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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Series Casts Holly Hunter in Main Role

The “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” series at Paramount+ has cast Holly Hunter in a lead role, Variety has learned.

Hunter’s character will serve as the captain and chancellor of the Academy, presiding over both the faculty and a new class of Starfleet cadets as they learn to navigate the galaxy in the 32nd century.

“It feels like we’ve spent our entire lives watching Holly Hunter be a stone-cold genius,” said co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. “To have her extraordinary authenticity, fearlessness, sense of humor, and across the board brilliance leading the charge on ‘Starfleet Academy’ is a gift to all of us, and to the enduring legacy of ‘Star Trek.'”

“Starfleet Academy” will begin shooting in Toronto later this summer, featuring the largest contiguous set ever constructed for a “Star Trek” series, a central academic atrium that will span two stories and include an amphitheater, classrooms, a mess hall, and a idyllic walkway lined with trees.


https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/star-t ... 236011724/

I have not watched much of Star Trek but I am thinking why are they only doing this now. this would have made sense in the 90s when all of those other academy style things were coming out. there was another spaceflight academy TV show actually that was a kids cartoon based on the video game named Wing Commander that it would have competed nice against.

Ya gotta be a little older to appreciate Star Trek.