{"id":494345,"date":"2026-02-21T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494345\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:12:09","slug":"paul-giamatti-skipping-starfleet-academy-s2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494345\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Giamatti Skipping &#8220;Starfleet Academy&#8221; S2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/paul-giamatti-skipping-starfleet-academy-s2.jpg\" data-caption=\"Paramount+\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/paul-giamatti-skipping-starfleet-academy-s2.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"paul-giamatti-skipping-starfleet-academy-s2\"\/><\/a>Paramount+<\/p>\n<p>Paramount+ is reportedly set to complete filming on the second season of \u201cStar Trek: Starfleet Academy\u201d tomorrow.  The announcement comes as the first season is still in the midst of airing, to what has been a divisive response.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to airing, scepticism was sky high surrounding the show, with a lot of the fanbase not happy with the whole idea of the show.  Then, critical early reviews proved surprisingly pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Then the show began airing, and several episodes in there have been reactions all over the shop \u2013 some pleasantly surprised by it, some dismissing it, some actively hating on it for reasons both expected (\u201cKurtzman sucks,\u201d \u201cWokeness in \u2018Star Trek\u2019, OMG!\u201d) and unexpected, like the way Holly Hunter\u2019s Captain Ake slouches in her chair at times.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best-received elements is Paul Giamatti\u2019s Nus Braka character.  The half Klingon\/half Tellarite space pirate made a small appearance in the premiere, but then got to really feast with the show\u2019s sixth episode, with lengthy scenery-chewing monologues and a scheme proving more calculating than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Giamatti is expected to return in further episodes this season.  He recently appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zUsTJs-7wnE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The D-Con Chamber podcast<\/a> with hosts Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer, and confirmed his character survives the first season \u2013 but isn\u2019t returning for the second.  However he\u2019s quite open to returning for a third:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s still alive. So, you know, something could be done with him. I just enjoyed doing it with everybody.  I liked being on set. It was pleasant. We all probably know that\u2019s not always the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also says the character\u2019s \u2018tic-tac-toe hair\u2019 will be explained in an upcoming episode.  \u201cStarfleet Academy\u201d wraps its first season run on March 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount+ Paramount+ is reportedly set to complete filming on the second season of \u201cStar Trek: Starfleet Academy\u201d tomorrow.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,427],"class_list":["post-494345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}