On top of the Spade Needle with the Stars!
Featuring comedians, entertainment, Keynote Speakers and Awards Ceremony - more to be announced.
All of our celebrity guests are confirmed and contracted to appear, however there is always the possibility of cancellation due to other professional commitments, illness, or acts of God. It doesn't happen often, but please be aware that it can indeed happen. If a particular guest that you had hoped to see is not available, we sincerely apologize, and will do our utmost to provide suitable alternatives. Please remember that tickets are not refundable. Please check the web site frequently for the most up-to-date information.
The Man Trap
September 8, 1966
A conference and gala celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the classic Star Trek TV series and its living legacy of tolerance, inspiration, and hope for the future of humanity.
Forty years ago, on Sept. 8, 1966, the words "Space, the Final Frontier..." introduced a show that would boldly go where no TV show had ever gone. Star Trek entered our lives, and nothing would ever be same.
Who knew that a Los Angeles cop, formerly a bomber pilot and commercial airline pilot, would be the first person to realize the true potential of television in presenting the "What if" premise of science fiction in such a daring light. Gene Roddenberry took Star Trek where no show dared to go. Tackling issues such as racism and the morality of war in spite of TV censors and a jittery network.
Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry
August 19, 1921 - October 24, 1991
The result was a TV show with a positive message about the future of humanity, the most important aspect of which is that there will indeed be a future for humanity in space. It was this message that inspired certain individuals to work to bring that future closer to a reality, people like Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates, Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson, physicist Stephen Hawking, space shuttle astronaut Mae Jamison, comedian Whoopi Goldberg, Palm-One product design architect Rob Haitian, and many other engineers, scientists, entertainers, and entrepreneurs.
PlanetXpo and The Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame are proud to present the preeminent Star Trek 40th Anniversary Gala Celebration & Conference. There is no better place for this event than the Science Fiction Museum and the Space Needle in Seattle, and no better time than on the actual 40th Anniversary of the first broadcast, Sept. 8, 1966!
The Science Fiction Museum is the ideal venue, offering futuristic function space in an environment that sets the tone perfectly for our conference and Gala Celebration. The Science Fiction Museum epitomizes what the conference is all about. Science fiction asks "what if?", inspiring us to imagine the future in different ways, serving as the provocation for many young people to pursue careers in the sciences or engineering; shaping the world we live in to make the once imaginary future a reality. The museum demonstrates how science fiction uses different forms of media and expression to accomplish this, and Star Trek is the best, most obvious example of how science fiction utilizes television. Star Trek is truly the Show that changed our World.
