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Earlier this week, filming on the second season of “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” wrapped in Toronto ahead of a likely 2027 airing. The wrap comes as the first season has almost finished its run, with the season finale to air on March 12th.
Response has been decidedly mixed to the series. Critics were so-so, some liking it and some not so much, while the audience scores on aggregate sites have been fairly dire.
More importantly, the series has failed to crack Nielsen’s top 10 streaming originals list, even the two-episode premiere, according to That Park Place, which has also catalogued the Paramount+ rankings – the title generally appearing in tenth place for a few days as new episodes drop.
The series was created by Gaia Violo and co-showrun by Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, with Violo and Landau recently chatting with TrekMovie about where the show is heading and it seems they have hope for the future.
Asked if the second season finale was written in a way that could serve as a series finale in case they don’t get a renewal, Landau says: “Absolutely not. We have so much story to tell. If anything – yeah, it is not the end.”
Violo went further, saying: “It’s such a shocking ending, you do not want it to [end] – no, no!”. In other words, a potential cliffhanger?
Kurtzman previously indicated the series was planned out for a four-season arc, but Landau says they still don’t know either way if they’ll get the chance to resolve that cliffhanger:
“Nothing yet [on if they will or will not get season 2] but we’re just – we’re so happy with season 2, and we can’t wait for everybody to see it.”
The pair confirm Tig Notaro’s Jett Reno will get a lot more screen time in the second season. A video from actor Karim Diane on Instagram has gone up showing some of the cadets wearing new uniforms.
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