The next big live-action series in the long-running Star Trek franchise is Starfleet Academy . And, at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, we finally got a look at what the series will be like. The vibe and design of the show is very much in line with the later seasons of Star Trek: Discovery , which makes sense considering the show is set in the same timeline of the late 32nd century and is basically a follow-up to that series.

But what’s this? At the very end of the trailer, Paul Giamatti ‘s new, mysterious villain, Nus Braka, is walking down the corridor of a Federation starship—presumably the just unveiled USS Athena— while whistling the opening notes of the famous main theme from the original Star Trek . Does this mean that after roughly six decades, this music has finally been est

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