'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Review: The Spinoff Boldly Goes Into Teen Drama Territory — and Mostly Succeeds

5 years later, Star Trek's devastating apocalyptic event just came back in a surprising way

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy explores a dark era of the franchise timeline: the 32nd century. After lying dormant for a century, the San Francisco school for aspiring space explorers welcomes a brand new class. What caused both this long gap in enrollment and the weakened status of the United Federation of Planets in general? The answer to both is the Burn, a cataclysmic event first introduced in season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery. While Starfleet…

'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' review: The spinoff boldly goes into teen drama territory — and mostly succeeds

The latest 'Star Trek' series mixes classic space exploration with a YA-style soap set on a school campus.

‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Review: Holly Hunter Headlines Paramount+’s Uneven but Charming Franchise Expansion

The Oscar winner plays the chancellor of the school for future officers, reopening for the first time in a century after shutting down amid a galaxy-wide catastrophe.

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What Is 'The Burn' in STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY?

In the new Paramount+ series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, the legendary institution is opening its doors to new students for the first time in 120 years. But why did Starfleet Academy close for so long? The answer to that lies in the last three seasons of Star Trek: Discovery. In those seasons, we learned that by the 32nd century, a cataclysmic galactic event called “The Burn” crippled spaceflight in the entire Alpha Quadrant. This event reduce…

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Star Holly Hunter Reveals Why Chancellor Ake Always Sits Like That

Holly Hunter's Chancellor Ake on Starfleet Academy is yet another Star Trek character with a unique way of moving (make that sitting), and that's no accident.