Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Teaser Trailer Revisits a Major Trek Mystery From 26 Years Ago | SDCC 2025

The upcoming bid Star Trek: Starfleet Academy got a teaser trailer contiguous astatine San Diego Comic-Con 2025 that not lone offers our archetypal existent look astatine what to expect from the show, but besides immoderate references to the Trek of yesteryear — including a large Deep Space Nine reference.

While Starfleet Academy is acceptable successful the aforesaid clip play arsenic Star Trek: Discovery's aboriginal seasons — successful the 32nd century, truthful immoderate 900 years aft the Original Series epoch — the trailer features respective namedrops of favourite characters, similar the James T. Kirk Pavilion astatine the Academy and a partition of names of past officers, from Tom Paris to Data to Nog to Scotty and beyond. But the biggest callback is to DS9's Captain Sisko.

At astir the 1:10 mark, we spot Kerrice Brooks' quality Sam looking astatine a show astir "The Fate of Benjamin Sisko." Captain Sisko, of course, was played by Avery Brooks connected Deep Space Nine. In summation to being a Starfleet officer, helium besides became known arsenic the Emissary of the Prophets, a beatified fig successful the religion of Bajor (the satellite that Deep Space Nine was based near). Spoilers for a 26-year-old series, but successful the DS9 finale, Sisko seemed to sacrifice himself to prevention the day, falling with the villainous Gul Dukat into the Bajoran Fire Caves. But portion his carnal signifier was seemingly destroyed, helium continued to beryllium connected a higher level with the Prophets, the god-like beings worshipped by the Bajorans.

So that's a batch close there, but the question is, wherefore is Sisko being teased successful the trailer for Starfleet Academy? Will the amusement someway link backmost to Deep Space Nine and Sisko' fate? Modern Star Trek has surely been consenting to bring backmost older characters, similar Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine connected Picard and Robert Picardo's The Doctor connected Starfleet Academy itself. That said, Brooks has seemed disinterested successful pursuing his transportation to Star Trek successful immoderate meaningful mode successful caller years, truthful the thought that helium mightiness really instrumentality successful immoderate signifier seems unlikely.

The Sisko's way is simply a hard one.

In immoderate case, there's a batch much to the Starfleet Academy trailer, including a look astatine the show's main starship, the USS Athena, and the caller characters. Here's a breakdown of who's who from a Paramount Plus property release:

• Academy Award victor Holly Hunter arsenic Nahla Ake, the Chancellor of Starfleet Academy and Captain of the U.S.S. Athena, who besides happens to beryllium a long-lived half-Lanthanite. (Note that Strange New Worlds quality Pelia, played by Carol Kane, is besides a Lanthanite.)
• Sandro Rosta is Caleb Mir, an orphan with a troubled past – and improbable Starfleet cadet.
• Karim Diané is Jay-Den Kraag, a Klingon cadet who dreams of becoming a aesculapian officer.
• Kerrice Brooks is Series Acclimation Mil, a.k.a. Sam, the archetypal of her benignant to ever be Starfleet Academy.
• George Hawkins is Darem Reymi, an aspiring skipper from a affluent location world.
• Bella Shepard is Genesis Lythe, an admiral’s girl determined to marque her ain sanction successful Starfleet.
• Zoë Steiner arsenic Tarima Sadal, a Betazoid and girl of the president of Betazed.
• Robert Picardo, reprising his iconic relation arsenic The Doctor.
• Tig Notaro, reprising her relation arsenic Jett Reno.
• Oded Fehr, reprising his relation arsenic Admiral Vance.
• Recurring impermanent prima Gina Yashere arsenic Commander Lura Thok, a Klingon/Jem’Hadar hybrid who is the chancellor’s First Officer and Cadet Master.
• Recurring impermanent prima and Academy Award nominee, Paul Giamatti, arsenic portion Klingon, portion Tellarite Nus Braka, the season’s villain with an ominous past connected to 1 of our cadets.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is expected to debut successful aboriginal 2026, which is the 60th day of the franchise.

Other quality retired of the Comic-Con sheet included a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 announcement video that promises an occurrence wherever the unit are turned into Jim Henson puppets, and the latest info connected the Star Trek: Khan audio podcast, which has added George Takei arsenic Captain Sulu and Tim Russ arsenic Ensign Tuvok to the cast. Sonya Cassidy has besides joined the cast, which is led by Naveen Andrews arsenic Khan Noonien Singh and Wrenn Schmidt arsenic Lieutenant Marla McGivers. The scripted podcast bid debuts connected September 8, 2025.

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