Star Trek Looks Back on 55 Years of Boldly Going in a New Doc Series

From the appears to be like of this trailer, documentary collection The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek will consist largely of interviews with solid and crew members throughout the beloved, long-running franchise—offering kind of an oral historical past of the present. A spicy oral historical past of the present, if the intriguingly enjoyable soundbites in its new trailer are any indication. It solely makes us wish to see extra.

Created by the Nacelle Company (Netflix’s The Movies That Made Us and The Toys That Made Us; Disney+’s Behind the Attraction) and the History Channel, the collection is narrated by Dr. Beverly Crusher herself, Gates McFadden, and directed by Nacelle Company founder Brian Volk-Weiss.

Here’s a bit extra on the documentary collection from a press launch:

“The series will be released this fall just in time for Star Trek’s 55th anniversary, each episode focuses on a different chapter in the groundbreaking program’s history, ranging from its inception at Lucille Ball’s legendary production company Desilu, to its later iterations Deep Space Nine and Voyager. Interviews with cast, crew, and experts reveal never-before-seen backstage stories and offer fresh insights. No stone is left unturned, including lesser-known aspects of the franchise like The Animated Series and Phase II. Star Trek is the most iconic television science-fiction saga of all time and remains more popular than ever. The Center Seat details how it began, where it’s been, and how it’s boldly going where no television series has ever gone before!”

The interview checklist is slightly staggering, with Nichelle Nichols, Brent Spiner, Kirstie Alley, Walter Koenig, Kate Mulgrew, Denise Crosby, Wil Wheaton, John De Lancie, Nicholas Meyer, Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, Nana Visitor, Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, Diana Muldaur, Nicole de Boer, Roxann Dawson, Robert Beltran, Tim Russ, John Billingsley, John Dykstra, D.C. Fontana, Rick Berman, and F. Murray Abraham all sharing their tales. It seems that The Center Seat received’t be touching an excessive amount of on the present Star Trek collection, like Discovery, Picard, and Lower Decks—however these all have new episodes at present airing or quickly to air, so that they’re nonetheless including to the present’s legend. (Maybe there’ll be a Center Seat half two together with solid and crew from these titles when it’s time for the sixtieth anniversary?)

The press launch doesn’t specify what number of episodes (it was initially touted as an eight-part collection when announced back in March) or give a launch date different than “this fall,” however it appears possible that the Nacelle Company’s New York Comic Con panel tomorrow may reveal extra particular particulars on how we are able to dig into this one.

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