Mostly good omens manifested this Friday the 13th for Starfleet Academy.
Paramount Skydance better hope that The Holdovers and Sideways acting sensation Paul Giamatti appears in the majority of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s remaining season 1 episodes. Whenever the Golden Globe winner shows up to play the half-Klingon, half-Tellarite villain Nus Braka, that’s the time the new streaming series performs best in the rankings.
For the first time since the season premiere back on Jan. 15, Giamatti returned in the latest episode, “Come, Let’s Away.” And, as a result, Starfleet Academy posted some of its best numbers in the streaming rankings. The coming-of-age Star Trek saga ranked No. 10 on the Worldwide Top TV Shows on Paramount+ chart the day after (Feb. 13) episode 6 premiered, according to FlixPatrol.
Back in January, Starfleet Academy debuted at No. 9 worldwide, but it struggled to retain a steady viewership on the global stage in the episodes which followed without Giamatti’s presence.
Likewise, the show’s numbers drastically improved domestically after Giamatti’s return in episode 6. (Continued on page 2...)