Star Trek NYCC Panel Reveals New Trailer for Starfleet Academy and First Look at Strange New Worlds Season 4

Paramount+ released the first trailer for their upcoming series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy at the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con 2025. You can view the trailer in the player below.

Cast members Holly Hunter, Sandro Rosta, Karim Diané, Kerrice Brooks, George Hawkins, Bella Shepard, Zoë Steiner and Paul Giamatti, plus co-showrunners and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, were on hand to reveal the trailer.

According to the official plot synopsis, “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy introduces viewers to a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.”

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy stars Holly Hunter as the Chancellor of Starfleet Academy, the Starfleet cadets played by Sandro Rosta, Karim Diané Kerrice Brooks, George Hawkins and Bella Shepard, plus Zoë Steiner, Tig Notaro, Robert Picardo, and guest stars Oded Fehr, Mary Wiseman, as well as recurring guest stars Gina Yashere and Paul Giamatti.

It was also announced at New York Comic Con that Stephen Colbert will be the voice of Starfleet Academy’s Digital Dean of Students, “giving daily announcements to the students and alerting them of anything that needs their immediate attention.”

The series’ premiere episode is written by Gaia Violo and directed by Alex Kurtzman.

The Star Trek Universe panel also provided fans with a first look at footage from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4, which can be seen below. New images from the season. New photos were also released.

The official plot synopsis for Strange New Worlds, Season 4 follows:

“In the upcoming fourth season, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise—led by Captain Christopher Pike—embarks on a series of thrilling and emotional adventures across the stars. As they journey to strange new worlds, they will battle inner demons and external threats, encounter colorful new characters, reunite with familiar faces and confront terrifying aliens. Through it all, they strive to embrace a bright, hopeful future.”

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is currently in production on its fifth and final season.