Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1, Episode 2 – “Beta Check”Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 2 has a hidden Easter egg homage to Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) of Star Trek: Deep House 9. Licensed Contemporary on Rotten Tomatoes, the primary two episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premiered on Paramount+ to a heat welcome from Star Trek followers.
Set within the thirty second century after Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has the advantage of pulling from Star Trek‘s thousand-year canon. Homages to Star Trek’s best are actually constructed into Starfleet Academy’s USS Athena, from the names of the Wall of Heroes, to the James T. Kirk Pavilion, to the Sato Atrium named for Star Trek: Enterprise’s Hoshi Sato (Linda Park).
Jörg Hillebrand, who was a famend researcher for Star Trek: Picard season 3, noticed a blink-and-you-missed-it quote from Star Trek: Deep House 9‘s Captain Sisko in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 2’s turbolift scene involving Captain Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter), Commander Lura Thok (Gina Yashere), and The Physician (Robert Picardo). See it beneath:
Captain Sisko’s quote comes from Star Trek: Deep House 9’s season 4 premiere, “Approach of the Warrior,” when Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn) joined the collection: “Working could assist for a short time, however in the end, the ache catches up with you, and the one strategy to eliminate it, is to face your floor and face it.”
These are Captain Sisko’s sage phrases to Worf, who wished to resign his fee, however modified his thoughts and remained in Starfleet. Caleb Mir (Sandro Rosta) could not have seen Sisko’s quote in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 2. Nonetheless, it displays how Mir wished to run away however determined to remain in Starfleet Academy.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s collection premiere made a shock go to to Bajor for the primary time in live-action since Star Trek: Deep House 9 ended. After all, Commander Lura Thok is half-Jem’Hadar, a species launched in DS9. All of this comes earlier than the reported tribute to DS9 coming in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 5.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s love for Star Trek: Deep House 9 is embodied by co-producer Tawny Newsome, an avowed DS9 fangirl. Newsome co-wrote Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 5 with Kirsten Beyer, however the Prophets are already smiling on Captain Ake’s present.
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January 15, 2026
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Paramount+
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Alex Kurtzman, Noga Landau
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Alex Kurtzman
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Gaia Violo, Gene Roddenberry
