Nearly 18 months after the series was announced by CBS Studios and Paramount+, the show’s cast assembled today to officially begin active production on on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
 
The last two four months have been filled with casting announcements for the show. The series started with two big-name headliners in Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti, then cadets Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins were joined by Karim Diané, Zoë Steiner, and Sandro Rosta.
 
San Diego Comic Con also told us about some legacy characters coming back for the series, as the studio announced that Discovery’s Mary Wiseman, Oded Fehr, and Tig Notaro would be returning as Tilly, Vance, and Reno… and then most surprisingly, Star Trek: Voyager’s Bob Picardo was beaming back to live-action Trek as his holographic doctor character.
 
On social media today, Paramount+ shared these photos of the Starfleet Academy cast together for the first time, joined by franchise boss Alex Kurtzman, showrunner Noga Landau, and more.
 

Not pictured for today’s table-read photo (bottom image) are Tig Notaro and Mary Wiseman, likely indicating they will not be making an appearance in the Starfleet Academy’s first episode — which will be directed by Alex Kurtzman.

The series is billed as:

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.

There’s still a long way to go until Star Trek: Starfleet Academy lands on our screens, so stick around for all the latest news on the upcoming series as it breaks!