Star Trek: Starfleet Academyreveals first-look images revealing secrets from the nextStar Trekseries coming to Paramount+. Executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, Starfleet Academystars Academy Award winner Holly Hunter and Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti, who lead a new young cast as well as severalStar Treklegacy characters.
Ahead ofStar Trek’s San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel,Entertainment Weeklydroppeda dozen first-look images showcasingStar Trek: Starfleet Academy’s eclectic cast and sets, which are the biggest sets ever made forStar Trek. While reveals ofStarfleet Academy’s character names, species, and specifics are being saved for Hall H, the images offer many tantalizing teases forStar Trekfans. Check them out below:
What Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s New Images Reveal About The Upcoming Series
Starfleet Academy Is Expected To Premiere In 2026 On Paramount+
Set in the late 32nd century after theend ofStar Trek: Discovery,Star Trek: Starfleet Academyintroduces a new generation of young heroes who"are facing a lot of challenges right now and they are our hope for the future,“says Noga Landau. The young cast includes Sandro Rosta (Starfleet Academy’s POV character), Karim Diané (who plays a Klingon), Kerrice Brooks, George Hawkins, Bella Shepard, and Zoë Steiner (who appears to be a Betazoid).
Intriguing Easter eggs and clues inStarfleet Academy’s first-look images include Gina Yashere playing a possible hybrid of a Klingon and a Jem-Hadar. Alex Kurtzman hints inEWthat"Klingon hybrid species who are several of our main characters,“including possibly Paul Giamatti’s mystery villain, are part ofStarfleet Academy.
Star Trek: Lower Decks' Tawny Newsome is one ofStar Trek: Starfleet Academy’s writers.
ConfirmedStar Treklegacy characterswho will appear inStarfleet Academyinclude Robert Picardo as The Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager, Mary Wiseman, Oded Fehr, and Tig Notaro fromStar Trek: Discovery.Tatiana Maslany from She-Hulk: Attorney at Lawalso plays another mystery character, who could be the mother of one ofStarfleet Academy’s cadets.
Our Take On Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s First-Look Images
Starfleet Academy Will Honor Star Trek’s Past
Star Trek: Starfleet Academywill now chart the farthest point inStar Trek’s future, but one of the most exciting aspects of the new series ishow it will honorStar Trek’s past.Noga Landau says,“We made sure that the halls of our school are properly named for the most legendary people in Starfleet.”
Indeed, the first-look image of George Santos and Zoë Steiner shows them in front ofa wall with the names ofStar Treklegendslike Captain Will Decker, Captain John Harriman, Captain Carol Freeman, Captain Cristobal Rios, Captain Amina Ramsay, Commander Hugh Culber, Lt. Commander B’Elanna Torres, Captain Sonya Gomez, Ambassador Garak, and Commander Beckett Mariner.
WWE Superstar Becky Lynch (Rebecca Quin) also joinedStar Trek: Starfleet Academy’s cast.
With a combination of Oscar-caliber actors, a compelling young cast, several familiar faces from theStar Trekfranchise, and a production pulling out all the stops by filming onStar Trek’s biggest sets ever,Star Trek: Starfleet Academylooks extremely promising. Paramount+ has already renewed Starfleet Academyfor season 2, which begins filming later this year, and much more will be revealed at San Diego Comic-Con.
