Bill Nighy and Rosemary DeWitt are set to guest star on “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” season 2.
The announcement came during a “Star Trek” panel at New York Comic-Con on Saturday. Nighy will play Nahla’s (Holly Hunter) estranged father, Nick Ake, while DeWitt will play Tarima’s (Zoey Steiner) mother, Letha Seidl, the first lady of Betazed.
First look photos of the two new guest stars can be seen below.
“Starfleet Academy” panelists included Hunter, Sandro Rosta, Bella Shepard, Kareem Dyne, Robert Picardo, and co-showrunners and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau. The exact premiere date has not been set yet, but the show’s second season will launch on Paramount+ in March 2027.
As Diversity As exclusively reported in March, Season 2 will be the show’s final season. The logline for “Starfleet Academy” season 2 states that it “follows our cadets into their second year aboard the USS Athena. There, their ideals of leadership, friendship, romance, and morality are put to the test as they navigate budding rivalries, volatile diplomatic negotiations, an intensely competitive schoolwide tournament, and the arrival of a mysterious new cadet whose existence raises questions that may have consequences beyond the classroom.”
L-R: Robert Picardo as The Doctor and Bill Nighy as the protagonist in Season 2 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy streaming on Paramount+. Photo credit: Michael Gibson/Paramount+
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L-R: Zoe Steiner as Tarima and Rosemary DeWitt as Letha Saddle in Season 2 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy streaming on Paramount+. Photo credit: Michael Gibson/Paramount+
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