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Starfleet Academy is an upcoming spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery, and many fans who disliked the latter show are worried that the new one will be just as serious and overly dark as the earlier series. However, one of Star Trek\u2019s greatest living icons recently confirmed that this isn\u2019t anything that fans will have to worry about because Starfleet Academy will have something Discovery often lacked: a sense of humor. <\/p>\n
According to Star Trek actor\/director Jonathan Frakes, Starfleet Academy \u201chas lots of levity.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In an interview with TrekMovie, Frakes discussed comedy in Star Trek, including the fact that some fans felt like the third season of Strange New Worlds tried a little too hard to be funny. He clarified that Starfleet Academy<\/a> has a more consistent tone than SNW, but that it would still have plenty of laughs. Frakes also said that he always loves to \u201csearch out the levity in any script\u201d and that there\u2019s plenty of humor in the latest spinoff, something which \u201chelps the rhythm of the cutting and the storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n Obviously, time will tell how effective this humor is. While Star Trek<\/a> has always had funny moments, some fans were turned off by the over-the-top antics of Lower Decks and, most recently, Strange New Worlds. Hopefully, Starfleet Academy will get the tone just right, balancing dramatic storytelling with enough humor and heart to keep things light. In this respect, it sounds like the show will be doing its best to distance itself from Discovery, and that\u2019s most certainly a good thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n To Explore Strange New Wars<\/p>\n While I personally liked Discovery as a whole, it had several excesses that turned off older Star Trek fans in a big way. The first was its early emphasis on violence and gore: not only did Season 1 focus more on war than exploring strange new worlds, but it presented a Starfleet that was ready to blow up the Klingon homeworld, killing billions in the name of peace. Along the way, the show gave us visceral scenes like Ash Tyler being tortured and assaulted, all while throwing out plot points like Michelle Yeoh\u2019s body getting eaten by starving Klingons and her mirror universe doppelganger doing the same thing to enslaved Kelpians.<\/p>\n The show lightened up a bit in subsequent seasons, but its early, grimdark sensibilities affected other shows, which is why Picard\u2019s first season featured scenes like beloved Voyager character Icheb getting brutally tortured. In many ways, Strange New Worlds was Paramount\u2019s repudiation of Discovery: it was a show that focused on episodic storytelling rather than season-long arcs, and it featured more humor than you could shake a Tribble at. With Starfleet Academy around the corner, though, fans couldn\u2019t help but wonder if it would be as dark and gritty as Discovery, the show it is spinning off from.<\/p>\n A Cast Of Comedians<\/p>\n According to Jonathan Frakes<\/a>, though, the new spinoff will have plenty of humor. That was perhaps to be expected, considering that two of Star Trek\u2019s funniest actors (Robert Picardo<\/a> and Tig Notaro) will have regular roles on the series. Plus, as Frakes points out in the interview, legendary comedy actor Paul Giamatti plays the villain, implying that he will help the show\u00a0 deliver more lighthearted romps than Discovery ever did.<\/p>\n This, more than almost anything else, has given me a bit of hope for Starfleet Academy. Originally, I was nervous this was going to be a cringeworthy \u201c90210 in space\u201d kind of show, and I feared that its attachment to Discovery (a downright controversial show) might prove to be its downfall. But if this series can deliver the kind of humor Lower Decks did, by writers who are clearly lifelong fans of the franchise, then Starfleet Academy might just make the grade for both newer and older fans alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Chris Snellgrove | Published 29 seconds ago Starfleet Academy is an upcoming spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,94785,94786,94787,12119,94788,93185,73425,411],"class_list":["post-156794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jonathan-frakes","tag-paul-giamatti","tag-robert-picardo","tag-star-trek","tag-star-trek-discovery","tag-star-trek-starfleet-academy","tag-tig-notaro","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-117-900x506.png\")
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