Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is an upcoming American television series. It is intended to be the 12th Star Trek series and part of executive producer Alex Kurtzman's expanded Star Trek Universe. The series is set in the 32nd century, the far-future of the franchise where Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets are recovering from a cataclysmic event. It follows the first new class of Starfleet cadets in over a century as they come of age.