Star Trek SDCC Panel Welcomes Starfleet Academy Cast

The cast of the upcoming young adult Star Trek series has officially been welcomed into the Star Trek universe. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, the Star Trek panel showed a video of showrunner Alex Kurtzman telling the young cast that they had landed the roles.

Additionally, it was announced that Tig Notaro, Mary Wiseman, Oded Feher and Robert Picardo would reprise their roles. Star Trek: Discovery roles for this new show.

Subtitled Starfleet Academythe show will focus on a group of young cadets training to join Starfleet. It’s all the alien sci-fi fun of Star Trek plus great high school drama. Bring on the love triangles and academic rivalries!

Starfleet Academy stars Kerrice Brooks (The ball), Bella Shepard (wolf pack), George Hawkins (Tell me everything), Karim Diane (One of us is lying), and Zoë Steiner (Significant othersHolly Hunter plays the chancellor of the academy, while Paul Giamatti plays the villain.

The show was originally announced in March 2023. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is led by Alex Kurtzman (who you may know from… most of the current Star Trek projects) and Noga Landau (The CW’s Nancy Drew), which seems like the perfect mix of current Star Trek and CW YA sensibilities. It’s scheduled to hit Paramount Plus sometime in 2026.

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