Starfleet Academy Is Recruiting Some Familiar Star Trek Faces

Star Trek‘s latest show, Starfleet Academy, has gone connected an absolute casting teardrop lately, arsenic it recruits large names for caller faces, mysterious villains, and plentifulness of its young caller cadets. But it turns retired it’s not done casting yet, and it’s bringing on immoderate famous Star Trek stars for the thrust too.

Announced arsenic portion of Star Trek‘s Hall H sheet astatine San Diego Comic-Con today, Starfleet Academy volition see Discovery‘s Tig Notaro, Mary Wiseman, and Oded Fehr reprise their roles arsenic Engineer Jet Reno, Lieutenant Tilly, and Admiral Vance for the 31st-Century-set series astir grooming a caller procreation of would-be Starfleet officers. But they’ll besides beryllium joined by an extra Trek stalwart: Robert Picardo volition reprise his relation as Star Trek: Voyager‘s iconic, acerbic holographic Doctor, caller disconnected of his caller reprisal of the relation successful play 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy. Notaro and Picardo volition look arsenic bid regulars, portion Wiseman and Fehr volition look arsenic impermanent stars.

Although nary footage from the bid was revealed–production is acceptable to statesman adjacent month–the sheet celebrated casting its young cadets with a saccharine video showing the reactions of stars Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané, and Zoë Steiner the archetypal clip they heard from bid showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau that they had landed roles successful the series. Check it retired below!

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which besides stars Holly Hunter, Paul Giamatti, and Gina Yashere, is expected to merchandise connected Paramount+ sometime adjacent year.

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