The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series opens its 26th season by celebrating one of the most iconic series of science fiction, which began broadcasting 50 years ago on this date.

Join host Jim Freund of The Hour of the Wolf radio series to celebrate with acclaimed author/screenwriter Steven Barnes (who novelized the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Far Beyond the Stars”), New York Times bestselling author David Mack (co-writer of two DS9 episodes and author of dozens of Star Trek novels, including the 50th-anniversary novel Best Defense), acclaimed sf/f author Keith R.A. DeCandido, and tor.com writer Emily Asher-Perrin, and a performance of a comedy skit about Star Trek fandom written by New York Times bestselling Star Trek novelist Dayton Ward.