Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premiered season 1’s full trailer, announcing its January 2026 premiere date. Executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s cast is led by Academy Award winner Holly Hunter and Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti, who plays season 1’s villain.
Fans got their first glimpse of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy at San Diego Comic-Con, with a teaser trailer revealing the USS Athena starship that doubles as Starfleet Academy’s school and campus when it docks in San Francisco. Starfleet Academy’s teaser also introduced the young cadets who comprise the 32nd century Academy’s first class in 120 years.
At New York Comic Con’s Star Trek Universe panel, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy unveiled season 1’s full trailer, which reveals the core conflict between Holly Hunter‘s Captain Nahla Ake and Paul Giamatti‘s Klingon/Tellarite hybrid, Nus Braka, centers on a new cadet named Caleb Mir (Sandro Rosta).
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premieres on Paramount+ with two episodes on Thursday, January 15, 2026, with a new episode dropping every Thursday until the season 1 finale on March 12. Check out Starfleet Academy‘s full trailer below:
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy also released 8 new images showing the series’ cast and sets:
At NYCC, Stephen Colbert announced that he will voice of the Digital Dean of Students in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Check out Colbert‘s video below:
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s Trailer Reveals A Personal Conflict At The Heart Of Season 1’s Story
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1’s trailer shows that Nus Braka attacked Caleb Mir’s mother, played by Tatiana Maslany, when he was just a boy. 15 years later, Captain Ake recruits Caleb as a cadet when she becomes Starfleet Academy’s Chancellor.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s trailer contains eye-popping visuals of the interior and exterior of the USS Athena, as well as the cadets, including Bella Shephard‘s Genesis Lytha and Kerrice Brooks‘ SAM, as well as Starfleet Academy’s adult instructors like Tig Notaro as Commander Jett Reno and Robert Picardo as The Doctor.
As a show about college-aged Starfleet cadets, there is also romance in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Primarily, a love story between Caleb Mir and Tarima Sadal (Zoe Steiner), a Betazoid with powers she can’t fully control.
Our Take On Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1’s Full Trailer
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s trailer sets up an intriguing mystery of why Nus Braka wants Caleb Mir, and why Captain Ake is so intent on protecting Caleb and turning him into a Starfleet Officer.
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It’s also good to see a brief shot of Mary Wiseman as Lt. Sylvia Tilly after reports that she only appears in one episode of Starfleet Academy when Star Trek: Discovery initially made it seem like the spinoff would be built around Tilly.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will be a must-watch to see Oscar-caliber movie stars Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti tear up the Star Trek scenery together, but the heart and soul of the show are the young characters and actors who will take Star Trek into the future.