Star Trek Viewing Guide

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Storms on the Horizon

2372–2373 · 53 stops

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This site is NOT a chronology - it is a viewing guide that will assist you through watching the entire franchise in in-universe story order, all the way from the 21st to the 43rd centuries, while making adjustments as needed to ensure an enjoyable viewing experience.  It is not rigid - some episodes are shifted in the order to keep things as clear and fun as possible. The guide is updated regularly to stay current with new episodes.

2372 (continued)

Voyager S2 · E26

Basics, Part 1

Seska lures Chakotay and Voyager to her, claiming that Maj Cullah is going to kill the baby she created using Chakotay's DNA, once he learns that it isn't his. Chakotay feels compelled to rescue his child, while all the time, he fears it could be a trap.

First aired May 20, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E1

Basics, Part 2

With the crew stranded on a barren planet, and the ship controlled by the Kazon, it's up to Tom Paris, Lon Suder, and The Doctor to retake Voyager and rescue their crewmates.

First aired September 4, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E1

Apocalypse Rising

Captain Sisko and his crew embark on a mission to expose Gowron as a Changeling who wants to engage a war between the Federation and the Klingon empire.

First aired September 30, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E2

The Ship

While searching for minerals on a planet, Sisko, Dax, O'Brien, Worf, and Muniz discover the wreckage of a crashed Jem'Hadar ship

First aired October 7, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E7

Sacred Ground

Kes accidentally intrudes on a religious shrine and is almost killed by a strange energy beam. Told there is nothing that can medically be done to save her, Captain Janeway undergoes a spiritual quest to ask the "spirits" to spare Kes's life.

First aired October 30, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E5

False Profits

Voyager discovers a pair of Ferengi, who arrived in the Delta Quadrant via the Barzan Wormhole, masquerading as gods to a primitive culture. The crew must find a way to put an end to this exploitation, while trying to use the same wormhole to get them home.

First aired October 2, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E2

Flashback

After falling ill to what appears to be a repressed memory Tuvok must perform a mind-meld with Captain Janeway in order to survive. The meld takes them back to when Tuvok was a junior science officer aboard the USS Excelsior under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu.

First aired September 11, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E3

The Chute

Paris and Kim are sent to an Akritian prison after being accused of a terrorist bombing, where they are thrown in among hardened killers.

First aired September 18, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E6

Remember

After Voyager encounters a telepathic species, B'Elanna starts having powerful dreams that depict the life of a woman and her lover in a time of great political and social upheaval.

First aired October 9, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E4

The Swarm

Voyager must find a way to cross a region of space owned by a mysterious race of hostile aliens without being detected.

First aired September 25, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E4

Nor the Battle to the Strong

Jake Sisko and Julian Bashir are caught in the middle of a battle between a Federation colony and a Klingon army.

First aired October 21, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E5

The Assignment

A Pah'wraith (evil entities who are enemies of the Bajoran Prophets) possesses and impersonates Keiko, but reveals her identity to Miles, threatening to kill her if he doesn't carry out her mysterious instructions

First aired October 28, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E6

Trials and Tribble-ations

While returning to Deep Space Nine with the Bajoran Orb of Time, the crew is thrown back to the 23rd Century.

First aired November 4, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E8

Future’s End, Part 1

Both Voyager and a 29th century Federation Timeship, the Aeon, are pulled back in time to Earth in the late 20th century.

First aired November 6, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E9

Future’s End, Part 2

Voyager must find a way to stop Starling, before his attempted use of the timeship destroys Earth's Solar System.

First aired November 13, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E8

Things Past

Sisko, Odo, Dax and Garak are shifted into the past, when DS9 was known as Terok Nor.

First aired November 18, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E10

Warlord

An injured alien named Tieran transfers his consciousness into Kes' mind moments before he dies. He then gains control over her and uses her abilities to steal a shuttlecraft and return to his home world to attempt a political coup.

First aired November 20, 1996

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Feature film

Star Trek: First Contact

After an epic battle against the Borg, Captain Picard and the crew follow the Borg Sphere back into the 21st century to prevent the Borg from contaminating Earth's timeline and preventing Earth's first contact.

Released November 22, 1996

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Enterprise S2 · E23

Regeneration

The remnants of an alien ship and two frozen cybernetic bodies are uncovered in the Arctic by a research team. These aliens soon thaw out and flee Earth, taking the research team with them.

First aired May 7, 2003

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Why is this here?

In Season Two we skip “Regeneration” until much later in the sequence, placing it after First Contact as by then you’ll be familiar with both the Borg and the reason they are found in the ice.

Deep Space Nine S5 · E9

The Ascent

Odo and Quark are stranded when they crash on a planet with no communications or replicators.

First aired November 25, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E11

The Q and the Grey

Voyager encounters several supernova in a small region of space. Q soon appears and reveals that they are the after-effects of a civil war within the Q-Continuum.

First aired November 27, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E10

Rapture

Sisko discovers the legendary Bajoran city of B'hala. He also receives visions of Bajor's future, one of which warns him not to let Bajor join the Federation.

First aired December 30, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E11

The Darkness and the Light

One by one, members of the Shakaar resistance cell are murdered, and Kira becomes increasingly worried that she will be next.

