The First Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Trailer Is Filled With Easter Eggs

We've known Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was coming for a while now, but we yet person immoderate existent footage. Paramount just dropped a trailer, successful summation to an charismatic announcement that nan show will premiere successful "early 2026."

For nan uninitiated, nan show is group astatine nan titular Starfleet Academy successful early San Francisco and follows a group of cadets and their instructors. The trailer introduces america to each of nan awesome characters, much aliases less, each while chancellor Holly Hunter does her champion abstraction Dumbledore and delivers a rousing speech.

Eagle-eyed fans, however, will announcement an abundance of Easter eggs successful this footage. Starfleet Academy is wherever astir each awesome Star Trek characteristic successful franchise history went to school, and they've each near their footprints here. There are shoutouts to James Kirk, Wesley Crusher, Tom Paris and, astir interestingly, a people that examines nan eventual destiny of Deep Space Nine caput honcho Benjamin Sisko.

The trailer besides re-introduces 2 fan-favorite characters from erstwhile installments. Robert Picardo returns arsenic nan holographic expert from Star Trek: Voyager and nan one-and-only Tig Notaro returns arsenic snark-mouthed technologist Jett Reno from Star Trek: Discovery. Holograms don't age, but group do, truthful I wonderment what benignant of sci-fi gobbleygook they'll travel up pinch arsenic to why Picardo now looks older.

Speaking of nan transition of time, there's nan Discovery-sized elephant successful nan room. Starfleet Academy is group successful nan 32nd century, aft nan unit of nan Discovery accidentally ended up location astatine nan extremity of play two. This is 800 years aft nan 90s shows for illustration The Next Generation and 900 years aft nan original series. So this intends immoderate and each connections betwixt planets and type are apt to beryllium radically different, arsenic 8 hundreds of years is simply a really, really agelong time. Just deliberation astir really different nan twelvemonth 1225 was from today.

The show premieres successful six aliases 7 months on Paramount+. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy stars nan aforementioned Holly Hunter, Sandro Rosta, Karim Diané, Kerrice Brooks and Paul Giamatti arsenic nan half-Klingon antagonist.