Star Trek’s New Show Can Finally Deliver What Discovery Failed To Do

Image: Holly Hunter plays Captain Nahla Ake, the new commandant of the newly reopened Starfleet Academy. Credit: Paramout+. Article by John Orquiola. ScreenRant – January 25, 2026.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has the golden opportunity to deliver something Star Trek: Discovery failed to do. Certified Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy takes place in 3195, as a direct sequel set four years after the end of Star Trek: Discovery. Starfleet Academy’s idealistic cadets inherit “a broken world,” but the rebuilding of the United Federation of Planets was sparked by the triumphs of Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery. Because Star Trek: Discovery ran, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy can now fly. […]

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