By Joshua Tyler
| Published
Star Trek has announced details on a long-awaited new show. The most confusing thing about it is that they’re still making it. The announcement is happening this weekend at the San Diego Comic Con, and the series is Starfleet Academy.
The show is yet another Star Trek: Discovery spinoff. That’s right, they’re creating a spinoff out of the worst Star Trek series of all time, a show that had no ratings and was recently cancelled. With Disco’s cancellation and the utter failure of the Disco spinoff movie Section 31, you’d think that someone at Paramount might have raised their hand and said, “Hey, is this still a good idea?”
Apparently, no one did.
Meanwhile, Paramount has canceled all of its successful and well-received Star Trek products. Star Trek: Picard season 3 got huge ratings and a massively positive response, but Paramount gave the team behind it the ax.
Star Trek: Lower Decks, beloved by fans, was canceled and is now done.
Star Trek: Prodigy, which garnered big fan support and great reviews, was cancelled after only one season.
More recently, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which gets good ratings and positive scores, has also been canceled. The show will end after its fifth season.
We’re getting Starfleet Academy instead, a show starring characters from Star Trek: Discovery and also The Doctor hologram from Star Trek: Voyager.
Here’s the legacy cast being announced as part of Starfleet Academy this weekend in San Diego:
The show’s primary cast will consist of young, attractive people attending the Academy, played by unknowns. However, it will also include these big-name actors…
Starfleet Academy is the story of the first Starfleet cadet class after a hundred years of dormancy from the Federation, in the far-off future that Discovery was sent to as a method to quarantine it away from the good parts of Star Trek. With Starfleet Academy, that quarantine seal is being broken. May Q have mercy on our souls.
