German Star Trek fans will need to wait more than a year to attend the long-delayed Destination Star Trek: Germany convention, after the event — originally set for a May 2020 schedule — has been pushed off the 2021 year entirely.
In what should be no surprise to anyone following the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the team behind Destination Star Trek: Germany announced on Friday that the event will now not be part of the 2021 calendar at all… now warping out all the way to September 2022.
Originally scheduled for May 2020, the convention was first pushed out to October 2020 in the early days of the pandemic last year — and then moved again to a tentative June 2021 date, which is no longer feasible due to ongoing travel restrictions in Germany and Europe as a whole.
The Destination Star Trek event team announced the new dates — September 23-25, 2022 — on their Facebook page:
We are really sorry to have to inform you that due to Germany still effectively being in a Covid lockdown, we are unable to bring you Destination Star Trek on the 25th to the 27th June 2021.
Even if the best things now happened, there is now no way that the country will be open enough for large indoor public gatherings or easy air travel in and out of the country by the end of June. We are sorry to have no choice but to make this decision, but we also know that your health is more important than anything.
The good news though is that we will be moving Destination Star Trek to a date we feel certain should not be interrupted by Covid again! Therefore, the re-arranged date will be 23rd to 25th September 2022. That should give plenty of time for the vaccine to have fully rolled out round the whole of Europe and for the world to be back to ‘normal’!
We wanted to select a date that we could all be certain of and fix our hopes and excitement to. The event will still be in the same venue in Dortmund and we will still be bringing you the Voyager cast to celebrate their late birthday, as well as many new and old characters from other series!
We are sorry that the pandemic has impacted so badly on public events. We truly miss seeing you all and feedback from the actors is that they also really miss you too! So, let’s all look forward to the new date which we will make the best Destination Star Trek Germany has ever seen!
Thank you for understanding and continuing with your much valued support of us and Star Trek!
For those of you who may have already bought tickets to the convention — whether back in 2020 or in the months since — those will automatically carry over to the new 2022 schedule without any additional action required.
The company is offering vouchers for other Destination Star Trek events, such as the one in London scheduled for this November, in lieu of refunds; if an issued voucher is not used by the end of December 2022, a refund will be issued to ticketholders at that time.
Tickets and more information on the Destination Star Trek: Germany convention, now set for September 22-25, 2022, can be found at the event’s official website.