If you have a need to travel to the late 24th century and beam aboard La Sirena, then a new charity fundraiser campaign may just be your ticket.
Announced late last month, the All-In Challenge Foundation is offering one winner and guest the chance to visit the set of Star Trek: Picard — whenever production resumes for the show’s second season — get a guided tour of the sets, meet Sir Patrick Stewart himself, and eventually end up on-camera during filming of a Season 2 episode.
Picard star Patrick Stewart and Trek franchise head honcho Alex Kurtzman filmed this short video about the donation drive in late June:
— Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) June 24, 2020
Through a donation via Fanatics.com to a group of four worth charities — Feeding America, Meals On Wheels, World Central Kitchen and No Kid Hungry — fans can earn up to 200 entries for the grand prize, with minimum donation entries set at $10 USD.
The contest will be open for donation entries through July 22 at Fanatics.com, and is open to residents of the United States and Canada (except Quebec).
We’ve been waiting since March for new Star Trek content, and thanks to the just-announced arrival for Star Trek: Lower Decks, we’ll be heading back to the future before the summer is over!
The new animated series will debut on CBS All Access on Thursday, August 6, kicking off the first ten-episode season — bringing the USS Cerritos’ adventures to fans in just over five weeks. (The half-hour comedy was ordered for a two-season commitment from the start, with work on Season 2 already underway.)
The weekly episodes will then release on subsequent Thursdays.
The ‘Lower Decks’ crew — and senior staff — of the USS Cerritos. (CBS All Access)
In addition to this long-awaited scheduling announcement, we’ve also got our first official look at the California-class starship that will serve as the setting for the show, which takes place in 2380 — just after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis.
The USS Cerritos is similar to the Nebula-class — a “kitbash” ship which was made up of Galaxy-class design elements — with its saucer section separated from its octagonal warp engines and secondary hull by a pair of large nacelle struts, somewhat reminiscent of the 23rd century Oberth-class design.
The Cerritos is tasked with a mission of “second contact” — Starfleet’s follow-up brigade to new worlds who have already had their first encounters with the Federation — hence the show’s new tagline, Rarely Going Where No One Has Gone Before.
We don’t know much else yet about the show’s availability outside of the United States; while it was announced last week that the series will be available on CTV Sci-Fi Channel and Crave in Canada, as of this writing no plans for non-US/Canada distribution have yet been made public.
As soon as we’ve got more on that front, you can be sure you’ll know about it here at TrekCore.
Star Trek: Lower Decks stars Tawny Newsome as Ensign Beckett Mariner, Jack Quaid as Ensign Brad Boimler, Noel Wells as Ensign Tendi, Eugene Cordero as Ensign Rutherford, Fred Tatasciore as Lt. Shaxs, Gillian Vigman as Dr. T’Ana, Jerry O’Connell as Commander Jack Ransom, and Dawnn Lewis as Captain Carol Freeman.
Are you ready for the “second contact” adventures of the USS Cerritos and her crew? What do you think about the new starship design? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
San Diego Comic Con may be off this year like virtually every other entertainment and media event for 2020, but the typically-exclusive products tied to the annual show are still coming — and thanks to this year’s “SDCC @ Home” format, you don’t have to fly to southern California to get your hands on the goods.
Icon Heroes, the Star Trek licensee who launched their “Emperor Georgiou dagger” as a Discovery SDCC exclusive last summer, has now announced not one but two new Next Generation character busts for this year’s event… each part of a very specific theme.
Joining his captain this year is the Jonathan Frakes-styled Commander Riker “facepalm” mini-bust, announced today, replicating the Enterprise-D first officer’s frustration during his holodeck trial in “A Matter of Perspective” and on post-World War III Earth in Star Trek: First Contact.
Like Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard before it, the third new series to come out of the modern franchise production team — Star Trek: Lower Decks — will be heading to Canada by way of the same platforms: CTV Sci-Fi Channel and the Crave streaming service.
First came Star Trek: Discovery. Then came Star Trek: Picard. Now, we’re getting a Star Trek series unlike anything we’ve seen before.
Earlier today, we announced that Star Trek: Lower Decks, the latest addition to the Trek canon, will be coming to CTV Sci-Fi Channel later this year.
Unlike Discovery and Picard, Lower Decks—set shortly after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis—is a half-hour comedy that focuses on the more lighthearted aspects of being a Starfleet crew member. Oh, and it’s also animated.
There’s still no word on where Star Trek fans outside of the US and Canada will get to watch the series when it debuts later this year, but as soon as there’s an announcement on the Lower Decks global distribution plan, you’ll hear it from us!
