Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has acquired an early season two renewal, and Tatiana Maslany is ready to visitor star in season one.
Each bits of reports had been introduced at New York Comedian Con in the course of the Star Trek universe panel, moderated by CBS Mornings and CBS Information nationwide correspondent Vladimir Duthiers, throughout which Robert Picardo made an surprising look.
The Star Trek: Voyager and Prodigy star launched a shock livestream from the set of Starfleet Academy season one, which is presently in manufacturing in Toronto. The video included govt producer and co-showrunner Alex Kurtzman, who can also be directing the sequence. He shared the information concerning the second installment already being greenlit alongside castmembers together with Sandro Rosta, Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané and Zoë Steiner.
It’s unclear for the time being who Maslany will probably be portraying within the teen-focused Star Trek present. Nevertheless, it’s identified she will probably be a recurring character within the first season. She’ll star alongside Paul Giamatti and Holly Hunter. The Oscar-nominated Holdovers actor will play the season’s central villain, whereas the Academy Award-winning Piano star is ready to tackle the position of the varsity’s captain and chancellor.
When the Billions actor joined Starfleet Academy, co-showrunners and exec producers Kurtzman and Noga Landau shared a press release: “Typically you’re fortunate sufficient to find that one of many biggest actors alive can also be an enormous Star Trek fan and assembly Paul was a kind of miraculous moments for us. The sheer delight with which he dove in on Starfleet Academy is just surpassed by the gratitude we really feel about him becoming a member of our unbelievable solid.”
In accordance with the outline, the upcoming sequence will comply with a younger group of cadets as they arrive of age in probably the most legendary locations within the galaxy and are available collectively to pursue “a standard dream of hope and optimism.”
Per the logline, “Beneath the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they are going to uncover what it takes to turn into Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a brand new enemy that threatens each the Academy and the Federation itself.”