We’re just over a month out from the second big Star Trek-focused convention of 2022, as Creation Entertainment’s annual Las Vegas show is set to beam down to Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel & Casino in August.
The unofficial 56-Year Mission: Las Vegas convention moves from its longtime home at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino to Bally’s Las Vegas this year — as the former locale undergoes major renovations — and will be slightly-reduced four-day event, running from Thursday, August 25 through Sunday, August 28.
As of this writing, Creation is advertising 130 guests for the event — and while a great number of those listed are one-off guest actors, panelists for Trek-related content, podcasters, or fans with creative projects, there is still a good representation of on-screen Star Trek stars scheduled to attend.
From the Kelvin Timeline films, Spock actor Zachary Quinto will be making his first appearance at the annual convention in several years — along with Keenser actor Deep Roy — while a fourth film for their Enterprise crew remains in production limbo following its announced 2023 release projection.
The modern era of Star Trek production will be well represented in Las Vegas, as Anson Mount (Pike) and Rebecca Romijn (Number One) from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Kate Mulgrew (Janeway) and John Noble (The Diviner) from Star Trek: Prodigy, Tawny Newsome from Star Trek: Lower Decks, Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Michelle Hurd (Raffi), Annie Wersching (Borg Queen), Evan Evagora (Elnor), Isa Briones (Soji), James Callis (Maurice Picard) from Star Trek: Picard will all be in attendance.
Star Trek: Discovery cast members Sonequa Martin-Green (Burnham), Anthony Rapp (Stamets), Blu del Barrio (Adira), Tig Notaro (Jett Reno), Doug Jones (Saru), Ian Alexander (Gray), Emily Coutts (Detmer), Patrick Kwok-Choon (Rhys), Phumzile Sitole (Ndoye), Mary Wiseman (Tilly), and Wilson Cruz (Culber) will all be on hand throughout the event.
William Shatner (Kirk), George Takei (Sulu), and Walter Koenig (Chekov) lead the Original Series representation, while Gates McFadden (Crusher), Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar), and John de Lancie (Q) will represent The Next Generation.
Deep Space Nine cast attendees include Nana Visitor (Kira), Andrew Robinson (Garak), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Casey Biggs (Damar), Chase Masterson (Leeta), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun), Max Grodenchik (Rom), Nicole de Boer (Ezri Dax), and Terry Farrell (Jadzia) — as Tim Russ (Tuvok), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robbie McNeill (Paris), Robert Beltran (Chakotay) and Garrett Wang (Kim) represent Star Trek: Voyager, while John Billingsley (Phlox), Anthony Montgomery (Mayweather), Connor Trinneer (Tucker) covers the Enterprise era.
A great number of special events and panels are planned for the long Las Vegas weekend, including a Thursday night dinner and comedy show starring Star Trek: Discovery’s Tig Notaro (for those who purchased “Gold”-level tickets exclusively), as well as two Star Trek movie screenings for milestone anniversaries — Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan for its 40th, and Star Trek: Nemesis which hits 20 years this winter.
Designer Geoffrey Mandel will take fans behind the scenes of Star Trek: Picard, presenting a look at the graphics work that has gone into the Paramount+ series, and he’ll also be exploring his well-loved Star Trek: Star Charts book which is still used as galactic map reference material in the modern-day Star Trek production offices.
A number of science-focused panels are also planned, including Star Trek’s Greatest Biological hits and Near-Misses with Dr. Mohamad Noor, The Real Astrometrics Lab with astrophysics expert Dr. Norbert Zacharias, Space Exploration with Arizona State University’s Professor David Williams, and many more.
Admission passes for Creation Entertainment’s 56-Year Mission: Las Vegas convention are still available in multiple tiers, along with their usual autograph and photo op tickets — if you’re heading to Las Vegas for the 2022 show, have a great time and we’ll see you there.