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 7, episode 1 - Descent, Part 2
Picard, Troi, and Geordi are held prisoner by Data, who has left the Enterprise to join his evil brother Lore as leaders of the Borg.
Original airdate - September 20, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 1 - The Homecoming
Kira and O'Brien try to rescue a famed Bajoran resistance fighter from a Cardassian slave-labour colony in an attempt to bring peace to the warring Bajoran factions.
Original airdate - September 26, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 2 - The Circle
After she is relieved of her post aboard, Deep Space Nine, Kira tries to expose the leaders of the terrorist group known as 'The Circle.'
Original airdate - October 3, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 3 - The Siege
Sisko is forced to evacuate the station when the war escalates and turns in favour of the terrorists.
Original airdate - October 10, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 2 - Liaisons
While the crew plays host to ambassadors from an alien race, Picard is stranded on a barren planet with a woman who falls desperately in love with him.
Original airdate - September 27, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 3 - Interface
Geordi defies Picard's commands and risks his life in what appears to be a futile attempt to rescue his missing mother.
Original airdate - October 4, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 4 - Gambit, Part 1
Riker is shocked to find Picard, who has been missing and presumed dead, posing as a mercenary on an alien ship.
Original airdate - October 11, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 5 - Gambit, Part 2
Picard and Riker masquerade as mercenaries in order to retrieve a potentially lethal Vulcan artifact.
Original airdate - October 18, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 4 - Invasive Procedures
An unjoined Trill stages a takeover of the station. Holding the crew hostage, he removes the Dax symbiont from Jadzia to implant into himself.
Original airdate - October 17, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 5 - Cardassians
A custody battle emerges over an orphaned Cardassian boy who was raised by Bajorans.
Original airdate - October 24, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 6 - Phantasms
Data's first bad dream turns into a real-life nightmare for the rest of the Enterprise crew.
Original airdate - October 23, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 6 - Melora
Bashir falls in love with a wheelchair-bound woman, who is unable to walk in Deep Space Nine's level of gravity.
Original airdate - October 31, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 7 - Dark Page
Troi must probe her mother's psyche when a traumatic secret causes a psychic breakdown that threatens Lwaxana's life.
Original airdate - November 1, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 7 - Rules of Acquisition
A female Ferengi disguises herself as a male in order to help Quark with business deals in the Gamma Quadrant.
Original airdate - November 7, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 8 - Attached
Imprisoned and telepathically joined by an alien race, Picard and Beverly are forced to face the feelings they have always had for each other.
Original airdate - November 8, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 8 - Necessary Evil
Quark is injured in an attack which Odo suspects is related to a murder committed five years before, in which Kira was the prime suspect.
Original airdate - November 14, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 9 - Force of Nature
An alien brother and sister resort to desperate measures to prove their theory that warp drive is destroying the universe.
Original airdate - November 15, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 9 - Second Sight
For the first time since the death of his wife, Sisko falls in love. However, his new interest seems to suffer from a bizarre form of split personality.
Original airdate - November 21, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 10 - Sanctuary
A group of refugees from the Gamma Quadrant claims that Bajor is their long-lost homeland.
Original airdate - November 28, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 10 - Inheritance
A routine mission to save an endangered planet brings Data face-to-face with a woman who claims to be his mother.
Original airdate - November 22, 1993
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 11 - Rivals
A con artist opens a bar with a gambling machine that can alter the laws of probability.
Original airdate - January 2, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 12 - The Alternate
Dr. Mora Pol, who first studied Odo as an infant, announces that he may have found Odo's homeworld in the Gamma Quadrant.
Original airdate - January 9, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 11 - Parallels
Returning to the Enterprise from a competition, Worf finds reality changing, and is troubled when no one else seems to notice.
Original airdate - November 29, 1993
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 12 - The Pegasus
Riker is torn when his former commander, now an admiral, orders him to hide the real purpose of a risky mission from Picard.
Original airdate - January 10, 1994
Enterprise - Season 4, episode 22 - These are the Voyages
Commander William Riker of the Enterprise-D is torn between his loyalty to Captain Picard and his duty to a former captain.
Original airdate - May 13, 2005
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 13 - Homeward
Worf's foster brother violates the Prime Directive in an effort to save a doomed alien race.
Original airdate - January 17, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 13 - Armageddon Game
Bashir and O'Brien come under attack from the people they are trying to help on a warring planet.
Original airdate - January 30, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 14 - Sub Rosa
Shortly after her grandmother's death, Beverly falls under the spell of a ghost lover who has been in her family for generations.
Original airdate - January 31, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 15 - Lower Decks
While enduring the Enterprise's promotion evaluation process, four junior officers find themselves involved in a top-secret mission.
Original airdate - February 7, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 14 - Whispers
O'Brien returns from an away mission to discover that he has been locked out of every security system on the station, and that everyone has turned against him, including his wife.
