Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Gene Roddenberry in 1975, from Joan Winston’s 1977 book The Making of the Trek Conventions.

We spoke with the director of The Sixty-Year Mission, which is playing in Regal theaters now, about Star Trek fandom and what he wanted to do with his new doc.

The Next Generation aired an episode that brought two generations of Starfleet together in an unexpectedly heartfelt ...