“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: release date and photos from season 2

We have a release date for the second and final season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. The second season will premiere in March 2027, it was announced Saturday during the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con. The panel included series star Holly Hunter, as well as Sandro Rosta, Bella Shepard, Karim Diané, Robert Picardo and co-showrunners and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau.

It was also revealed that Bill Nighy (Live, it was time) and Rosemarie DeWitt (Untamed, the staircase) will be the guest star of the upcoming season. Nighy will play Nahla’s father, Nyk Ake, and DeWitt will play Tarima’s mother, Laytha Sadal, the first lady of Betazed. You can see both in some recently released photos below.

Produced by CBS Studios in association with Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy follows the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they will discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate budding friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves, and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.

The second season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy follows our cadets in their second year aboard the USS Athena. There, their ideals of leadership, friendship, romance, and morality are tested as they navigate budding rivalries, fragile diplomatic negotiations, a fiercely competitive school tournament, and the arrival of a mysterious new cadet whose existence raises questions that could have consequences far beyond the classroom.

Several first photos from Season 2 have also been released, which you can see below.