There is a new Star Trek series on the way and it has cast its captain. According to Variety, Holly Hunter (Succession) is the first to join the cast as the Starfleet captain leading its Academy for cadets.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will follow “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.”
There is no name or other information for Hunter’s character, but she is “the captain and chancellor of the Academy, presiding over both the faculty and a new class of Starfleet cadets as they learn to navigate the galaxy in the 32nd century.”
“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.'”
Kurtzman and Landau will serve as showrunners and executive producers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy with Gaia Violo having written the pilot episode as well as executive produce. Also serving as executive producers are Aaron Baiers, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Jenny Lumet, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Frank Siracusa, and John Weber also executive produce.
The announcement comes just as Star Trek: Discovery is winding down its fifth and final season while the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks will air its fifth and final season later this fall. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is currently filming its third season and has already been renewed for a fourth.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will being production in Toronto this summer.
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