It’s definitely not a kids show, but only because it’s a little bit more complex than a kid show would be. The fun of ‘Rick and Morty’ is that it breaks down sci-fi tropes and is told through Rick Sanchez, who has a very specific, chaotic, nihilistic lens.
‘Lower Decks’ treats mythological sci-fi things just as important as a regular ‘Trek’ show, while finding new stories to tell — just from a different angle. It’s not disassembling mythological sci-fi things.
It’s treating them as important for everybody on the starship as it would be in a regular ‘Star Trek’ show.
As we learned last summer, the USS Cerritos‘ “second contact” missions will be lead by the senior staff — like on every other series we’ve seen — but in Lower Decks, the focus will remain on Ensigns Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Boimler (Jack Quaid), Tendi (Noel Wells), and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) as the “big” story of each episode goes on around them.
The big stories are happening in the bridge crew and there’s more kind of social-emotional stories happening to the ‘Lower Deckers.’ So, it’s like their job, and the world they’re in get affected by these sci-fi stories.
But the funny thing too is that whatever menial job you have to do in ‘Star Trek,’ it might be something that they do every day, but it’s still sort of a fascinating look into stuff that happens onboard that haven’t been highlighted in another series.
So instead of being on the turbolift — the elevators in ‘Trek ‘— our guys are repairing the turbolift. We also spend a lot of time in the bar. You’ll also see the ‘Lower Deckers’ go on away missions doing things that the bridge crew doesn’t have to deal with.
Ensigns Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and Boimler share a drink. (CBS All Access)
McMahan also shared a bit of insight into the role that Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) will take aboard the California-class starship, as commanding officer of the young main characters.
[Captain Freeman] is sort of trying to do this balancing act that all captains do, where they demand respect and are admired and trusted by the crew, but then they also kind of have to be the bad guy.
A thing we play with a lot is that the ‘Lower Deckers’ don’t always get all the information they’re delegated to, but they don’t get to have a voice and they don’t get to know the context a lot of the time.
In addition to the new official artwork released today, McMahan hinted that we might also see an Andorian crew member aboard ship in response to a fan’s artwork posted on Twitter:
We still don’t know when the series will debut this year, or who from the massive live-action Star Trek canon we may meet again in this animated show — McMahan continued to dance around that question, saying only “You’ll have to wait and see.” — but as soon as we know more about when we can expect to see this series, you’ll know about it.
Keep checking back to TrekCore for all the latest Star Trek: Lower Decks news!
The second season of Star Trek: Picard is… well…. eventually going to happen, but while everyone in Hollywood is still working off-set, the cast and leadership team behind the show are still plugging away at getting things ready for whenever it’s safe to turn the cameras back on.
Over the past couple of weeks there have been a few tidbits about the still-gestating sequel season that have come to light from interviews, and we thought it was time to round things up in one easy-to-beam-down delivery!
Director Akiva Goldsman on the ‘Discovery’ set in 2017.
“[I have a call] with Terry Matalas, and Kirsten Beyer, and Michael Chabon, and we will be bashing through some [story] continuity issues we are having between episodes three and four in the script phase.
We have [a writers] room that is up and running; we have broken the season. We are closer to halfway through the scripts than not. We really loved doing it and we feel really lucky to do it and we feel kind of like Season 1 was ‘getting ready,’ and now Season 2… let’s go!”
While Data’s ethereal existence came to a final end in “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2,” after years of Brent Spiner’s resistance to revisiting the android character, the series introduced another Spiner role in the two-part finale: the never-before-seen son of Dr. Noonien Soong (also played by Spiner).
His gold-faced alter ego may be gone, but leaving Alton Soong alive and kicking at the end of Season 1 was a plan, said Goldsman, to allow Spiner to return to the Star Trek fold should the story head back in his direction.
“We wanted to feather in the possibility of more [appearances from Brent Spiner], and we knew we were letting Data go.
We knew that the [Alton] Soong character had been in our head canon when it came to the season anyway, but we want more Brent — and we wanted to create a platform for which there could be more Brent in ensuing seasons.”
Finally, the producer also teased a greater role for Starfleet in the second year of the show, the familiar Federation armada that was largely absent from Picard Season 1.
“We knew that bringing in that fleet [in ‘Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2’] was a little bit of a promise, and so we tried to be thoughtful about it.
