Shatner, Spiner and Visitor Launch ‘The Sixty-Year Mission’ as Star Trek Turns 60 at NYCC

The Lowdown

A 60th-birthday documentary could easily have been a victory lap, but its focus on representation and fan culture is the right angle. Star Trek’s legacy has always been what it did for the people watching, and few franchises can put five eras of cast on one stage to prove it.

Key Takeaways

The documentary The Sixty-Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television and the World premiered in New York on October 8 (Bleeding Cool).
The premiere Q&A featured William Shatner, Brent Spiner, Robert Picardo, Nana Visitor and Denise Crosby (Bleeding Cool).
The film opened in theaters on October 9 and includes interviews with George Takei, Walter Koenig, Jonathan Frakes and Simon Pegg (Bleeding Cool).
Ben Stiller was set to moderate Shatner’s Star Trek panel at New York Comic Con on October 10 (Bleeding Cool).

The Story

Star Trek’s 60th anniversary landed at New York Comic Con with a documentary premiere. The Sixty-Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television and the World premiered at a Regal theater in New York on October 8, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and stars from across the franchise (Bleeding Cool).

The panel included William Shatner from The Original Series, Brent Spiner from The Next Generation and Picard, Robert Picardo from Voyager, Prodigy and Starfleet Academy, Nana Visitor from Deep Space Nine and Denise Crosby from TNG (Bleeding Cool).

According to the film’s description, it looks at how Gene Roddenberry’s vision pushed against TV conventions, advanced conversations about representation, inspired real technology and built a global fan community. Interviewees include Shatner, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Jonathan Frakes and Simon Pegg (Bleeding Cool).

The celebration continued on October 10, when Ben Stiller was scheduled to moderate a Star Trek panel with Shatner on the Empire Stage, alongside a Starfleet Academy season 2 session (Bleeding Cool). At that panel, Paramount+ dated Starfleet Academy’s second and final season for March 2027 (Deadline).