Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: Robert Picardo and Tig Notaro to Reprise Trek Roles as the Doctor and Jett Reno

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is recruiting a few familiar faces for its maiden voyage.

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Trek veterans Robert Picardo and Tig Notaro have joined the cast of the upcoming Paramount+ spinoff as series regulars, TVLine has learned, reprising their roles as Star Trek: Voyager’ s Doctor and Star Trek: Discovery’ s Jett Reno, respectively. Additionally, Discovery alums Mary Wiseman and Oded Fehr will guest-star as Tilly and Admiral Vance.

Starfleet Academy , which was ordered to series in March 2023, “will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy,” per the official description. Holly Hunter will star as the academy’s captain and chancellor, with Paul Giamatti set to play Season 1’s main villain, “a man with an ominous past connected to one of our cadets.”

Picardo played the holographic Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager for all seven seasons, which ran from 1995 to 2001 on UPN. (He reprised the role in the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact and in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine .) Notaro debuted as engineer Jett Reno in Discovery’ s second season and continued recurring through the fifth and final season.

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The casting news was announced as part of the Star Trek Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday. Fans there also got a sneak peek at the upcoming Season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , with Captain Pike and his human crew transforming into Vulcans via a special injection, and learned that Cillian O’Sullivan ( The Blacklist ) will play Nurse Chapel’s future paramour Dr. Roger Korby.

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