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Star Trek 60th Anniversary poster and word search puzzle!

I made this word search puzzle and recreated/updated a vintage poster to celebrate Star Trek's 60th Anniversary, this September 8th, 2026.

This was my first attempt at a word search, so I hope it was fun. At first I tried a couple of word search generators, but I decided it was better to just create it from scratch myself. Word searches inherently pretty easy, but I tried to be thoughtful about how and where I used the reverse text and especially reverse diagonals so it didn't feel difficult just for the sake of it. The 'encrypted words' were an idea to make things more challenging in a fun way. I also threw in a few light narrative connections, like SEHLAT being next to SPOCK, which are also near SURAK, IDIC and VULCANIAN, etc. The multiplying TRIBBLEs was another such reference. The goal was to make it playful but not childish.

A Star Trek 'Word Scan' and a remake of a vintage poster, both made to celebrate the 60th Anniversary.

A Star Trek 'Word Scan' and a remake of a vintage poster, both made to celebrate the 60th Anniversary.

My update of the vintage "All I need to know about life I learned from Star Trek", with new quotes and aphorisms from all the series.

My update of the vintage "All I need to know about life I learned from Star Trek", with new quotes and aphorisms from all the series.

Oh no! It's Uhura's day off and a strange alien signal has scrambled the Enterprise's database! Captain Kirk needs you to use the word scanner to decrypt this letter matrix and recover all the lost data…

Oh no! It's Uhura's day off and a strange alien signal has scrambled the Enterprise's database! Captain Kirk needs you to use the word scanner to decrypt this letter matrix and recover all the lost data…

Printer-friendly version. The answer sheet is at the bottom of this post, BTW!

Printer-friendly version. The answer sheet is at the bottom of this post, BTW!

Detail of my USS Enterprise illustration. This was made in 2022 and has been repurposed several times now. See elsewhere on this portfolio…

Detail of my USS Enterprise illustration. This was made in 2022 and has been repurposed several times now. See elsewhere on this portfolio…

The original "All I need to know about life I learned from Star Trek" poster, compared with mine.

The original "All I need to know about life I learned from Star Trek" poster, compared with mine.

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Word search answer key!

Word search answer key!