Nine Hundred and Thirty Four People Held the Vulcan Salute for a Full Minute to Set a Guinness World Records Title in London
The attempt was staged at the Science Museum on Star Trek Day, sixty years after the series was first broadcast, and was adjudicated on the night.
A total of 934 people held the Vulcan salute simultaneously for one minute at the Science Museum in London on 9 September 2026, setting a new Guinness World Records title for the largest simultaneous Vulcan salute.
The attempt was staged during the museum's Star Trek Lates evening event and required every participant to hold the split-fingered gesture continuously for the full minute. It was adjudicated on the night by the Guinness World Records adjudicator Paulina Sapinska, who presented the certificate to Ben Lheureux, the museum's commercial operations director.
The event marked the sixtieth anniversary of Star Trek, which was first broadcast on 8 September 1966. Martin Quinn, who plays Scotty in Star Trek Strange New Worlds, attended and received a certificate of his own. He said he was going to hang it in his brother's room to really rub it in.
Glyn Morgan, the museum's head of collections, said it was the sixtieth anniversary and the museum had wanted something people would really remember and that would mark the event as something special, asking what was more special than breaking a world record.
The attempt was tied to the museum's free Star Trek Warp Trail display of props and uniforms, which closed on 13 September 2026.