Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1, Episode 9 – “three hundredth Evening”Jonathan Frakes explains the origin of probably the most hilariously weird working joke in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Frakes directed the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1, which was written by Kirsten Beyer from a narrative by Beyer and Kenneth Lin.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has delivered dollops of information about Darem Reymi’s (George Hawkins) species. Darem is Khionian, a fish-like species. Though he maintains a human look, Darem’s true type is a blue humanoid with gills. Impressively, Khionians can briefly survive within the vacuum of area, however Darem’s individuals even have some peculiar drawbacks to their distinctive physiology.
Jonathan Frakes spoke to TrekMovie about Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 9, the place Darem Reymi vomited glitter throughout a breakneck seqeuence when Starfleet Academy’s cadets stole a shuttle. Frakes revealed Darem’s glitter vomit is the brainchild of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s govt producer Noga Landau. Learn Jonathan’s quote under:
Jonathan Frakes: Yeah, they confirmed me the glitter vomit from the sooner episode. It appears absurd. And you understand, it was minimal, nevertheless it was… It’s established. Glitter has been a runner with Noga Landau, who’s the showrunner with Kurtzman. She wished loads of glitter in that opening sequence, the place I’ve them strolling down the hallway and slow-mo and fast-mo, they usually’re about to start out partying as a result of they’re executed with their faculty yr. Yeah, she wished loads of glitter in there. I mentioned actually? We’re gonna throw glitter within the hallways? In order that grew to become a… She ends all of her emails with me with the glitter.
Darem first vomited glitter as a result of he ate bananas on a dare in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 5. It was an unexpectedly humorous and completely weird visible attributed to Khionians missing the enzymes to digest bananas.
Hungover from Klingon alcohol, Darem vomited once more after the cadets’ turbulent shuttle escape in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 9. This time, Darem lamented his glittery upchuck obtained “throughout my trousers.” Reymi admitted to “judgy judgy Genesis [Bella Shepard]” that Khionans “lack loads of enzymes.”
As Jonathan Frakes revealed, Noga Landau is Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s glitter queen, and Landau wished extra glitter in episode 9’s opening hallway sequence of Genesis gathering her pals because the cadets celebration in regards to the tutorial yr coming to an finish. Amusingly, glitter appears to be a working theme for Noga, even in her emails, in accordance with Frakes.
Darem Reymi can even take a punch, as he absorbed a number of blood-splattering blows to the face from the Venari Ral in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 9. Maybe we’ll be taught the real-world motive why Khionans are so bodily sturdy in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1’s finale, or in season 2.
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January 15, 2026
- Community
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Paramount+
- Showrunner
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Alex Kurtzman, Noga Landau
- Administrators
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Douglas Aarniokoski, Alex Kurtzman, Andi Armaganian, Larry Teng
- Writers
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Gaia Violo, Alex Taub, Jane Maggs, Tawny Newsome, Kirsten Beyer, Kiley Rossetter, Eric Anthony Glover
