Ultimate Chronological Star Trek Viewing Guide

Early 2230s:

An adaptation of an (actual) ancient African legend, told to a young girl we will meet again as an adult shortly, this is our first “Short Treks” episode. These are short mini-episodes that are not pinned down to any specific time or place in the franchise and will pop up now and then in this list.

SHO Season 2, episode 5 - The Girl Who Made the Stars

2233 - A sidenote about universes/timelines:

The Star Trek franchise includes two primary “universes” that co-exist independently. The Kelvin timeline, consisting of three feature films, and the Prime timeline, which covers literally everything else. This year, 2233, is the point at which the universe splits into Kelvin and Prime. None of this is actually important for now, as we’re going to stick with the Prime timeline until much later in this viewing order, but remember it for later.

(Do note there is actually a third universe, the “Mirror” universe, which we’ll be getting to know shortly, but this is a whole different thing, and for simplicity our visits there are not separated from the Prime episodes.)

2233 (Prime):

The USS Kelvin flies through space, exploring strange new worlds.

Nothing happens.

All is well.

2239:

SHO Season 1, episode 3 - The Brightest Star

2254:

After a quick Short Trek in which we meet a young ensign reporting to his new ship, we reach the very first pilot for Star Trek ever produced: The Cage, dating from 1964-65. Rejected by NBC for being "too cerebral," studio owner Lucille Ball convinced the network to give them another shot, which we’ll get to in a few years. Much of this footage was recycled into a later episode, “The Menagerie,” but don’t skip either of them - the character of Captain Pike becomes very important shortly, and both episodes have much to say about him.

Viewing notes: This guide refers to the original 1960’s “Star Trek” as TOS (The Original Series) to differentiate it from the later series. TOS is available both in classic form as it aired in the 60s, or in an enhanced form with more recently done CGI effects. This is not a Star Wars situation: the remastered versions don’t change anything relating to the stories themselves, so which you choose to watch truly is a matter of personal preference and we make no official recommendation.

SHO Season 2, episode 1 - Q&A

TOS Season 0, episode 1 - The Cage

2256:

While only the second series chronologically, Discovery, which we are about to begin, is the seventh Star Trek series produced, and the first to significantly revamp the visual designs. While every previous show assumed the 23rd century appeared as it did in the original 1960s series, Discovery updates these designs and trusts us to accept that they “always” looked this way, which affects uniforms, ships, alien makeup and more. (We’ve seen hints of this already in Post-Disco Short Treks.) Worth particular mention are the Klingons, who were dramatically redesigned, though this rather unpopular redesign is backtracked significantly in season 2. (Though don’t ask me why they aren’t looking human after the events portrayed late in Star Trek Enterprise).

DIS Season 1, episode 1 - The Vulcan Hello

DIS Season 1, episode 2 - Battle of the Binary Stars

DIS Season 1, episode 3 - Context is for Kings

DIS Season 1, episode 4 - The Butchers Knife Cares Not for the Lambs Cry

DIS Season 1, episode 5 - Choose Your Pain

DIS Season 1, episode 6 - Lethe

DIS Season 1, episode 7 - Magic to Make the Sanest Man go Mad

2257:

DIS Season 1, episode 8 - Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

DIS Season 1, episode 9 - Into the Forest I Go

One of the quirks in watching the franchise this way pops up here, as episode 10 establishes that the USS Defiant is somewhere it shouldn’t be. Our heroes don’t know why, but the show assumes that we do. Even so, don’t worry about it for now - we will see the explanation when we get to 2268, and in the meantime, it’s not at all important to how the story in Discovery plays out.

DIS Season 1, episode 10 - Despite Yourself

DIS Season 1, episode 11 - The Wolf Inside

DIS Season 1, episode 12 - Vaulting Ambition

DIS Season 1, episode 13 - What's Past is Prologue

DIS Season 1, episode 14 - The War Without, The War Within

DIS Season 1, episode 15 - Will You Take My Hand?

SHO Season 1, episode 1 - Runaway

SHO Season 1, episode 4 - Escape Artist

DIS Season 2, episode 1 - Brother

DIS Season 2, episode 2 - New Eden

DIS Season 2, episode 3 - Point of Light

DIS Season 2, episode 4 - An Obol for Charon

DIS Season 2, episode 5 - Saints of Imperfection

DIS Season 2, episode 6 - The Sound of Thunder

DIS Season 2, episode 7 - Light and Shadows

DIS Season 2, episode 8 - If Memory Serves

DIS Season 2, episode 9 - Project Daedalus

DIS Season 2, episode 10 - The Red Angel

DIS Season 2, episode 11 - Perpetual Infinity

DIS Season 2, episode 12 - Through the Valley of Shadows

DIS Season 2, episode 13 - Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 1

DIS Season 2, episode 14 - Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2

Late 2250s-Early 2260s:

I will attempt to avoid spoilers here, but if you’ve seen the Disco episode listed just above, you will understand why we are leaving Discovery at this point despite the fact that there are more episodes that we have yet to watch. Rest assured, we will return to Discovery at the proper time to continue the series.

SHO Season 2, episode 2 - The Trouble with Edward

SHO Season 2, episode 3 - Ask Not

Star Trek - Strange New Worlds, starting later in 2021, will likely take place here once it airs.

2265:

Here’s that second Original Series pilot Lucille Ball fought for, now with (most) of the classic 1960’s Star Trek crew. Still no Dr. McCoy, Uhura, or Chekov, Kirk has a different middle initial, the uniforms and sets still aren’t quite right… but we are for the first time recognizably in the world of the show that started it all.

TOS Season 1, episode 3 - Where No Man Has Gone Before

2266-2267:

Unlike our previous shows, the episode order for TOS will jump around significantly for a while, as they are listed here by production order instead of by airdate. TOS has very little inter-episode continuity anyway, but production order allows you to better see the show develop. In general, don’t get too hung up on continuity with the rest of the franchise in these early days - they take quite a while to pin some stuff down that the things we’ve seen so far took for granted. (Just one example, there’s about five different contradictory names given for the agency they work for before someone finally says the word “Starfleet” in episode 20. )

TOS Season 1, episode 10 - The Corbomite Maneuver

TOS Season 1, episode 6 - Mudd's Women

TOS Season 1, episode 5 - The Enemy Within

TOS Season 1, episode 1 - The Man Trap

TOS Season 1, episode 4 - The Naked Time

TOS Season 1, episode 2 - Charlie X

TOS Season 1, episode 14 - Balance of Terror

TOS Season 1, episode 7 - What Are Little Girls Made of?

