{"id":493368,"date":"2026-03-24T22:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493368\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:31:13","slug":"star-trek-starfleet-academy-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493368\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Star Trek: Starfleet Academy&#8221; Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/the-starfleet-academy-reviews-are-in.jpg\" data-caption=\"Paramount+\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/the-starfleet-academy-reviews-are-in.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"the-starfleet-academy-reviews-are-in\"\/><\/a>Paramount+<\/p>\n<p>Paramount+ has announced that its recently launched younger-skewing \u201cStar Trek: Starfleet Academy\u201d series has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The studio has already shot a second season which is currently in post-production and is still likely to air next year, but the show won\u2019t go any further than that.<\/p>\n<p>The series has been majorly polarising amongst the fandom.  Anticipation was low before its premiere.  Upon airing, it drew a better than expected critical response but audiences have been decidedly more mixed.  The show also become a frequent target of the \u2018anti-woke\u2019 crowd online.<\/p>\n<p>More telling though was the ratings with the series never managing to chart among Nielsen\u2019s weekly top 10 streaming lists for viewership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStar Trek: Strange New Worlds\u201d has a fourth season to air next year and a fifth and final season in 2027, both runs already filmed.<\/p>\n<p>At this point though, no further \u201cStar Trek\u201d TV series are in production and its not clear if franchise runner Alex Kurtzman will stay on \u2013 especially with the new Paramount Skydance regime having already teased plans for a reboot\/overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Studios and Paramount+ say in a statement: \u201cWe look forward to sharing the upcoming second and final season with everyone, and continuing to celebrate the cast, crew, and all that was accomplished with this series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2130181\/star-trek-starfleet-academy-canceled-paramount-plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV Line<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/marvels-wonder-man-renewed-for-season-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel\u2019s \u201cWonder Man\u201d Renewed For Season 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/superman-actress-valerie-perrine-dead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSuperman\u201d Actress Valerie Perrine Dead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount+ Paramount+ has announced that its recently launched younger-skewing \u201cStar Trek: Starfleet Academy\u201d series has been cancelled. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[94966,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}