Admission is now open at Starfleet Academy.
Paramount+ has announced a new Star Trek live-action TV series, titled Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which will begin production sometime in 2024.
Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau will serve as co-showrunners for the series and will executive produce alongside executive producers Gaia Violo, Aaron Baiers, Jenny Lumet, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Frank Siracusa and John Weber. The series premiere episode is written by Gaia Violo. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will be produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.
According to the announcement on the official Star Trek website, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will "introduce us to 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 will 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."
In addition, a joint announcement was made by co-showrunners and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. "Admission is now open to Starfleet Academy! Explore the galaxy! Captain your destiny! For the first time in over a century, our campus will be re-opened to admit individuals a minimum of 16 Earth years (or species equivalent) who dream of exceeding their physical, mental and spiritual limits, who value friendship, camaraderie, honor and devotion to a cause greater than themselves. The coursework will be rigorous, the instructors among the brightest lights in their respective fields, and those accepted will live and study side-by-side with the most diverse population of students ever admitted. Today we encourage all who share our dreams, goals and values to join a new generation of visionary cadets as they take their first steps toward creating a bright future for us all. Apply today! Ex Astris, Scientia!"
The Latin phrase "Ex Astris, Scientia!" translates into English as "From the stars, knowledge!"
And if the "For the first time in over a century" line is any clue, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will be a spinoff from Star Trek: Discovery, which is currently set in the year 3190 and is ending in 2024 with its upcoming fifth season. In the Discovery Season 4 opener, "Kobayashi Maru", it was stated that Starfleet Academy was reopening, 125 years after it closed for unknown reasons in the year 3065. Presumably, the Season 4 episode "All Is Possible" became a backdoor pilot for the new series with Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman) likely returning as a main character.
In "All Is Possible", Silvia Tilly, who has been feeling unsure about her place on the USS Discovery, accompanies a group of new Starfleet Academy cadets on a team-building exercise. The team of cadets -- Val Sasha, a Human (Amanda Arcuri), Harral, an Orion (Seamus Patterson), and Taahz Gorev, a Tellarite (Adrian Walters) -- need to work together to survey a planet. They initially don't get along but are forced to bond after they are thrown off course and crash land on a dangerous moon called Kokytos. Together, they're able to signal a Starfleet ship that saves them and returns them to Federation Headquarters, where the mysterious Dr. Kovich (David Cronenberg) offers Tilly a teaching position at the Academy. Tilly accepts the teaching position and leaves Discovery.
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