Paul Giamatti Boards ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’
He will play the season’s central villain in the Paramount+ drama starring Holly Hunter.
My excitement at having Paul Giamatti in Trek is significantly tempered by the idea that he’s going to be the season villain for “Starfleet Academy”. Unless he’s going to be the hard ass dean of the Academy that doesn’t want to put up Tilly’s students putting Orion pheromones in the environmental system, and kidnapping the Klingon Military Academy’s targ mascot before the big game, I’m not interested in a villain.
I’m 100% here for your vision of the Academy series.
I was fully expecting a villain (possibly because every press release has referred to a threat), but I hope it's a unique flavour of villain.
It sounds like he's going to play one of the kids' dad or something - given the 32nd century status quo, a more political antagonist could be fun.
Maybe a Terra Prime type or New Essentialist type?
Not impossible. Freeman was effectively the villain for S1 of Lower Decks, despite clearly being one of the good guys.
And Prodigy demonstrates how a personal vendetta can net some kids a nemesis, despite largely minding their own business.
I hope not but it feels like sci-fi hogwarts
I wish they had left the 32nd century as a "Discovery - only". After the jump to the future it felt like the show had no stakes. Everything felt disconnected.
It feels like an easy excuse for the writers to pull just about anything out of their asses, "because it has been so long" and "tech has evolved exponentially".
SNW proved that there was a lot more to explore even in the 23rd century. So much could have been done with the fallout of the Dominion War in the 24th.
But it's all up to the writers. If they're good the show can be good.
I couldn't agree less re: the 32nd century. They've created an interesting setting, and I'm glad they're going to keep it alive.
Agreed, Discovery has really only scratched the surface of what can be done with the Federation’s rebuilding itself, Earth’s new isolationist tendencies, and the unified Vulcan/Romulan society. It’d be a shame to leave all that behind. Plus, we still need to learn what’s become of the Klingons!
The Burn being caused by a magic baby having a tantrum kinda ruined the whole setting for me. There's a lot of potential with moving to the 32nd century, but if that's the quality of storytelling we're gonna get, it doesn't seem worth it. I'd much rather see a 24th century setting that follows up on the galaxy post Dominion War and the return of Voyager. There's a lot of untold story there that would be great to see... Although I'd hope it's not more magic baby style stuff.
I hope that, at some point in the series, they reference his prized bottle of Chateau Picard that he's been saving for a special occasion.
If it goes missing, he could just have a Merlot.
Give it up. He's not drinking any fucking merlot.
Lower Decks died for this
And he's not going to drink any goddamned Raktajino!
Holly Hunter and now Paul Giamatti. They must have some major money for this project. I can’t wait!!
Between this and the Hostel Tv series announcement... Did Paulie G get divorced recently or something? Is he hard up for cash?
i like that contemporary a & b list actors are joining star trek in the last few years whereas before it was really uncommon.
is it just my memory playing tricks on me?
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