Paramount+ will celebrate the 55th anniversary of the television premiere of Star Trek: The Original Series during the second annual Star Trek Day.
The two-hour livestreamed celebration will take place on Sept. 8, exactly 55 years since the original Star Trek series premiered and will broadcast live from the Los Angeles Skirball Cultural Center starting at 5:30 p.m. PT/8:30 p.m. ET. Hosted by Wil Wheaton and Mica Burton, the free celebration will feature a live orchestra, conversations with cast and creatives from over 10 different Star Trek stories, surprise appearances and exclusive reveals. More information can be found at StarTrek.com/Day.
Created by Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek first premiered on Sept. 8, 1966 with its pilot episode, "The Man Trap." One of the six panels to be showcased during Star Trek Day will also include a special "Roddenberry Legacy" panel in honor of the creator's 100th birthday. The live orchestra will be led by Jeff Russo, the composer of the themes for Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard.
The celebration will feature a Star Trek: Prodigy panel, with the voice cast for the animated children's series including Brett Gray and Dee Bradley Baker, along with executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman and co-executive producer/director, Ben Hibon. The Star Trek Universe's other animated series, Star Trek: Lower Decks, will also have a panel featuring voice cast members Noël Wells and Eugene Cordero alongside series creator, showrunner and executive producer Mike McMahan.
Other panels include the stars of Star Trek: Discovery, Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio and Ian Alexander, along with co-showrunner and executive producer Michelle Paradise; another panel for 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 "Blue Skies," which was featured in the Picard season one finale; the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds panel with stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck, and co-showrunners and executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers.
The livestream will also feature a series of "legacy moments" of several iconic Star Trek cast members, including Cirroc Lofton from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Anthony Montgomery from Star Trek: Enterprise, Garrett Wang from Star Trek: Voyager, George Takei from Star Trek: The Original Series and LeVar Burton from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The #StarTrekUnitedGives campaign will also return for Star Trek Day; for every person who tweets the hashtag StarTrekUnitedGives (#StarTrekUnitedGives), $1 will be donated and divided equally by Paramount+ and the Roddenberry Foundation to various social justice and arts organizations.
Source: StarTrek.com, YouTube