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In Pictures: Canada’s Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Premiere

By John Freeman on January 17, 2026 • ( 0 )

Our thanks to John Kirk for some smashing pictures from the Canadian premiere of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy at the red carpet event at the TIFF Lightbox cultural centre in Toronto earlier this week.

Inside, the venue was decked out to resemble some of the elements of the Starfleet Academy film set, and speciality Star Trek themed cocktails and mocktails were served at the party after the event.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Toronto Premiere. Photo: John Kirk

*Moderator Teddy Wilson opens the evening’s Q&A with cast and crew*

*Cast and crew from Starfleet Academy field questions about the new show*

Actor Robert Picardo chats with press. He told Collider he’s hoping there might be a way to bring his fellow Star Trek: Voyager crew into the show as guests in Season Two, despite the different time period of both shows

*John Kirk with Starfleet Academy’s Sandro Rosta*

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy introduces viewers to a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.

Holly Hunter as half-Lanthanite Captain Nahla Ake – also the chancellor of the school where eager students train to explore the galaxy – and Robert Picardo as The Doctor in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Photo: CBS/Paramount+

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, recorded in Toronto, is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment and has made its debut on subscription based streamer Paramount+ to the inevitable mix of reviews. Season Two is currently in production.

John Kirk is an interviewer and reviewer of Star Trek, Star Wars, comics and more who wrote for Star Trek Explorer and is currently writing for the website, Original-Cin. Watch for his forthcoming interviews with Starfleet Academy actors Karim Diane who plays Klingon cadet Jay-Den Kraag and Sandro Rosta, who plays cadet Caleb Mir.

• Read John Kirk’s review of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on Original-Cin

• Collider: Star Trek Legend Robert Picardo Reveals Which ‘Voyager’ Characters He Wants to See on ‘Starfleet Academy’

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.