From The Hollywood Reporter · Benjamin Svetkey · · 1m 10s
Star Trek at 60, still boldly going
Akiva Goldsman grew up chasing starships with toy phasers, and now he runs one on Paramount+.
In brief
Akiva Goldsman grew up chasing starships with toy phasers, and now he runs one on Paramount+. Sixty years on, Star Trek keeps working because the people making it never stopped being fans of it. Originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
Sixty years of Trek
Star Trek has just passed its 60th anniversary, still running new stories on a franchise that started in 1966.
The kid with the phaser
Akiva Goldsman spent his childhood playing with toy phasers and imagining a starship of his own.
“One minute he's a kid playing with toy phasers and zipping around the galaxy on an imaginary starship.”
Same game, bigger budget
At 64 he is a Hollywood producer doing the exact same thing, except the starship is real enough to film.
“The next he's a grown-up Hollywood producer who's still playing with toy phasers”
A five-year mission
Goldsman is nearing the end of his own five-year run as co-creator of Strange New Worlds, a neat echo of the original show's framing.
Pike gets the chair
Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike aboard the USS Enterprise, with Spock and other Federation officers alongside him.
Set before Kirk
The Paramount+ series is a prequel, landing in the years just before James T. Kirk took command in the 1966-69 original.
At a glance
Sixty years on, Star Trek keeps working because the people making it never stopped being fans of it.
