What Do We Know About the upcoming series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy? Extra thank you might assume. The Paramount+ unique series will probably be the newest version of the Star Trek universe and the first sequel series of Star Trek Discovery. With casting bulletins, rumors, and extra, we know a whole lot of what’s to come back. So, let’s bounce in!

The series is ready in the 32^nd Century.

The twelfth Star Trek series since Gene Roddenberry’s unique CBS present debuted in 1966, Starfleet Academy is the sixth small display screen entry in the franchise since the debut of Discovery in 2017. Overseen by franchise-runner Alex Kurtzman, the new series was co-created with Noga Landau, who created the four-season-long Nancy Drew series for The CW. In growth since Kurtzman’s unique deal with CBS again in 2018, the series has gone by way of many iterations and timelines earlier than deciding on the future setting used since Discovery’s third season. Writers on the series embody Gaia Volo and Decrease Decks star Tawny Newsome. Newsome is the first Star Trek actor employed for a employees writing place in franchise historical past.

New stars and Trek veterans will lead the solid.

Whereas the series is ready a thousand years after the acquainted eras of James Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard, Starfleet Academy is bringing again acquainted faces from past simply Star Trek: Discovery. Whereas Discovery veterans like Mary Wiseman, Tig Notaro, and Oded Fehr will seem of their respective roles as Sylvia Tilly, Jett Reno, and Admiral Charles Vance, the new series is bringing again The Physician, the holographic creation from Star Trek: Voyager, who Robert Picardo will as soon as once more play. The series will even function Gina Yashere as an teacher with the younger cadets performed by Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané, and Zoë Steiner. Discovery star Doug Jones has voiced his need to look in the series and will visitor star sooner or later. WWE famous person Becky Lynch performs a Starfleet bridge crew member.

Paul Giamatti performs the villain, with Tatiana Maslany and Holly Hunter in key roles.

The large names hooked up to the series embody Holly Hunter, who will painting the Chancellor of Starfleet Academy, and She-Hulk: Legal professional At Legislation star Tatiana Maslany in an unidentified visitor position. The large identify hooked up to the series is Oscar-nominated actor Paul Giamatti, who performs the first season’s foremost antagonist. Alex Kurtzman initially approached Giamatti throughout the actor’s promotional rounds for 2023’s The Holdovers, throughout which he proclaimed his love for all issues Star Trek and his need to play a Klingon. Kurtzman gave Giamatti a task in the new series, however particulars stay beneath wraps.

The series won’t be about area exploration.

If the title doesn’t give it away, Starfleet Academy will deal with the recruits to the new faculty to coach cadets for the United Federation of Planets branches. Following the cadets from new recruits by way of commencement, the series will probably be set after the cataclysmic occasion compelled Starfleet to regroup and begin over from scratch. Early in 2024, manufacturing designer Matthew Davies oversaw the constructing of the set for Starfleet Academy’s atrium, the largest set ever constructed for a Star Trek series. Filling 45,900 sq. toes of the greatest soundstage in Canada, the atrium set is 2 tales tall and boasts a large number corridor, amphitheater, a number of school rooms, catwalks, timber, and a view of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

Season two is already greenlit.

Regardless of being slowed by the 2023 Author’s Guild and Actor’s Guild strikes, Starfleet Academy started manufacturing in August 2024 with Alex Kurtzman helming the first two episodes and Discovery director Olatunde Osunsanmi. Jonathan Frakes was supplied the likelihood to helm an episode however couldn’t achieve this attributable to a private battle. Frakes did specific a need to direct a season two episode, which can occur as Paramount has already greenlit a second season of the series. The primary season is ready to incorporate ten episodes, holding the content material targeted on a foremost narrative, which Tawny Newsome stated will probably be about the youthful era, a tone and strategy vastly totally different to any Trek venture thus far exterior of the animated series Prodigy.

Starfleet Academy will premiere in 2026

The primary season of Starfleet Academy is ready to premiere someday in early 2026. A teaser trailer was unveiled at San Diego Comedian-Con and could be seen proper right here:

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