TOS Season 1, episode 9 - Dagger of the Mind

TOS Season 1, episode 8 - Miri

TOS Season 1, episode 13 - The Conscience of the King

TOS Season 1, episode 16 - The Galileo Seven

TOS Season 1, episode 20 - Court Martial

The Menagerie is largely reedited from The Cage, which we watched a while back, but don’t skip it - after spending so much time with Captain Pike since, this episode is essential.

TOS Season 1, episode 11 - The Menagerie (Part I)

TOS Season 1, episode 12 - The Menagerie (Part II)

TOS Season 1, episode 15 - Shore Leave

TOS Season 1, episode 17 - The Squire of Gothos

TOS Season 1, episode 18 - Arena

TOS Season 1, episode 27 - The Alternative Factor

TOS Season 1, episode 19 - Tomorrow is Yesterday

TOS Season 1, episode 21 - The Return of the Archons

TOS Season 1, episode 23 - A Taste of Armageddon

TOS Season 1, episode 22 - Space Seed

TOS Season 1, episode 24 - This Side of Paradise

TOS Season 1, episode 25 - Devil in the Dark

TOS Season 1, episode 26 - Errand of Mercy

TOS Season 1, episode 28 - The City on the Edge of Forever

TOS Season 1, episode 29 - Operation:Annihilate!

2267-2268:

With the arrival of Chekov, the classic cast is finally complete.

TOS Season 2, episode 7 - Catspaw

TOS Season 2, episode 9 - Metamorphosis

TOS Season 2, episode 11 - Friday's Child

TOS Season 2, episode 2 - Who Mourns for Adonais?

TOS Season 2, episode 1 - Amok Time

TOS Season 2, episode 6 - The Doomsday Machine

TOS Season 2, episode 14 - Wolf in the Fold

TOS Season 2, episode 3 - The Changeling

TOS Season 2, episode 5 - The Apple

While Mirror, Mirror is the episode that introduced the Mirror universe, we’ve already been there on Discovery. Enterprise had a two-part episode there too, actually, but that’s one of the ones we skipped for later viewing and will be arriving at shortly.

TOS Season 2, episode 4 - Mirror, Mirror

TOS Season 2, episode 12 - The Deadly Years

TOS Season 2, episode 8 - I, Mudd

TOS Season 2, episode 15 - The Trouble with Tribbles

TOS Season 2, episode 25 - Bread and Circuses

TOS Season 2, episode 10 - Journey to Babel

TOS Season 2, episode 19 - A Private Little War

TOS Season 2, episode 16 - The Gamesters of Triskelion

TOS Season 2, episode 13 - Obsession

TOS Season 2, episode 18 - The Immunity Syndrome

TOS Season 2, episode 17 - A Piece of the Action

TOS Season 2, episode 22 - By Any Other Name

TOS Season 2, episode 20 - Return to Tomorrow

TOS Season 2, episode 21 - Patterns of Force

TOS Season 2, episode 24 - The Ultimate Computer

TOS Season 2, episode 23 - The Omega Glory

TOS Season 2, episode 26 - Assignment: Earth

2268-2269:

TOS Season 3, episode 6 - Spectre of the Gun

TOS Season 3, episode 13 - Elaan of Troyius

TOS Season 3, episode 3 - The Paradise Syndrome

TOS Season 3, episode 2 - The Enterprise Incident

TOS Season 3, episode 4 - And the Children Shall Lead

TOS Season 3, episode 1 - Spock's Brain

TOS Season 3, episode 5 - Is There No Truth in Beauty?

TOS Season 3, episode 12 - The Empath

In one of the more fun examples of the shows tying together, the next three episodes we watch include two of the Enterprise episodes we skipped, and will finally explain why Discovery detected the USS Defiant in the Mirror Universe.

TOS Season 3, episode 9 - The Tholian Web

ENT Season 3, episode 18 - In a Mirror, Darkly, Part I

ENT Season 3, episode 19 - In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II

TOS Season 3, episode 8 - For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

TOS Season 3, episode 7 - Day of the Dove

TOS Season 3, episode 10 - Plato's Stepchildren

TOS Season 3, episode 11 - Wink of An Eye

TOS Season 3, episode 17 - That Which Survives

TOS Season 3, episode 15 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

TOS Season 3, episode 14 - Whom Gods Destroy

TOS Season 3, episode 16 - The Mark of Gideon

TOS Season 3, episode 18 - The Lights of Zetar

TOS Season 3, episode 21 - The Cloud Minders

TOS Season 3, episode 20 - The Way to Eden

TOS Season 3, episode 19 - Requiem for Methuselah

TOS Season 3, episode 22 - The Savage Curtain

TOS Season 3, episode 23 - All Our Yesterdays

TOS Season 3, episode 24 - Turnabout Intruder

2269-2270:

We now finish out Kirk’s Five-Year Mission with Star Trek: The Animated Series. Is TAS in continuity? Debatable. In later years, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry liked to say it was not, but those that followed him certainly seemed to disagree, with Enterprise’s Vulcan arc as well as the first of the Kelvin films borrowing heavily from Yesteryear, Robert April being name-dropped in Discovery, Lower Decks having a character from a race previously only seen here, etc. So I see no reason not to consider it canon. Death of the author means we don’t have to listen to Gene.

