News Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Why Starfleet Academy Is the Horniest Star Trek Show in Years Just the recent shows; it doesn’t hold a flame to TOS, TNG’s first season, or Enterprise (and what could, really) By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on January 12, 2026 Photo Credit: Michael Gibson/Paramount+ Comment 0 Share New Share Photo Credit: Michael Gibson/Paramount+ Starfleet Academy, the newest series in the Star Trek universe is set to premiere in mere days. The show centers on the rebuilding of the titular school and features a group of young cadets who are exceptional in their respective ways, and also—like Olympic athletes at the summer games—unsurprisingly horny. Having seen the first six installments of the season, I can say that the show’s horniness is balanced with some moving episodes that deal with complicated issues. It’s a nice mix, and in an interview in the lead-up to the show’s premiere, I got to ask co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau how they approached bringing horniness back to Star Trek. “First and foremost, I would say that as far as the horniness factor goes, I would just mention that Trek does have quite a past with horniness that I would certainly not want to sidestep,” Landau correctly stated. “But this is certainly the first time I think we’re really seeing it in college, we’re seeing it in cadets.” “You can’t tell stories about young people at that particular moment in time without having a lot of sex in the show. You just can’t,” Kurtzman (also correctly) added. “However, it’s still Star Trek, right? And so what you never want is for it to be gratuitous. I think that would turn everybody off in all the wrong ways.” Photo Credit: John Medland/Paramount+ Landau, whose previous credits include creating Nancy Drew and writing on The Magicians, seemed more comfortable with acknowledging the show’s horny factor (a necessary requirement, as Kurtzman pointed out, given their ages). But again, they both wanted to make sure viewers know that the show isn’t a younger version of The Next Generation season one (which, indeed, it is not). “You’re also talking about characters who are really deeply in love with each other,” Kurtzman said. “So it has a very different feeling and tone overall.” “That’s right,” Landau added. “We’re classy about it.” The first two episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premiere on Paramount+ on January 15, 2026, with new episodes dropping weekly on Thursdays. [end-mark] The post Why <i>Starfleet Academy</i> Is the Horniest <i>Star Trek</i> Show in Years appeared first on Reactor.