They’re younger! They’re scorching! They’re the solid of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy! Paramount+ has dropped a brand-new poster for the upcoming Starfleet Academy sequence, and it’s positively giving ’90s sitcom vibes. You realize, these picture shoots the place the whole solid is simply draped over each other. I feel Associates did this various instances. It doesn’t fairly really feel like Star Trek, however I suppose this ain’t your typical Star Trek present.
Verify Out the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Poster
Beginning on the high left of the poster and shifting clockwise, we’ve bought Karim Diané as Jay-Den Kraag, a Klingon cadet and aspiring medical officer, Kerrice Brooks as Sequence Acclimation Mil (S.A.M.), the primary of her type to attend the Academy, George Hawkins as Darem Reymi, a cadet from a rich planet who needs to make captain, Bella Shepard as Genesis Lythe, an admiral’s daughter who needs to make her personal title in Starfleet, Sandro Rosta as Caleb Mir, a disillusioned orphan who joins the Academy as a part of a journey to seek out his mom, and Zoë Steiner as Tarima Sadal, a Betazoid and the daughter of the president of Betazed.
Not pictured within the poster are the grownup members of the solid, which embrace Holly Hunter as Nahla Ake, captain of the USS Athena and chancellor of Starfleet Academy, Tig Notaro as Jett Reno, Oded Fehr as Admiral Vance, and Robert Picardo because the Physician, who’s reprising the position in live-action for the primary time for the reason that sequence finale of Star Trek: Voyager. Mary Wiseman will even make an look as Sylvia Tilly, and the fundamental villain is performed by none aside from Paul Giamatti, who has mentioned he’s “pleased as a pig in shit” to get to hitch the franchise.
What’s Starfleet Academy All About?
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy takes place within the thirty second century, the identical period as Star Trek: Discovery, and “introduces viewers to a younger group of cadets who come collectively to pursue a typical dream of hope and optimism. Below the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they uncover what it takes to change into Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a brand new enemy that threatens each the Academy and the Federation itself.” The sequence is ready to debut on Paramount+ on January 15, 2026 and has already been renewed for a second season.
I Love Star Trek However…
I really like Star Trek. The primary 5 reveals (from The Unique Sequence via Enterprise) are in fixed rotation at my home. And whereas I’ve watched and loved all the brand new Trek sequence, they haven’t fairly achieved the identical degree of rewatchability. Possibly it’s as a result of they’re nonetheless too new, however I feel a giant a part of it comes all the way down to the sheer lack of quantity.
Ten episodes per season has change into the norm, and that shortage actually provides up. By the point Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds wraps its fifth season, it should have racked up simply 46 episodes. For context, The Subsequent Era hit that milestone in below two seasons.
I get it: the period of 26-episode seasons is lengthy gone, and fashionable manufacturing budgets for reveals like Star Trek make that mannequin all however unimaginable. However I can’t assist wanting… extra. Extra space to breathe. Extra room for tales to wander. Extra time to fall in love with these characters.
