Worlds appears like a hoot and a story podcast centered on Khan might efficiently indulge the TOS nostalgia in a means that Star Trek Into Darkness couldn’t, SDCC is at all times essentially the most thrilling when one thing recent hits the stage. Starfleet Academy has been lengthy anticipated because it was introduced in 2023, and now now we have our first take a look at the 2026 collection, and a style for what’s in retailer for season 1.
Set within the Star Trek: Discovery timeline of the thirty second century — deep breaths! — Starfleet Academy picks up after the Federation’s coaching program accepts a brand new class of cadets after a 120-year hiatus. Very similar to Saved by the Bell: The School Years, the college seems to be populated by younger scorching people who find themselves each striving for fulfillment however are extraordinarily hormonal, alien species be damned. The legendary Holly Hunter leads the solid as Nahla Ake, the Chancellor of Starfleet Academy and Captain of the usS. Athena, “who additionally occurs to be a long-lived half-Lanthanite,” in line with Paramount (and who offers the large speech over the trailer). And none aside from Paul Giamatti is popping up because the season’s villain Nus Braka, a component Klingon, half Tellarite do-badder “with an ominous previous linked to one among our cadets.”
Who’re the cadets? Right here’s the official rundown of recent recruits:
The true pleasure right here is watching the historical past of Trek collide in a brand new location. A few of it’s blunt drive fan-service: Robert Picardo is again as The Physician from Voyager, whereas Tig Notaro reprises her function as Jett Reno from Discovery. But it surely’s the little issues that made me yelp. “James T. Kirk Pavilion.” A wall of names of these key figures who’ve formed Starfleet. A quiz on the life and occasions of 1 Benjamin Sisko.
A fast shot on the finish additionally introduces a brand new character: Recurring visitor star Gina Yashere as Commander Lura Thok, the chancellor’s First Officer and Cadet Grasp. Brace your self: Lura is a Klingon-Jem’Hadar hybrid!
Let’s dwell on how that occurred till Starfleet Academy premieres in “early 2026.”
