A batch of faces familiar to Star Trek fans are heading to Paramount+’s Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Star Trek: Discovery‘s Tig Notaro, Oded Fehr, and Mary Wiseman, along with Star Trek: Voyager‘s Robert Picardo, will be reprising their roles for season one of the latest addition to the Star Trek franchise.
Paramount+ confirmed Notaro and Picardo are on board as series regulars while Fehr and Wiseman are guest stars. They join a cast led by Holly Hunter and featuring Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané and Zoë Steiner as cadets. Paul Giamatti and Gina Yashere were previously announced as recurring guest stars.
Production is expected to begin in August 2024.
“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 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. The series will introduce viewers to this young group of cadets as they come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism,” reads Paramount+’s synopsis. “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.”
Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau will be guiding the series as showrunners and executive producers. Additional executive producers include Gaia Violo, Aaron Baiers, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Jenny Lumet, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Frank Siracusa and John Weber. Violo wrote the first episode.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.
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