Overview

• The teaser trailer premiered at San Diego Comic-Con on July 26, offering the first look at the series’ futuristic San Francisco campus and its new cadet class.
• Holly Hunter stars as Chancellor Nahla Ake, who also commands the USS Athena and delivers an opening address to the first academy cohort in over a century.
• Paul Giamatti appears as Nus Braka, a part-Klingon, part-Tellarite villain whose ominous past connects him to one of the recruits.
• New cadets include Sandro Rosta’s Caleb Mir, Karim Diané’s Klingon science trainee Jay-Den Kraag, Kerrice Brooks’s Sam, George Hawkins’s Darem Reymi and Bella Shepard’s Genesis Lythe.
• Franchise veterans Tig Notaro (Jett Reno), Robert Picardo (the Doctor) and Oded Fehr (Admiral Vance) return in a series co-showrun by Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau.