Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the sixth episode of the Star Trek spinoff Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, created by Gaia Violo and set in the post-Discovery 31st century time frame. Holly Hunter stars; Paul Giamatti guest stars. 
Stardate not given: The Athena brings both the Academy and War College cadets to the site of the derelict U.S.S. Miyazaki, a Starfleet ship whose crew perished trying to test an experimental drive system a century ago. Adrift within a debris field where the accident happened, the Miyazaki is now used as a training ground in a timed exercise to see if the cadets can reactivate the ship’s systems within a certain amount of time. The cadets are split into two teams – one dispatched to the Miyazaki, the other monitoring their colleagues from the bridge of the Athena – combining students from both schools. But someone else has gotten to the derelict first: the cadets aboard the Miyazaki are ambushed by cannibalistic humanoid creatures known as the Furies. Admiral Vance prepares to mobilize Starfleet, but reluctantly suggests a faster alternative: contacting Nus Braka, whose Venari Ral pirates have fended off the Furies in the past, to negotiate for help to save the cadets. Caleb’s burgeoning relationship with Tamira Sadal has gone as far as a touching of minds, which may become vital in communicating with the trapped cadets. Nus Braka arrives, not to negotiate in good faith, but to stall and to make Vance and Ake grovel. The unique skills of the cadets aboard the Miyazaki – from technological prowess to medical skills to self-sacrifice – are tested to their limits in ways their instructors never intended.
written by Kenneth Lin & Kiley Rossetter
directed by Larry Teng
music by Jeff Russo
additional music by Dan the Automator, Sam Lucas, Alex Yewon and Antonio Andrade
Cast: Holly Hunter (Captain Nahla Ake), Sandro Rosta (Cadet Caleb Mir), Karim Diane (Cadet Jay-Den Kraag), Kerrice Brooks (Cadet SAM), George Hawkins (Cadet Darem Reymi), Bella Shepard (Cadet Genesis Lythe), Zoe Steiner (Cadet Tarima Sadal), Oded Fehr (Admiral Charles Vance), Gina Yashere (Lura Thok), Brit Marling (Computer Voice), Stephen Colbert (Digital Dean of Students), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Paul Giamatti (Nus Braka), Raoul Bhaneja (Chancellor Kelric), Romeo Carere (Ocam Sadal), Alexander Eling (B’avi), Dale Whibley (Kyle), Raffa Virago (Cadet Pickford), Jeff Teravainen (Lt. Commander Tomov), Stephen Adekolu (N’Duwo Skra), Daniel Fernandes (Med Tech), Troy James (Furie Soldier), Kaleb Tekeste (Furie Soldier), Alex Somerville (Furie Soldier), Stephanie Komure (Miyazaki Ship Computer)
LogBook entry by Earl Green