Today, Syfy is helping celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘Star Trek‘ with a Marathon spanning the entire day! They are celebrating with running 3 classic ‘Star Trek’ films all day long on the network and into tomorrow while on SyFy.com they will have more events including a fun little online video which we have a first look at below. Honestly, this is a day that Trekkies everywhere will be thrilled to celebrate!
Want to know what the day is going to look like?
7:00am CST: ‘Star Trek Generations’
Cast members from two “Star Trek” TV series join forces to battle an evil physicist. Patrick Stewart, William Shatner. Soran: Malcolm McDowell. Riker: Jonathan Frakes. Data: Brent Spiner. La Forge: LeVar Burton. Worf: Michael Dorn.
9:30am CST: ‘Star Trek: First Contact’
Capt. Picard and crew swear vengeance against their enemy, the Borg, a race of aliens who are trying to return to the 21st century to erase Earth’s history.
12:00pm CST: ‘Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’
Captain Kirk and crew of the Enterprise land in 1980s San Francisco and try to save Earth by transporting whales to the 23rd century.
2:30pm CST: ‘Star Trek Generations’
Cast members from two “Star Trek” TV series join forces to battle an evil physicist. Patrick Stewart, William Shatner. Soran: Malcolm McDowell. Riker: Jonathan Frakes. Data: Brent Spiner. La Forge: LeVar Burton. Worf: Michael Dorn.
5:00pm CST: ‘Star Trek: First Contact’
Capt. Picard and crew swear vengeance against their enemy, the Borg, a race of aliens who are trying to return to the 21st century to erase Earth’s history.
7:30pm CST: ‘Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home’
Captain Kirk and crew of the Enterprise land in 1980s San Francisco and try to save Earth by transporting whales to the 23rd century.
10:00pm CST: ‘Star Trek Generations’
Cast members from two “Star Trek” TV series join forces to battle an evil physicist. Patrick Stewart, William Shatner. Soran: Malcolm McDowell. Riker: Jonathan Frakes. Data: Brent Spiner. La Forge: LeVar Burton. Worf: Michael Dorn.
12:39am CST: ‘Star Trek: First Contact’
Capt. Picard and crew swear vengeance against their enemy, the Borg, a race of aliens who are trying to return to the 21st century to erase Earth’s history.
We learned recently that Walter Koenig who played Chekov in the original series felt that ‘Star Trek: The Voyage Home’ was his favorite movie from the franchise so that is good to see here and a few years back at 2013 Creation Entertainment’s Official Star Trek Convention the guests voted ‘First Contact’ as their second favorite film, ‘The Voyage Home’ as their fourth, though ‘Generations’ popped up in the 8th spot.
It’s hard to deny the appeal of bringing two of the most influential captains in not just ‘Star Trek’ but science fiction in general together on the big screen even when it doesn’t usually rank in the top 5 for fans.
The video I mentioned above will go live online at noon PT and is titled “Star Trek IV as Described by Whales” but you can get an exclusive look here! Obviously, this is poking fun at the whales in the movie. Here is their description of what we’ll be seeing:
George and Gracie the Humpback Whales are clearly the true stars of “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” which airs today Sept 8th on Syfy. In any event, they have a lot of important observations about the movie which we have brought to you because we care about you, and we care about whales.
Now for the videos:
The Whales of Star Trek IV Translate An Important Scene | Syfy
The Whales of Star Trek IV Live Tweet The Movie | Syfy
Hilarious!
If you want to get your social on with Syfy please tweet your photos to @Syfy with your best Vulcan Salute with the hashtag #SyfyLLAP, some of the photos listed will be featured on-air during the marathon so don’t feel shy about tagging @Scienefiction as well! Not only that but keep an eye out for #StarTrekTrivia on Twitter for on-air Star Trek trivia that’ll be going on throughout the day.
Will you be tuning in for any of the films on SyFy today? Can you believe it’s already been 50 years of ‘Star Trek’ in our lives? Share your thoughts below!
Stuart Conover is an author, blogger, and all around geek. When not busy being a father and husband he tries to spend as much time as possible immersed in comic books, science fiction, and horror! Would you like to know more? Follow him on Twitter!
