New Star Trek 60th Anniversary Events Announced

Star Trek's 60th Anniversary celebration continues with new events announced for its birthday which is on September 8 for when the episode "The Man Trap" first aired in 1966.

The Writers Guild Foundation will be hosting a live reading with the cast of The Pitt. The script for the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Man Trap" will be read. Noah Wyle will be Kirk, Katherine LaNasa as Bones, Taylor Dearden as Spock with other members as the cast in unspecified roles. The reading will take place on August 30 at 7pm PT/10ET in LA with livestream and on-demand tickets costing $20. Proceeds will go to the Writers Guild Foundation who will use it for their various charity programs and events.

Next up is re-release in theaters of Star Trek 1 to 4 with an episode from Star Trek: The Original Series paired with each along with an all day marathon viewing by Cinemark and AMC Theaters. There will be "The Changeling" with Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director's Cut on Sept 4 and 8, "Space Seed" with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Director's Cut on Sept. 5 and 8, "Amok Time" with Star Trek III: The Search for Spock on Sept 6 and 8 and lastly "The City on the Edge of Forever" with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.  Cinemark has the schedule up on their website (search for Star Trek 60th) but AMC does not have their schedule up yet. AMC does have a look at their special 60th anniversary concession collectibles for the event. No price provided.

Not to be left out, Regal Cinemas will show the Star Trek 60th anniversary documentary "The Sixy-Year Mission" on October 9th. William Shatner, Walter Koenig and George Takei recorded new interviews for this documentary that is directed by Mark A. Altman (Free Enterprise, 50 Years of Star Trek). The doc will have interviews with all eras of Trek. Its synopsis: "This epic documentary reveals how bold artistic choices, behind-the-scenes conflicts, and groundbreaking ideas came together to create an enduring television classic. Through exclusive interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, The Sixty-Year Mission uncovers that truth is indeed stranger than science-fiction."

Last but not least, The Center Seat II: 60 Years of Star Trek was announced. Hosted by Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher).across five episodes that will cover the TNG and Kelvin movies of the franchise and can be found on Prime Video, Tubi and Apple TV starting September 8. The first season that first aired for the 55th anniversary of Trek air on the History Channel and can now be found on the Nacelle Company's YouTube channel. It covered TOS through to Enterprise along with the TOS movies and worth watching for any Star Trek fan (YouTube playlist).

SDCC 2026 Panel Brings SNW Season 4 Sneak Peak

Saturday Star Trek held its 60th anniversary Hall H panel (below) with about 30 minutes devoted to Trek alumni and then the last half devoted to Star Trek upcoming shows including Strange New Worlds. The alumni panel included George Takei (TOS), Michael Dorn (TNG, DS9), Robert Picardo (VOY, PRO, SFA), Cirroc Lofton (DS9), Dominic Keating (ENT), Doug Jones (DSC), Michelle Hurd (PIC), Jerry O’Connell (LDS), Christina Chong (SNW) and Karim Diané (SFA). The SNWs portion had  the main bridge crew with Anson Mount (Pike), Rebecca Romijn (Una Chin-Riley), Ethan Peck (Spock), Christina Chong (La’an Noonien-Singh), Celia Rose Gooding (Uhura), Melissa Navia (Ortegas) and Paul Wesley (James T. Kirk) along with executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and Alex Kurtzman.

As part of the panel they released an interestingly edited video celebrating 60 years of Trek. They also provided a sneak peak vide of the upcoming season 4 of Strange New Worlds where the first episode is now available on Paramount+. Both are below. 

On the news front, they revealed a new Star Trek: Starfleet Academy cast member "Ruaridh Aldington joins season 2 of Starfleet Academy as a series regular playing Keats, a young alien our cadets encounter on an away mission who possesses a mysterious backstory. When the cadets make the risky decision to bring him back to Starfleet Academy, they realize he’s a wanted man, and his life is in danger.” They also revealed that Star Trek Scouts, a series for pre-schoolers, will have its second season 2 premiere on September 8. The 30 episode season of 3 minute length vids was likely ordered with the first so this will probably be its final season due to Paramount ending Trek productions for the foreseeable future.

Star Trek Movie Script Update at SDCC 2026

In a panel for "Directors on Directing" at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, writers and directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley spoke for the first time about their work on a Star Trek movie script. The update can best be summed up as "still in progress" and they re-iterated that its new characters in a new setting. 

Its unlikely the now ending run of last ten years of TV shows factor in anyway in their plans and it remains unknown if the movie is a reboot, set in prime universe or elsewhere. Really the below is the most information have on a new Star Trek movie in years.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Premiere Now Available

The first episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 is now available on Paramount+. A new episode will premiere each Thursday on the streaming service. The first episode called "Valles Marineris". Below is a clip from the episode which is not a western but just the opening scene of the season and really doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the episode. This episode will probably be called the one with dinosaurs.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Official Trailer

Here is the new trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4. The 10 episode season begins its run on July 23 with new episodes released weekly until September 24. The already filmed final season does not yet have a date for its six episode run but at this time its assumed to be in 2027. 

That and the final season of Starfleet Academy will bring this ten year run of Trek to a close for at least the rest of this decade as the merged Paramount/WB will have different priorities due to estimated $79 billion in debt the company will have to pay monthly interest on when their summed value is currently around $80 billion.