‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ will get all late-night with Stephen Colbert and a steamy scene in NYCC trailer (video)

College is formally in session right here within the U.S. and overseas, and that additionally goes for the bold class of younger starry-eyed candidates making their approach within the thirty second century, as evidenced by this recent “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” trailer that simply launched at this weekend’s New York Comedian Con.

After “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” Season 3 wrapped up its third profitable season in September, there is a distinct absence of “Star Trek”-centric leisure on our scanners. However to not fear, as Paramount+’s “Starfleet Academy” will arrive on January 15, 2026, to fill that darkish void.

As reported when the first trailer dropped at San Diego Comedian Con in July, “Starfleet Academy” hails from govt producers and showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, and revolves round Holly Hunter’s Captain Nahla Ake, new chancellor of the withered establishment that’s Starfleet following 120 years of diminishing significance amid the post-Burn disaster seen in “Star Trek: Discovery.”

Gathering a choose group of promising interstellar adventurers, Captain Ake guides these dreamers aboard the instructing starship U.S.S. Athena to assist resurrect the optimism and beliefs of Starfleet as a beacon of hope for the complete galaxy. When an enigmatic cosmic menace seems, these inexperienced college students can be “forging unbreakable friendships, clashing in explosive rivalries, experiencing first loves, and entering into their future as the subsequent era of Starfleet officers.”