Six years ago, in 2020, Star Trek: Discovery jumped into the 32nd century into a version of the galaxy in which the Federation was fractured. Following a century of spotty warp drive caused by a catastrophe known as “the Burn,” Starfleet and the UFP were scrappy, sad, and beaten down, having lost many of their biggest allies, including the Vulcans, and somehow, even Earth. But what a difference a few years can make. Set just after the end of Discovery Season 5, the new series Starfleet Academy is reviving a more hopeful version of the Federation and Starfleet. And one key player in that is a returning Discovery character, Admiral Charles Vance, played by the incomparable Oded Fehr.
“I think for Vance, it's very much his dream to go back to a time before the Burn, to bring Starfleet back to exploration,” Fehr says. “So, it’s a dream come true to open Starfleet Academy and to get Nahla (Holly Hunter) to come on as chancellor for him.”