TAS Season 1, episode 1 - Beyond the Farthest Star

TAS Season 1, episode 2 - Yesteryear

TAS Season 1, episode 3 - One of Our Planets is Missing

TAS Season 1, episode 4 - The Lorelei Signal

TAS Season 1, episode 5 - More Tribbles, More Troubles

TAS Season 1, episode 6 - The Survivor

TAS Season 1, episode 7 - The Infinite Vulcan

TAS Season 1, episode 8 - The Magicks of Megas-tu

TAS Season 1, episode 9 - Once Upon a Planet

TAS Season 1, episode 10 - Mudd's Passion

TAS Season 1, episode 11 - The Terratin Incident

TAS Season 1, episode 12 - The Time Trap

TAS Season 1, episode 13 - The Ambergris Element

TAS Season 1, episode 14 - The Slaver Weapon

TAS Season 1, episode 15 - The Eye of the Beholder

TAS Season 1, episode 16 - The Jihad

TAS Season 2, episode 1 - The Pirates of Orion

TAS Season 2, episode 2 - Bem

TAS Season 2, episode 3 - The Practical Joker

TAS Season 2, episode 4 - Albatross

TAS Season 2, episode 5 - How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth

TAS Season 2, episode 6 - The Counter-Clock Incident

2273:

Movie time! Some background here. Paramount was planning on making a new network, and thought a new Star Trek series, to be entitled Star Trek Phase II, was just the thing to anchor it. Many scripts were written and new characters created and cast before the network plans fell through. And so did the show at first, but when Star Wars was such a hit, they decided to take one of those scripts and streeeeeeeeeetch it out into a movie.

So…. Is it way too long for the amount of plot it has? Yes, though it has its charms. And isn’t it basically a retread of Nomad from the episode The Changeling anyway? It is. And hey, isn’t that the pedophile Dad from 7th Heaven? Yes, yes it is. Anyway, if you have access to it I recommend the Director’s Cut, in which pacing is improved and some particularly flawed effects are redone, but story-wise it doesn’t matter which cut you watch.

MOV Star Trek: The Motion Picture

2285:

After the release of The Motion Picture, the next film substantially revamped the franchise to a quite different style and attitude from what people had seen previously, and resulted in what many people, including your humble author, consider to be the best Star Trek film of all.

MOV Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

MOV Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Ephraim and Dot ’s continuity really makes no sense anywhere, but it’s cute so who cares. Anyway, this seemed the BEST place to put it.

SHO Season 2, episode 4 - Ephraim and Dot

2286:

MOV Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Or, to use the all-but-official secondary title, “The One With The Whales”

2287:

MOV Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

2293:

A criminally underrated film.

MOV Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Sidenote: The opening sequence of the film. Star Trek: Generations takes place in this year after The Undiscovered Country. I very much do not expect people to watch things in pieces, but as there IS a clear delineation in the film, you can, optionally, watch the beginning of Generations and stop when the “78 years later” caption comes up. Or you can just not worry about it, and watch the whole film in one sitting when we reach 2371.

2364:

We now jump forward 70-odd years to see a far more established Federation, and perhaps the most popular Star Trek series of all, Star Trek - The Next Generation. That said, it is extremely rough at the outset, so you’ll need to give it some time. For more info on how close it came to outright failure in seasons 1 and 2, you can watch the surprisingly entertaining documentary Chaos on the Bridge, hosted by William Shatner, but I promise you, the series gets a lot better later on.

TNG Season 1, episode 1 - Encounter at Farpoint, Part 1

TNG Season 1, episode 2 - Encounter at Farpoint, Part 2

TNG Season 1, episode 3 - The Naked Now

TNG Season 1, episode 4 - Code of Honor

TNG Season 1, episode 5 - The Last Outpost

TNG Season 1, episode 6 - Where No One Has Gone Before

TNG Season 1, episode 7 - Lonely Among Us

TNG Season 1, episode 8 - Justice

TNG Season 1, episode 9 - The Battle

TNG Season 1, episode 10 - Hide and Q

TNG Season 1, episode 11 - Haven

TNG Season 1, episode 12 - The Big Goodbye

TNG Season 1, episode 13 - Datalore

TNG Season 1, episode 14 - Angel One

TNG Season 1, episode 15 - 11001001

TNG Season 1, episode 16 - Too Short a Season

TNG Season 1, episode 17 - When The Bow Breaks

TNG Season 1, episode 18 - Home Soil

TNG Season 1, episode 19 - Coming of Age

TNG Season 1, episode 20 - Heart of Glory

TNG Season 1, episode 21 - The Arsenal of Freedom

TNG Season 1, episode 22 - Symbiosis

TNG Season 1, episode 23 - Skin of Evil

TNG Season 1, episode 24 - We'll Always Have Paris

TNG Season 1, episode 25 - Conspiracy

TNG Season 1, episode 26 - The Neutral Zone

2365:

This season introduces the most popular character of all TNG: Riker’s Beard. Fun fact: The writers strike this year means that not only does this slightly shorter season feature an actual Golden Girls-style clip show, the producers had to dip into episodes written for the Phase II series that was never made and eventually became The Motion Picture. Riker and Troi were ALWAYS a revamp of the original plans for Decker and Ilia, but the season opener was literally written in the 70s to happen to Ilia.

TNG Season 2, episode 1 - The Child

TNG Season 2, episode 2 - Where Silence Has Lease

TNG Season 2, episode 3 - Elementary, Dear Data

TNG Season 2, episode 4 - The Outrageous Okona

TNG Season 2, episode 5 - Loud as a Whisper

TNG Season 2, episode 6 - The Schizoid Man

TNG Season 2, episode 7 - Unnatural Selection

TNG Season 2, episode 8 - A Matter of Honor

The series doesn’t truly find its footing until Season 3, but “The Measure of a Man” is widely considered TNG’s first “great” episode, a sign of many more to come.

TNG Season 2, episode 9 - The Measure of a Man

TNG Season 2, episode 10 - The Dauphin

TNG Season 2, episode 11 - Contagion

TNG Season 2, episode 12 - The Royale

TNG Season 2, episode 13 - Time Squared

TNG Season 2, episode 14 - The Icarus Factor

TNG Season 2, episode 15 - Pen Pals

TNG Season 2, episode 16 - Q Who?

