The series is in production now with showrunner Alex Kurtzman.
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The big picture
- Holly Hunter has been cast to join the next series of Star Trek,
Starfleet Academy. - Hunter has been cast as the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy in the series Alex Kurtzman.
- With production beginning in Toronto this summer, the series is poised to expand on Star Trek's enduring legacy.
Starfleet Academy just hired its first teacher. Holly Hunter will star Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, the newest star in Paramount+'s galaxy of series based on the long-running science fiction franchise. Variety has news that Hunter will play the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy in the new series.
Hunter is the first cast member announced for the new one Star Trek series, which will begin production in Toronto (including on the newly renamed Star Trek Stage) this summer. She's definitely a big “get” for the series, with an Academy Award for Best Actress on the trophy shelf. say Starfleet Academy co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman i Landau walnut“It feels like we've spent our whole lives watching Holly Hunter as a stone-cold genius. To have her extraordinary authenticity, bravery, sense of humor and all-around brilliance leading the charge. Starfleet Academy it is a gift to all of us and to the lasting legacy of Star TrekLittle else is known about the series, except that it will center around the titular academic institution that trains all future Starfleet officers; first appeared in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khanand subsequently appeared in Trek series The next generation i Voyager.