Original airdate - February 6, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 15 - Paradise
Sisko and O'Brien are stranded on a planet where a colony of humans has made their home. Because no technology can function on the planet, they have ruled it out of their lives.
Original airdate - February 13, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 16 - Shadowplay
Odo and Dax discover a village where the inhabitants are disappearing one at a time.
Original airdate - February 20, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 16 - Thine Own Self
Having completely lost his memory, Data is stranded on a primitive planet where the inhabitants fear he is carrying a deadly plague.
Original airdate - February 14, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 17 - Masks
While an alien archive transforms the Enterprise into its ancient society, Data is taken over by several different personalities from the extinct civilization.
Original airdate - February 21, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 17 - Playing God
While evaluating a Trill initiate for the first time, Lieutenant Dax accidentally discovers a proto-universe whose rapid expansion threatens not only the station, but the entire Alpha Quadrant and beyond.
Original airdate - February 27, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 18 - Eye of the Beholder
While experiencing empathic visions after an officer's mysterious suicide, Troi becomes romantically involved with Worf.
Original airdate - February 28, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 18 - Profit and Loss
Quark puts everything at stake to win back his long love Natima Lang, a Cardassian woman suspected of terrorism on Cardassia
Original airdate - March 20, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 19 - Genesis
Picard and Data return to the Enterprise to discover that the entire crew has de-evolved into prehistoric beings.
Original airdate - March 21, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 19 - Blood Oath
Three Klingons arrive on the station that Curzon Dax took a Klingon blood oath with after their young sons were murdered.
Original airdate - March 27, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 20 - Journey’s End
Picard is forced to relocate American Indians from a planet they have settled, while a colonist causes Wesley to re-examine his future.
Original airdate - March 28, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 20 - The Maquis, Part 1
A band of Cardassian-hating militants known as the 'Maquis' starts attacking Cardassian ships.
Original airdate - April 24, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 20 - The Maquis, Part 2
Sisko's friend, Commander Cal Hudson, resigns from Starfleet to join the Maquis in their fight against the Cardassians.
Original airdate - May 1, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 21 - Firstborn
A mysterious family friend arrives to help transform Worf's reluctant son Alexander into a warrior.
Original airdate - April 25, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 22 - Bloodlines
Picard learns that he has a son, and that the young man has been targeted for murder by an old enemy in search of revenge.
Original airdate - May 2, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 22 - The Wire
Bashir tries to save Garak from a bizarre illness that is soon discovered to be a strange addiction.
Original airdate - May 8, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 22 - Emergence
The lives of the Enterprise crew are endangered when the ship suddenly develops its own intelligence.
Original airdate - May 9, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 23 - Crossover
An accident, which occurs while traveling through the wormhole, leaves Kira and Bashir stranded in an alternate universe where humans are slaves.
Original airdate - May 15, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episode 24 - Preemptive Strike
Ro Laren is forced to choose between her loyalty to Picard and her hatred toward Cardassia when she accepts an assignment to infiltrate the Maquis.
Original airdate - May 16, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 24 - The Collaborator
Kira discovers that the man she loves, Vedek Bareil, may have been responsible for the death of 43 Bajoran freedom fighters.
Original airdate - May 22, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 25 - Tribunal
As Miles and Keiko O'Brien head off on their first vacation in years, the chief is detained and arrested by Cardassian military forces and forced to stand trial with death being his sentence.
Original airdate - June 5, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 2, episode 26 - The Jem’hadar
While supervising Jake and Nog during a school field trip to the Gamma Quadrant, Commander Sisko and Quark are captured by the soldiers of the Dominion: The Jem'Hadar.
Original airdate - June 12, 1994
The Next Generation - Season 7, episodes 25-26 - All Good Things
Picard finds himself traveling between the past, present, and future while attempting to prevent the destruction of humanity... by his own actions.
Original airdate - May 23, 1994
Like Phase II was intended to do, and Discovery does again a few decades later, Star Trek Voyager is launched 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.
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 1 - The Search, Part 1
In an attempt to head off a Jem'Hadar invasion of the Alpha Quadrant, Commander Sisko leads a diplomatic mission into hostile territory in an attempt to contact The Founders.
Original airdate - September 26, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 2 - The Search, Part 2
Commander Sisko must deal with an impending alliance between the Federation and the Dominion, while Odo makes a startling discovery about his own people
Original airdate - October 3, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 3 - The House of Quark
When a Klingon warrior is accidentally killed in Quark's Bar, Quark becomes the unwilling steward of a Klingon Great House.
Original airdate - October 10, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 4 - Equilibrium
After unusual mood swings and frightening hallucinations, an hidden element of Dax's past has come back haunt Jadzia.
Original airdate - October 17, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 5 - Second Skin
Major Kira's very identity comes into crisis as she is abducted by the Obsidian Order and told that she is one of their long-term undercover operatives.
Original airdate - October 24, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 6 - The Abandoned
A Jem'Hadar child is found abandoned in the wreckage of a salvaged ship and Odo attempts to raise him to be something other than a ruthless soldier of the Dominion.
Original airdate - October 31, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 7 - Civil Defense
When Chief O'Brien accidentally triggers an old anti-insurgency program left behind by the Cardassians, the station's computers believe that the crew is a mob of rebelling Bajorans and takes steps to contain them.
Original airdate - November 7, 1994
Voyager - Season 1, episodes 1-2 - Caretaker
While on a short-term mission to track an infiltrated Maquis cell, Capt. Kathryn Janeway and her newly launched U.S.S. Voyager crew -- and the Maquis fighter crew -- are drawn 70,000 lightyears to the far side of the Delta Quadrant by an alien seeking survival.
Original airdate - January 16, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 8 - Meridian
Jadzia falls in love with a Meridian scientist. The catch is that his planet and his race shift between this universe and a plane of pure energy.
Original airdate - November 14, 1994
Voyager - Season 1, episode 3 - Parallax
The reality of co-existence hits Maquis and Starfleet personnel alike, but the troubled but brilliant B'Elanna Torres is made chief engineer after solving a baffling spatial mystery with Janeway.
Original airdate - January 23, 1995
Movie - Star Trek: Generations
Picard’s only hope for a future rests within the Nexus...and a legendary captain from the past.
Original release date - November 18, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 9 - Defiant
Thomas Riker poses as his twin William in order to steal the U.S.S. Defiant and hand it over to the Maquis, of which he is a member.
Original airdate - November 21, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 10 - Fascination
An outbreak of the contagious Zanthi Fever occurs on the station when Lwaxana Troi pays them a visit.
Original airdate - November 28, 1994
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 11 - Past Tense, Part 1
A transporter accident sends Dax, Sisko and Bashir back in time to the year 2024, when San Fransisco was plagued with riots and social upheaval.
Original airdate - January 2, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 11 - Past Tense, Part 2
In order to restore the timeline, Sisko must pose as Gabriel Bell, a hero of Earth's history.
Original airdate - January 9, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 4 - Time and Again
An industrial but pre-warp planet's dangerous polaron technology seems to be the cause of a planet-wide wipeout discovered by the Voyager crew -- or did the visitors actually cause the problem in the near past?
Original airdate - January 30, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 13 - Life Support
When Vedek Bareil is critically injured during negotiations, the only thing that will keep him alive long enough to complete the meetings is a radical operation that will turn him into a half-man, half-machine.
Original airdate - January 31, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 14 - Heart of Stone
While chasing a lone Maquis member to a deserted moon, Kira becomes trapped by a crystalline formation that rapidly grows over time, threatening her life.
Original airdate - February 6, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 5 - Phage
When a grotesque and bizarre alien team steals Neelix's lungs, the Doctor's holographic replacements keep him alive until Janeway finally tracks down the Vidiians and their society-wide Phage plague.
Original airdate - February 6, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 15 - Destiny
A Bajoran prophecy is nearly fulfilled when a comet threatens to destroy the Bajoran Wormhole
Original airdate - February 13, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 6 - The Cloud
A nebula whose baffling interior provides no exit while being explored is discovered to be a living entity, and Janeway leads the crew in delicate "surgery" to repair the damage and finally emerge intact.
Original airdate - February 13, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 16 - Prophet Motive
In a shocking revelation to Quark and Rom, the Grand Nagus Zek reveals he has re-written the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition; a move which threatens to cripple the Ferengi Empire.
Original airdate - February 20, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 7 - Eye of the Needle
The crew is overjoyed to find a wormhole leading to the Alpha Quadrant, only to find that it is micro-sized and terminates in the Romulan Empire. The lone Romulan they contact, however, eventually seems won over to helping them.
Original airdate - February 20, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 1, episode 17 - Visionary
O'Brien is exposed to a small amount of radiation that allows him to shift through time several hours into the future, where he witnesses the station's destruction and his own death.
Original airdate - February 27, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 8 - Ex Post Facto
During a friendly visit to the advanced world of Banea, Paris is accused of murdering the high-ranking husband of a woman who claims the lieutenant had an affair with her. Tuvok's detective skills and her own pet finally clear him, exposing a different culprit far more dangerous to the Baneans.
Original airdate - February 27, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 9 - Emanations
In a crossing of transporter beaming, Harry Kim is swapped out for a corpse of the Vhnori people during one of their sacred funeral rituals. Getting him back creates tension by exposing the Vhnori's "Next Emanation" afterlife as simply subspace vacuoles -- or does it?