TNG Season 2, episode 17 - The Samaritan Snare

TNG Season 2, episode 18 - Up the Long Ladder

TNG Season 2, episode 19 - Manhunt

TNG Season 2, episode 20 - The Emissary

TNG Season 2, episode 21 - Peak Performance

TNG Season 2, episode 22 - Shades of Gray

2366:

TNG Season 3, episode 1 - Evolution

TNG Season 3, episode 2 - The Survivors

TNG Season 3, episode 3 - The Ensigns of Command

TNG Season 3, episode 4 - Who Watches the Watchers?

TNG Season 3, episode 5 - The Bonding

TNG Season 3, episode 6 - Booby Trap

TNG Season 3, episode 7 - The Enemy

TNG Season 3, episode 8 - The Price

TNG Season 3, episode 9 - The Vengeance Factor

TNG Season 3, episode 10 - The Defector

TNG Season 3, episode 11 - The Hunted

TNG Season 3, episode 12 - A Matter of Perspective

TNG Season 3, episode 13 - The High Ground

TNG Season 3, episode 14 - Deja Q

TNG Season 3, episode 15 - Yesterday's Enterprise

TNG Season 3, episode 16 - The Offspring

TNG Season 3, episode 17 - Sins of the Father

TNG Season 3, episode 18 - Allegiance

TNG Season 3, episode 19 - Captain's Holiday

TNG Season 3, episode 20 - Tin Man

TNG Season 3, episode 21 - Hollow Pursuits

TNG Season 3, episode 22 - The Most Toys

TNG Season 3, episode 23 - Sarek

TNG Season 3, episode 24 - Menage a Troi

TNG Season 3, episode 25 - Transfigurations

TNG Season 3, episode 26 - The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1

2367:

TNG Season 4, episode 1 - The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2

TNG Season 4, episode 2 - Family

TNG Season 4, episode 3 - Brothers

TNG Season 4, episode 4 - Suddenly Human

TNG Season 4, episode 5 - Remember Me

TNG Season 4, episode 6 - Legacy

TNG Season 4, episode 7 - Reunion

TNG Season 4, episode 8 - Future Imperfect

TNG Season 4, episode 9 - Final Mission

TNG Season 4, episode 10 - The Loss

TNG Season 4, episode 11 - Data's Day

TNG Season 4, episode 12 - The Wounded

TNG Season 4, episode 13 - Clues

TNG Season 4, episode 14 - Devil's Due

TNG Season 4, episode 15 - First Contact

TNG Season 4, episode 16 - Galaxy's Child

TNG Season 4, episode 17 - Night Terrors

TNG Season 4, episode 18 - Identity Crisis

TNG Season 4, episode 19 - The Nth Degree

TNG Season 4, episode 20 - Qpid

TNG Season 4, episode 21 - The Drumhead

TNG Season 4, episode 22 - Half a Life

TNG Season 4, episode 23 - The Host

TNG Season 4, episode 24 - The Mind's Eye

TNG Season 4, episode 25 - In Theory

TNG Season 4, episode 26 - Redemption, Part 1

2368:

TNG Season 5, episode 1 - Redemption, Part 2

TNG Season 5, episode 2 - Darmok

TNG Season 5, episode 3 - Ensign Ro

TNG Season 5, episode 4 - Silicon Avatar

TNG Season 5, episode 5 - Disaster

TNG Season 5, episode 6 - The Game

TNG Season 5, episode 7 - Unification I

TNG Season 5, episode 8 - Unification II

TNG Season 5, episode 9 - A Matter of Time

TNG Season 5, episode 10 - New Ground

TNG Season 5, episode 11 - Hero Worship

TNG Season 5, episode 12 - Violations

TNG Season 5, episode 13 - The Masterpiece Society

TNG Season 5, episode 14 - Conundrum

TNG Season 5, episode 15 - Power Play

TNG Season 5, episode 16 - Ethics

TNG Season 5, episode 17 - The Outcast

TNG Season 5, episode 18 - Cause and Effect

TNG Season 5, episode 19 - The First Duty

TNG Season 5, episode 20 - Cost of Living

TNG Season 5, episode 21 - The Perfect Mate

TNG Season 5, episode 22 - Imaginary Friend

TNG Season 5, episode 23 - I, Borg

TNG Season 5, episode 24 - The Next Phase

TNG Season 5, episode 25 - The Inner Light

TNG Season 5, episode 26 - Time's Arrow, Part 1

2369:

TNG Season 6, episode 1 - Time's Arrow, Part 2

TNG Season 6, episode 2 - Realm of Fear

TNG Season 6, episode 3 - Man of the People

TNG Season 6, episode 4 - Relics

TNG Season 6, episode 5 - Schisms

TNG Season 6, episode 6 - True-Q

TNG Season 6, episode 7 - Rascals

TNG Season 6, episode 8 - A Fistful of Datas

TNG Season 6, episode 9 - The Quality of Life

TNG Season 6, episode 10 - Chain of Command, Part 1

TNG Season 6, episode 11 - Chain of Command, Part 2

We now reach my personal favorite series: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, which will eventually feature Star Trek’s first real foray into plot serialization. Typical for shows in the franchise, it starts out quite uneven, but once it gets going it’s a real joy. We’ll be essentially bouncing between series to stay in the correct chronological order, which, conveniently, largely matches release order, though we’ll have occasional minor tweaks to keep from breaking up story arcs too much.

DS9 Season 1, episode 1 - Emissary, Part 1

DS9 Season 1, episode 2 - Emissary, Part 2

DS9 Season 1, episode 3 - Past Prologue

DS9 Season 1, episode 4 - A Man Alone

DS9 Season 1, episode 5 - Babel

TNG Season 6, episode 12 - Ship in a Bottle

TNG Season 6, episode 13 - Aquiel

DS9 Season 1, episode 6 - Captive Pursuit

DS9 Season 1, episode 7 - Q-Less

TNG Season 6, episode 14 - Face of the Enemy

DS9 Season 1, episode 8 - Dax

TNG Season 6, episode 15 - Tapestry

DS9 Season 1, episode 9 - The Passenger

TNG Season 6, episode 16 - Birthright, Part 1

TNG Season 6, episode 17 - Birthright, Part 2

DS9 Season 1, episode 10 - Move Along Home

DS9 Season 1, episode 11 - The Nagus

TNG Season 6, episode 18 - Starship Mine

TNG Season 6, episode 19 - Lessons

DS9 Season 1, episode 12 - Vortex

DS9 Season 1, episode 13 - Battle Lines

DS9 Season 1, episode 14 - The Storyteller

TNG Season 6, episode 20 - The Chase

TNG Season 6, episode 21 - Frame of Mind

TNG Season 6, episode 22 - Suspicions

DS9 Season 1, episode 15 - Progress

TNG Season 6, episode 23 - Rightful Heir

DS9 Season 1, episode 16 - If Wishes Were Horses

TNG Season 6, episode 24 - Second Chances

DS9 Season 1, episode 17 - Dramatis Personae

DS9 Season 1, episode 18 - The Forsaken

DS9 Season 1, episode 19 - Duet

TNG Season 6, episode 25 - Timescape

DS9 Season 1, episode 20 - In the Hands of the Prophets

TNG Season 6, episode 26 - Descent, Part 1

2370:

By the end of this year we’ll have bid farewell to The Next Generation with the fantastic series finale “All Good Things,” we’ll have finally watched Enterprise’s far less popular series finale “These are the Voyages…”, and we will have been introduced to The Dominion, the major story driver for most of Deep Space Nine.

TNG Season 7, episode 1 - Descent, Part 2

DS9 Season 2, episode 1 - The Homecoming

DS9 Season 2, episode 2 - The Circle

DS9 Season 2, episode 3 - The Siege

TNG Season 7, episode 2 - Liaisons

TNG Season 7, episode 3 - Gambit, Part 1

TNG Season 7, episode 4 - Gambit, Part 2

DS9 Season 2, episode 4 - Cardassians

DS9 Season 2, episode 5 - Invasive Procedures

TNG Season 7, episode 5 - Interface

TNG Season 7, episode 6 - Phantasms

DS9 Season 2, episode 6 - Melora

TNG Season 7, episode 7 - Dark Page

DS9 Season 2, episode 7 - Rules of Acquisition

DS9 Season 2, episode 8 - Necessary Evil

TNG Season 7, episode 8 - Attached

TNG Season 7, episode 9 - Force of Nature

DS9 Season 2, episode 9 - Second Sight

DS9 Season 2, episode 10 - Sanctuary

TNG Season 7, episode 10 - Parallels

DS9 Season 2, episode 11 - Rivals

DS9 Season 2, episode 12 - The Alternate

TNG Season 7, episode 11 - Inheritance

TNG Season 7, episode 12 - Homeward

TNG Season 7, episode 13 - The Pegasus

ENT Season 4, episode 22 - These Are the Voyages...

DS9 Season 2, episode 13 - Armageddon Game

TNG Season 7, episode 14 - Sub Rosa

TNG Season 7, episode 15 - Lower Decks

DS9 Season 2, episode 14 - Paradise

DS9 Season 2, episode 15 - Whispers

DS9 Season 2, episode 16 - Shadowplay

TNG Season 7, episode 16 - Thine Own Self

TNG Season 7, episode 17 - Masks

DS9 Season 2, episode 17 - Playing God

TNG Season 7, episode 18 - Eye of the Beholder

DS9 Season 2, episode 18 - Profit and Loss

TNG Season 7, episode 19 - Genesis

DS9 Season 2, episode 19 - Blood Oath

TNG Season 7, episode 20 - Journey's End

DS9 Season 2, episode 20 - The Maquis, Part 1

DS9 Season 2, episode 21 - The Maquis, Part 2

TNG Season 7, episode 21 - Firstborn

TNG Season 7, episode 22 - Bloodlines

DS9 Season 2, episode 22 - The Wire

TNG Season 7, episode 23 - Emergence

DS9 Season 2, episode 23 - Crossover

TNG Season 7, episode 24 - Preemptive Strike

DS9 Season 2, episode 24 - The Collaborator

DS9 Season 2, episode 25 - Tribunal

DS9 Season 2, episode 26 - The Jem’Hadar

TNG Season 7, episode 25 - All Good Things, Part 1

TNG Season 7, episode 26 - All Good Things, Part 2

2371:

Like Phase II was intended to do, and Discovery does again a few decades later, Star Trek - Voyager is launched at this point as the centerpiece of a new network: the short-lived UPN, home of Shasta McNasty and The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfieffer. Note that Voyager episode orders, particularly in season two, jump around a bit due to some production weirdness.

DS9 Season 3, episode 1 - The Search, Part 1

DS9 Season 3, episode 2 - The Search, Part 2

DS9 Season 3, episode 3 - The House of Quark

DS9 Season 3, episode 4 - Equilibrium

DS9 Season 3, episode 5 - Second Skin

DS9 Season 3, episode 6 - The Abandoned

DS9 Season 3, episode 7 - Civil Defense

VOY Season 1, episode 1 - Caretaker, Part 1

VOY Season 1, episode 2 - Caretaker, Part 2

DS9 Season 3, episode 8 - Meridian

VOY Season 1, episode 3 - Parallax

MOV Star Trek: Generations

DS9 Season 3, episode 9 - Defiant

DS9 Season 3, episode 10 - Fascination

DS9 Season 3, episode 11 - Past Tense, Part 1

DS9 Season 3, episode 12 - Past Tense, Part 2

VOY Season 1, episode 4 - Time and Again

DS9 Season 3, episode 13 - Life Support

DS9 Season 3, episode 14 - Heart of Stone

VOY Season 1, episode 5 - Phage

DS9 Season 3, episode 15 - Destiny

VOY Season 1, episode 6 - The Cloud

DS9 Season 3, episode 16 - Prophet Motive

VOY Season 1, episode 7 - Eye of the Needle

DS9 Season 3, episode 17 - Visionary

VOY Season 1, episode 8 - Ex Post Facto

VOY Season 1, episode 9 - Emanations

VOY Season 1, episode 10 - Prime Factors

DS9 Season 3, episode 18 - Distant Voices

VOY Season 1, episode 11 - State of Flux

DS9 Season 3, episode 19 - Through the Looking Glass

VOY Season 1, episode 12 - Heroes and Demons

DS9 Season 3, episode 20 - Improbable Cause

DS9 Season 3, episode 21 - The Die is Cast

VOY Season 1, episode 13 - Cathexis

DS9 Season 3, episode 22 - Explorers

VOY Season 1, episode 14 - Faces

DS9 Season 3, episode 23 - Family Business

VOY Season 1, episode 15 - Jetrel

DS9 Season 3, episode 24 - Shakaar

VOY Season 1, episode 16 - Learning Curve

VOY Season 2, episode 3 - Projections

VOY Season 2, episode 4 - Elogium

DS9 Season 3, episode 25 - Facets

DS9 Season 3, episode 26 - The Adversary

VOY Season 2, episode 6 - Twisted

VOY Season 2, episode 1 - The 37’s

2372:

