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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Sets Jan. 15, 2026 Premiere After NYCC Trailer, Colbert Reveal

The new trailer teases a 32nd-century academy that trains on a starship with Paul Giamatti as the season’s villain.

Overview

  • Paramount+ will launch the series with two episodes on Jan. 15, followed by weekly Thursday releases for a 10-episode season through March 12.
  • Stephen Colbert will voice the Digital Dean of Students, delivering in-universe announcements across the Academy.
  • The NYCC trailer showcases Paul Giamatti’s Nus Braka and frames a conflict connected to cadet Caleb Mir without detailing plot twists.
  • The show centers on the first class in more than 120 years, training aboard the U.S.S. Athena, a mobile campus designed to put cadets on real Star Trek missions.
  • Season 2 is already greenlit with production underway, and Paramount launched an interactive StarfleetAcademy.com portal to explore the campus and faculty.