Summary
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a hot project with big names like Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti joining the cast.
- Felicia Day and Bonnie Gordon are eager and asking to be part of the exciting new Star Trek series.
- The series promises to explore the journey of young cadets as they strive to become Starfleet officers, facing challenges along the way.
Star Trek's next series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, is such a hot project that actors are begging to be cast in it. Executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, Starfleet Academy begins production in fall 2024, with Kurtzman directing the series premiere. Starfleet Academy made headlines by casting Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter as the series lead, and they followed that coup by tapping Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti for a recurring role as the show's main villain.
After learning that Paul Giamatti joined Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's cast, Felicia Day excitedly took to her X account asking to be cast, calling the next Star Trek series her "dream show". Check out Day's post below:
Bonnie Gordon, who voices multiple roles in Star Trek: Prodigy, was also thrilled by the news of Paul Giamatti's casting, and she asked, "How do I audition?!" for a role in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Check out Gordon's X post below:
Meanwhile, Elias Toufexis, who played L'ak in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, endorsed the idea of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy casting Felicia Day on his X account:
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Is Now An A-List Project
The next Star Trek series already has prestige
The back-to-back casting of Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti turned Star Trek: Starfleet Academy into an A-list project. An Oscar winner like Holly Hunter and an Oscar nominee like Paul Giamatti, both incredibly well-respected and versatile actors, sends a signal to Hollywood and audiences that Starfleet Academy is more than just another Star Trek series. Indeed, Hunter and Giamatti joining Star Trek speaks to the high caliber of actors the franchise is now able to attract thanks to the quality of Paramount+'s other series like Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Discovery, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Tawny Newsome of Star Trek: Lower Decks is one of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' s writers, bringing her humor and deep canon knowledge to the series.
While next to nothing about Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's characters has been revealed, it is known that Holly Hunter plays a Captain and the Chancellor of the Academy, and Giamatti plays a villain who has ties to one of Starfleet Academy's cadets. Starfleet Academy will film in Toronto on the largest set ever constructed for Star Trek, and the show will be set in outer space and San Francisco, with a new enemy threatening the United Federation of Planets. With the prestige Hunter and Giamatti bring to Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, it's understandable why Felicia Day and Bonnie Gordon also want to join the show, and both Day and Gordon would bring their unique talent and energy to the next Star Trek series.
