Star Trek is a nearly 60-year-old storytelling universe created by Gene Roddenberry as a vehicle for stories about his humanist philosophy about the future. After the Great Bird of the Galaxy passed away in 1991, the starship Enterprise continued its mission, spawning seven more shows and seven more films. Now in its third wave, the renaissance for Star Trek is so strong, it’s getting its own annual awards show: The Live Long and Prosper Awards (LLAPys). Excellence in television is often celebrated by organizations like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Television Academy. Yet, genre fare like Star Trek is all-too-often overlooked at the Golden Globes and the Emmys.Star Trek is more than just a franchise of TV shows and films set in space with kooky aliens and social allegory. From sporting one of the most consistently diverse casts on television for 30 years to inspiring real-world advancement, this universe is important to people. The first Black woman in space, Dr. Mae Jemison, was inspired to join NASA because of Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series. She even had a cameo role on Star Trek: The Next Generation and a ship in Star Trek: Picard was named after her. Flip phones — which were popular in the early 21st Century — were directly inspired by the Star Trek communicators used in the 23rd Century stories. There’s even an ongoing project for scientists to create a “real” medical tricorder, a machine that can diagnose illness. Star Trek deserves recognition, and that’s where the LLAPys come in.The 2024 event, for which voting is now open to all, is the third annual award celebration. It will be part of Virtual Trek Con 5. The individual award categories are divided into three main sections. The first is Legacy Star Trek, or everything that debuted prior to 2017. The second is New and Current Star Trek, specifically episodes that debuted in 2023. The third encompasses the entire Star Trek Universe, new and old. There is also a fourth section, dubbed “Just for Fun,” with humorous categories about everything from wild Star Trek character hair to unorthodox shipping pairings.
Star Trek is a nearly 60-year-old storytelling universe created by Gene Roddenberry as a vehicle for stories about his humanist philosophy about the future. After the Great Bird of the Galaxy passed away in 1991, the starship Enterprise continued its mission, spawning seven more shows and seven more films. Now in its third wave, the renaissance for Star Trek is so strong, it’s getting its own annual awards show: The Live Long and Prosper Awards (LLAPys). Excellence in television is often celebrated by organizations like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Television Academy. Yet, genre fare like Star Trek is all-too-often overlooked at the Golden Globes and the Emmys.
Star Trek is more than just a franchise of TV shows and films set in space with kooky aliens and social allegory. From sporting one of the most consistently diverse casts on television for 30 years to inspiring real-world advancement, this universe is important to people. The first Black woman in space, Dr. Mae Jemison, was inspired to join NASA because of Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series. She even had a cameo role on Star Trek: The Next Generation and a ship in Star Trek: Picard was named after her. Flip phones — which were popular in the early 21st Century — were directly inspired by the Star Trek communicators used in the 23rd Century stories. There’s even an ongoing project for scientists to create a “real” medical tricorder, a machine that can diagnose illness. Star Trek deserves recognition, and that’s where the LLAPys come in.
The 2024 event, for which voting is now open to all, is the third annual award celebration. It will be part of Virtual Trek Con 5. The individual award categories are divided into three main sections. The first is Legacy Star Trek, or everything that debuted prior to 2017. The second is New and Current Star Trek, specifically episodes that debuted in 2023. The third encompasses the entire Star Trek Universe, new and old. There is also a fourth section, dubbed “Just for Fun,” with humorous categories about everything from wild Star Trek character hair to unorthodox shipping pairings.
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