Star Trek: Starfleet Academy executive producers Noga Landau and Gaia Violo discuss their hopes for a season 3 order from Paramount+. Landau is co-showrunner of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy with Alex Kurtzman, while Violo created Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and co-wrote episode 8, “The Life of the Stars,” with Jane Maggs.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy wrapped filming season 2 on Tuesday, February 24, capping off a six-month-plus production. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1 is closing in on its season finale, which premieres March 12 on Paramount+. Meanwhile, post-production on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 2’s 10 episodes will begin.
In an exclusive interview with ScreenRant‘s John Orquiola about Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 8, Noga Landau and Gaia Violo were fresh off season 2’s wrap party. Landau and Violo discussed the work still to be done on season 2. Despite a long shoot, the EPs want to continue making Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Read Noga and Gaia’s quotes below:
ScreenRant: Congrats on wrapping season two. I saw some of the wrap party on Instagram. Along with post-production, are we all just fingers crossed now about season three and hopefully four as well?
Gaia Violo: Yes, yes, for sure,
Noga Landau: Yeah, totally. We have so much work still to be done on season two. The season we just wrapped. We made season one and season two right on top of each other, which was a marathon feat, but it was so fun because we were riding the momentum of being able to just roll right from season one into season two. Everybody gave each other giant hugs last night.
Gaia Violo: Yeah, we are sort of recovering, I think because it was such a long season. We started filming in August, and we wrapped early morning on Tuesday, and we had a wrap party yesterday. It’s just always bittersweet. It’s a family that you spend every day with. I spend more time with them than my family. So I am looking forward to going home, but we all feel like we don’t want to leave each other. We want to live in space.
Noga Landau also delved into a possible direction for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 3, hinted at by the whereabouts of Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman), who guest stars in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 8.
ScreenRant: Tilly said she’s with the third-year cadets in the Beta Quadrant. If the show does get season three, could that mean a change of scenery, and Tilly is around a little bit more? I
Noga Landau: John, we love the Beta Quadrant. We haven’t hung out in the Beta Quadrant much yet. We’ve been mainly focusing on the Alpha Quadrant because that’s closest to where Earth is. For these first two seasons, we’ve been very focused on San Francisco. But you know, the idea that Tilly’s job for the past couple of years, post-Discovery, has been leading that group of cadets that we first met in Discovery, because now they’re not first years anymore. They’re getting ready to graduate at this point that she’s been with them in the field. The point of Starfleet Academy is that you go out there, you’re in the field, and the Beta Quadrant has a lot of opportunities for cadets to learn the job hands-on.
Due to Skydance Media’s now-completed acquisition of Paramount Global, Paramount+ ordered two seasons of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as well as the final two seasons of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Both series have now completed filming the remaining seasons of Star Trek, with the upcoming episodes banked to premiere later in 2026 for Strange New Worlds season 4, and likely in 2027 for both series.
Although fans have a total of 28 more episodes of Star Trek to look forward to, between Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1’s remaining 2 episodes, season 2’s 10 episodes, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ 16 episodes (10 for season 4 and 6 for season 5), the future of Star Trek on Paramount+ is now a massive question.
With Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 2 now wrapped, there is no new Star Trek in production for the first time in nine years, since Star Trek: Discovery began filming in January 2017. With executive producer Alex Kurtzman and Secret Hideout’s contract to run Star Trek on Paramount+ reportedly up at the end of 2026, what happens next to Star Trek is unknown.
Hopefully, Paramount Global will announce what the future of Star Trek on Paramount+ will be, and whether it includes new TV series. Meanwhile, Alex Kurtzman has spoken of a four-year plan for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy to reflect a full college experience. Fingers are indeed crossed for Paramount+ to order Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 3 (and 4).
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January 15, 2026
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Paramount+
- Showrunner
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Alex Kurtzman, Noga Landau
