Behind-the-scenes photo of an older Japanese-American man with white hair smiling warmly at the camera. He sits on a metal chair with his arms crossed, wearing a white zip-up jacket, a purple collared shirt, and khaki pants. He is in front of a dark gray textured backdrop, framed by large camera lenses and film equipment on both sides.

The Sixty Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television And The World

About The Sixty Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television And The World

The Sixty-Year Mission charts the remarkable voyage of Star Trek - a cultural phenomenon that literally changed television. 

Through rare archival material and intimate conversations with the people who shaped its universe (including William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, George Takei, Brent Spiner and Gates McFadden), this is the story of a cultural force that embraced risk as its business, from its precarious beginnings in the 1960s - as a series that grappled with the socio-political tumult of its times through metaphor and allegory - to its evolution into a global phenomenon.

This is the definitive true story of how Star Trek survived cancellation, thrived in syndication, conquered the big screen and constantly reinvented itself over six decades. 
 

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Duration includes trailers, adverts and any Q&A/panel. For events such as NT Live, Colour Box and Reel & Meal there will be minimal advertising. We do not admit latecomers after the main feature has started and we have a limited food & drink policy.

MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.

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