Especially as we go forward, we’re going to start making statements about the world of Starfleet — at least technologically — if not socially and culturally. These are the things that are likely to get a little bit more play than they did [in Season 1] in what was essentially a story about [Picard] outside of Starfleet.”
On the TrekGeeks ‘Feeding America’ fundraiser livestream last week, Next Generation alum Jonathan Frakes spoke a bit about his apprehension about returning to the role of Will Riker for Picard, but in the end enjoyed his time back on set — and hopes that perhaps he’ll return to Starfleet duty once more before the series concludes. [via TrekNews.net]
“I was wary if we had gone to the well to have Riker show up again because he had just said he had left Starfleet. I think between Akiva [Goldsman] and [Michael] Chabon] and Alex [Kurtzman], they really wove it into the story… and I hope we see him again.”
Off-screen, the longtime television director also confirmed to SyFy Wire what has been long suspected — that he’ll be heading back to set to helm more episodes of Picard next season… and will be heading off to Strange New Worlds to contribute to that show’s freshman season as well.
“I can’t wait to get back with Sir Patrick. It was wonderful to have Jeri Ryan on the show, and Brent Spiner and Jonathan Del Arco from our timeline. And I’m looking forward to whatever the brilliance Michael Chabon and Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman bring to the table. I haven’t seen any scripts yet, but I’m chomping at the bit.”
“I’ve been asked to direct [‘Strange New Worlds’], and I’m looking forward to it very much.
I’ve had great experiences with all three of them. Anson and I worked through finding Captain Pike. And Ethan and I worked through finding who Spock was. And the mantle of Spock, in particular, was so complicated and so emotionally taxing and was such huge shoes to fill, and Ethan felt it.
Rebecca and I have a long relationship from back on ‘The Librarians,’ and we have a fabulous working shorthand, so it will be great getting back to the floor with three old friends.”
Picard star Patrick Stewarttold the Los Angeles Times that the first season of the show as so much work that he barely had time to get to know his new castmates — and took until the January 2020 press tour until they were able to relax together.
“There was no socializing [between the actors] for the first five months — we were shooting. When we came to the end of the series, we had promotional activities to engage with and we were traveling together on airplanes and got to know one another so much better.”
Now that Stewart and the Picard on-screen crew have had that off-screen bonding time, the actor expects that to help expand the depth of their performances in the next season of filming.
“This is going to be a new element in Season 2, that there is a lot of mutual respect everywhere. If you know you can take risks, and there is a network around you that if you crash land, they will catch you, it’s a wonderful feeling. That’s how I feel now. I feel safe.”
A look at the recreated Ten Forward set from “Remembrance.”
The ever-observant fans over at The Trek Collective continue to keep an eye for new behind-the-scenes images, and last week they pulled together an enormous collection of never-seen photography, on-set imagery, and concept art from Star Trek: Picard’s first season — along with a few snippets of interviews from the set designers and set decorators that brought year one to life.
“The more things change, the more they stay the same,” as went the last line of dialogue in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and best describes my feelings reading the impressively fun new novel Agents of Influence by Dayton Ward.
Despite the move to a larger format of book in the last year — as well as the re-invention of the 24th century continuity to match that seen in Star Trek: Picard beginning with February’s Last Best Hope, this new Original Series tale could easily have been published in 2016 and would have fit right in.
And if it had been published prior to the renewal of the Star Trek novel license, it might have had a different name — Seekers 5 — because Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise share the spotlight in this novel with Captain Atish Khatami of the USS Endeavor.
Captain Khatami and the Endeavor previously shared top billing on the Star Trek: Seekers line of novels, and the Endeavor crew were recurring characters during the popular Star Trek: Vanguard series.
Indeed, Agents of Influence remains steeped in the 23rd century continuity of the novels that have come before, serving to continue the stories of characters who premiered in Vanguard, were featured in Seekers… and now star in Agents of Influence.
Of course, this is not the first novel since Simon & Schuster renewed their novel license in 2018 to further some of those storylines: Christopher L. Bennett’s The Higher Frontier featured characters he had created for previous Star Trek novels set in the Motion Picture era.
However, Agents of Influence is the first novel of this new trade paperback line that confidently tells book fans that — despite all the change — where possible we may still see a lot of characters, stories, and plot developments we had seen developed in previous novels rear up again for further exploration.
Ward does an excellent job of ensuring that you don’t need to have read Vanguard or Seekers to enjoy Agents of Influence, but having just re-read Seekers 4: All That’s Left, I did find it to be a richer experience… and even though that novel came out in 2015, Agents of Influence picks right up where those characters left off.
