Star Trek: Everything We Know About Starfleet Academy

Pre-Starfleet, Commander Reno had "padded her résumé" with all sorts of odd jobs, one of which was, in truth, pushing "hard-to-find folios for a shady antiquarian archivist," or in easier-to-say terms, a rare book smuggler. Sounds safer than "deep mercury welder," anyway! We don't know any details, but books might very well be forming a large part of Jett Reno's future from now on, as Tig Notaro has been confirmed as series regular in Starfleet Academy.

With Reno's CV, it's either a professorship or running the Student Union bar. Then again, as we've begun to find out, there's reason to believe that not every frame will feature the Academy. In May, Alex Kurtzman had already told the LA Times, in response to their question, "Is [Academy] going to be Earth-based or space-based?" that, "I'm going to say, without giving anything away, both". Reno might be far removed from teaching, therefore.

Travelling to Toronto, nonetheless, if not there already, as announced alongside Reno's return at SDCC, was everyone's favourite Dadmiral Charles Vance, played by Oded Fehr. Like Mary Wiseman as Tilly, Fehr will be reprising his role as a guest star. Vance was still (fleet) admiral, and presumably still Commander in Chief of Starfleet, in however many decades into the future of the coda to Life, Itself, so it seems more than likely he will be in Academy, too.

The day before the SDCC panel, we also got news that British comedian and actor Gina Yashere, who made the move to a career and home in America several years ago, would be joining the Academy in a recurring guest star role as instructor. Of what, and as with all the others, we don't know yet, but we expect Yashere, like Notaro, will bring at least a little of her brilliant humour to the series.