Each Star Trek present wants a voice to embody the pc as captain and crew work together with what’s all the time one other main character, the starship itself. The upcoming Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is not any totally different, though the ship doubles as a college. The voice of that ship will probably be supplied by actress Brit Marling, who is not any stranger to sci-fi.
Brit Marling is Athena’s voice
Immediately Collider reported that Brit Marling is headed to the thirty second century. The prolific actress and screenwriter will lend her voice to the position of ship’s laptop for the usS. Athena, the spacefaring and extremely instructional starship captained by Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter). Marling has loads of expertise in style tv, having co-created Netflix’s sadly short-lived sci-fi thriller The OA (starring Discovery‘s Jason Isaacs). She additionally starred in Netflix’s psychological thriller miniseries A Homicide on the Finish of the World and wrote and starred within the 2011 high-concept sci-fi movie One other Earth.
In Starfleet Academy, the usAthena is built-in into the San Francisco campus when it reopens after over a century. The ship will probably be a significant setting of the collection, with co-showrunner Alex Kurtzman likening it to a educating hospital. At NYCC in October, he stated the choice to make a ship a part of the Academy freed up their storytelling:
“[The cadets] are put in real-life hazard, however clearly supervised by loads of unbelievable instructors. That cracked it open, as a result of then it grew to become a Star Trek present the place you possibly can do a mission of the week, however in addition they come again to Earth and are on campus.”
Screengrab from season 1, episode 2 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy streaming on Paramount+. Picture Credit score: Courtesy of Paramount+
Brit Marling joins the legendary Majel Barrett-Roddenberry in giving a voice to Starfleet starships all through the galaxy. Roddenberry definitely holds probably the most prolific file on this often-underappreciated position in the course of the TNG period, however different noteworthy laptop voice performers embrace Judi Durand as Deep Area 9’s Cardassian laptop, Kay Bess as Captain Cristóbal Rios’ SS La Sirena, Bonnie Gordon on Prodigy‘s Protostar, and Annabelle Wallis as the usS. Discovery’s sentient laptop, Zora.
Craft (Aldis Hodge) and hologram Zora (Sash Striga) in Quick Treks “Calypso”
Becoming a member of Colbert’s voice
We await additional particulars about Brit Marling’s tackle the ship’s laptop, however she gained’t be alone within the realm of disembodied voices on Academy: CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert will ship “morning bulletins” with what we are able to solely think about will probably be a decidedly zesty efficiency.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is correct across the nook, with a two-episode collection premiere slated for a Paramount+ launch on January 15, 2026. Its first season will run for ten episodes, and a second season is presently in manufacturing.
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