Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on the red carpet of Universal Studios Fan Fest in April, where the young actors promoted Universal's Star Trek: Red Alert experience. Discussing Starfleet Academy's aim to attract new fans and older Star Trek diehards, Shepard and Brooks described the tone of their series while remaining spoiler-free. Read their quotes below:

Bella Shepard: New, exciting.

Kerrice Brooks: Hormonal [laughs]

Bella Shepard: [laughs] It definitely throws you for a few loops.

Kerrice Brooks: I say hormonal because we’re young, and we’re figuring it out, as we are in real life. Definitely on the show, we’re figuring it out.

Bella Shepard: I would say it’s comforting, too, because we have a lot of throwbacks and Easter eggs to earlier generations.

Kerrice Brooks: I would also say it’s very championing. I wouldn’t say other shows aren’t that way, but I think it’s very championing towards finding a brighter future for everybody.

Kerrice Brooks: I would say it feels, in a sense, like a ing of a baton, but not to say that the older generation is done, because I think that’s the wrong message.

Bella Shepard: It’s like a handholding…

Kerrice Brooks: Yeah, a handholding, like this is life.

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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a shift in tone for Star Trek as it centers on characters in their late teens and early 20s enrolled at Starfleet Academy. Star Trek has traditionally been about professional and experienced Starfleet Officers having adventures on starships like the USS Enterprise. Starfleet Academy is more about learning the ins and outs of Starfleet and having experiences that will cause them to grow into Starfleet Officers of the future. But the younger cast will also have that "hormonal" element, since Starfleet Academy is basically Star Trek college.