One of the highlights of the Starfleet Academy trailer is the Honor Wall we see in a couple of shots. It’s rammed full of very familiar names. Here’s what Alasdair Stuart found.

Admiral Beverly C. Crusher

Our first familiar name is of course Starfleet Medical’s finest from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Captain Demora Sulu

Daughter of Hikaru Sulu, the helmswoman of the Enterprise-B in Star Trek Generations and the star of several of the best original Trek novels.

Midshipman First Class Peter Preston

Scotty’s nephew and one of the first casualties in The Wrath of Khan.

Commander Christine Chapel

One of those characters made all the more impressive over time, with her already fun partnership with Bones in the original series being enhanced by M’Benga and Chapel’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Medics With Some Fun Attitudes To Drugs And Ethics routine in Strange New Worlds.

Lt. Natasha Yar

The Enterprise-D’s first Security Chief and the first time a major character in the franchise was killed onscreen.

Ambassador Spock

The word ‘legend’ gets thrown around a lot. But given Spock’s presence across every single era of the franchise, it seems accurate here.

Commander Ellen Landry

The Discovery’s Security Chief, killed by the Tardigrade in the show’s first season.

Commander Samantha Wildman

Some Voyager love! Samantha was a xenobiologist on the Voyager and the mother of the first baby born on the ship during it’s long journey back from the Delta Quadrant, Naomi.

Lt jg Wesley R. Crusher

It seems a little unfair Wesley never got full LT at the very least. But then again he is also basically immortal and travelling the time stream, so it balances out.

Acting Chief Petty Officer Dorian Collins (Deep Space Nine: ‘Valiant’)

One of the really interesting picks. Dorian was part of Red Squad, the best of the best of Starfleet Academy. On the USS Valiant for a training exercise when it was caught behind enemy lines at the outbreak of the Dominion War, Dorian was made Acting Chief Petty Officer. She was one of the few survivors to express doubt in the choices made by cadet turned Captain Tim Watters and, along with Jake Sisko and Nog, was the only survivor when the ship was destroyed.

Acting Commander Karen Farris (Deep Space Nine: ‘Valiant’)

Another Red Squad member, Farris became First Officer of the ship and played an instrumental part in the ship’s final battle.

Lt. Nog

Nog came a long way from running scams in his Uncle’s bar to Starfleet. Although as you see in the Deep Space Nine documentary, there was at least one world where he made it to Captain…

Acting Lieutenant Riley Shepard (Deep Space Nine: ‘Valiant’)

Another Red Squad member.

Admiral Leonard H. McCoy

The most cantankerous medical genius in Starfleet history.

Captain Montgomery Scott

The Enterprise’s most famous Engineer and Starfleet’s designated chief miracle worker.

Ensign Sito Jaxa (TNG: ‘The First Duty’ and ‘Lower Decks’)

The central character in one of Trek’s all-time great episodes, Sito was a Bajoran ensign and part of the disgraced Nova Squadron that also included Wesley Crusher. She was also a close friend of Mariner Beckett. Sito and Wesley appear to be the only two members of Nova Squadron who stayed in Starfleet and she ended up assigned to the Enterprise as an Ensign. Chosen for a mission behind Cardassian lines, she was apparently killed in the line of duty, an incident that hit the Enterprise-D crew hard and changed Mariner’s life and attitude towards Starfleet.

We can see Uhura and Chekov behind the rank of cadets at the back but not in enough detail to see their ranks.

Commander Janice Rand

One of the hardest done by characters, and actors, in Starfleet history. Rand, Captain Kirk’s Yeoman, was originally planned to be a major part of the original series. For years the official story was that Rand as a character was parked and actress Grace Lee Whiney fired to cut the show’s budget. Years later, Whitney bravely came forward with the information that a studio executive had sexually assaulted a few days before she was fired. Creator Gene Roddenberry went on record years later as saying giving into pressure to fire her was ‘the dumbest mistake he’d ever made’. Whitney has made multiple cameos as the character since and while it’s a tiny morsel of recompense for what she went through, seeing Rand on the Honour Wall 900 years in the future feels both welcome and overdue.

Lt. Tom Paris

Voyager’s helmsman! Nice to see him here, and it seems weirdly fitting that Tom (who functionally retires for a while in the excellent IDW comics to be a stay-at-home dad and, later, an at-high-warp dad) stayed as a Lieutenant.

Captain William T. Riker

The Enterprise-D’s First Officer and Starfleet’s best pizza chef. Again, it’s a nice touch that Riker is remembered here as a Captain given that was his rank on retirement in Picard.

Lt Commander Hoshi Sato

Our first Enterprise character! The original Enterprise’s communications officer is one of the most interesting characters in the show and it’s great to see her here.

