Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: Holly Hunter Takes Us Back to School in First Trailer — Watch
Paramount+ has given us our first look at Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, debuting on the streamer in early 2026, in the form of a teaser trailer and photos. (The trailer was first unveiled during the Star Trek Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday.)
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In the teaser, which you can watch below, Holly Hunter stars as Nahla Ake, introducing herself as the chancellor of Starfleet Academy, which is reopening its doors to new students for the first time in 120 years. (Check out that James T. Kirk Pavilion!) We meet the fresh-faced cadets, who 'are the best and brightest from across the galaxy,' she says. 'You will learn the skills that shaped our greatest officers,' she adds, encouraging them to (of course) 'boldly go where no one has gone before.'
As the teaser ends, we also get our first glimpse at recurring guest star Paul Giamatti as Nus Braka, who is part Klingon and part Tellarite and is the season's villain with an ominous past connected to one of the cadets, as he ominously whistles the Star Trek theme.
Along with Hunter and Giamatti, the cast includes Star Trek veterans Robert Picardo (as Voyager's The Doctor), Tig Notaro (as Discovery's Jett Reno) and Oded Fehr (as Discovery's Admiral Vance). The cadets are played by Sandro Rosta, Karim Diané, Kerrice Brooks, George Hawkins, Bella Shepard and Zoë Steiner. Plus, Gina Yashere (Bob Hearts Abishola) recurs as Commander Lura Thok, a Klingon/Jem'Hadar hybrid who is the chancellor's First Officer and Cadet Master.
Starfleet Academy 'introduces viewers to a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism,' per the official synopsis. 'Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.'
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