Despite the USS Endeavor’s crew having a starring role in this novel, there is still a lot of fun Kirk, Spock, Sulu, McCoy, and Uhura action. The Enterprise is dispatched by Admiral Nogura to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the USS Endeavor, which had been sent to the edge of Klingon space in order to retrieve several undercover Starfleet operatives whose mission on the Klingon homeworld had reached an abrupt end.
Agents of Influence is a spy thriller wrapped in a disaster story, with gadgets, undercover intrigue, a race against the clock, betrayal, and a struggle for survival. The large cast of characters – the crews of both Enterprise and Endeavor – totally works, and provides a lot of fodder for intrigue and machinations (including one big twist I won’t spoil).
Though there is one plot point in the story that matches closely to last summer’s The Enterprise War by John Jackson Miller, it is not a retread and feels fresh and interesting because of everything else going on at the same time. With Agents of Influence, Ward has definitely taken advantage of the longer length afforded to the trade paperback sized books to expand the scale of the story he is trying to tell.
It is also fun to see more about how Starfleet executed its own intelligence gathering operations against the Klingons. We’ve seen a lot of the reverse; both Star Trek: Discovery and the classic episode “The Trouble with Tribbles” include Klingon agents operating in the Federation.
But this is one of the first times we’ve seen Federation agents operating in the Klingon Empire. And we get a lot of Klingon action in this novel, which capably weaves together the various interpretations on the race we’ve seen through the years. Oh, and did I mention that this novel also features the Orions for good measure?
Overall, Agents of Influence is a fun spy thriller, mixed with a disaster movie, and mixed with a good classic episode of the Original Series, which pulls together all those elements into a satisfying tale that will keep you invested from the first page to the last.
And if you spend any time on Star Trek Twitter or are a regular attendee at Star Trek Las Vegas, there are a lot of familiar names in this novel…. a lot of them.
While we’re all awaiting the return of new Star Trek episodes, the third Discovery-era Blu-ray set has just beamed down!Star Trek: Short Treks gets a standalone, spotlight release and provides a unique snapshot of the ongoing evolution of the 54-year-old franchise.
Short Treks were launched in 2018 as a new content platform for televised Trek, with the promise of short films that could touch on any number of Star Trek storylines of the past, present or future — and in any type of format (comedy, romance, animation, etc.).
Craft (Aldis Hodge) and Zora (Sash Striga) share a dance on the Discovery bridge. (“Calypso”)
And regardless of your personal take on the success of the Short Treks anthology, there is no arguing that through 10 episodes and two brief seasons of production, it has hit on its promise of telling truly varied stories across the Star Trek universe.
We’ve seen tales of the far future that tease what might become of the USS Discovery (“Calypso”), an origin story for Tribbles (“The Trouble with Edward”) and an animated Tom & Jerry-esque tale aboard Captain Kirk’s Enterprise (“Ephraim and Dot”), not to mention two Pike-centric stories that now justifiably qualify as prequels for the upcoming series Strange New Worlds series. (“Q & A” and “Ask Not”).
Number One (Rebecca Romijn) gets an assist to escape a stuck turbolift. (“Q & A”)
The single-disc collection of nine Short Treks episodes also includes about an hour of behind-the-scenes vignettes and two impressive audio commentaries along the way. Unfortunately, the super-stylized Star Trek: Picard prequel “Children of Mars” is not included in this release, presumably held back to be part of that show’s Season 1 Blu-ray set later this year.
Let’s take a look at the Short Treks special features now!
The Making of Short Treks (4:25)
‘Star Trek’ executive producer Alex Kurtzman.
This featurette is an interesting, if not enlightening, look at the new Trek format, as Alex Kurtzman describes how the Short Treks were envisioned to be a way to expand the Star Trek storytelling landscape.
Although touched on very briefly here, the overall presentation in this collection fails to get too deep into the way that Short Treks has served Kurtzman’s production team as a proving ground for new and diverse talent for the CBS Star Trek Universe.
Coming of Age (7:30)
‘Runaway’ director Maja Vrvilo.
A look at the making of “Runaway,” the first Short Trek ever produced. It includes informative interviews with director Maja Vrvilo and Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), but not Yadira Guevara-Prip (Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po), the future Xahean queen that eventually returned in “Such Sweet Sorrow” (an evolution that isn’t addressed).
Still, it is great to hear from Vrvilo on the challenges of the short-form narrative and the direction she received from Kurtzman relating the piece similarly to the film Monsters, Inc.
