Summary

• Holly Hunter is cast to lead Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, portraying the Chancellor of the Academy in the 32nd century.
• The Paramount+ series is executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, with production beginning in late summer 2024.
• Executive producers praise Hunter's talent, humor, and brilliance in the lead role as a "stone-cold genius."

Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is executive produced by Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. Starfleet Academy "will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy." The Paramount+ series will begin production in late summer 2024.

Accompanying Paramount+'s press release about Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's casting of Holly Hunter in the lead role, executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau issued the following statement:

"It feels like we’ve spent our entire lives watching Holly Hunter be a stone-cold genius. 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."

A new logline for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy reveals more details about the series:

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.

In addition to Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau serving as co-showrunners and executive producers, Starfleet Academy lists executive producers Gaia Violo, Aaron Baiers, Olatunde Osunsamni, Jenny Lumet, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Frank Siracusa, and John Weber. Starfleet Academy's series premiere episode is written by Gaia Violo.

Academy Award-Winner Holly Hunter Is A Coup Casting For Star Trek

Starfleet Academy gets a heavy-hitter series lead

Holly Hunter is a major casting coup for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Hunter won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Piano, and she received three additional Oscar nominations for her performances in Broadcast News, The Firm, and Thirteen. Among Hunter's memorial film credits are Raising Arizona and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Crash directed by Star Trek: Discovery's David Cronenberg, Home for the Holidays, The Big Sick, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and The Incredibles.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will film on the biggest sets ever constructed for Star Trek, and counts Star Trek: Lower Decks' Tawny Newsome as one of the show's writers.

Holly Hunter won Emmy Awards for Best Actress for her roles in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom and Roe vs. Wade, and she garnered Emmy nominations for her starring role in Saving Grace. She also had a guest-starring role in Succession. Like her fellow Best Actress Academy Award winner, Michelle Yeoh, who leads the Paramount+ streaming movie Star Trek: Section 31, Hunter lends her acclaimed talent and versatility to Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

Source: Paramount+