Starfleet Academy’ Trailer Welcomes You Again to Faculty

Star Trek faces an unsure future in the meanwhile, as exhibits that helped outline its streaming renaissance end one by one, and little is understood about what lies on the horizon (particularly due to present occasions in our own world). So it’s maybe becoming, then, that the one new present we do know is coming is all about welcoming a brand new era again to Star Trek‘s elementary beliefs after the same interval of uncertainty: Starfleet Academy.

To shut out at this time’s packed Corridor H panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Paramount launched the primary trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Set in the 32nd century after the occasions of Star Trek: Discovery, the sequence will observe the primary new class of cadets to enroll on the titular academy in San Francisco in over a century, because the Federation rebuilds and reconnects after the cataclysmic occasions of “The Burn” from Discovery‘s third season.

The brand new trailer, other than being full of references to all of Star Trek historical past (from Academy wing names to programs on figures like Captain Sisko), introduces us to a complete host of recent and acquainted faces as lessons start. The sequence can be led by Holly Hunter, who performs Nahla Ake, the captain of the united statesS. Athena, a long-lived half-Lanthanite (the identical humanoid species as Strange New Worlds‘ Commander Pelia, performed by Carol Kane) who additionally serves because the Academy’s chancellor.

Among the many senior workers on the academy, she’ll be joined by Discovery‘s Tig Notaro and Voyager‘s Robert Picardo, reprising their roles as Jett Reno and the Emergency Medical Hologram merely referred to as the Physician, respectively—they’ll even be joined in a visitor star capability by Discovery‘s Mary Wiseman and Oded Fehr as Sylvia Tilly and Admiral Vance, respectively. One new addition to the campus workers is Gina Yashere’s Lura Thok, the Athena‘s first officer in addition to Starfleet Academy’s cadet grasp—fascinatingly, a half-Klingon, half-Jem’Hadar, the genetically engineered footsoldiers of the Dominion from Deep Area 9.

In fact, an academy wants college students, and Starfleet Academy will observe a complete host of recent recruits making their means by way of coaching. Right here’s the rundown:

• Sandro Rosta performs Caleb Mir, a troubled orphan who finds himself within the unlikely circumstance of signing up for Starfleet, with a connection to Chancellor Ake, and presently not sure of which division observe he’ll match into.
• Karim Diané performs Jay-Den Kraag, a Klingon cadet within the sciences division who aspires to be a medical officer.
• Kerrice Brooks performs Sam, a.ok.a. Sequence Acclimation Mil, the primary member of her species, the Kasqians, to enroll in Starfleet as a member of the operations division.
• George Hawkins performs Darem Reymi, a command-track cadet from the rich world of the Khionians.
• Bella Shepard performs Genesis Lythe, one other command-track pupil from the planet Dar-Sha, and the daughter of a Starfleet admiral seeking to step out of the shadow of her household’s legacy.
• Though it’s unclear if she’ll play an attending academy pupil, the younger forged is rounded out by Zoë Steiner taking part in Tarima Sadal, the daughter of the president of Betazed (a long-time member of the Federation, though it’s presently unknown if the planet left and rejoined through the Burn).

Even when Starfleet Academy is a school-set sequence, Star Trek nonetheless wants a baddie, and the present can have one within the type of Paul Giamatti, cheekily and mysteriously launched on the finish of the trailer. Giamatti performs Nus Braka, a seedy gang chief (and himself one other half-Klingon, this time a Klingon/Tellarite hybrid) who has some ominous connections to one of many new cadets on the academy.

The primary season of Starfleet Academy is about to start streaming on Paramount+ in early 2026. The present has already been renewed for a second season.

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