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Star Trek Vets Brent Spiner And Jonathan Frakes Announce New Podcast Series – Watch Launch Trailer [UPDATED] – TrekMovie.com

Star Trek Vets Brent Spiner And Jonathan Frakes Announce New Podcast Series – Watch Launch Trailer [UPDATED]

| January 3, 2026 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 11 comments so far

Star Trek: The Next Generation (and Picard) co-stars Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes are reuniting for a new project, this time in the podcast frontier. Today, the actors who portrayed Data and Riker have announced the launch of Dropping Names with Brent and Jonny, a new podcast series they say isn’t about Star Trek… although they admit it will come up.

Dropping Names… and other things

According to the brand-new official website for Dropping Names, the premise of the new podcast is: “Every legend starts with a spark — a poster on a wall, a handshake after a show, a single sentence from someone you admire.” They will be doing celebrity interviews on the new pod, and theirs is far from the first, but Spiner and Frakes promise they are not going to focus on the celebrity culture of awards, box office, and red carpet drama. Instead, they want to see inside the world of “when celebrities were fans themselves,” telling personal stories of their own “career-changing encounters” and “goosebump stories.” Their hype for the new podcast: “It’s funny. It’s nostalgic. It’s human.”

In the launch video, they make it clear “this is not a Star Trek podcast,” but confess they’ve “surrendered to fate” that Star Trek will come up. Watch it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0okSD67AQfg

UPDATE: First Guest

We now know who will be the first guest. Responding to TrekMovie’s post about the podcast on X, Brent and Jonathan’s TNG co-star LeVar Burton revealed he has the honor.

You can watch and subscribe to Dropping Names on YouTube @Dropping-Names. It will also be available on your favorite podcasting platform including Apple and Spotify. No launch date has been announced yet.

Frakes and Spiner join their TNG co-star Gates McFadden, who has her own podcast, InvestiGates. Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount co-hosts The Well, another non-Star Trek podcast.

Several franchise stars have been podcasting about Star Trek, including Enterprise‘s Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating (D-Con Chamber), Voyager’s Robert Duncan McNeill and Garrett Wang (Delta Flayers), and Deep Space Nine’s Cirroc Lofton (7th Rule). Original Series star Walter Koenig joined 7th Rule for a TOS rewatch, as did Next Generation’s Denise Crosby for reviews of TNG season 1. DS9’s Terry Farrell and Armin Shimerman are currently doing a DS9 rewatch with Delta Flyers.

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Alex Kurtzman On “Very Cool” ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Credit Sequence And “Relevant” 32nd Century – TrekMovie.com

Alex Kurtzman On “Very Cool” ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Credit Sequence And “Relevant” 32nd Century

| September 2, 2025 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 29 comments so far

The new series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is due to arrive in early 2026, and shooting on the second season started last week. Since SDCC in July we have been learning more and more about this series and characters and now executive producer Alex Kurtzman is talking about some different details, notably the opening credits, and more.

A credit sequence unlike others

The latest comments from Kurtzman (who is a co-creator and co-showrunner for the series) come from another SDCC interview which was just released by Collider. Of course the opening title sequences for Star Trek shows can be iconic, so when asked if Academy will go with the classic narration route (like TOS or Strange New Worlds) or the more musical route (like Voyager or Discovery), Kurtzman wouldn’t get that specific, but he did talk about how they approached the credit sequence:

“What I will tell you is that it’s super cool. I’m really excited. I look at credit sequences now – on Severance, for example – amazing, amazing credit sequence. There’s such an art to the process of building a credit sequence. And what you want to do is find what is that visual metaphor that then becomes the show in an interesting way. So I’m really excited. It’s very unlike other Star Trek credit sequences, but there’s something very familiar about it too, which just kind of speaks to the idea of the whole show.”

Kurtzman did confirm that the credit sequence used for the first season will also be used for the second, with no plans to make changes if the show gets additional seasons.

Screengrab from season 1, episode 2 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy streaming on Paramount+. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Paramount+.

Finding relevance with issues of the 32nd century

The new series is set in the 32nd century, after the events of Star Trek: Discovery. When asked about deciding when in Star Trek history to set the new series, Kurtzman said there was no other choice:

“It was always after Discovery. It was always the 32nd century… Whatever Trek show you’re making has to individuate. It has to be its own show. It has to have a reason for being other than the other Star Trek shows.

And in the 32nd century, you’re dealing with a post-Burn world where trust in government has broken down. Where the Federation is rebuilding. Where people are divided. Where there’s all these major issues. And in Discovery, the ship came and started bringing the Federation back together again. And now our kids are the first class back in over 120 years. And so you have a generation of kids who are facing the mistakes of their elders or the issues that have been handed down to them by their elders, and are now having to deal with it. And it felt like a very relevant topic. As a father, I see what my son is going through as he’s about to go off into the world, and it felt very much like what our cadets are going through.”

L-R: Romeo Carere, Anthony Natale and Oded Fehr in season 1, episode 2 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy streaming on Paramount+. Photo Credit: Brooke Palmer / Paramount+

Starfleet Academy is a dangerous place

At the time of the interview in late July, the writers room was just finishing up work on the script for the season 2 finale. When asked what lessons learned making the first season were put to use in season 2, Kurtzman focused on the cast:

“The first thing I’ll tell you is that this cast, to a person, is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Like to be able to sit in the editing room and go through every take and everything is so great. Which beautiful meal on the buffet table would you like to eat, because they’re all equally tasty. It was so fantastic. And I think that what we love about our show and our characters is that they are not yet, with the exception of [Holly Hunter’s Captain] Nahla [Ake], fully formed people. They get to make mistakes that Starfleet officers are really not allowed to make, because they’re still figuring out who they are. And what’s really fun about that too, is that some of them go in thinking they want one thing, but like everybody who goes to college, they may exit Starfleet Academy realizing that what they thought they wanted when they came in is not at all what their destiny is. And so that’s a really fun thing.”

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