VOY Season 2, episode 2 - Initiations

VOY Season 2, episode 5 - Non Sequitur

DS9 Season 4, episode 1 - The Way of the Warrior, Part 1

DS9 Season 4, episode 2 - The Way of the Warrior, Part 2

DS9 Season 4, episode 3 - The Visitor

DS9 Season 4, episode 4 - Hippocratic Oath

VOY Season 2, episode 1 - Parturition

DS9 Season 4, episode 5 - Indiscretion

VOY Season 2, episode 8 - Persistence of Vision

VOY Season 2, episode 9 - Tattoo

VOY Season 2, episode 10 - Cold Fire

DS9 Season 4, episode 6 - Rejoined

VOY Season 2, episode 11 - Maneuvers

DS9 Season 4, episode 7 - Starship Down

DS9 Season 4, episode 8 - Little Green Men

DS9 Season 4, episode 9 - The Sword of Kahless

VOY Season 2, episode 12 - Resistance

DS9 Season 4, episode 10 - Our Man Bashir

DS9 Season 4, episode 11 - Homefront

DS9 Season 4, episode 12 - Paradise Lost

VOY Season 2, episode 13 - Prototype

VOY Season 2, episode 18 - Death Wish

VOY Season 2, episode 14 - Alliances

DS9 Season 4, episode 13 - Crossfire

VOY Season 2, episode 15 - Threshold

DS9 Season 4, episode 14 - Return to Grace

VOY Season 2, episode 16 - Meld

VOY Season 2, episode 17 - Dreadnought

VOY Season 2, episode 19 - Lifesigns

VOY Season 2, episode 20 - Investigations

VOY Season 2, episode 21 - Deadlock

DS9 Season 4, episode 15 - Sons of Mogh

DS9 Season 4, episode 16 - Bar Association

DS9 Season 4, episode 17 - Accession

VOY Season 2, episode 22 - Innocence

DS9 Season 4, episode 18 - Rules of Engagement

DS9 Season 4, episode 19 - Hard Time

DS9 Season 4, episode 20 - Shattered Mirror

VOY Season 2, episode 23 - The Thaw

DS9 Season 4, episode 21 - The Muse

VOY Season 2, episode 24 - Tuvix

DS9 Season 4, episode 22 - For the Cause

VOY Season 2, episode 25 - Resolutions

DS9 Season 4, episode 23 - To the Death

DS9 Season 4, episode 24 - The Quickening

DS9 Season 4, episode 25 - Body Parts

DS9 Season 4, episode 26 - Broken Link

VOY Season 2, episode 26 - Basics, Part 1

2373:

VOY Season 3, episode 1 - Basics, Part 2

DS9 Season 5, episode 1 - Apocalypse Rising

DS9 Season 5, episode 2 - The Ship

VOY Season 3, episode 7 - Sacred Ground

VOY Season 3, episode 5 - False Profits

VOY Season 3, episode 2 - Flashback

VOY Season 3, episode 3 - The Chute

VOY Season 3, episode 6 - Remember

VOY Season 3, episode 4 - The Swarm

DS9 Season 5, episode 3 - Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places

DS9 Season 5, episode 4 - Nor the Battle to the Strong

DS9 Season 5, episode 5 - The Assignment

DS9 Season 5, episode 6 - Trials and Tribble-ations

VOY Season 3, episode 8 - Future's End, Part 1

VOY Season 3, episode 9 - Future's End, Part 2

DS9 Season 5, episode 7 - Let He Who is Without Sin

DS9 Season 5, episode 8 - Things Past

VOY Season 3, episode 10 - Warlord

MOV Star Trek: First Contact

Only took 222 years, but after this next episode, we’ll have completed all of Star Trek Enterprise.

ENT Season 2, episode 23 - Regeneration

DS9 Season 5, episode 9 - The Ascent

VOY Season 3, episode 11 - The Q and the Grey

DS9 Season 5, episode 10 - Rapture

DS9 Season 5, episode 11 - The Darkness and the Light

VOY Season 3, episode 12 - Macrocosm

VOY Season 3, episode 13 - Fair Trade

VOY Season 3, episode 14 - Alter Ego

DS9 Season 5, episode 12 - The Begotten

DS9 Season 5, episode 13 - For the Uniform

VOY Season 3, episode 15 - Coda

VOY Season 3, episode 16 - Blood Fever

DS9 Season 5, episode 14 - In Purgatory's Shadow

DS9 Season 5, episode 15 - By Inferno's Light

VOY Season 3, episode 17 - Unity

VOY Season 3, episode 18 - Darkling

DS9 Season 5, episode 16 - Doctor Bashir, I Presume

VOY Season 3, episode 19 - Rise

DS9 Season 5, episode 17 - A Simple Investigation

DS9 Season 5, episode 18 - Business as Usual

DS9 Season 5, episode 19 - Ties of Blood and Water

VOY Season 3, episode 20 - Favorite Son

DS9 Season 5, episode 20 - Ferengi Love Songs

DS9 Season 5, episode 21 - Soldiers of the Empire

DS9 Season 5, episode 22 - Children of Time

VOY Season 3, episode 21 - Before and After

VOY Season 3, episode 22 - Real Life

VOY Season 3, episode 23 - Distant Origin

VOY Season 3, episode 24 - Displaced

DS9 Season 5, episode 23 - Blaze of Glory

VOY Season 3, episode 25 - Worst Case Scenario

DS9 Season 5, episode 24 - Empok Nor

DS9 Season 5, episode 25 - In the Cards

DS9 Season 5, episode 26 - Call to Arms

VOY Season 3, episode 26 - Scorpion, Part 1

2374:

Voyager gets a much needed shot in the arm with the introduction of Seven of Nine, and Deep Space Nine delivers a great season as the Dominion War arc reaches full swing.

