'We basically did Top Gun in space': 'Star Trek Starfleet Academy' warps back into action in March 2027 for sophomore year in the final frontier

NEW YORK — Set your phasers to back-to-school, space fans.

Star Trek is going back to Starfleet Academy for season 2, and we finally have a release date.

The sophomore season of " Star Trek: Starfleet Academy " will warp back to the small screen in March 2027 when the limited series returns for its final season on Paramount+ .

The series, which follows a class of cadets balancing Starfleet classes, space adventures (and yes, some love) in the 32nd century, will return with its full cast and even add new faces, showrunners announced at a panel at New York Comic Con 2026 on Saturday (Oct.

10).

"Season one is about letting go of who you were in the past to start again at Starfleet Academy," executive producer and co-showrunner Noga Landau said in the Star Trek panel.

"Season two is about thinking that you knew who you were, only to realize that as you grow older, your life is going to go in directions you didn't expect, and you're going to have to shift your perception of yourself.

So it's really about sophomore year, right?" Paramount+ Essential (ads): $5.99 /mo Paramount+ with SHOWTIME (no ads): $11.99 /mo Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will be available to watch on Paramount+.

You can also watch almost every other Star Trek show and movie on there, too, while you wait.

View Deal Holly Hunter returns as academy chancellor Nahla Ake , a long-lived half-Lanthanite, who will have to face a familiar face in her estranged father, Nyk Ake, portrayed by Bill Nighy (Living, About Time) in season two.

"He plays my full lanthanide father, who has basically, if he wants, can achieve immortality," Hunter said, dropping a big preview about her character in season two.

"He plays my dad, and I play me ... and my twin, my twin sister.

Very fun." Also joining this year's Starfleet Academy class is Rosemarie DeWitt (Untamed, The Staircase) as Laytha Sadal, the First Lady of Betazed (and mother of Academy cadet Tarima).

Bill Nighy on Starfleet Academy Season 2 as Nyk Ake, father of the chancellor Nahla Ake.