The next great Star Trek series to take place in the 32nd century, featuring a ragtag crew of Starfleet cadets who will no doubt experience conflict among each other, fight in the shadows to preserve the light, and presumably find a way to defeat Pau Giamatti’s alien villain from unleashing some sort of superweapon thing… that’s the general plot, right?
I like the Klingon hybrid… I like that Robert Picardo still has work… I like that the Jem’Hadar have infiltrated Starfleet… I’m not feeling Holly Hunter’s narration, but that could also be because this wallpaper music is so loud and overpowering that it just… eh.
Honestly not really feeling this one… it doesn’t look bad or anything, but it just feels like generic sci-fi schlock… which, I guess, could be the same argument made for any Star Trek series made that isn’t coasting on nostalgia.
Starfleet Academy airs in 2026. I’ll be holding off for the next season of Strange New Worlds in the meantime unless the next trailer really blows my socks off.
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