VOY Season 4, episode 1 - Scorpion, Part 2

VOY Season 4, episode 2 - The Gift

VOY Season 4, episode 3 - Day of Honor

VOY Season 4, episode 4 - Nemesis

VOY Season 4, episode 5 - Revulsion

DS9 Season 6, episode 1 - A Time to Stand

DS9 Season 6, episode 2 - Rocks and Shoals

DS9 Season 6, episode 3 - Sons and Daughters

DS9 Season 6, episode 4 - Behind the Lines

DS9 Season 6, episode 5 - Favor the Bold

DS9 Season 6, episode 6 - Sacrifice of Angels

VOY Season 4, episode 6 - The Raven

VOY Season 4, episode 7 - Scientific Method

DS9 Season 6, episode 7 - You are Cordially Invited

VOY Season 4, episode 8 - Year of Hell, Part 1

VOY Season 4, episode 9 - Year of Hell, Part 2

DS9 Season 6, episode 8 - Resurrection

VOY Season 4, episode 10 - Random Thoughts

DS9 Season 6, episode 9 - Statistical Probabilities

VOY Season 4, episode 11 - Concerning Flight

DS9 Season 6, episode 10 - The Magnificent Ferengi

DS9 Season 6, episode 11 - Waltz

VOY Season 4, episode 12 - Mortal Coil

VOY Season 4, episode 14 - Message in a Bottle

VOY Season 4, episode 13 - Waking Moments

DS9 Season 6, episode 12 - Who Mourns for Morn?

DS9 Season 6, episode 13 - Far Beyond the Stars

DS9 Season 6, episode 14 - One Little Ship

VOY Season 4, episode 15 - Hunters

DS9 Season 6, episode 15 - Honor Among Thieves

DS9 Season 6, episode 16 - Change of Heart

VOY Season 4, episode 16 - Prey

VOY Season 4, episode 17 - Retrospect

VOY Season 4, episode 18 - The Killing Game, Part 1

VOY Season 4, episode 19 - The Killing Game, Part 2

DS9 Season 6, episode 17 - Wrongs Darker than Death or Night

DS9 Season 6, episode 18 - Inquisition

DS9 Season 6, episode 19 - In the Pale Moonlight

VOY Season 4, episode 20 - Vis a Vis

VOY Season 4, episode 21 - The Omega Directive

DS9 Season 6, episode 20 - His Way

VOY Season 4, episode 22 - Unforgettable

DS9 Season 6, episode 21 - The Reckoning

DS9 Season 6, episode 22 - Valiant

We are skipping Voyager episode 23 (“Living Witness”) for now, and will be watching it later.

VOY Season 4, episode 24 - Demon

DS9 Season 6, episode 23 - Profit and Lace

VOY Season 4, episode 25 - One

DS9 Season 6, episode 24 - Time's Orphan

VOY Season 4, episode 26 - Hope and Fear

DS9 Season 6, episode 25 - The Sound of her Voice

DS9 Season 6, episode 26 - Tears of the Prophets

2375:

VOY Season 5, episode 1 - Night

VOY Season 5, episode 2 - Drone

VOY Season 5, episode 3 - Extreme Risk

VOY Season 5, episode 4 - In the Flesh

VOY Season 5, episode 5 - Once Upon a Time

VOY Season 5, episode 8 - Nothing Human

VOY Season 5, episode 6 - Timeless

DS9 Season 7, episode 1 - Image in the Sand

DS9 Season 7, episode 2 - Shadows and Symbols

DS9 Season 7, episode 3 - Afterimage

DS9 Season 7, episode 4 - Take Me Out to the Holosuite

DS9 Season 7, episode 5 - Chrysalis

DS9 Season 7, episode 6 - Treachery, Faith, and the Great River

DS9 Season 7, episode 7 - Once More Unto the Breach

DS9 Season 7, episode 8 - The Siege of AR-558

VOY Season 5, episode 9 - Thirty Days

DS9 Season 7, episode 9 - Covenant

VOY Season 5, episode 7 - Infinite Regress

VOY Season 5, episode 10 - Counterpoint

DS9 Season 7, episode 10 - It's Only a Paper Moon

There’s no place to put Insurrection so its references to the war and the presence of Worf really make perfect sense, but this is probably the closest to working. I’m not going to go too nuts about it.

MOV Star Trek: Insurrection

DS9 Season 7, episode 11 - Prodigal Daughter

VOY Season 5, episode 11 - Latent Image

VOY Season 5, episode 12 - Bride of Chaotica

DS9 Season 7, episode 12 - The Emperor's New Cloak

VOY Season 5, episode 13 - Gravity

DS9 Season 7, episode 13 - Field of Fire

VOY Season 5, episode 14 - Bliss

DS9 Season 7, episode 14 - Chimera

VOY Season 5, episode 17 - The Disease

DS9 Season 7, episode 15 - Badda-Bing Badda-Bang

DS9 Season 7, episode 16 - Inter Arma Silent Leges

VOY Season 5, episode 18 - Course: Oblivion

VOY Season 5, episode 15 - Dark Frontier, Part 1

VOY Season 5, episode 16 - Dark Frontier, Part 2

VOY Season 5, episode 19 - The Fight

VOY Season 5, episode 20 - Think Tank

DS9 Season 7, episode 17 - Penumbra

DS9 Season 7, episode 18 - 'Til Death Do Us Part

DS9 Season 7, episode 19 - Strange Bedfellows

DS9 Season 7, episode 20 - The Changing Face of Evil

DS9 Season 7, episode 21 - When it Rains

DS9 Season 7, episode 22 - Tacking into the Wind

DS9 Season 7, episode 23 - Extreme Measures

DS9 Season 7, episode 24 - The Dogs of War

DS9 Season 7, episode 25 - What You Leave Behind, Part 1

DS9 Season 7, episode 26 - What You Leave Behind, Part 2

Farewell, DS9. I’ll always love you best.

