The best Star Trek fan event of the year joyfully celebrates the franchise’s worst episode
Star Trek fans celebrate a lot of holidays. There’s Star Trek Day on Sept. 8, the anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek: The Original Series. There’s First Contact Day on April 5, the anniversary of the fictional date on which humanity made first contact with Vulcan visitors. One might even celebrate Captain Picard Day […]
Star Trek fans celebrate a lot of holidays. There’s Star Trek Day on Sept. 8, the anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek: The Original Series. There’s First Contact Day on April 5, the anniversary of the fictional date on which humanity made first contact with Vulcan visitors. One might even celebrate Captain Picard Day on June 16, the Gregorian calendar date that corresponds with a yearly tribute put on by schoolchildren living on the Enterprise-D.
But none of them are quite like Threshold Day, a yearly social media extravaganza — primarily held on Tumblr — that features gifs, memes, and lots and lots of fan art of three enormous, juvenile salamanders. Because Threshold Day, held on Jan. 29, joyfully celebrates the anniversary of what’s widely regarded to be one of the worst episodes of Star Trek ever made.
With this year’s ninth annual Threshold Day gaining acknowledgement from sources as diverse as Tumblr’s official trends blog and Captain Janeway actor Kate Mulgrew herself, Polygon reached out to Sif, who originated Threshold Day through their Trek-themed Tumblr blogs, to see if we could discover the true meaning of Threshold Day season and better keep it in our hearts year round.