Original airdate - March 13, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 10 - Prime Factors
Janeway may finally have an ally in the Sikarans, whose peaceful, advanced ways mirror those of Voyager. But when the Sikarans' own version of the Prime Directive forbids their sharing of technology that could get Voyager home quickly, unlikely allies in the crew plot to take it anyway.
Original airdate - March 20, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 18 - Distant Voices
When Bashir is knocked unconscious following an alien attack, he travels through his own mind and is helped by different aspects of his personality, each represented by a different member of the crew.
Original airdate - April 10, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 11 - State of Flux
When replicator technology turns up on a Kazon-Nistrim ship, Janeway suspects a collaborator. The Maquis are suspect, but who'd have thought Chakotay's old cell contained a Cardassian spy disguised as a Bajoran -- and his onetime lover?
Original airdate - April 10, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 19 - Through the Looking Glass
Sisko is abducted by the Miles O'Brien from the mirror universe, and is forced to assume the identity of their Sisko in order to rebel against the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance.
Original airdate - April 17, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 12 - Heroes and Demons
Harry Kim's innocent medieval role-playing holo-program turns dangerous when he and Chakotay disappear without a trace. In his own "native" environment, the holographic Doctor undertakes his first "away mission" to rescue them and survives fear, romance and heartbreak in unmasking an unlikely trespasser.
Original airdate - April 24, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 20 - Improbable Cause
The Romulans are suspected in an attempt to kill Garak.
Original airdate - April 24, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 21 - The Die is Cast
Garak must decide whether or not to kill Odo to please his mentor, Enabran Tain, on the eve of a joint Romulan-Cardassian attack on the Dominion.
Original airdate - May 1, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 13 - Cathexis
An attack on his shuttlecraft inside a nebula leaves Chakotay brain-dead, but soon a series of comas, violence and sabotage stalk many in the crew. Suspicion falls on Tuvok until the crew uncovers an overlooked but deadly denizen of the nebula.
Original airdate - May 1, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 22 - Explorers
Sisko and Jake build a solar sailing ship in an attempt to recreate a journey taken by the ancient Bajorans. Meanwhile, Bashir encounters a former school rival.
Original airdate - May 8, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 14 - Faces
A bizarre Vidiian scientist splits the dual ethnic heritage of Torres into separate bodies to test her Klingon DNA for resistance to his people's Phage disease.
Original airdate - May 8, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 23 - Family Business
It is discovered that Quark's mother, Ishka, broke Ferengi law and made a profit through a secret deal, which may cost Quark everything he has.
Original airdate - May 15, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 15 - Jetrel
When Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel visits Voyager, Neelix is enraged at the Haakonian creator of the superweapon that conquered his world and killed his family. But his anger conceals a personal secret he is forced to confront when Jetrel is not the demon he had expected.
Original airdate - May 15, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 24 - Shakaar
Kai Winn, Bajor's spiritual leader has aspirations of also becoming First Minister of Bajor's Provisional Government. To secure her position, she employs Kira to retrieve farming equipment that is being held illegally by the leader of her old resistance cell.
Original airdate - May 22, 1995
Voyager - Season 1, episode 16 - Learning Curve
Most Maquis by now have assimilated into Starfleet life, but one troublesome trio are sent to Tuvok's own version of "boot camp" to bring them in line. Their bitter conflict is overshadowed when all of Voyager is threatened by an infection to the ship's bio-neural gel-pack circuitry.
Original airdate - May 22, 1995
Voyager - Season 2, episode 3 - Projections
When the Doctor is activated during a Red Alert, he learns that the ship has been abandoned, and that only B'Elanna Torres and an injured Captain Janeway are left on board.
Original airdate - September 11, 1995
Voyager - Season 2, episode 4 - Elogium
When the crew of Voyager investigate a cluster of space-borne life forms, Kes prematurely enters a stage in her life known as the "Elogium." This is the only time in her life when she can conceive a child.
Original airdate - September 18, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 25 - Facets
Dax is excited to perform a Trill ritual, in which she gets to "meet" each of her past hosts by transfering their memories into her friends. However, when Odo and Curzon merge and want to remain that way, Dax must find her confidence and reclaim that piece of herself.
Original airdate - June 12, 1995
Deep Space Nine - Season 3, episode 26 - The Adversary
After Sisko is promoted to Captain, he and the Defiant crew are manipulated by a Changeling posing as an ambassador.
Original airdate - June 19, 1995
Voyager - Season 2, episode 6 - Twisted
A spatial distortion ring puts the ship and crew at risk, as it begins to reconfigure the internal layout of Voyager.
Original airdate - October 2, 1995
Voyager - Season 2, episode 1 - The 37s
After discovering a 1936 Ford truck floating in space, Voyager follows an AM-band SOS call to a nearby planet.
Original airdate - August 28, 1995