‘Starfleet Academy’ Adds ‘Star Trek’ Alums Robert Picardo and Tig Notaro as Series Regulars, Mary Wiseman and Oded Fehr as Guest Stars
“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” has added some alumni to its faculty.
Tig Notaro (“Star Trek: Discovery”) and Robert Picardo (“Star Trek: Voyager”) will reprise their respective roles of Jett Reno and The Doctor, as series regulars on the newest iteration of the venerable sci-fi franchise, while Mary Wiseman and Oded Fehr will return as guest stars playing their “Discovery” characters Sylvia Tilly and Admiral Charles Vance.
They’re joining series lead Holly Hunter, who plays the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy, and the cast of cadets Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané and Zoë Steiner. Gina Yashere is recurring as another member of the faculty, and Paul Giamatti will appear as the inaugural season’s main villain.
The announcement of the legacy characters return was made by executive producers and showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau during the “Star Trek” Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday. They also debuted a touching video of the young actors playing the cadets — Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané and Zoë Steiner — reacting to the news that they’d been cast in the series.