Actress Holly Hunterhas been donning a Starfleet uniform for her latest function as Nahla Ake in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which premiered in January 2026.
Hunter spoke about taking part in the Starfleet Academy chancellor, who occurs to have fairly a protracted lifespan resulting from being half-Lanthanite, throughout a January 30 interview onThe Kelly Clarkson Present, hosted by Kelly Clarkson. Throughout the interview, Hunter instructed Clarkson that she remembered watching a few of Star Trek: The Unique Collection when it first aired within the Nineteen Sixties. She mentioned, nonetheless, that she wasn’t a fan of the science fiction franchise earlier than being forged as Nahla. The actress defined that her lack of Star Trek information made studying the franchise’s terminology difficult.
“It is like, ‘How do I pronounce this?’ These are phrases that I’ve by no means heard of earlier than. A few of them are undoubtedly made up. A few of them are within the Trek, you realize, terminology. And I am not a Trekkie, so numerous them I did not know,” defined Hunter on the discuss present.
She clarified that she was finally in a position to get used to the dialogue.
“I needed to actually verse myself in that language. Simply actual repetition. After which it was simply a lot enjoyable,” mentioned Hunter in the course of the January 30 interview.
Hunter additionally mentioned that whereas her character is the top of Starfleet Academy, she views herself as an equal to her co-stars, even when they’re taking part in academy college students. She defined that whereas she has been within the leisure trade longer than her youthful castmates, they’re nonetheless all studying from one another.
“Regardless that they are much youthful than I’m, I did not care. they’re my fellow actors. They’re my coworkers,” mentioned Hunter within the interview. “We’re cohorts, we’re shoulder to shoulder. I did not wanna take an advisory place, or a punitive. None of that. I am studying alongside these younger actors. And so they’re instructing me stuff, so it was an exquisite collaboration.”
New episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy air on Thursdays on Paramount+.
