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.
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 1 - Redemption, Part 2
Picard risks all-out war with the Romulans when he involves Starfleet in a Klingon civil war.
Original airdate - September 23, 1991
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 2 - Darmok
The crew is rendered helpless when Picard is kidnapped and forced to go to war with an alien captain.
Original airdate - September 30, 1991
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 3 - Ensign Ro
Picard finds himself in a race with Cardassians, Klingons, and Romulans to solve a four billion year old genetic puzzle.
Original airdate - October 7, 1991
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 4 - Silicon Avatar
Picard struggles to communicate with a mysterious, destructive force before a visiting scientist can destroy it.
Original airdate - October 14, 1991
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 5 - Disaster
The lives of the crew are in Troi's hands when a natural disaster forces her to take over as captain of the seriously damaged Enterprise.
Original airdate - October 21, 1991
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 6 - The Game
The fate of the Federation is in Wesley Crusher's hands when he returns to find the crew of the Enterprise addicted to a dangerous new game.
Original airdate - October 28, 1991
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 7 - Unification I
Picard and Data travel to investigate an unauthorized mission undertaken by the Federation's legendary Mr. Spock.
Original airdate - November 4, 1991
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 8 - Unification II
Picard and Mr. Spock clash over a proposed reunification of the Romulans and the Vulcans.
Original airdate - November 11, 1991
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 9 - A Matter of Time
Picard's quest to save an endangered planet leads him to violate a Prime Directive when he seeks advice from a visitor from the future.
Original airdate - November 18, 1991
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 10 - New Ground
Worf learns some painful lessons about parenting when his son Alexander arrives to join his father on the Enterprise.
Original airdate - January 6, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 11 - Hero Worship
A young boy who is the sole survivor of a devastated ship becomes obsessed with simulating Data.
Original airdate - January 27, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 12 - Violations
Troi, Riker and Dr. Crusher fall into unexplained comas while the Enterprise plays host to an alien race.
Original airdate - February 3, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 13 - The Masterpiece Society
Picard's efforts to save a genetically engineered society from a natural disaster threaten to destroy it.
Original airdate - February 10, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 14 - Conundrum
While suffering an unexplained case of amnesia, the crew finds themselves fighting a war they do not remember or understand.
Original airdate - February 17, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 15 - Power Play
Picard is shocked when Troi, Data and Chief O'Brien engineer an unexplained overthrow of the Bridge.
Original airdate - February 25, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 16 - Ethics
Loyalty and ethics clash when a paralyzed Worf asks to help him commit suicide.
Original airdate - March 3, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 17 - The Outcast
A rescue mission leads to a dangerous romance between Riker and a rebellious member of an androgynous race.
Original airdate - March 16, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 18 - Cause and Effect
The Enterprise is trapped in a time warp that forces the crew to endlessly repeat the same experiences.
Original airdate - March 23, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 19 - The First Duty
Caught between loyalty to his friends and the need to tell the truth, Wesley becomes involved in a cover-up when his Starfleet Academy squadron suffers a deadly collision.
Original airdate - March 30, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 20 - Cost of Living
Preparing for her wedding aboard the Enterprise, Troi's free-thinking mother causes trouble between Worf and his son.
Original airdate - April 20, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 21 - The Perfect Mate
A beautiful woman, chosen by her people to serve as a peace offering to end a centuries-long war, falls in love with Picard.
Original airdate - April 27, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 22 - Imaginary Friend
A little girl's imaginary friend becomes a frightening reality for the crew when she threatens to destroy the Enterprise.
Original airdate - May 4, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 23 - I, Borg
Picard and the crew suffer from conflicting emotions when the Enterprise rescues a critically-injured Borg.
Original airdate - May 11, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 24 - The Next Phase
Geordi and Ro are pronounced dead after a transporting maneuver from a distressed Romulan ship goes awry.
Original airdate - May 18, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 25 - The Inner Light
After a mysterious accident, Picard wakes up living the life of another person on a faraway planet.
Original airdate - June 1, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 5, episode 26 - Time’s Arrow, Part 1
After Data learns of his own death in late-19th-century San Francisco, a freak accident transports him back to that period.
Original airdate - June 15, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 1 - Time’s Arrow, Part 2
The Enterprise crew travels between the 19th and 24th centuries in an attempt to prevent Data's death in 19th century San Francisco.
