SAN DIEGO – Finally there is a show for those wishing they would do a cross between “Star Trek” and “Harry Potter.”
A “Star Trek” Universe panel on Saturday, July 26, at the pop-culture festival Comic-Con debuted the first trailer for “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” a series coming to Paramount+ in 2026 that follows the first class of Starfleet cadets in 120 years. The footage also showcased a little peek at Paul Giamatti’s Nus Braka, a part Klingon, part Tellarite villain who has a past connection with one of the cadets.
It’s a “time of rebuilding” when the new class of students comes to campus, executive producer Noga Landau said. “The world has to be fixed and a lot of the responsibility of that is on their shoulders.”
Executive producer Alex Kurtzman added that the show is meant to reflect modern youngsters who are “inheriting all this division” in the real world. He also teased that the Starfleet Academy campus is a ship, so it can go into space on missions where students can get experience in diplomacy and meeting new species in the field.
Holly Hunter plays Nahla Ake, who’s both captain and chancellor, and she enjoyed the dichotomy between the two roles.
“The captain’s there to command and analyze in emergency situations and delegate,” she said. “The chancellor is there to teach and have empathy. It was a wonderful combination of things that it brought out in me and all of us.”