First aired January 6, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E12

Macrocosm

Janeway and Neelix return from an away mission to find Voyager adrift in space and the crew barely alive. They soon learn that the ship has been overrun by viral life forms that are rapidly growing in size.

First aired December 11, 1996

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Voyager S3 · E13

Fair Trade

Voyager encounters a region of space named the Nekrit Expanse. Since Neelix tries to make himself useful to the crew by trying to obtain a map from an old friend who asks for Neelix's help with some less-than-reputable dealings.

First aired January 8, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E14

Alter Ego

Ensign Kim asks Tuvok to teach him Vulcan emotional control techniques when he falls in love with a holodeck character named Marayna.

First aired January 15, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E12

The Begotten

Kira goes into labor with Keiko's child. Odo buys an infant changeling from Quark that was found drifting in space.

First aired January 27, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E13

For the Uniform

Sisko encounters Eddington, his former security chief turned Maquis traitor, and he is more desperate to capture him than ever.

First aired February 3, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E15

Coda

Captain Janeway repeatedly dies after she and Chakotay crash into a planet in what appears to be a time loop. Soon, her deceased father appears and tells her that she is dead and must accept her situation and move on.

First aired January 29, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E16

Blood Fever

Ensign Vorik expresses his desire to mate with B'Elanna during his Pon-Farr. After they get in a brawl over the matter, Torres begins showing signs of the Pon-Farr herself.

First aired February 5, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E14

In Purgatory’s Shadow

After a coded Cardassian message from the Gamma Quadrant is detected, Garak and Worf attempt a rescue.

First aired February 10, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E15

By Inferno’s Light

When the Dominion fleet comes through the wormhole, it soon becomes clear that Cardassia has allied itself with the Dominion and that war is not far off.

First aired February 17, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E17

Unity

Chakotay responds to a distress call, and discovers a group of different species, many of which originate from the Alpha Quadrant, living on a planet stricken by conflict.

First aired February 12, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E18

Darkling

The Doctor tries to improve his programming by incorporating traits from famous and historical people, but is soon overwhelmed by the dark sides of their personalities.

First aired February 19, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E16

Doctor Bashir, I Presume

Bashir is chosen as the model for Starfleet's next Emergency Medical Holographic Doctor

First aired February 24, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E19

Rise

While on an away mission to help a planet being bombarded with asteroids, Neelix comes up with a dangerous plan to re-establish communication with Voyager. However, he is pushed to the limit when Tuvok's negative attitude toward him becomes too much to bear.

First aired February 26, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E17

A Simple Investigation

A woman has her memories erased and stored on a data crystal to infiltrate the Orion Syndicate.

First aired March 31, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E18

Business as Usual

Quark enters into the booming business of arms dealing with his cousin. However, his new enterprise may cost him his life.

First aired April 7, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E19

Ties of Blood and Water

A Cardassian dissident opposed to the Cardassian/Dominion Alliance asks Kira to help him so that he may reveal his secrets to use against his enemies as is customary in his culture

First aired April 14, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E20

Favorite Son

Harry Kim experiences strong senses of deja vu in an unknown region of space. He soon learns that he is native to this region and that he is T'Karian, not human.

First aired March 19, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E20

Ferengi Love Songs

Quark discovers that his mother, Ishka, is having a love affair with the Grand Nagus Zek.

First aired April 21, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E21

Soldiers of the Empire

Worf and Dax join a Klingon ship captained by General Martok on his first mission since being freed from the Dominion prison.

First aired April 21, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E22

Children of Time

The Defiant enters a barrier surrounding a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, only to find its inhabitants are the crew's descendants from 200 years in the past.

First aired May 5, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E21

Before and After

Kes begins traveling backwards through time from the moment of her death. With each shift, she comes closer to a solution but she also grows months and years younger at a time.

First aired April 9, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E22

Real Life

The Doctor decides he should create a holographic family in order to expand himself. When B'Elanna is disgusted by its unrealistic perfectionism, she alters the program to include random events and outcomes with interesting and devastating results.

First aired April 23, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E23

Distant Origin

An alien paleontologist discovers a common ancestral link between his people and humans.

First aired April 30, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E24

Displaced

One by one, the crew of Voyager go missing and are replaced by strangers who claim they have no idea how they arrived. Soon, nearly the whole crew is gone, and there is no way of stopping the strangers from appearing and overrunning the ship.

First aired May 7, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E23

Blaze of Glory

Sisko receives a message from one of the few surviving Maquis members saying that they will launch undetectable missiles at the Cardassians, which will provoke an all out war

First aired May 12, 1997

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Voyager S3 · E25

Worst Case Scenario

A holo-novel is discovered in the computer banks, in which Chakotay raises a Maquis mutiny on Voyager. Then, when Paris and Tuvok discover that the program has been altered, they and the Voyager crew must race to stay one step ahead of a holographic Seska.

First aired May 14, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E24

Empok Nor

In order to repair the damaged Deep Space Nine, O'Brien assembles a team to salvage parts from the disbanded Empok Nor.

First aired May 19, 1997

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Deep Space Nine S5 · E25

In the Cards

Jake and Nog attempt to obtain an ancient baseball card to help lift Ben out of his depression.

First aired June 9, 1997

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