Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2024)

[ZariusTwo]

nnounced today by Paramount+, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will become the fourth live-action (and sixth overall) Star Trek series produced for the streamer by Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout production company, and is planned to go before cameras next year.


The official release:


March 30, 2023 – Paramount+ today announced the series order for the all-new original series STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY. The series will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy. Produced by CBS Studios, the series will begin production in 2024.


STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY will introduce us to a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they will 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.


In celebration of this news, a joint announcement has been made by co-showrunners and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau:


Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau will serve as co-showrunners and will executive produce the series alongside executive producers Gaia Violo, Aaron Baiers, Jenny Lumet, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Frank Siracusa and John Weber. The series premiere episode is written by Gaia Violo. STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY will be produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.


“We are excited to introduce ‘Star Trek’ fans to a whole new generation of Starfleet officers in training as they navigate the rigors of the Academy and the brink of adulthood in STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY,” said Domenic DiMeglio, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Data, Paramount Streaming. “Introducing new characters and compelling storylines, this all-new original series will serve as a fantastic addition to the franchise and Paramount+, bringing new generations of viewers and long-term ‘Star Trek’ fans alike together to enjoy the next chapter in the iconic ‘Star Trek’ universe.”

“As we continue to explore more of the ‘Star Trek’ universe, we’re thrilled to bring STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY to fans around the world as the next chapter in this expanding franchise,” said David Stapf, president of CBS Studios. “Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau’s vision is a smart and thrilling take that celebrates the core principles of what ‘Star Trek’ has always stood for, but through the eyes of the next generation of Starfleet’s leaders.”

STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY is the latest addition to the expanding “Star Trek” franchise on Paramount+, which includes the current hit original series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, STAR TREK: PICARD, the animated series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS and STAR TREK: PRODIGY, and STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS.

https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/03/star-trek-starfleet-academy-series-begins-production-in-2024/

[Andrew NDB]

So just more STD people and no Matalas. And when is this even set? Is this going to be Instructor Tilley in the 31st century? Good luck with that, if so. And the showrunner is Noga Landau, only known for the cancelled CW Nancy Drew show? Again with the CW people? Oh boy...

[CyberCubed]

I remember this show being rumored since the Enterprise days around 2005, I guess it took them long enough to finally do it. The first few scenes of Star Trek 2009 are a nice enough glimpse what a Star Trek series set in essentially college of the future would be like.

[Andrew NDB]

Don't forget the Star Trek: Academy CD-ROM game from the 90s. Starring Shatner and Christopher Plummer. I actually forgot Plummer was in it as General Chang.

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You see how he got his eyepatch.

[member_removed]

So just more STD people and no Matalas. And when is this even set? Is this going to be Instructor Tilley in the 31st century? Good luck with that, if so. And the showrunner is Noga Landau, only known for the cancelled CW Nancy Drew show? Again with the CW people? Oh boy...

Well both Disco and Picard have been announced to be finishing. So hopefully this will just replace Disco and that they are saving Terry Matalas for the whatever series replaces Picard. Hopefully Legacy/Titan. I would assume they'll announce that soon enough when Picard finishes up. Or sooner First contact day April/05.

As for SFA, if it's set in the 32rd century and a direct sequel to Disco, I can happily, skip that.

Maybe it follows Picard's long haired Aussie Romulan mate.

****, just give us Engineering professor Miles O'Brien and I'll end up watching!

I think this would work better as an animated series, in the style of prodigy. If it's live action I think it runs the risk of becoming Felicity in Space.

[ZariusTwo]

Also confirmed is Tawny Newsome (Lower Deck's voice of Mariner) is among the writers

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqbIJEyPvr7/

[Andrew NDB]

Also confirmed is Tawny Newsome (Lower Deck's voice of Mariner) is among the writers

https://www.instagram.com/p/CqbIJEyPvr7/

Who has never written anything before beyond a 2 minute... something, if IMDB is to be taken at face value. So pretty much all women creatively, across the board. Seems like, well, a choice.

[Andrew NDB]

So it looks like it's going to have Robert Picardo. Presumably reprising The Doctor, in the 30th century.

[CyberCubed]

It might be the copy of the Doctor who wound up in the future separated from Voyager in that one episode, rather than the main Doctor. This is in the future after all.

[Andrew NDB]

It might be the copy of the Doctor who wound up in the future separated from Voyager in that one episode

They've probably never even seen that episode.

[Andrew NDB]

Never mind, no reason to get excited about The Doctor.

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[Andrew NDB]

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STD: The Sequel.

