The new TV series "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" will debut in the early months of 2026, making it the 15th "Star Trek" TV series to date (provided you count "Short Treks" and "Very Short Treks" as separate entities). It will share some common characters from the later seasons of "Star Trek: Discovery," and will be set in the 32nd century, which is many centuries beyond most of the "Star Trek" shows. Because of its advanced point in the "Star Trek" timeline, there will be few opportunities to include legacy characters from older Trek shows ... unless, of course, they include a character who is either very long-lived or downright immortal.

Luckily, "Star Trek" does contain several of those, including the Doctor (Robert Picardo) from "Star Trek: Voyager." The Doctor is a hologram that orig

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