The Star Trek news kept coming this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con! In addition to a fun Season Three teaser for Strange New Worlds and trailers for both Lower Decks and Section 31, we also got some casting news for the upcoming show, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, as well as news of a new live-action comedy show in the works.
During the franchise’s panel in Hall H this year, we found out that Starfleet Academy, a show that follows the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets, would see the return of several familiar faces, specifically Tig Notaro (Jett Reno in Star Trek: Discovery), Oded Fehr (Admiral Vance in Star Trek: Discovery), Mary Wiseman (Tilly in Star Trek: Discovery) and Robert Picardo (The Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager).
Picardo and Notaro are joining as series regulars, which means we’ll see lots of them! Wiseman and Fehr will be guest stars, meaning we’ll see them, but not as much as Picardo and Notaro. The four join Holly Hunter, a lead on the show, and recurring guest stars Gina Yashere and Paul Giamatti. We also got a video of the actors playing the cadets—Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané, and Zoë Steiner—reacting to finding out they were cast.
It’s adorable:
But wait! There’s more!
We also found out over the weekend that Lower Decks’ Tawny Newsome (who is also a writer on Starfleet Academy) along with Justin Simien (Dear White People) are developing a live-action Star Trek comedy series. The show, announced during the Hall H panel, will have 30-minute episodes and center on “Federation outsiders” whose day-to-day lives on a resort planet are reality show fodder for the quadrant.
And in one last bit of Star Trek news at San Diego Comic-Con, a Star Trek: Prodigy panel also announced that the show, which has Season Two streaming on Netflix, is now available on digital demand and that a Blu-Ray/DVD will be released on November 12, 2024.
That’s a lot of news! And it looks like Star Trek continues to prosper.