Shall We Dance (8:51)
‘Calypso’ writer Michael Chabon.
This look back at the much-heralded “Calypso” begins with director Olatunde Osunsanmi discussing the awe he felt tackling Michael Chabon’s script, the first time he had written for Trek. Osunsanmi eloquently details the performance of Aldis Hodge (Craft) and the challenge of shooting a one-person play with the same character in every shot.
The sharp feature also includes Chabon discussing his inspiration for the script, which includes The Odyssey, “A Piece of the Action,” and dancing.
First Contact: Kaminar (5:08)
Erika Lippoldt and Bo Yeon Kim, co-writers of ‘The Brightest Star.’
This one is a pretty thin vignette on Saru’s origin story, “The Brightest Star,” featuring soundbites from writers Erika Lippoldt and Bo Yeon Kim, as well as actors Doug Jones (Saru) and Michelle Yeoh, who has fun discussing her brief return as the actual Philippa Georgiou.
Covered in Mudd (4:52)
Rainn Wilson films a scene from ‘The Escape Artist.’
An incredible behind-the-scenes look at Rainn Wilson’s directing efforts on “The Escape Artist,” featuring his own Harry Mudd.
Although we don’t get to hear from writer Mike McMahon — the showrunner for the upcoming Star Trek: Lower Decks — on his dynamic script, the never-before-seen shots of Wilson directing himself and the extra details provided on the elaborate motion control camerawork that went into the episode’s final shot, more than made up for it.
Ensign Spock’s First Day (10:16)
Ethan Peck prepares for a close-up on the set of ‘Q & A.’
Everything you ever wanted to know about Michael Chabon’s creative writing process on Short Treks, and most notably on “Q & A,” from the man himself.
If you love to hear Chabon wax poetic about Star Trek, this wonderful feature is truly special.
Here Comes Tribble (3:43)
Mario Moreira talks tribbles for ‘The Trouble with Edward.’
Discovery prop master Mario Moreira discusses everything his staff put into creating a myriad of tribbles for “The Trouble with Edward” in this short video — and while he assures everyone that no animals or tribbles were harmed in the process, lots of fun fur in the greater Toronto area was sacrificed.
Score! (6:09)
‘Ephraim and Dot’ director Michael Giacchino.
Another solid special feature highlighting Michael Giacchino’s work directing and scoring “Ephraim and Dot,” an animated Short Trek that serves as a greatest hit’s entry for the beloved NCC-1701.
It’s always good to hear the passionate composer discuss his affinity for Star Trek, which he does here, while also highlighting the inspiration he found in 1960’s lounge music for this score.
Strangely, none of the expanded content released on StarTrek.com in December is included here, which spends time covering the creature design and animation work that went into creating this short story, or the January feature where Giacchino discusses the music of 2019’s Short Treks run.
Bedtime Stories (7:45)
‘The Girl Who Made the Stars’ writer Brandon Schultz.
Actor Kenric Green, husband of Discovery lead Sonequa Martin-Green, breaks down his role as Mike Burnham in this emotional take on “The Girl Who Made the Stars,” the second time he’s portrayed Michael Burnham’s father (after last season’s “Perpetual Infinity”).
Joining Green is writer Brandon Schultz who explains he first pitched the impetus for this story (which came from the script of Star Trek: Discovery’s “Brother”) to be included in a second season episode of Discovery, but when that didn’t work out, was later approached by Kurtzman about writing this epic standalone tale based on the /Xam Abathwa of South Africa.
Like “Ephraim and Dot,” none of the interesting material that was released on StarTrek.com in December or in February was included here, where the animation team had the opportunity to discuss the technology and production work that went into making this animated short.
Audio Commentary: “Runaway”
Co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet take the microphones for this first commentary, and it’s an absolutely superb fifteen minutes.
In much the same way the Short Treks highlight the art of short filmmaking, Kurtzman and Lumet do the same with their time here, covering a lot of ground — including the surprising fact about the original Xahean prothetic makeup design that had to be abandoned about 12 hours before shooting started, forcing a last-minute change of plans.
The two producers also get into quite a bit of detail on the talent of Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), and how Lumet was responsible for casting New York stage actress Yadira Guevara-Prip as Po, who later returned to Discovery in “Such Sweet Sorrow.”
Audio Commentary: “Ask Not”
As for the “Ask Not” commentary, it is a solo effort from Anson Mount (Christopher Pike), and also shines. Mount’s big reveal here is that both he and co-star Amrit Kaur (Thira Sidhu) had to return to Toronto six weeks after shooting for reshoots, because some of the original takes were too smokey to clearly make out the actors.