VOY Season 5, episode 21 - Juggernaut

VOY Season 5, episode 22 - Someone to Watch Over Me

VOY Season 5, episode 23 - 11:59

VOY Season 5, episode 24 - Relativity

VOY Season 5, episode 25 - Warhead

VOY Season 5, episode 26 - Equinox, Part 1

2376:

VOY Season 6, episode 1 - Equinox, Part 2

VOY Season 6, episode 2 - Survival Instinct

VOY Season 6, episode 3 - Barge of the Dead

VOY Season 6, episode 4 - Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy

VOY Season 6, episode 7 - Dragon's Teeth

VOY Season 6, episode 5 - Alice

VOY Season 6, episode 6 - Riddles

VOY Season 6, episode 8 - One Small Step

VOY Season 6, episode 9 - The Voyager Conspiracy

VOY Season 6, episode 10 - Pathfinder

VOY Season 6, episode 11 - Fair Haven

VOY Season 6, episode 15 - Tsunkatse

VOY Season 6, episode 12 - Blink of an Eye

VOY Season 6, episode 13 - Virtuoso

VOY Season 6, episode 16 - Collective

VOY Season 6, episode 14 - Memorial

VOY Season 6, episode 17 - Spirit Folk

VOY Season 6, episode 18 - Ashes to Ashes

VOY Season 6, episode 19 - Child's Play

VOY Season 6, episode 20 - Good Shepherd

VOY Season 6, episode 23 - Fury

VOY Season 6, episode 21 - Live Fast and Prosper

VOY Season 6, episode 24 - Life Line

VOY Season 6, episode 22 - Muse

VOY Season 6, episode 25 - The Haunting of Deck Twelve

VOY Season 6, episode 26 - Unimatrix Zero, Part 1

2377:

VOY Season 7, episode 1 - Unimatrix Zero, Part 2

VOY Season 7, episode 3 - Drive

VOY Season 7, episode 4 - Repression

VOY Season 7, episode 2 - Imperfection

VOY Season 7, episode 5 - Critical Care

VOY Season 7, episode 6 - Inside Man

VOY Season 7, episode 7 - Body and Soul

VOY Season 7, episode 8 - Nightingale

VOY Season 7, episode 9 - Flesh and Blood, Part 1

VOY Season 7, episode 10 - Flesh and Blood, Part 2

VOY Season 7, episode 11 - Shattered

VOY Season 7, episode 12 - Lineage

VOY Season 7, episode 13 - Repentance

VOY Season 7, episode 14 - Prophesy

VOY Season 7, episode 15 - The Void

VOY Season 7, episode 16 - Workforce, Part 1

VOY Season 7, episode 17 - Workforce, Part 2

2378:

VOY Season 7, episode 18 - Human Error

VOY Season 7, episode 19 - Q2

VOY Season 7, episode 20 - Author, Author

VOY Season 7, episode 21 - Friendship One

VOY Season 7, episode 22 - Natural Law

VOY Season 7, episode 23 - Homestead

VOY Season 7, episode 24 - Renaissance Man

VOY Season 7, episode 25 - Endgame, Part 1

VOY Season 7, episode 26 - Endgame, Part 2

2379:

MOV - Star Trek: Nemesis

2380:

Star Trek returns to animation with its ninth series, and first all-out comedy, Star Trek: Lower Decks, aimed towards a more adult audience than The Animated Series or Prodigy. Best first season since the Original Series? I dare say yes.

LDS Season 1, episode 1 - Second Contact

LDS Season 1, episode 2 - Envoys

LDS Season 1, episode 3 - Temporal Edict

LDS Season 1, episode 4 - Moist Vessel

LDS Season 1, episode 5 - Cupid’s Errant Arrow

LDS Season 1, episode 6 - Terminal Provocations

LDS Season 1, episode 7 - Much Ado About Boimler

LDS Season 1, episode 8 - Veritas

LDS Season 1, episode 9 - Crisis Point

LDS Season 1, episode 10 - No Small Parts

2381:

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season Two, starting August 12, 2021, will presumably take place in 2381.

2383:

The upcoming Star Trek: Prodigy, taking place in the Delta Quadrant and featuring Emergency Training Hologram Kathryn Janeway, is believed to take place in 2383.

2385:

The events of this Short Trek set the events of Star Trek - Picard, which we’ll be coming to shortly, in motion.

SHO Season 2, episode 6 - Children of Mars

2387:

Okay. Deep breath. In 2387 the Romulan sun goes supernova, devastating the Romulan empire. A failed attempt to stop this accidentally sends the Romulan mining vessel Narada back to 2233, creating an alternate reality known as the “Kelvin Universe” or “Kelvinverse.” Three movies take place in the Kelvin universe, and we will be viewing those next. It is very important to understand : This new timeline DOES NOT replace the original “Prime” timeline, which continues to exist as it always has and to which we will be returning shortly.

2233 - (Kelvinverse):

The USS Kelvin is destroyed by the Narada, newly arrived from the Prime Universe 2387. This begins the divergence from the Prime timeline.

2258 - (Kelvinverse):

Too action-oriented for some, and plot-holes galore, but 2009’s “Star Trek” is a quite fun alternate take on the original series. You can use the butterfly effect of the appearance of the Narada in 2233 as a reason the 2258 Kelvinverse looks and feels quite different than the Prime Universe. Or you can just accept it as creative license and a visual reboot. Don’t overthink the chronology and details of this batch of movies though, or you’ll start seeing all kinds of things that make no sense.

MOV Star Trek (2009)

2259 - (Kelvinverse):

MOV Star Trek Into Darkness

2263 - (Kelvinverse):

MOV Star Trek Beyond

This film, while a solid improvement on Into Darkness, did not perform to expectations, meaning that, despite recurring talks of a fourth film, Beyond may end up being our last visit to the Kelvinverse. I certainly wouldn’t want all Trek to be like it, but it’s been a fun corner of the franchise so far.

We now return to the Prime timeline, already in progress.