We’re still quite a bit away from next April’s Star Trek: Mission Chicago convention which was announced back on First Contact Day, but today we’ve finally got word on ticketing details for this new Trek venture — and some additional guests for the upcoming event.

The three-day event coming to Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center in April 2022 has four tiers of ticket pricing, all set to go on sale for the first time on July 29 at 12PM ET / 9AM PT at the official Star Trek Missions website.

For fans attending for just one day, there’s a daily adult ticket which will be available for $65 USD. If you’re planning to attend all three days of the convention, a full-weekend pass is a good bargain, running for $155 USD per adult.

If you’re planning to bring your children along for the adventure, a Kids Under 12 pass is set to be available at a $35 USD price point, and will be good for the entire weekend — whether the kids will be with you for one, two or three days, it’s all one $35 cost.

All of the three ‘standard’ tickets to the Star Trek: Mission Chicago convention are general-admission style only, meaning there’s no reserved panel seating, no extra perks (like autograph tickets or convention swag) — these tickets only get you in the door, along with everyone else visiting the event.

If you’re a hardcore convention attendee and want to go for a premium experience, then you can shell out for the 3-Day Priority One Access VIP pass, running $750 per person, which comes with a lot of extra features not available to other attendees.

(This one will be the closest to the “Gold” tickets familiar to those of you who have attended Creation Entertainment’s Star Trek Las Vegas convention in the past.)

If you drop $750, you’ll get all these perks along with daily entry to the convention:

• • One-hour early Priority One Access to Star Trek: Mission Chicago show floor on Friday, Saturday and Sunday
  • Reserved Priority One Access seating for all panels on the Main Stage
    Note: In order to ensure your reserved seat, we recommend arriving at least 15 minutes prior to the start of each panel. 
  • Priority One Access lines for select show features, autographs, photo opportunities and at the Official Star Trek: Mission Chicago Show Store
  • 10% discount off Star Trek: Mission Chicago branded merchandise at the Official Store all weekend long
  • Early Priority One Access to presale tickets for exclusive separately ticketed events
  • Early Priority One Access to presale autographs and photo opportunities
  • Exclusive Priority One Access merchandise! Including:
  • Re-usable Star Trek: Mission Chicago shopping bag
  • Star Trek: Mission Chicago Priority One Access Badge
  • Star Trek: Mission Chicago Priority One Access lanyard
  • Star Trek: Mission Chicago Priority One Access Embroidered Patch
  • Star Trek: Mission Chicago Priority One Access Pin

While the “fast-pass”-style queue priority for autographs, special-event tickets, and other perks above may certainly be tempting for attendees with the cash to buy the VIP ticket option — there’s a bit of fine print there for the “reserved seating” benefit that we need to make sure is clear to everyone.

This is not a specific, reserved seat guaranteed to be available to a VIP attendee — like the Gold, Silver, etc. passes work at the Las Vegas convention — this is access to a specially-reserved seating area that will fill up in a first-come, first-serve process… and even if you have a VIP ticket, you’re not guaranteed a seat in the “reserved” area if it fills up with other attendees before you’re in place.

ReedPop, the organizing company who manages the Star Trek Missions convention, traditionally does not clear out its main theater between panels — so some folks may even “camp out” all day in that reserved seating area if they have a hot panel that they want to see later in the day.

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Finally, Star Trek Missions has also announced that Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Prodigy lead Kate Mulgrew (Kathryn Janeway) will be attending the Chicago convention, along with Star Trek: Picard’s Michelle Hurd (Raffi Musiker) — joining Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) who was announced back in April.

We’ll bring you more news on the Star Trek: Mission Chicago convention as we get closer to its April 8-10, 2022 schedule — so keep checking back to TrekCore for all the latest!