Mount’s good nature on the reshoots and in his role as Pike shines through on another strong commentary from the Discovery team.
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The audio and video quality of the Short Treks set is up to par with the high-end presentation we’ve seen in the previous Star Trek: Discovery Blu-ray releases — and like the show itself, each short is presented in its original 2.39:1 anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio.
At under $20, the Short Treks Blu-ray (or DVD, if that’s your preference) is a welcome addition of the Star Trek home entertainment pantheon — especially for those of you in the UK, who haven’t gotten the chance to see most of these shorts on Netflix yet.
Short Treks arrives on Blu-ray in the UK on July 13, but there’s no further international distribution we can find yet — luckily, both the US and UK releases are region-free, so if you’re located in another country and can have the disc sent your way, you’ll be able to watch it just fine.
If there is another round of Short Treks in the future that eventually make their way to home media, we hope that the CBS team will include all of the content from their web features as well to have a more-complete package of behind-the-scenes material.
What is your take on the Short Treks format — and what stories do you want to see as production continues on new stories? Comment below, but, uh, keep it short.
The annual Star Trek Las Vegas convention — held in early August each year — has been a giant question mark for the last several months, as fans wonder if the big gathering of Trek fans was still going to occur during these questionable times of social distancing.
Today, convention organizer Creation Entertainment announced that this year’s convention is still on sensors, but moving to a new date — and a new location — for 2020’s event.
During these challenging times, the safety of our Star Trek convention attendees, celebrities and staff is the utmost importance to us. We have continued to monitor the local, federal and international protocols concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, and while we had hoped that our Official Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas could take place in August, due to the unprecedented circumstances, we must postpone and move to a new venue.
The 19th Annual Star Trek Convention’s NEW DATE is now December 9-13, 2020 and is beaming into Caesars Forum Conference Center Las Vegas, the brand-new state of the art, $375 million facility located in the heart of the famed Las Vegas Strip! Caesars Forum Conference Center features direct access to our new host hotel, the newly renovated Harrah’s Las Vegas!
William Shatner, Walter Koenig and more guests have confirmed the new date, and we are currently working on more confirmations. Please check the website for updates!
If you wish to hold your same seat or general admission, as well as a la carte autograph and photo op tickets, you do not need to do anything. Your tickets and same seating will be transferred to the new date and updated tickets will be sent to you via the email address you used at the time of purchase within a few weeks. Your original ticket will no longer be valid.
Attendees must cancel their hotel reservations at this time. We will have revised booking links shortly so you can re-book your hotel reservations for the new date.
As for flight cancellations, many air carriers have amended their policies and procedures during this health crisis to accommodate customers. Please contact your airlines directly for information.
If you’d like a refund for the Star Trek Vegas Convention, please contact customer.service@creationent.com. The deadline for refund requests for the convention is June 19, 2020 (please include your invoice number and the convention name/city in your email).
If you do not request a refund by the deadline, your admission passes and a la carte photo op and autograph tickets will be transferred to the new date. Refunds will begin to be processed after the deadline date. Please allow up to 8 weeks from the deadline date for your request to be processed.
We appreciate your patience and continued support and look forward to seeing everyone in December!
Like many of you, we’re still debating if our team is going to attend the Star Trek Las Vegas convention this year — as much as we want to, the ongoing pandemic situation has yet to be anywhere near resolved — so we’ve got a few more months now to make that decision.
Keep checking back for all the latest Star Trek convention news!
Star Trek was born in the civil rights era, and messages of freedom and equality for all peoples have been at its core since the very beginning.
For over five decades, it has celebrated diversity and the fight for justice — from the earliest days of The Original Series into the most recent incarnations of the franchise, Star Trek: Discovery and Picard.
As Gene Roddenberry once said:
‘Star Trek’ was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.
Recent events have clearly demonstrated that the struggle for this future continues. Joining with our colleagues across a multitude of Star Trek fan communities, we invite you to stand with us in support of organizations fighting to make this future come about right here in this century for Black communities, along with others impacted by the injustice we see on our nightly news.
Roddenberry also said that “until we can value the diversity here on Earth, then we don’t deserve to go into outer space and encounter the infinite diversity out there.”
Together we hope that as members of the extended Star Trek community, we can help move towards Gene’s vision of the future. We ask our fellow Star Trek fans to join us in making $47 contributions — or whatever you can — to one of these great organizations, or to one of your own choosing that can help turn the tide for equality and justice in America.
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