{"id":95348,"date":"2025-07-27T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95348\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:03:09","slug":"starfleet-academy-first-trailer-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95348\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfleet Academy’ First Trailer Debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cStar Trek<\/a>: Starfleet Academy,\u201d the newest series in the nearly 60-year-old franchise, warped into San Diego Comic-Con<\/a> on Saturday with an introduction of its full cast and the first trailer for the show, which will debut in early 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series takes place in the 32nd century after the events of \u201cStar Trek: Discovery,\u201d with Starfleet relaunching the titular educational institution outside of San Francisco after the Federation\u2019s absence on Earth for more than 120 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe look at the generation now that is inheriting all of this division and all these major issues,\u201d executive producer Alex Kurtzman said on the Hall H stage. \u201cWe wanted to create a show that anchored us back to [Gene] Rodneyberry\u2019s essential vision of hope. How do you find it, how do you rebuild it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOscar-winner Holly Hunter plays Nahla Ake, the school\u2019s chancellor and the captain of the USS Athena; she greets the new class of cadets in the teaser, as it cuts to the cast exploring various parts of the campus. \u201cIt was really interesting to get the offer to be the captain, but then also to combine that with being the chancellor,\u201d Hunter said on the stage. \u201cThe captain is there to analyze in emergency situations, and then to delegate. And the chancellor is there to guide, to collaborate and to have tremendous empathy. It was just a wonderful combination of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe teaser ends with a shot of Paul Giamatti as the season\u2019s main villain, Nus Braka, who is part-Klingon, part-Tellarite and is described in a Paramount release as \u201ca man with an ominous past connected to one of our cadets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe main cadets on the show were revealed as:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u2022 Caleb Mir (Sandro Rosta), \u201can orphan with a troubled past, and unlikely Starfleet cadet.\u201d Rosta said that Caleb is \u201cdisillusioned\u201d with Starfleet, but his journey to find his mother brings him into Starfleet Academy due to his connection to Nahla. \u201cYou\u2019re going to be entering a Starfleet through the eyes of Caleb, who is an outsider,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2022 Jay-Den Kraag (Karim Dian\u00e9), \u201ca Klingon cadet who dreams of becoming a medical officer.\u201d Dian\u00e9 said at first it took him five hours a day to put on the prosthetics to play the character, which was ultimately cut down to two hours by the end of the first season. He reached out to \u201cTrek\u201d alumni Michael Dorn (Worf on \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation\u201d) and Doug Jones (Saru on \u201cDiscovery\u201d) for advice on performing with so much makeup. \u201cI just had so much support from everyone around me that made this process really seamless,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2022 Series Acclimation Mil (Kerrice Brooks), aka Sam, \u201cthe first of her kind to ever attend Starfleet Academy.\u201d In the panel, Brooks \u2014 who was overcome with tears after seeing the trailer for the first time \u2014 explained that Sam is Kasqian, which is apparently another name for a hologram. \u201cShe was literally only created, like, weeks ago,\u201d she said. \u201cShe brings absolutely no baggage. She brings such a freshness and a levity to so many things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2022 Darem Reymi (George Hawkins), \u201can aspiring captain from a wealthy home world.\u201d \u201cHe comes from status and he comes from a lot of expectation,\u201d Hawkins said on stage. \u201cSo when he comes to the Academy and he meets cadets like this, he wants to run them over, he wants to compete, and he wants to be the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2022 Genesis Lythe (Bella Shepard), \u201can admiral\u2019s daughter determined to make her own name in Starfleet.\u201d Shepard said she was a Dar-Sha, \u201ca brand new species that no one\u2019s ever seen before,\u201d which was particularly exciting for her as a lifelong \u201cTrek\u201d fan.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther new characters include Tarima Sadal (Zo\u00eb Steiner), \u201ca Betazoid and daughter of the president of Betazed\u201d and Commander Lura Thok (recurring guest star Gina Yashere), \u201ca Klingon\/Jem\u2019Hadar hybrid who is the chancellor\u2019s First Officer and Cadet Master.\u201d Picardo is recurring his \u201cStar Trek: Voyager\u201d character the Doctor, and Tig Notaro and Oded Fehr are reprising their \u201cDiscovery\u201d roles of Jett Reno and Admiral Vance, respectively. \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cStar Trek: Starfleet Academy,\u201d the newest series in the nearly 60-year-old franchise, warped into San Diego Comic-Con on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15661,171,42669,62824,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-95348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-comic-con","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-star-trek","11":"tag-star-trek-starfleet-academy","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114922271930123565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}