Starfleet Academy Is Reportedly A New Star Trek Series Focused on the Cadets

A new Star Trek series is reportedly in the works for Paramount+ called Starfleet Academy, and it looks to be “set among the college of cadets mentored for leadership roles in the United Federation of Planets space force.”

As reported by Deadline, this show is in development at CBS Studios and Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout and it actually shares the name of a PC game from 1997 called Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

Absentia’s co-creator Gaia Violo is said to be working on the project and Starfleet Academy will likely follow Section 31 – a Star Trek spinoff series that see Michelle Yeoh reprise her role as Philippa Georgiou, the former emperor from the Mirror Universe in Star Trek: Discovery.

Kurtzman, at the Star Trek: Strange New World panel at Paramount+’s TCA event, discussed that there was “another one” in development besides Section 31, but he wasn’t willing to reveal anything more. Kurtzman also shared a bit of the team’s philosophy in building out Star Trek’s future.

“We have to think several years out,” Kurtzman said. “We’re thinking about knowing we’ll want new shows on the air two or three years from now so we have to start planning those now. There’s a bunch of things in development now that are starting to take shape and we’re super excited about it.”

Speaking of Strange New Worlds, this series will premiere on Paramount+ on May 5 and will follow the journey of the U.S.S. Enterprise years before Captain Kirk was in command. It will also star Celia Rose Gooding as a younger version of Cadet Nyota Uhura from the original series.

It was also confirmed that Christina Chong’s La’an Noonien-Singh does in fact have a connection to Ricardo Montalban’s Khan, but the show won’t put a huge spotlight on it.

“We don’t want to bring folks into the show to be splashy,” showrunner Akiva Goldsman said. “We want to dig deeply into characters that are part of our ensemble.”

For more Star Trek, check out all the other recently revealed Star Trek release dates and windows, including Star Trek: Picard’s second season beginning on March 3, Lower Decks returning in Summer, and Star Trek: Prodigy’s first season starting later in 2022.

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