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.

Whither Star Trek? With the current streaming era of Paramount+ Star Trek shows seemingly at an end, the future of the Final Frontier is technically in flux. While screenwriters Jonathan Francis Daley ...