WWE Star Joins ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Cast – Check Out The First Look
Star Trek fans are getting an early look at one of the newest cast members of the upcoming spin-off, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
WWE star Rebecca Quin, known to fans as Becky Lynch, has joined the series as a Starfleet officer in Operations Gold. Collider shared the first images of Quin on set, showing her as part of the bridge crew with a bob and blue streaks in her hair.
The series will feature Holly Hunter as Captain Ake, who also serves as Chancellor for the first post-Burn Starfleet Academy class. Returning Star Trek actors include Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly, Tig Notaro as Jett Reno, Oded Fehr as Charles Vance, and Robert Picardo reprising his role as the Emergency Medical Holograph, the Doctor. The cast also includes newcomers Stephen Colbert, Bella Shepard, Zoë Steiner, George Hawkins, Karim Diane, Paul Giamatti, Tatiana Maslany, and Kerrice Brooks.
Quin spoke about her experience filming for the series and her childhood connection to Star Trek. “I’m on the bridge crew, and filming on the bridge, it was one of the most amazing sets I’ve ever been on,” she said.
She also recalled growing up in Ireland watching the franchise. “I grew up when Star Trek was one of the two shows that was on TV in Ireland… I did love the movies. And Colm Meaney. We all love Colm Meaney, any time he was on, you sit down and watch that.”
Created by Gaia Violo for Paramount+, Starfleet Academy is the 12th series in the Star Trek universe and part of Alex Kurtzman’s expanded Star Trek franchise. The show is set in the 32nd century, following the first new class of Starfleet cadets in over a century as they train to become officers. Cadets are played by Sandro Rosta, Karim Diané, Kerrice Brooks, George Hawkins, and Bella Shepard, alongside Hunter, Steiner, Picardo, Notaro, and Fehr.
🚨 NEW TRAILER for #StarTrek: Starfleet Academy!
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The new first-look welcomes Cadets back to #StarfleetAcademy in San Francisco, plus introducing the new Starship – the USS Athena!
🖖 Coming Early 2026!#SDCC pic.twitter.com/fZ3brdYadk
The series officially received a series order in March 2023, with Kurtzman and Noga Landau as showrunners. Season one was filmed from August 2024 to February of this year at Pinewood Toronto Studios in Toronto, Canada. Production for season two began in August. Starfleet Academy will premiere on Paramount+ on January 15, 2026, with the first two episodes, followed by weekly releases of the remaining eight episodes through March 12.
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