Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Officially Canceled After Season 2 at Paramount+

Paramount+ has officially pulled the plug on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

The series will end with its already completed second season, which is currently in post-production.

CBS Studios and Paramount+ confirmed the cancellation Monday, while the show’s producers also released a lengthy message framing the decision around Gene Roddenberry’s vision and the themes they say the series set out to explore.

Starfleet Academy ends with Season 2

The writing had been on the wall, and now it’s official. There will be no Season 3 for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

The show only recently wrapped its first season on Paramount+, while the second season had already been filmed before the cancellation news dropped.

CBS Studios and Paramount+ said in a joint statement that they are “incredibly proud” of the work that went into the series and thanked Alex Kurtzman, Noga Landau, Gaia Violo, along with the cast and crew, for expanding the Star Trek universe with a new group of characters and familiar faces.

Kurtzman, Landau, and Violo address the cancellation

Kurtzman, Landau, and Violo also confirmed that Season 2 will be the show’s last.

“We are in post-production now on what will be the second and final season,” they said in their statement.

The trio used the announcement to defend what they believe Star Trek stands for, leaning hard into Gene Roddenberry’s ideals about diversity, tolerance, and a future free from war, hate, poverty, disease, and repression.

They also closed with Roddenberry’s “Live Long and Prosper” message aimed at “every future cadet in Starfleet Academy.”