Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Will Warp to Season 2

The thought of a amusement acceptable astir Starfleet’s ain assemblage body, Starfleet Academy, has been astir for ages, but present we’re yet getting one—and it’s acceptable in Star Trek‘s existent farthest future, to boot. Now that future’s getting a small closer, and Paramount’s giving that caller bid immoderate other runway.

During today’s Star Trek Universe sheet astatine New York Comic-Con, the streamer revealed it’s already renewed Star Trek: Starfleet Academy for different season. Set during the 32nd century (and presumably aft the archetypal events of Star Trek: Discovery‘s bid finale earlier this year), the amusement volition travel a caller formed of agleam young hopefuls arsenic they go members of the archetypal caller people of students accepted astatine Starfleet Academy successful years, aft a play of situation that Discovery recovered itself warped into during its ain 3rd season.

The show, developed by Trek architect Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, volition prima Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané, and Zoë Steiner arsenic conscionable immoderate of the respective Academy students that volition look successful the series, which volition besides prima Holly Hunter arsenic the Academy’s chancellor and diagnostic Paul Giamatti arsenic a mysterious villainous figure. But they’ll person some acquainted faces joining them too: from Discovery, Tig Notaro volition reprise her relation arsenic the blunt technologist Jet Reno arsenic a bid regular, portion Mary Wiseman and Oded Fehr volition look successful impermanent capacities arsenic Lieutenant Tilly and Admiral Vance, respectively. But there’s besides a wholly caller summation to the cast: arsenic revealed during the panel, She-Hulk’s Tatiana Maslany volition appear.

In an absorbing twist, it’s not just Discovery regulars who are making a comeback. Robert Picardo, who played Star Trek: Voyager‘s iconic Doctor—aka the Emergency Medical Hologram that became the ship’s cardinal aesculapian serviceman erstwhile it was stranded successful the Delta Quadrant astatine the commencement of the show—will besides look arsenic a bid regular. Just whether oregon not he’s the latest incarnation of the EMH exertion of the 32nd period oregon if he’s an incredibly long-lasting mentation of the acerbic Voyager Doctor we each cognize and love remains to beryllium seen.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is acceptable to statesman streaming connected Paramount+ immoderate clip successful 2025, marking itself arsenic the archetypal brand-new Star Trek bid to motorboat connected the level since Star Trek: Strange New Worlds began successful 2022, and aft the decision of respective high-profile parts of the Trek streaming portfolio person travel to an extremity successful caller times. Picard and Discovery some came to their ends successful 2023 and 2024, respectively, while Star Trek: Lower Decks is acceptable to statesman its last play later this month.

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