Kerrice Brooks—who became emotional watching the Starfleet Academy teaser for the first time, which immediately endeared her to the entire Hall H audience—co-stars as Sam, “aka Series Acclimation Mil, the first member of her species, the Kasqians, to sign up for Starfleet,” according to the official description.

While Starfleet Academy is set in the same time period as Star Trek: Discovery's later seasons — in the 32nd century, so some 900 years after the Original Series era — the trailer features several namedrops of favorite characters,