The most effective issues concerning the bigger Star Trek universe is how interconnected its worlds might be. Easter eggs abound. Plot threads can cross collection. The actions of characters from centuries prior can typically proceed to form those that come after them. And generally it offers followers an opportunity to see acquainted faces from a earlier property pop up someplace new. It’s a part of the enjoyment inherent on this world—we by no means actually say goodbye to any a part of it.
Nonetheless, the selection to set Star Trek: Starfleet Academy instantly following the occasions of Star Trek: Discovery is, admittedly, a considerably controversial one. The present’s later seasons befell within the thirty second century within the wake of an occasion referred to as The Burn, which fractured the Federation and basically ended Starfleet Academy because it had been recognized up till that time. The brand new collection will chart its rebirth, following the primary class of cadets to come back via the establishment in over a century and all their subsequent private, skilled, and educational dramas.
However its place within the timeline implies that it’s a collection that’s ripe for potential crossovers in a method that the majority of its predecessors weren’t. (That splendidly bizarre Star Trek: Unusual Worlds meets Star Trek: Decrease Decks episode apart.) In any case, the Discovery crew continues to be dwelling and dealing for the Federation throughout this time interval — and a few are already slated to look on the present! Tig Notaro and Oded Fehr are already each set to return as Jett Reno and Admiral Charles Vance, and Mary Wiseman’s Lt. Sylvia Tilly may also seem in an episode of the collection’ first season. (Which is smart, on condition that she herself is now an Academy teacher.) However what about all people else?
The Discovery crew was out and in of Federation headquarters always throughout that present’s ultimate seasons, and because the Academy itself is mainly a cell educating starship within the type of the USS Athena, it’s not like they’ve to attend round dwelling base for the occasional run-in with a legacy character or two. The chances that somebody would possibly run into a personality like Ambassador Saru (Doug Jones) or his new spouse, T’Rina (Tara Rosling), who’s nonetheless the President of Ni’Var, are most likely greater than first rate. However what concerning the Discovery’s captain? Is it doable we would see Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced) once more? In any case, there’s loads of time between the setting of Starfleet Academy and the occasions we noticed within the epilogue to the Discovery collection finale “Life, Itself.”
