Robert Picardo provides Star Trek: Starfleet Academy an equal to Star Wars‘ beloved Yoda after 46 years. Picardo reprises The Physician, the grumpy Emergency Medical Hologram from Star Trek: Voyager, in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which premieres with two episodes on January 15 on Paramount+.
The Physician in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is identical EMH who served as Chief Medical Officer aboard the USS Voyager for seven years in Star Trek: Voyager. The Physician then turned a mentor to the younger crew of the USS Protostar in Star Trek: Prodigy, splitting his time between Starfleet Academy and as CMO of the brand new USS Voyager-A.
In a canopy function story on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy in SFX Journal, Robert Picardo reiterated his joke that enjoying the 800-year-old Physician makes him “the Yoda of Star Trek.”
Picardo additionally mentioned his trepidation at reprising the EMH, and the way “800 years of digital reminiscence the place the reminiscence of a beloved colleague from 793 years in the past is as recent and clear as somebody you noticed yesterday,” impacts the EMH’s persona. Learn SFX‘s interview with Bob right here:
Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz) was launched in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Again as the traditional Jedi Grasp who skilled Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) within the methods of the Pressure. Yoda was over 800 years previous, and in a stroke of genius by George Lucas, the diminutive, backwards-talking inexperienced alien defied expectations as an unlikely candidate to be a strong Jedi Grasp.
Constantly on-line for the reason that late twenty fourth century, The Physician is sort of as previous as Yoda in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which takes place within the late thirty second century after Star Trek: Discovery‘s sequence finale. The Physician doubles as Chief Medical Officer of the USS Athena and as an teacher to the primary class of Starfleet Academy cadets to check in San Francisco since The Burn 120 years prior.
Earlier than his exile, after Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) turned the Republic into the Galactic Empire, Yoda skilled numerous younger Jedi on Coruscant. The Physician finds himself in the same place in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, as he mentors an eclectic crop of alien Starfleet cadets, together with SAM (Kerrice Brooks), a fellow holographic lifeform.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a key a part of Star Trek‘s sixtieth anniversary celebration in 2026, whereas Star Wars turns 50 in 2027. Star Trek and Star Wars have engaged in a pleasant sci-fi rivalry for many years, however additionally they draw inspiration from one another. It is going to be fascinating to observe Robert Picardo’s Physician grow to be “the Yoda” for the following technology of Starfleet heroes.
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January 15, 2026
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Paramount+
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Alex Kurtzman, Noga Landau
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Karim Diane
Jay-Den Kraag
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Kerrice Brooks
Collection Acclimation Mil ‘Sam’