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\u201cNo, not in season 2,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing we want more than to bring Paul back and there\u2019s nothing Paul wants more than to come back, so we are going to figure that out in Season 3.\u201d<\/p>\n
The writers were determined to wrap up certain story lines to make room for others. \u201cI think from the beginning we were open to all things, but it felt like as we were nearing the end and thinking about how do you pay off everything and how do you answer all of the incredibly complicated questions that the pilot brings up?\u201d Kurtzman explained. \u201cIt felt like, well, we need to bookend this season with another trial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n![\"'Star](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SFA_110_JM_1220_0101_RT.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
<\/div>John Medland\/Paramount+<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHe continued: \u201cThat\u2019s how we started the show. That\u2019s how we\u2019ve got to end the show. But this trial really needs to go there. It\u2019s not going to be a scene. It\u2019s going to be the whole episode. And some of the greatest Star Trek episodes ever \u2014 [The Next Generation\u2018s] \u2018The Measure of a Man\u2019 \u2014 are trial episodes. So, it felt very appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy<\/em>, which premiered on Thursday, January 15, follows the first new class of Starfleet\u00a0cadets<\/a> in over a century as they come of age and train to be officers.<\/p>\nIn addition to Maslany and Giamatti, the spinoff starred Holly Hunter, Sandro Rosta, Karim Dian\u00e9, Kerrice Brooks, George Hawkins<\/strong> and Bella Shepard. Oded Fehr, Gina Yashere, Brit Marling, Stephen Colbert, Robert Picardo, Tig Notaro<\/strong> and Zo\u00eb Steiner<\/strong> make up the rest of the cast.<\/p>\nKurtzman clarified to TV Insider that \u201ceverybody else who\u2019s currently on the show\u201d is back in future episodes, adding, \u201cThat\u2019s the plan, yeah. \u2026 Yes, there are new cast members and some new, really exciting guest stars. How about I leave it at that?<\/p>\n
As for season 2? Landau teased the world<\/a> getting bigger and better.<\/p>\n\n
<\/div>He continued: \u201cThat\u2019s how we started the show. That\u2019s how we\u2019ve got to end the show. But this trial really needs to go there. It\u2019s not going to be a scene. It\u2019s going to be the whole episode. And some of the greatest Star Trek episodes ever \u2014 [The Next Generation\u2018s] \u2018The Measure of a Man\u2019 \u2014 are trial episodes. So, it felt very appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy<\/em>, which premiered on Thursday, January 15, follows the first new class of Starfleet\u00a0cadets<\/a> in over a century as they come of age and train to be officers.<\/p>\n In addition to Maslany and Giamatti, the spinoff starred Holly Hunter, Sandro Rosta, Karim Dian\u00e9, Kerrice Brooks, George Hawkins<\/strong> and Bella Shepard. Oded Fehr, Gina Yashere, Brit Marling, Stephen Colbert, Robert Picardo, Tig Notaro<\/strong> and Zo\u00eb Steiner<\/strong> make up the rest of the cast.<\/p>\n Kurtzman clarified to TV Insider that \u201ceverybody else who\u2019s currently on the show\u201d is back in future episodes, adding, \u201cThat\u2019s the plan, yeah. \u2026 Yes, there are new cast members and some new, really exciting guest stars. How about I leave it at that?<\/p>\n As for season 2? Landau teased the world<\/a> getting bigger and better.<\/p>\n