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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy(2026)

Also known as Star Trek SFA

Archived · Paramount+

1410 eps
S01
DramaScience FictionActionAdventure
ON AIR: JAN 15Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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Starfleet Academy puts its focus squarely on the cadet experience: the training, the competition, the friction of people from very different backgrounds forced into close quarters with shared ambitions. The far-future setting brings alien characters into that mix, and the action sequences give the drama a physical urgency that keeps the interpersonal tension from turning inward for too long.

Early romantic entanglements run alongside sharper rivalries, and the show lets those two currents complicate each other rather than keeping them separate. A threat building against the Academy itself raises the stakes beyond grades and grudges, so the personal loyalties the cadets are still figuring out get tested sooner than any of them expected.

Best for

coming-of-age ensemble, cadet rivalries and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Science Fiction

Commitment

Season 1 · 10 episodes

Where

Paramount+

Official Premise

Starfleet cadets navigate friendships, rivalries, and first loves while training to become officers. They face a new threat endangering the Academy and Federation.

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