Commander Charles Tucker III

Trip, the Enterprise’s first Chief Engineer, is another welcome sight. The character’s deeply weird death in the series finale notwithstanding (and later walked back in the novels) Trip was a major player in early Starfleet history and it makes perfect sense for him to be here.

Commander Deanna Troi

Likewise Troi, arguably the most influential Counsellor in Starfleet history, and certainly an under-rated pilot too. Come on, admit it, could you have hot-dropped the Enterprise-D saucer with that little damage to it?

Lt Commander Data

And our Enterprise-D honour roll concludes with Data, Second Officer, first synthetic and one of the most interesting characters in the entire franchise. Also, it strikes me, one of the few on this list who could plausibly still be alive…

Lt. Julian Bashir

DS9’s other inductee (that we see at any rate) and again, a fantastic character. If you’ve never seen DS9, you really should and Bashir’s journey across the show from fresh-faced newbie to the sort of frontier Doctor Bones would nod approvingly at is a big part of why.

Admiral Harry S.L. Kim

HE DID IT! OUR BOY DID IT! The patron saint of Starfleet Ensigns closes his career as an Admiral!

Here’s where things get interesting

Lee Fitzgerald (Rank not visible)

No character pops up with that name, but Lee Fitzgerald is a concept designer whose worked on The Expanse, The Umbrella Academy and Discovery.

 

In another shot in the trailer, we get some other familiar names

Captain Will Deckard

Nice to see The Motion Picture, and the Enterprise’s hardest done-by Captain, get a nod. Especially given he literally Boldly Went at the end of the movie (do yourself a favour, do not look up the actor).

Captain Carol Freeman

Cerritos, Represent! Love to see both Freemans on the board

Commander Beckett Mariner

MAKE THAT ALL THREE! LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS!

Ambassador Garak

Plain, simple Garak turned Ambassador Garak! Deep Space Nine’s most frightening tailor is a surprise and very welcome name. I choose to believe Julian retired to travel the galaxy doing diplomatic things with his husband and I will not be told different.

Captain Cristobal Rios

One of Picard‘s best characters and a man with the weirdest, sweetest arc in the whole show.

Commander Hugh Culber

Some more Disco love! And for one of my favourite characters too, one of Starfleet’s first (and most recent in Academy’s time frame) counsellors. Also one of the few people on this list that could conceivably guest lecture in person…

Captain Amina Ramsey

More Lower Decks love! One of Mariner’s closest friends and the USS Oakland’s Captain, who briefly served on the Cerritos.

Captain John Harriman

Captain of the Enterprise-B and one of the most interesting characters in the novel series.

Lt. Commander Connor Rossa (TNG: ‘Suddenly Human’)

The father of Jono, killed in a battle with the Talarians. His son was raised by the Talarians. The events of the episode form the background of the excellent recent video game, Resurgence.

Ensign John Kyle

A very storied minor character in the original series who’s also a quietly pivotal part of Strange New Worlds, Kyle is a USS Shenzhou veteran and the Enterprise’s transporter chief.

Captain Li (Fleet Command)

A pivotal part of the Fleet Command video game. It’s so cool to see every aspect of Star Trek on this wall!

Lt. Commander B’Elanna Torres

Voyager’s Chief Engineer married Tom Paris, had an adorable kid and closed her career as a Lt. Commander, with a stop off in the recent, excellent Defiant comic series.

Vice Admiral Ruby Parmenter

One of a few names that’s come up snake eyes for me so far.

Admiral Katrina Cornwell

The controversial lead Admiral in early seasons of Discovery, and a pivotal part of one of the recent, excellent novels.

Admiral Alonzo Freeman

Third entry for the Freeman family!

Ambassador David Till

Although David Till is a production manager, assistant director and producer who’s worked on Discovery so I’m guessing this is a nod to him.

Chancellor Beth Hormuth

Not turning up anything here so far.

Admiral Safta Landau

No leads on this one at present.

Captain Nino Das

Or this one.

The final column is particularly hard to make out but three names come through loud and clear.

Commander Zero The Third

The awesome Medusan from Prodigy! So pleased to see them here!

Admiral Tawny Newsome

I’m choosing to believe Mariner’s voice actress spontaneously manifested in the Star Trek universe and had a storied and successful career over there too.

Admiral Kirsten Beyer

Staff writer for Discovery, executive producer for Picard and Strange New Worlds and Voyager novelist. Again, nice to see every aspect of Trek getting some love!

 

There are other names people have seen, including Chakotay, Dax, Captain Sonya Gomez and M’Benga. Once the show debuts (or maybe we’ll get a high res still of the wall before then) I’ll circle back and see who else we’ve got.