At San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year, our first glimpse of the upcoming Star Trek show, Starfleet Academyput emphasis on the latter, reminding us all that this program is intended to teach the next generation of Starfleet officers. Our latest look at the series at New York Comic Con today wants to remind you, however, that this will still be a Star Trek show, with all the mystery, drama and adventure that entails.
Today’s climax Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con, Paramount lifted the lid on the second trailer for Starfleet Academyrevealing a lot more teases about the show than just the hopeful college vibes that were on full display in our first look last summer. There’s still plenty of that – we have lots of classes going on (with new and familiar teachers like TravelerRobert Picardo as the Emergency Medical Hologram, and Discovery(Tig Notaro and Mary Wiseman as Jett Reno and Sylvia Tilly, respectively), and plenty of young adult drama for this new class of academy recruits, the first welcomed into the titular Academy (slash Starship, the U.S.S. Athens) more than a century after the events of the Burning of Star Trek: Discovery season 3.
Of all the new students, though, this trailer focuses on one in particular who will drive the show’s broader narrative: Caleb Mir, played by Sandro Rosta. Turns out he has a great connection with both Starfleet Academythe big, bad Nus Braka (played by the legendary Paul Giamatti, a half-Klingon, half-Tellarite hybrid), and the Academy’s most recent Chancellor, Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter), named after his mother (Black Orphan and She-Hulk(Tatiana Maslany) was kidnapped by Braka when Caleb was a child. Finally meeting the boy again after fifteen years (and some history with Braka herself), Ake personally recruits Caleb to become an unlikely member of the Academy’s new ranks… and perhaps come face to face with Braka again when he resurfaces.
Starfleet Academy also features Gina Yashere as Athens First Officer and Academy Master Cadet Lura Thok (half Klingon, half Jem’Hadar), Karim Diané as Klingon science cadet Jay-Den Kraag, Kerrice Brooks as operations cadet Kasqian Sam, George Hawkins as Khionian command cadet Darem Reymi, Bella Shepard as command cadet Dar-Sha Genesis Lythe, Zoë Steiner as Tarima Sadal, daughter of the President of Betazed, as well as Oded Fehr as DiscoveryAdmiral Vance as guest. It was also confirmed today that Stephen Colbert will be the voice of Starfleet Academy’s Digital Dean of Students, making daily school-wide announcements.
Star Trek: Starfleet AcademyThe 10-episode debut season begins streaming on Paramount+ on January 15 with a two-episode premiere.
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