Star Trek Academy cancelled after two seasons

[Kevin M.]

It is unusual to cancel a show after two seasons when the first season only just recently finished airing. I found little to enjoy of the episodes I saw. 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/starfleet-academy-canceled-1236544496/

Kevin M. (RPCV)

[M-D November]

Starfleet Academy seems to have been more decisive than the average Trek series, but I personally really enjoyed the first season and am looking forward to the second, bittersweet tho it may be. (As a DS9 fan, Episode 5 broke me.)

While fans were hoping the show would get the four-season run it seemed to be designed for, there was a feeling of inevitability given Paramount's current ownership and their worldview; Star Trek and MAGA simply don't mesh, plus science fiction is expensive to make (although Paramount Skydance seems to have enough money to buy an entire freakin' studio/media conglomerate). Part of me wishes Paramount would either go all in on Trek and let the franchise be what it needs to be, or sell it to another studio - although I'm not entirely sure who would be the best shepherd of the Trek IP right now; Warners is a non-starter, Disney wouldn't take it on because they've already got Star Wars, Amazon's sitting on Stargate and who knows what else...I guess that leaves Netflix and Apple?

[Jim Ellwanger]

Apple has somehow become the streaming service for "intelligent" sci-fi, such as "Pluribus," "Foundation," "Silo," "For All Mankind," and "Dark Matter," so the Star Trek franchise seems like it would fit right in. I note that several of those are co-productions with Sony, a studio you didn't mention.

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[M-D November]

I was thinking in terms of studios with in-house streamers.  I suppose Sony is a possibility, but after seeing them botch the vast majority of the Marvel IP they hold*, I don't have a ton of faith in Sony as a franchise studio.

* MCU-connected Spider-Man films & the Spiderverse animation excepted