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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy received an early renewal and a new cast member. The next Starfleet Academy is a new show from Paramount+ that will be the 12th series in the overarching series Star Trek franchise. Created by Gaia Violo, it will star Holly Hunter, Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané, Zoë Steiner, Tig Notaro, Robert Picardo and Sandro Rosta and will follow the Academy’s first group of cadets in over 100 years.
Screen Rant was present at Star Trek Universe Panel at New York Comic Con. During a special live broadcast from the set in Toronto, co-showrunner and executive producer Alex Kurtzman announced that Starfleet Academy was renewed for season 2. The news comes ahead of the premiere of season 1, which is currently in production and scheduled to debut in 2025 or 2026. Paramount+ also announced that She-Hulk: Lawyer star Tatiana Maslany joined the show as a special recurring guest in the first season.
What this means for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
The show is starting strong
Both updates shared at New York Comic Con bring good news for the upcoming Star Trek show. Adding to its recurring and guest cast, which already includes Paul Giamatti, Gina Yashere, Mary Wiseman and Oded Fehr, makes it seem like the show is a draw for a variety of established stars in addition to the well-known actors who are already part of the series’ regular cast. The fact that it has already been renewed also shows that the producers are confident that the show will be a similar draw for audiences.
It seems possible that Starfleet Academy is being positioned as a flagship program of the Star Trek franchise, taking a place next to Strange new worlds as one of its flagship live-action shows. This comes at the perfect time, as many of the major original series that launched the continuing Paramount+ universe are coming to an end or have recently gone off the air. This includes Picardwhich ended in 2023, Discoverywhich ended in 2024, and the animated Lower deckswhich begins its final season on October 24th.
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Source: Paramount+