{"id":54906,"date":"2021-08-25T13:08:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T20:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=54906"},"modified":"2021-08-25T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T20:08:48","slug":"star-trek-day-coming-september-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2021\/08\/star-trek-day-coming-september-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Day Coming September 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know?\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em> turns 55 this year, and to coincide with the\u00a0anniversary of\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em> first premiering on televisions across the United States, CBS is holding a large-scale\u00a0<em>Star Trek Day<\/em> celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning at 8:30 p.m. Eastern and hosted by\u00a0<em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> alum Wil Wheaton and Internet personality Mica Burton, the celebration will feature interviews with cast and crew members of various\u00a0<em>Trek<\/em> series both past and present. Additionally, a live orchestra will be performing, celebrating iconic moments from across the franchise&#8217;s storied history.<\/p>\n<p>Per StarTrek.com:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>&#8220;The following panels will include the casts and creatives from iconic\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0television series:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><em><strong>Star Trek: Prodigy, with series voice cast including Brett Gray and Dee Bradley Baker, along with executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman and co-executive producer\/director, Ben Hibon.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Star Trek: Discovery,\u00a0with series stars Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio and Ian Alexander and co-showrunner and executive producer Michelle Paradise.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, with series stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck, who will be joined by co-showrunners and executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Star Trek: Lower Decks, with voice cast members No\u00ebl Wells and Eugene Cordero alongside series creator, showrunner and executive producer Mike McMahan.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Star Trek: Picard, with series stars Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryan, co-showrunner and executive producer Akiva Goldsman, and a special live performance from Isa Briones, singing \u201cBlue Skies,\u201d which was featured in the\u00a0Picard\u00a0season one finale.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Roddenberry Legacy Panel, featuring a conversation with Gene Roddenberry\u2019s son and CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, Rod Roddenberry, alongside Gates McFadden (Star Trek: The Next Generation), LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and George Takei (Star Trek: The Original Series), as they discuss the\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0creator\u2019s indelible impact on science fiction and culture.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>The legacy moments\u00a0will feature the following iconic\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0cast members:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Cirroc Lofton from\u00a0Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Anthony Montgomery from\u00a0Star Trek: Enterprise<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Garrett Wang from\u00a0Star Trek: Voyager<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>George Takei from\u00a0Star Trek: The Original Series<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>LeVar Burton from\u00a0Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Star Trek Day 55th Anniversary Celebration will be available to stream for free at StarTrek.com\/day, on Paramount+ and on the Paramount+ Twitch channel. International streaming access information is yet to be released.<\/p>\n<p>You can see a promotional video for the event below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Star Trek Day 2021 | Celebrate 55 Years of Trek\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mdknOoG6K4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know?\u00a0Star Trek turns 55 this year, and to coincide with the\u00a0anniversary of\u00a0Trek first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":54907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416,4351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fandom","category-general-star-trek"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trekday.png",801,301,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trekday-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trekday.png",801,301,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trekday.png",640,240,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trekday.png",801,301,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trekday.png",801,301,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trekday.png",801,301,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trekday.png",801,301,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trekday.png",801,301,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/trekday.png",720,271,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Tim","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/timby\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/general-star-trek\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General Star Trek<\/a>","tag_info":"General Star Trek","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54908,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54906\/revisions\/54908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}