Star Trek Events: Thursday, June 8 - Wednesday, June 14

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Redshirts: An Improvised Sci-Fi Musical: Friday, June 9

Join Redshirts, an all-women musical improv team, for a completely made-up musical version of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The show begins at 7:00 p.m. ET at The PIT Annex, in New York City. Check out The PIT for details and tickets.

WonderFest: Saturday, June 10 – Sunday, June 11

John Eaves, Rick Sternbach, and Kirk Thatcher are scheduled to appear at the sci-fi hobby convention, taking place at the Crown Plaza Louisville Hotel, in Louisville, Kentucky. WonderFest has all the skinny.

Spock Days: Friday, June 9 – Sunday, June 11

For a “weekend of out of this world fun,” featuring events from parades to pancake breakfasts, set course for the city of Vulcan, Alberta. More information is at Spock Days.

To the Journey: Star Trek: Voyager Panel Discussion: Tuesday, June 13

The SanDisk Professional team will be hosting a panel discussion with the documentary filmmakers from 455 Films, the creators of many official Star Trek documentaries. They will be discussing and taking questions about their upcoming documentary To the Journey currently in production for the Star Trek: Voyager series and showing some sneak peeks of the footage already filmed. The free, virtual gathering happens next Tuesday from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. ET. Get more information and join the discussion from B&H Photo.

Watch Trek - Look Foward: Wednesday, June 14

What is Duty anyway? What if you didn’t choose it, is it still Duty? Why do you do your Duty? And when you don’t? What is too big of an ask? Join Watch Trek - Look Foward for a discussion of these questions, beginning next Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. PT. Head over to Watch Trek - Look Foward to register for the virtual gathering.

The Regular Stuff

·These are the Twitter watchalongs:

o   #allstartrek runs Sunday through Friday at 8/7C and follows the Heroes and Icons Channel’s All Star Trek programme.

o   #TOSSatNight starts at 9pm PT on Saturday night and follows a different episode of The Original Series every week, and

o   #StarTrekHour is a Q&A-format event, every Tuesday at 1pm PT.

·Then there’s Star Trek: Watch Party, hosted daily and coordinated on Facebook. Every evening, they use the Teleparty browser extension to watch Star Trek together. To find out more, head over to Star Trek: Watch Party on Facebook.

·Speaking of a Star Trek watch party: the iBlind Users Group hosts Trekkie Talk on the first and third Thursdays of every month. They watch an audio descriptive version of a Star Trek episode and get together virtually to discuss it. To find out how to join in, visit ibugtoday.com/trekkie-talk.

·But wait, there’s more watch partying: Club IDIC hosts a weekly watch party and discussion at 6pm Alberta Time every Friday. The schedule and Zoom links are available at the Club IDIC Facebook page.

·Virtual Trek Con presents The Main Viewer every Tuesday - a live discussion show on YT with occasional special guests and an open chat geared towards fan interaction.

·Disco Does DnD - livestream DnD game with DSC actors on Twitch, every Sunday at 1pmPT/4pmET.

· Join Grey Havens Philosophy and Outworld Brewing every first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. as they discuss the big ideas inspired by Star Trek. The gatherings are at Outworld Brewing, in Longmont, Colorado. Attendance is free, but an RSVP for planning purposes is appreciated at Eventbrite.

·And finally, there’s Sid City Social Club, hosted by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Alexander Siddig’s official fan website. They meet twice monthly on the first Tuesday and third Friday of every month, with occasional pop-up meetings with Sid as his schedule allows. For more details, and how you can join in, visit sidcity.net.

·Ongoing through October, Starship Edsel is a Star Trek inspired farce set aboard the Federation Starship Edsel towards the end of the 24th century. It is based upon a LARP written and developed by Brandon Brylawski, who is also a producer and head writer on this show. Performances take place at the Otherworld Theatre, in Chicago. Get all the skinny at Eventbrite.

·Ongoing through March 2024, the National Museum of African American History and Culture hosts the exhibition, “Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures,” which includes a uniform worn by Nichelle Nichols.

Events compiled by Marina Kravchuk