Big casting news was announced today in regards to the upcoming Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series. This new Star Trek series is headed for Paramount+. It was announced that Academy Award winning actress Holly Hunter has joined the cast. She will be portraying the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy.
While not a ton is known about the series yet, StarTrek.com shared that “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.” It is also known that the largest contiguous set ever constructed for a Star Trek series will be utilized when filming begins later this summer. It will feature a central academic atrium that will span two stories and include an amphitheater, classrooms, a mess hall, along with an idyllic walkway lined with trees.
“It feels like we’ve spent our entire lives watching Holly Hunter be a stone-cold genius,” said co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. “To have her extraordinary authenticity, fearlessness, sense of humor, and across the board brilliance leading the charge on Starfleet Academy is a gift to all of us, and to the enduring legacy of Star Trek.”
About Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy introduces viewers 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 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 serve as co-showrunners and executive produce the series alongside executive producers Gaia Violo, Aaron Baiers, Olatunde Onsunsamni, Jenny Lumet, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Frank Siracusa and John Weber. The series premiere episode is written by Gaia Violo. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will join the growing Star Trek presence on Paramount+. This includes Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks, and also Star Trek: Section 31, an original movie event with Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh. Beyond Paramount+, new episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy is coming Netflix later this year.
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