Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's Voyager Nod Better Be More Than a 'Member Berry

Starfleet Academy may take place at the furthest point we’ve seen thus far in the Star Trek franchise, but the first clip of the new series points firmly to the past. Set in the 32nd century, after the events of Star Trek: Discovery , the footage finds the show’s hero ship the USS Athena entering a dangerous bit of space called the Badlands. Although we first saw the Badlands in Deep Space Nine , the area is most associated with Voyager , as a skirmish in the region led the ship to being stranded in the Delta Quadrant.

Such franchise nods are nothing new to the current era of Trek, nor to Starfleet Academy in particular. In addition to bringing back Robert Picardo as the Emergency Medical Hologram from Voyager , better known as the Doctor, the series features sever