Original airdate - September 21, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 2 - Realm of Fear
A young Enterprise engineer is forced to confront his paralyzing fear of being transported.
Original airdate - September 28, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 3 - Man of the People
Troi is drastically transformed when a visiting ambassador secretly uses her to achieve his aims.
Original airdate - October 5, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 4 - Relics
Trapped in limbo for 75 years, "Star Trek's" Scotty awakens to join the "Next Generation" in the 24th century.
Original airdate - October 12, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 5 - Schisms
The Enterprise crew suffers bizarre consequences following a secret, unwelcome alien visit.
Original airdate - October 19, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 6 - True Q
The crew welcomes a new member aboard, a young girl named Amanda. A visitor arrives on board and reveals that Amanda is a Q. When disaster strikes an alien planet, Amanda is forced to choose between living with her new friends on the Enterprise and life as a Q.
Original airdate - October 26, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 7 - Rascals
A bizarre transporter mishap transforms Picard and three other staff members into children just as Ferengis invade and disable the ship.
Original airdate - November 2, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 8 - A Fistful of Datas
A Holodeck fantasy goes awry, sending Worf and his son into a Wild West showdown with a villain who's a dead ringer for Data.
Original airdate - November 9, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 9 - The Quality of Life
Data risks Picard and Geordi's lives in order to protect another "living" machine.
Original airdate - November 16, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 10 - Chain of Command, Part 1
After resigning his command to participate in a dangerous secret mission, Captain Picard is taken hostage by the Cardassians.
Original airdate - December 14, 1992
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 11 - Chain of Command, Part 2
While under the command of an unfeeling new captain the Enterprise attempts to rescue Picard from the Cardassians.
Original airdate - December 21, 1992
We now reach my personal favorite series: Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, which will eventually feature Star Trek’s first significant attempt at serialized storytelling. Like other shows in the franchise, it has a slow start, but once it gets going it’s a real joy. To stay in the correct chronological order, we’ll be bouncing between TNG and DS9, and later DS9 and Voyager, with occasional minor tweaks to avoid interrupting story arcs in progress.
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episodes 1-2 - The Emissary, Parts 1 and 2
In 2369, Cardassian forces finally withdraw from 70 years of Bajoran occupation -- leaving the planet, the people and an old orbiting mine station stripped and depleted.
Original airdate - January 3, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 3 - Past Prologue
Kira has barely gotten to know her new DS9 colleagues or settled in as a "legitimate" officer of post-occupation Bajor when she has to confront an old fellow freedom-fighter who can't give up the fight -- and the infamous Duras sisters from TNG are a surprise part of his plans.
Original airdate - January 10, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 4 - A Man Alone
Odo, the station's mysterious, gruff and yet incredibly fair shape-shifter constable, falls under suspicion for a Bajora's baffling murder -- and xenophobic hatred rears its ugly head in the station's rush to judgment.
Original airdate - January 17, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 5 - Babel
An aphasia-like virus planted in DS9's food replicator system by the Bajoran underground against their onetime oppressors lies dormant until being activated during refurbishment.
Original airdate - January 24, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 12 - Ship in a Bottle
A calculating Sherlock Holmesian character traps Picard and others in a holodeck simulation.
Original airdate - January 25, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 13 - Aquiel
Geordi is enamored with a beautiful and mysterious Starfleet lieutenant accused of murder.
Original airdate - February 1, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 6 - Captive Pursuit
The first two species to visit through the wormhole are hardly ceremonial: one, described only as "Tosk," is being hunted in a formal, ritualized sport that both he and his pursuers enjoy
Original airdate - January 31, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 7 - Q-Less
Famed for their encounters with Capt. Picard, John deLancie guest stars as pesky super-alien "Q" and Jennifer Hetrick reprises her romantic rogue archeologist Vash -- last seen on TNG headed for the Gamma Quadrant.
Original airdate - February 7, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 14 - Face of the Enemy
Forced to impersonate a Romulan Intelligence official, Counselor Troi becomes a pivotal part of an elaborate defection scheme.
Original airdate - February 8, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 8 - Dax
The nature of Trill symbiosis is explored when a Klaestron commando legal team tries to kidnap Jadzia Dax for alleged treason committed by Curzon, the prior Dax host.
Original airdate - February 14, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 15 - Tapestry
After Picard loses his life in a surprise attack, Q gives him the chance to change his destiny.
