Watch this stirring new 'Star Trek' 60th anniversary video saluting the iconic sci-fi franchise

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Geographical rules apply. Click for next article For 60 years, Star Trek has explored strange new worlds, sought out new life and new civilizations, and has boldly gone where no sci-fi franchise has gone before. (Image credit: Paramount) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Celebrating 60 Years of Star Trek at SDCC 2026 - YouTube Watch On Nostalgia is a powerful elixir as demonstrated by Paramount's moving "Star Trek" tribute video created for the franchise's big 60th anniversary this year and revealed last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con during a Star Trek Universe presentation at Hall H.

It's a sentimental journey into the final frontier that chronicles the popular space opera property from its infancy as "Star Trek: The Original Series" in 1966, through 14 Hollywood feature films and numerous small screen iterations like "The Next Generation," "Deep Space Nine," "Voyager," "Enterprise," "Discovery," "Picard," "Strange New Worlds," "Below Decks," "Prodigy," and even "Starfleet Academy.""We are all explorers, driven to know what's over the horizon," declares Scott Bakula's Captain Archer from Enterprise in this misty celebratory mission down memory lane.Latest Videos FromSpaceView moreWatch full video here: "Star Trek" first appeared on the NBC Network on September 8, 1966.

(Image credit: Paramount)San Diego Comic-Con fans attending the annual pop culture extravaganza were also treated to a packed panel featuring "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 4 stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, and Paul Wesley, in addition to executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, and Alex Kurtzman. The cast and creators offered up an extended peek at the new season and teased the fifth and final season being released in 2027.An impressive roster of "Star Trek" luminaries made appearances to discuss Gene Roddenberry's hopeful vision of the future and the franchise's enduring legacy, including Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, Michael Dorn, Robert Picardo, Connor Trinneer, Cirroc Lofton, Doug Jones, Michelle Hurd, Jerry O'Connell, Christina Chong, Karim Diané, and George Takei."

For 60 years, 'Star Trek' has carried us beyond galaxies out of reach, to the very core of what it means to be human," "Discovery's" Sonequa Martin-Green states in the tribute's narration. "It began with a bold idea that the future could be united."Stay tuned for more "Star Trek" 60th anniversary news and events this September!

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