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.

Explore the mission

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 mission briefing

Boldly looking back.
Fearlessly looking forward.

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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.

Incoming transmission

See where the journey began.

The official trailer is approaching. Prepare for first contact.

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.