Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Starfleet Academy
Production
Abbreviation:	SA
Original media:	video game
Other media:	novel, comic, television series
In-universe
Setting:	23rd/24th century; 32nd century
Location:	various/mobile
Starfleet Academy.
Starfleet Academy emblem insignia.

For other uses, see Starfleet Academy.

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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (SA) is a series offshoot of the Star Trek franchise that has existed in a number of different incarnations. Starfleet Academy has long been a popular setting for Star Trek tie-in media; several books, comics and games have featured casts of characters enrolled in this institution. A canon version of this concept will premiere as a streaming television series on Paramount+ in 2026.

History and specifics

Games

In video game releases, the Starfleet Academy series was an imprint licensed for release by Interplay, under the name Starfleet Academy for PC and Starfleet Academy Starship Bridge Simulator for the SNES console. The PC version had offshoots as Starfleet Academy: Chekov's Lost Missions, which included additional gameplay interaction but was essentially the same game, and Starfleet Academy: Strategic Command, which was a basic version consisting only of the first few missions.

A tie-in novel was released, Starfleet Academy, by Diane Carey, telling a condensed version of the game narrative.

The games and novel feature the adventures of Cadet David Forester, a command division trainee being instructed by Pavel Chekov, Hikaru Sulu and James T. Kirk. A supporting cast of characters was created and is common through the aforementioned incarnations, although some character details are altered between the various releases. Klingon Academy was also a spinoff of this series set in the Klingon Empire

A later video game, Academy Trainer, was released as a digital tie-in to 2009's Star Trek. It bore no relation to the previous video game series despite being set at the Academy, in what would be revealed to be the Kelvin timeline of the new movie series.

Video game releases

• SA video game: Starfleet Academy Starship Bridge Simulator
• SA video game: Starfleet Academy
  • SA video game: Starfleet Academy: Chekov's Lost Missions
  • SA video game: Starfleet Academy: Strategic Command
• ST video game: Klingon Academy
• SA video game: Academy Trainer

Roleplaying games

• Last Unicorn RPG - Starfleet Academy module: Starfleet Academy Handbook
• Last Unicorn RPG - Starfleet Academy module: Starfleet Academy Narrator's Guide
• Star Trek Adventures RPG module: Mission Briefs: Starfleet Academy

Novels

Besides the aforementioned Starfleet Academy novelization, a prose subseries Starfleet Academy was released in the 1990s with adventures of individual characters from the various other series in the Star Trek franchise attending the Academy. Characters from TOS, TNG and VOY had books in this series.

In the Heyne Verlag German language translations, this series was called Starfleet Kadetten. Even though Jake Sisko was not a Starfleet Academy cadet, several DS9 young reader books were translated and published as part of the series overseas.

An additional novel, The Best and the Brightest, was set at the Academy with an original cast of characters, under the TNG series banner, but not bearing the Starfleet Academy name. The latest Star Trek novel by William Shatner, Collision Course, was published with the subtitle Academy and seemed destined to lead to further Academy installments, but no further installments were authorized.

In the Kelvin timeline of the new movie, a new Starfleet Academy book series was released in 2010. This prequel series focused on the various TOS characters who would shortly be united as the new USS Enterprise crew. Because it took place before the film, Kirk and McCoy could not meet Spock or Sulu prior to their introduction to each other in that movie's events, nor could Scotty appear and meet any of them.

Comics

An issue of Marvel's Starfleet Academy series.

Marvel Comics released a Starfleet Academy comic series in the 1990s featuring an original cast of characters led by a descendant of Matthew Decker and featuring Nog.

Later, also in the 2009 Star Trek film's Kelvin timeline, a new Starfleet Academy comic began in 2015. Like the novel series, the comic was also a prequel to the new films and took place before the primary TOS characters met in that film. Similarly to the predecessor comic, however, this series also introduced a new supporting cast as well.

2023 saw the release of Picard's Academy, a subseries of Star Trek: Picard depicting Jean-Luc Picard's days at the Academy.

Collectibles

In the Playmates Toys releases of collectibles, an action figure series of TNG characters as cadets was released, loosely related to the the 1990s book series listed above, but not directly tied in. Cadets Jean-Luc Picard, William T. Riker, Geordi La Forge and Worf were released under the Starfleet Academy moniker, but Cadets Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi and Data were released simply as part of the general Star Trek series.

Additionally, not under the Starfleet Academy name, but in conjunction with the 2009 film and featuring alongside the 2010s SA books, figures of Chekov and Sulu as cadets were released by Playmates, even though they did not appear in that capacity in the film.

Live action

Starfleet Academy was first considered as a spin-off for the TOS-era Star Trek movies, as an option for a sequel to The Voyage Home or The Final Frontier, with the intention of re-casting the roles of the TOS cast, but remaining unrealized.

References

Casts of characters

Interplay Starfleet Academy series

• Main cadet cast: David Forester • Sturek • Geoff Colond/Geoffery Corin • Vanda M'Giia • Robin Brady • Jana Akton
  • Supporting cadet characters: Faith Gage • Frank Malan • Kennith Elliot • Darryl Hawkins
• Main faculty: Aex Rotherot
  • Supporting faculty characters: James T. Kirk • Hikaru Sulu • Pavel Chekov

1990s Starfleet Academy books for young readers

• TNG: Worf • Data • Geordi La Forge • Deanna Troi • William T. Riker • Beverly Crusher • Jean-Luc Picard
• TOS: James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Spock
• DS9 German language Starfleet Kadetten: Jake Sisko • Nog
• VOY: Kathryn Janeway

Marvel Starfleet Academy series

• Omega Squad: Matt Decker • Nog • Kamilah Goldstein • Pava Ek'Noor sh'Aqabaa • T'Priell/Selke • Edam Astrun
  • Supporting cadet characters: Yoshi Mishima
• Main faculty: Kyethn Zund
  • Supporting characters: Undieela Noor • Dennis Decker • Andrea Brand • Pradesh

Simon Spotlight Kelvin timeline Starfleet Academy books

• Main cadet cast: James T. Kirk • Leonard McCoy • Nyota Uhura • Pavel Chekov • Hikaru Sulu
  • Supporting cadet characters: T'Laya • Monica Lynne
• Main faculty: Spock

IDW Starfleet Academy comics

• Main cadet cast: Shev Akria • Grace Chen • Lucia Gonzales • Vel K'Bentayr • T'Laan
  • Supporting cadet characters: Gaila • James T. Kirk • Nyota Uhura
• Main faculty: Trumble
  • Supporting faculty characters: Spock

Picard's Academy

• Main cadet cast: Jean-Luc Picard • Marta Batanides • Doqtis Ilum
  • Supporting cadet characters: Nirula • Reshan Dar • K'ccyt
• Faculty and supporting characters: Spock • Liam Boothby • Richard Galen

Starfleet Academy SCISEC Briefs

Starfleet Science Officer (SCISEC Briefs)

Paramount+ Starfleet Academy series

• Main faculty: Jett Reno
  • Supporting faculty characters: Sylvia Tilly • Charles Vance

Appendices

Images

See: category:Memory Beta images (SA images).

External link

• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.