Original airdate - February 15, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 9 - The Passenger
The master Kobliad criminal-scientist Rao Vantika is presumed dead after an inmate transport fire, but his wily pursuer Ty Kajada is not so sure.
Original airdate - February 21, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 16 - Birthright, Part 1
Worf and Data embark on unusual journeys to seek out their fathers.
Original airdate - February 22, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 17 - Birthright, Part 2
Imprisoned in a society of peaceful Klingons and Romulans, Worf risks his life to show the younger Klingons their lost heritage and inspire them to claim their honor.
Original airdate - March 1, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 10 - Move Along Home
If the Tosk and Hunters were surprise guests from the Gamma Quadrant, the first formal delegation is just as unorthodox.
Original airdate - March 14, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 11 - The Nagus
Grand Nagus Zek, the leader of the Ferengi Alliance, pays a surprise visit to lowly Quark's Bar to host a conference on exploiting the Gamma Quadrant -- and names Quark, not his own son, as his successor.
Original airdate - March 21, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 18 - Starship Mine
While the Enterprise is bombarded with lethal rays, Picard is trapped on board with a band of interstellar thieves.
Original airdate - March 29, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 19 - Lessons
Picard is torn between love and duty when he is forced to send the woman he loves on a potentially deadly mission.
Original airdate - April 5, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 12 - Vortex
A suspicious Odo is still intrigued by Rakhari fugitive Croden's claims of clues to the constable's shape-shifting roots back near Croden's Gamma Quadrant home.
Original airdate - April 18, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 13 - Battle Lines
Kai Opaka's glimpse of the wormhole and Gamma Quadrant turns tragic when she dies in a Runabout crash on a prison moon.
Original airdate - April 25, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 14 - The Storyteller
Chief O'Brien is reluctantly "adopted" as spiritual leader by a Bajoran village that annually follows the "Storyteller" to fight a demon of the town's collective fears.
Original airdate - May 2, 1993
Pay attention to this next episode - it will be important (much, much) later.
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 20 - The Chase
Picard finds himself in a race with Cardassians, Klingons, and Romulans to solve a four billion year old genetic puzzle.
Original airdate - April 26, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 21 - Frame of Mind
Trapped in an alien mental hospital, with little memory of the past, Riker is convinced he is going insane.
Original airdate - May 3, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 22 - Suspicious
Beverly risks her career to solve the murder of a pioneering Ferengi scientist.
Original airdate - May 10, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 15 - Progress
Bajor's fifth moon Jeraddo must be evacuated to make way for a much-needed power plant for the home planet, but one old codger refuses to evacuate. Brian Keith guest stars as Mullibok, who forces Kira to realize just how much she and Bajor have changed in a few short months.
Original airdate - May 9, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 23 - Rightful Heir
Worf finds his faith sorely tested when it appears that the greatest Klingon warrior of all time has returned from the dead to reclaim the empire.
Original airdate - May 17, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 16 - If Wishes Were Horses
It's harder to decide what's more incredible: little Molly O'Brien's storybook Rumpelstiltskin coming to life, or Jadzia Dax as a sex kitten.
Original airdate - May 16, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 24 - Second Chances
Returning to the site of an eight-year-old mission, Riker encounters an identical double of himself, who tries to rekindle a relationship with Troi.
Original airdate - May 24, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 17 - The Forsaken
Dreary diplomatic baby-sitting seems to swallow up Dr. Bashir when three of four obnoxious ambassadors come for a tour of the station.
Original airdate - May 23, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 18 - Dramatis Personae
Acting out roles both melodramatic and deadly, the DS9 staff is infected by a viral historical incident archive from an alien culture within the Gamma Quadrant.
Original airdate - May 30, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 19 - Duet
Kira is forced to re-examine her post-occupation prejudices about Cardassians when she encounters a jailed man claiming to be a notorious death camp leader.
Original airdate - June 13, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 25 - Timescape
The Enterprise is frozen in time on the brink of total annihilation, and Picard must figure out how to rescue it without destroying it.
Original airdate - June 14, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 20 - In the Hands of the Prophets
A bombing at Keiko's school and a would-be sleeper assassination haunts DS9 amid the rise of a fundamentalist faction of the Bajoran faith.
Original airdate - June 20, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 6, episode 26 - Descent, Part 1
When the Borg return to do battle with the Federation, they boast a new individuality - and tempt Data when they help him feel his first emotion.
Original airdate - June 21, 1993
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