Matthew Davies

Production designer — Starfleet Academy

Production designer of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, responsible for the 32nd-century campus and the vast atrium set of the academy starship USS Athena.

Matthew Davies is the production designer of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, the series that premiered on Paramount+ in January 2026.
His designs had to establish a school that is also a starship. The centrepiece is the atrium of the USS Athena, a multi-level space with walkways, classrooms and greenery, built across a soundstage of roughly 45,900 square feet at Pinewood Toronto Studios. It was reported to be the largest set ever constructed for a Star Trek television series.
Around it his department created the other interiors of the ship and the academy, continuing the look of 32nd-century Starfleet established in the later seasons of Discovery.