Paul Giamatti has been a Marvel villain, an orangutan, and even Santa Claus. Nevertheless, the award-winning actor has all the time desired a role in Star Trek, and because of the upcoming collection Starfleet Academy, he’s lastly getting his want.
“I’m a actual deal fan,” Giamatti says throughout a Star Trek highlight panel at New York Comedian Con. “Since about seven or eight years outdated I’d watch it with my father. So, I grew up with it. All of the iterations of it. I like it. I had all the time been kind of saying it to individuals, ‘Gosh, I want I might be on Star Trek sometime.’ After which it really occurred. After which I used to be saying, ‘Gosh, I want I might play a Klingon.’ After which it kind of occurred.”
Giamatti will likely be enjoying Nus Braka, a Klingon/Tellarite hybrid who has a mysterious previous with one of many Starfleet cadets. “I play a half-Klingon, half-Tellarite. And the Tellarites are these actually aggressive disputatious pig individuals, and I used to be like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m throughout that.’ So, I received to play up, ‘I’m the unhealthy man.’ It’s improbable. There’s a nice custom of unhealthy guys. I get to do it. So, I’m completely happy as a pig in shit.”
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premieres on Paramount+ on January 15, 2026.