Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Adds 3 to Cast, Including Wolf Pack Vet
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has cast three members of its student body.
Paramount+ on Tuesday announced that Bella Shepard (Wolf Pack), Kerrice Brooks (My Old Ass) and George Hawkins (Tell Me Everything) have boarded the forthcoming series, which 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,” according to the official logline.
As previously reported, Oscar winner Holly Hunter will star as the captain and chancellor of the titular Starfleet Academy, while Billions vet Paul Giamatti will recur in Season 1 as an as-yet-unnamed villain, “a man with an ominous past connected to one of our cadets.”
Season 1 will begin production later this summer.
Starfleet Academy marks the fifth live-action Star Trek series (and seventh Trek series overall) to debut on the streamer, following Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Short Treks, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Prodigy and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
The YA offshoot will introduce viewers to the aforementioned 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.”
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Have they confirmed Mary Wisesman is returning? Hoping for more Cronenberg.
Frustratingly, Wiseman has not (yet?) been confirmed, even though she’s the most obvious choice for a continuing character. I’ll be very upset if she ends up not being in the show.
Did they confirm what era? Will it be in discovery’s or New Worlds’ or in its own?
31st century
Wouldn’t this be the fourth live action series? Discovery, Picard, Strange New Worlds. Did I miss one?
Never mind. Short Treks. Got it
They are counting Short Treks as a series. Even though it is just bonus material for Discovery and Picard.
I’ll check it out but really wish they would have made more episodes of prodigy.
Prodigy just dropped a 20 episode second season on Netflix on July 1st.
I just binge watched the first 10 episodes and it´s GOOD!!!
Prodigy season 2 is superb! Well worth the wait. I have watched every Star Trek show and movie. Prodigy season 2 is some of the best Star Trek I have seen. I am not kidding You just cannot watch 1 episode. It is well worth repeat viewings. I am hoping that there is a season 3.
Season 2 of Prodigy is fantastic, some of the best Trek of the new era. This Stafleet Academy show is going to have a lot of work to do in order to do that concept even half as good as Prodigy is.
I think its their best show. Great characters, compelling story – best of the modern era.