[TigerClaw]

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STD: The Sequel.
It takes place in the 32nd century, So it has some of the cast from STD, Also Robert Picardo is back as the Doctor somehow, But he was a hologram, So maybe in the 32 century they figured out how to keep him around for a long time.

[Andrew NDB]

It takes place in the 32nd century, So it has some of the cast from STD, Also Robert Picardo is back as the Doctor somehow, But he was a hologram, So maybe in the 32 century they figured out how to keep him around for a long time.

You saw VOY, right? He has a mobile emitter. He can go anywhere and if he looks older it's because he wants to look older.

[TigerClaw]

You saw VOY, right? He has a mobile emitter. He can go anywhere and if he looks older it's because he wants to look older.
I know about the mobile emitter, But this is the 32nd century, Maybe is something more, Perhaps they were able to put him an some android body or something.

[Andrew NDB]

As big as he was about "hologram rights" and as hard as he fought it would seem somewhat counter-productive for him to just one day go "nah, let's be an android instead."

Though if this show is big into identity politics (and we have every reason to think it will be) then who knows... maybe you're right. Maybe The Doctor will find "his true inner self" or something B.S. like that.

But no, he's almost certainly still a hologram. One of the main young characters is a hologram so doubtless The Doctor will be there to give them sagely advice.

[IMJ]

OMFG that trailer reeks of the chlorine spunk of STD.

[Roseangelo]

The comments on the trailer make me happy.

[sdp]

When was the last time Star Trek was truly relevant? The early 90s? Only the original show and The Next Generation seem to have been hits, perhaps the 2009 reboot movie for a few months. Since then it's just been an irrelevant franchise. No one in the world cares about this franchise.
It'll continue to try to do new things to find a new audience and perhaps fail at it, they're not interested in doing something the nerds who are hardcore fans will enjoy that's too small of a market and no matter what they release they know most of that audience will check it out regardless.

[Andrew NDB]

When was the last time Star Trek was truly relevant?

When it was still good. When it stopped being good people stopped caring.

[CyberCubed]

I haven't watched the trailers but what happened to that fat girl Tily from Discovery? Wasn't she supposed to be in this? In that show she was fat in the first season but it wasn't too bad, but with each passing season she just got FATTER AND FATTER and she was seriously obese by the last two seasons. I actually feel bad for the actress in real life, what happened to her?

In-universe her being fat doesn't even make sense since in Star Trek you can control what you eat with calories and not gain weight. They never even explained why she was so damn fat. She had a perfectly round head too. Do they not have Jenny Craig in the future?

[Andrew NDB]

Her becoming fat was almost certainly a conscious decision on STD. In a show all about minorities and pressing LGBTQ stuff she didn't want to end up on the chopping block as a regular old straight, fit white lady. And especially a red headed white lady, no less! (Hollyweird certainly has an axe to grind with them) So she became fat to become oppressed, and I believe for good measure she then even announced that she was suddenly "queer" now when STD was still between seasons to sweeten the pot.

https://www.out.com/celebs/2021/1/19/star-trek-discoverys-mary-wiseman-queer-and-proud

I haven't watched the trailers but what happened to that fat girl Tily from Discovery? Wasn't she supposed to be in this?

She's in it but for some reason they're hiding her from the trailer. Maybe they figure with the fat black cadet and the fat Jem Hadar they would be tipping their hat (or the scale) too much, too soon. I'm sure we'll get plenty of quippy TV spots with Tilley soon enough. Have to save something to maintain the excitement of fans, you see.

[sdp]

In-universe her being fat doesn't even make sense since in Star Trek you can control what you eat with calories and not gain weight. They never even explained why she was so damn fat.
Oh lawd!
Well excuuuuse me Mr. Cyber but as you are very well aware, we are not over weight, we are curvy and full figure. You can have a little extra skin and be extremely healthy, probably more than all of you skinny guys and gals. I am a 10 out of 10, and I'm not afraid to wear a bikini at the beach. Long gone are the days of skinny anorexic unhealthy models. REAL men like full-bodied figures!
REAL women come in all shapes and sizes. Makes perfect sense that in the future women still look like real women.

[Andrew NDB]

Oh lawd!
Well excuuuuse me Mr. Cyber but as you are very well aware, we are not over weight, we are curvy and full figure. You can have a little extra skin and be extremely healthy, probably more than all of you skinny guys and gals. I am a 10 out of 10, and I'm not afraid to wear a bikini at the beach. Long gone are the days of skinny anorexic unhealthy models. REAL men like full-bodied figures!
REAL women come in all shapes and sizes. Makes perfect sense that in the future women still look like real women.

