News Starfleet Academy Why Nus and Anisha Won’t Return in Starfleet Academy Season 2 The Starfleet Academy team still hope to bring Paul Giamatti and Tatiana Maslany back for a hypothetical third season By Matthew Byrd | Published on March 12, 2026 Photo Credit: Miller Mobley/Paramount+ Comment 0 Share New Share Photo Credit: Miller Mobley/Paramount+ This post contains spoilers for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Starfleet Academy just finished its debut season, but the show’s cast and crew are already talking about what’s ahead. And in a series of recent interviews, we learned that Nus (Paul Giamatti) and Anisha (Tatiana Maslany) will not appear in Starfleet Academy season 2.  “No, not in season 2,” says Star Trek Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman in an interview with TVInsider regarding whether Giamatti’s Nus will return. “There’s nothing we want more than to bring Paul back, and there’s nothing Paul wants more than to come back, so we are going to figure that out in season 3.” Giamatti did previously say (spoil, really) that he won’t be returning for season 2 but would be very interested in doing so in the future should the opportunity arise. Specifically, he noted that Nus is still alive (another spoiler at the time) at the end of the show’s first season and that “something could be done with him.” It really does seem to come down to immediate opportunities. As Starfleet Academy showrunner Noga Landau tells TVInsider, Nus’ arc and his spiritual relationship with Holly Hunter’s Captain Nahla come to a pretty definitive stop in season 1 that ends with Nus’ imprisonment. So, it seems like they simply don’t have anything more for the character to do in the next season relative to the bigger story they are trying to tell. Kurtzman goes on to explain that Anisha is in a similar situation, though there is a more specific story reason why the character isn’t coming back right away. “We still have plans for Anisha, and we’d love to bring her back,” Kurtzman says. “But that didn’t, I think, instinctively feel like a story that wanted to, just the search for mom, go beyond one season.” In an interview with Collider, Kurtzman elaborates that he believes Nus and Anisha’s storylines are ultimately “not complete.” He also reiterates that he’d love to bring them back and that they “certainly have plans for that.” The wording of all of that is quite interesting in the context of bigger things going on with Star Trek, Starfleet Academy, and Paramount. As Paramount looks to acquire Warner Bros. as part of a massive and incredibly controversial deal, the future of Star Trek remains uncertain. Many things will need to be reexamined as Paramount looks towards its future, and it’s not clear how Star Trek fits into that future. In a recent interview with TrekMovie, Alex Kurtzman stated that he has had “conversations about the future of Star Trek” and that he has received “nothing but support.” Kurtzman later adds that the Star Trek projects he is discussing with Paramount and its affiliates include “new shows” and “the shows we already have.” But as it stands, Starfleet Academy has not been approved for a third season. So while it seems like there is theoretically room for Nus and Anisha in Kurtzman’s plans and hopes for the future of the show, the talk of them potentially coming back in season 3 remains merely a nice idea barring a more substantial update. [end-mark] The post Why Nus and Anisha Won’t Return in <i>Starfleet Academy</i> Season 2 appeared first on Reactor.