Six decades after Star Trek first beamed onto television screens across the world, The Royal Mint is unveiling two collectable 50 pence coins to celebrate the global phenomenon and its intergalactic legacy. The first coin, available from 3 September, features the iconic Vulcan salute alongside the phrase “Live Long & Prosper” and “Star Trek 60,” marking the franchise’s landmark anniversary. The second coin, available in November, showcases four spacecraft spanning different eras of the franchise: U.S.S Voyager NCC-74656, the U.S.S Enterprise NCC-1701, Enterprise – NCC-1701-D and the Klingon Bird of Prey along with the phrase “Star Trek 60”.

A selection of the coins will also feature color, echoing the franchise’s own television history. When Star Trek first aired in 1966, the cast’s vivid uniforms were deliberately designed to stand out on the new color television sets just becoming available to audiences at the time. That same spirit of color has now been beamed onto the coins themselves, with swirling blue and purple nebulas capturing the vast, uncharted reaches of space that Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S Enterprise set out to explore, ensuring the coins stand out just as strikingly today as those iconic uniforms once did on screen. Fans and collectors can secure both coins from 9am on 3 September at http://www.royalmint.com, with prices starting from £19.95 ($US 27.00). Special to The Gourmet Gazette