Star Trek Starfleet Academy NYCC Trailer

Star Trek Starfleet Academy Trailer

A new trailer for Star Trek Starfleet Academy dropped over the weekend at NYCC.

My thoughts:

We get a few good views of the USS Athena NCC-392023, the ship that apparently houses Starfleet Academy.  There's a flashback with Nahla Ake in a Discovery season 3 style uniform.  The dialogue establishes that she has some kind of connection with Caleb Mir.  More of Paul Giamatti as the bad guy (though I'm not too sure why this series needs one).

We see Tig Notoro (Jett Reno), Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly) and Robert Picardo om various scenes with with cadets, ok cool.  

We get a shot of the Athena's bridge, which I still think looks a bit too much like he SNW esthetic for 900 years hence.

Lots of shots of character moments, cadet camaraderie, training, but mostly just eye candy.  Like Discovery this series looks to put a lot of focus on character drama, relationships, connections.  I'm worried that it could overpower the series much the way it did in Discovery and the first two seasons of Picard.  This does not  bode well.

The trailer does give us a premiere date: January 15, 2026

Overall, this trailer gives us a little tiny bit of everything, while not giving us much of anything.  It still leaves me really unsure about this series.  When the first episode drops in January, we shall see...