It seems that Star Trek Day is now an annual tradition, as the content-heavy event that started last September returns for 2021!

This year’s edition of the celebratory event is set to coincide with Star Trek’s 55th anniversary, and to mark the occasion another live streaming event is scheduled to kick off at 8:30PM ET (5:30PM PT) on September 8, with multiple hours of interviews, live performances, and more — all live from the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

Hosted once again by Wil Wheaton and Mica Burton at the Star Trek Day website, the 2021 schedule is set to include “back-to-back in-person conversations with cast members and creative minds from the Star Trek Universe, legacy moments with iconic cast, plus surprise appearances, announcements and reveals” throughout the night’s programming.

Each of the five current series will get spotlight panels which are likely to include new reveals, trailers, and more throughout the event — and there will also be an special panel celebrating Gene Roddenberry’s legacy for the Star Trek creator’s 100th birthday.

• STAR TREK: PRODIGY — with series voice cast including Brett Gray and Dee Bradley Baker, along with executive producers Kevin and Dan Hageman and co-executive producer/director, Ben Hibon.
   
• STAR TREK: DISCOVERY — with series stars Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio and Ian Alexander and co-showrunner and executive producer Michelle Paradise.
   
• STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS — with series stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck, who will be joined by co-showrunners and executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers.
   
• STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS — with voice cast members Noël Wells and Eugene Cordero alongside series creator, showrunner and executive producer Mike McMahan.
   
• 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.
   
• RODDENBERRY LEGACY PANEL — featuring a conversation with Gene Roddenberry’s son and the CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, Rod Roddenberry, alongside Gates McFadden, LeVar Burton, and George Takei as they discuss the Star Trek creator’s indelible impact on science fiction and culture.

Along with the six main features, Discovery and Picard composer Jeff Russo will be leading a live orchestra performing renditions of Star Trek music from throughout the decades, and there will also be a series of “legacy moments” highlighting Trek shows of years past — which will feature appearances by Cirroc Lofton (DS9), Anthony Montgomery (ENT), Garrett Wang (VOY), George Takei (TOS) and LeVar Burton (TNG).

Finally, as with several of CBS’s recent events, the #StarTrekUnitedGives charity campaign will return for the day.

On Sept. 8, the #StarTrekUnitedGives campaign returns. For every person who tweets the hashtag StarTrekUnitedGives (#StarTrekUnitedGives), $1 will be donated and divided equally by Paramount+ and the Roddenberry Foundation to organizations who do the real-world work of championing equality, social justice, the arts and innovation.

Paramount+ and the Roddenberry Foundation are also partnering on a new global campaign to engage fans in honoring the legacy of Gene Roddenberry. The campaign will launch on September 8.

All of the day’s programming will be streaming at StarTrek.com/Day when the celebration begins on September 8; as with last year’s event, we expect the panels to be viewable by fans worldwide… though the time zone difference may be a large headache this year.

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The trailer for the Star Trek Day event doesn’t feature much in the way of new content, however we expect to see more from Prodigy Season 1, Discovery Season 4, Lower Decks Season 2, Picard Season 2 — and hopefully, our first look at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds during the September event — now that Discovery and SNW are both wrapped, and Picard is quite far into S2 (and possibly even S3) filming.

The video does, however, offer us this new title treatment for Strange New Worlds…

…along with one brief shot from Picard Season 2 not part of the Season 2 trailer from June: a quick clip of Q (John de Lancie) snapping his fingers in that classic fashion (minus ‘flash’ visual effects that are sure to be added in post-production).

Finally, while there is a smattering of high-definition Star Trek: Deep Space Nine footage in this Star Trek Day teaser, it’s all material clipped from the 2019 retrospective documentary What We Left Behind: Looking Back at ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ — so nothing too get too excited about there.

Will you be tuning in for Star Trek Day this year — and if so, what news are you most hoping to see or hear? Let us know in the comments below!