FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER WILLIAM SHATNER COMES THE DEFINITIVE DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE SIX DECADE HISTORY OF SCI-FI’S FIRST FRANCHISE

The Sixty-Year Mission

Name: The Sixty-Year Mission
Director: Mark A. Altman
Genre: Documentary

HOW STAR TREK CHANGED TELEVISION AND THE WORLD

SIx decades. One enduring vision. Discover how a daring television series inspired generations to imagine a more optimistic, inclusive and hopeful future featuring commentary from WILLIAM SHATNER, JONATHAN FRAKES, SIMON PEGG, BRENT SPINER, GATES MCFADDEN, RAINN WILSON, WALTER KOENIG, ROBERT PICARDO, ETHAN PECK, CHRISTINA CHONG and over 50 Star Trek stars, creatives, and super fans.

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Stardate: 1966 — ∞
Transmission: Incoming

Poster for The Sixty-Year Mission documentary, featuring a starship crossing a full moon in a star-filled sky — Official mission artwork File 060

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The Sixty-Year Mission charts the remarkable voyage of a cultural phenomenon that refused to stay on the screen.

Through rare archival material and intimate conversations with the people who shaped its universe, the film explores how Star Trek challenged the conventions of television—and gave millions of viewers a new vocabulary for talking about humanity, technology, and what comes next.

This is the story of the artists, ideas, and fans who kept Gene Roddenberry’s remarkable vision of the future alive.

A future for everyone

How an optimistic bridge crew moved representation into prime time.

Tomorrow, engineered

From communicators to computers, fiction that invited reality to catch up.

The fandom frontier

The passionate community that changed how culture travels across generations.

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See where the journey began.

Watch the official trailer for The Sixty-Year Mission.

Mission command

The team behind the voyage.

Executive Producer

William Shatner

An Emmy-winning actor, director, producer, and author, William Shatner became a cultural icon as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek. His seven-decade career spans stage, film, television, and documentaries, including The Captains, his exploration of the performers who have led the franchise.

Writer · Director · Executive Producer

Mark A. Altman

Mark A. Altman is an award-winning writer, director, and producer whose work spans film, television, books, and journalism. He co-wrote and produced the cult favorite Free Enterprise, served as showrunner of the science fiction series Pandora, and co-authored the acclaimed oral history The Fifty-Year Mission.

Executive Producer

Michael S. Broder

Michael Broder is the CEO of Galaxie Pictures, a subsidiary of GalaxyCon, the largest independently owned consumer and fan engagement company in the United States. Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and founded by Broder in 2006, GalaxyCon produces pop culture, comic-con, anime, and horror-themed events across the United States, attracting between 25,000 and 75,000 fans for each event. GalaxyCon’s licensing division holds merchandise rights for properties such as The Rocky Horror Show, The Crow, and American Psycho. Previously, Broder served as President of Small Planet Pictures and VP of Domestic Distribution for Arrow Releasing, handling domestic theatrical distribution and marketing for hundreds of films.

Executive Producer

Thomas P. Vitale

Thomas P. Vitale is a television and film writer and producer who produced the time-travel action-adventure film 57 Seconds, starring Morgan Freeman and Josh Hutcherson. Vitale is also an executive producer on the critically acclaimed streaming horror series Slasher, now in its fifth season on Shudder, and Greatest Geek Year Ever! He was also an executive producer on the scripted science-fiction series Pandora. Prior to producing, Vitale was EVP at NBCU’s Syfy Channel and Chiller Network, where he ran scheduling, acquisitions, original movies, documentaries, specials, and series co-productions. While at Syfy, Vitale made the network one of television’s largest producers of original movies when he created Syfy’s original Saturday movie franchise, “The Most Dangerous Night of Television.”

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