STAR TREK
STARFLEET ACADEMY
Season 1, Episode 1
STARFLEET ACADEMY
Season 1, Episode 1
Kids These Days
Series: Starfleet Academy - (2026 - present)
Season: 1
Episode #: 1
Production #: SFA-101
Original Airdate: 01/15/2026
Writer(s): Gaia Violo
Director(s): Alex Kurtzman
Also Starring
Oded Fehr as Fleet Admiral Charles Vance
Gina Yashere as Lieutenant Commander Lura Thok
Brit Marling as the Computer Voice of the U.S.S. Athena
Stephen Colbert as Starfleet Academy's Digital Dean of Students
Robert Picardo as The Doctor
Special Guest Stars
Tatiana Maslany as Anisha Mir
Paul Giamatti as Nustopher "Nus" Braka
Guest Stars
Rebecca Quin as Lt. Mackenzie Ya
Ken Barnett as Lt. Hayden Thriss
Co-Stars
Michael Brown as Lt. Thelonious Dandrid
Nicole Dickinson as Lt. Astrid Atlee
Tricia Black as Lt. Rork
Avaah Blackwell as Haile
Joseph Chiu as Ensign Weldu
Raffa Virago as Cadet Pickford
David Benjamin Tomlinson as a Starfleet Officer
Scott Gemmell as Darem's Posse Member
Mia Yaguchi-Chow as Darem's Posse Member
Ritchie Lawrence as Darem's Posse Member
Luciano Fernandez as Young Caleb
Atlas Blu Klamer as the Voice of Scrap
Solen Morales as the Little Orion
Kenzyn Hoffman as the Little Suliban
Ian Busher as a Torothan Senior Guard
Lynn Anne Zager as the Voice of the Detention Center Computer
Darren Richardson as the Voice of the Torothan Shuttle Computer
Brian David Gilbert as the voice of a DOT
Jeremy Culhane as the voice of a DOT
Stardate: 853724.6
Synopsis
In the long, uncertain decades following the Burn, the ideals of the Federation became stories - comforting myths told by people who had learned not to expect them to return. Caleb Mir grew up in that gap between legend and reality. He survived not because the galaxy was kind, but because he learned how to disappear inside it. Power grids were resources. Authority was a threat. Trust was a liability.
Starfleet was the name attached to the worst day of his life.
When Nahla Ake finds him again, she does not apologize. She cannot. Instead, she offers him a future - one that feels dangerously close to manipulation. Ake is no longer a captain enforcing regulations; she is the Chancellor of a reborn Starfleet Academy, tasked with shaping the first generation of officers in over a century. Her belief is absolute: Starfleet must be rebuilt not by those who remember it fondly, but by those who know what the galaxy became without it.
Caleb is exactly that kind of candidate - brilliant, damaged, and deeply unwilling to believe.
The USS Athena is where theory meets reality. The ship is part campus, part symbol - a mobile declaration that Starfleet is no longer hiding. The cadets who board her come from wildly different worlds: some raised on reverence for Starfleet’s past, others who see it as an experiment doomed to repeat old mistakes. Friendships form cautiously. Rivalries spark easily. Everyone is aware that they are being watched - not just by instructors, but by history itself.![]()
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The illusion of safety does not last.
Nus Braka’s attack is surgical, intentional, and personal. The Athena is crippled, its senior officers incapacitated, its carefully planned curriculum rendered meaningless in the face of real danger. What follows is not heroism in the traditional Star Trek sense - no speeches, no certainty - only chaos and fear and cadets forced to decide who they are before they’ve had time to practice being anything else.
Caleb thrives and falters in equal measure. His instincts save lives, but his mistrust isolates him. His refusal to follow procedure nearly costs the ship - and his attempt to secretly search for his mother exposes how deeply his past still governs his choices.
When the crisis ends, there is no clean victory. Braka escapes. The Athena survives. And Caleb stands before Ake, expecting rejection. Instead, she gives him something more difficult: accountability. Stay, accept discipline, and learn what Starfleet demands - or leave and remain unshaped by it.
Caleb stays. Not because he believes - but because, for the first time, he wants to.
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