Is this you returning to the "I'm a proud fat black woman" thing again that you embarrassed yourself with a year or two ago? Even though between "fat," "black," and "woman" you are probably only one of these things (and we can all guess which one)?

[IMJ]

Oh lawd!
Well excuuuuse me Mr. Cyber but as you are very well aware, we are not over weight, we are curvy and full figure. You can have a little extra skin and be extremely healthy, probably more than all of you skinny guys and gals. I am a 10 out of 10, and I'm not afraid to wear a bikini at the beach. Long gone are the days of skinny anorexic unhealthy models. REAL men like full-bodied figures!
REAL women come in all shapes and sizes. Makes perfect sense that in the future women still look like real women.

Actually in many ways it makes more sense that future women all look better than they do now.

1. as time moves forward more of society is educated and has access to more informational resources than in the past. And so people make better lifestyle decisions.

2. Technology advances and it would make sense that technology that eliminates unhealthy, unattractive body mass would be more likely not only to arise, but to be adopted as some kind of regular use tool across society.

3. food science advances mean that even the mentally ill who include cupcakes as a regular part of their diet are at least eating "healthier future cupcakes" for example.

And so it makes sense that future women look healthy and athletic.

[CyberCubed]

In-lore in Star Trek, isn't the way the food is fabricated to prevent people from gaining weight as well? They can relegate the calories and fat from the food which is why you rarely if ever saw fat people in Star Trek. There were some heavy set older women in the show due to the actress in real life, but none of them were as bloated as Tily was in Discovery.

Makes zero sense, even if it's from the pre-Kirk/Pike days. And when they're in the future she shouldn't be like that.

[ZariusTwo]

Trailer

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Stephen Colbert also announced he'll be part of the show too


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[Andrew NDB]

Goodness gracious...

[Andrew NDB]

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[CyberCubed]

Is that a gay Klingon?

[Andrew NDB]

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[neatoman]

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[CyberCubed]

I haven't watched any of this show yet but apparently the recent episode delved into the mystery of what happened to Sisko from DS9, and the actor who played Jake appeared as a historical hologram talking about his father.

[Andrew NDB]

I haven't watched any of this show yet but apparently the recent episode delved into the mystery of what happened to Sisko from DS9, and the actor who played Jake appeared as a historical hologram talking about his father.

It didn't "Delve" into anything. The fat, retarded hologram (why anyone would want to create a fat, retarded hologram is anyone's guess or why Starfleet would want such a thing) wanted to find answers about the disappearance of Sisko for some reason so she found a way to program herself to get drunk. Then decided that after experiencing drunkeness, Sisko must have known love. It literally doesn't make any sense. Anyone that's seen DS9 is going to hate it and anyone that hasn't seen DS9 yet all this will do is spoil the ending of the series for them.

And yes, you see a hologram of Jake that amounts to nothing. Also Dax shows up in a Cardassian host. We don't "learn" a single thing new.

Also one of the gay cadets barfs, and because he's got alien DNA his barf looks like glitter.

[IMJ]

I saw a clip where one of the Starfleet-autists (never thought I'd say that) runs around the bridge screaming "Red Alert".

:teek:

I mean....

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Seriously?

[Andrew NDB]

https://thatparkplace.com/star-trek-artist-warns-fans-that-review-bombing-starfleet-academy-could-end-the-franchise/

GOOD! End it.

[Andrew NDB]

Apparently in the season finale the bad guy places mines completely around the Federation -- all worlds -- and it only took "hundreds." And they don't understand there is more than one axis in space... it's just a big circle of mines around all the planets.

[Andrew NDB]

CANCELLED.

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/star-trek-starfleet-academy-canceled-season-2-1236696816/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQuYKNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFBQmll ejBZSkdoR1BYejlac3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMD g5MgABHsl-w2XXNE2N82Sl17LeMs5mEf6KzZjIaejFN6wE14EmK21dd_EAaX Ot-SPA_aem_njXFgXYRcQtz5zzlU7Betw

Great news!

[IMJ]

The woke nuts should lobby for this to be packed into a special Blu-Ray release with Discovery called the "Woke Trek Collection". They can continue to swear up and down that it's all because of "review bombing" and then be proven right when the "Woke Trek Collection" sells a million copies.

Because it would do that, right?

-waits for woke forum clown to post "well it wouldn't do that because DVD's don't sell as well as they used to".-

Either way, good riddance to that dog$#!(.