In March 2026, PET (the Progress Educational Trust) boldly went where no charity had gone before, and ran a special exhibit at the Science Museum in London as part of the official 60th anniversary celebrations of Star Trek.
As part of its exhibit, PET showed the short film above, which features Professor Robin Lovell-Badge – chair of trustees at PET, and group leader at the Francis Crick Institute – discussing the real-life events in Shenzhen that inspired the fictional Shenzhen Convention in Star Trek.
If you can't see the film embedded above, you can watch it on YouTube.
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