Star Trek Viewing Guide
Chapter All chapters
  1. 1The Road to the Federation2063–2161
  2. 2Toward the Five-Year Mission2230s–2261
  3. 3The Expanding Federation2265–2268
  4. 4The Long Road to Khitomer2268–2293
  5. 5A New Generation2324–2367
  6. 6Continuing Voyages2367–2369
  7. 7New Frontiers and Foundations2369–2370
  8. 8Exploring New Quadrants2371–2372
  9. 9Storms on the Horizon2372–2373
  10. 10The Dominion War2373–2375
  11. 11Trying to Get Home2375–2379
  12. 12Life on the Lower Decks2380–2382
  13. 13Echoes and Legacies2383–2401
  14. 14The Far Future3074–42nd century

Stats & Toys

Numbers and patterns pulled straight from the guide itself. They’re recalculated whenever the guide is rebuilt, so they follow every new episode and every correction.

985episodes and films, in 977 stops
13series, plus 14 films
551years of TV history crossed, back and forth, watching in this order
136The Next Generation stops in a row: the longest unbroken run
206times the guide switches from one show to another

The two clocks

Left to right is the order you watch in. Up and down is when each one was first released. A smooth climb would mean watching in broadcast order; every drop is a trip back in TV history.

Dots: 977 stops with a release date, from 1966 to 2026. Shaded bands are the chapters.

The biggest leaps

Between one stop and the very next, how far does the release date jump? The biggest leap back is 60.0 years, from Tomorrow's Enterprise to Where No Man Has Gone Before. The biggest leap forward is 51.0 years, from The Cage to The Vulcan Hello.

Furthest back 111 backward steps in all

  1. 1 SNW Tomorrow's Enterprise TOS Where No Man Has Gone Before back 60.0 years 2026 → 1966
  2. 2 SHO Q&A TOS The Cage back 53.1 years 2019 → 1966
  3. 3 ENT In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II TOS For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky back 36.5 years 2005 → 1968
  4. 4 SHO Ephraim and Dot Film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home back 33.0 years 2019 → 1986
  5. 5 PIC The Last Generation VOY Living Witness back 25.0 years 2023 → 1998

Furthest forward 817 forward steps in all

  1. 1 TOS The Cage DSC The Vulcan Hello forward 51.0 years 1966 → 2017
  2. 2 TOS The Tholian Web ENT In a Mirror, Darkly, Part I forward 36.4 years 1968 → 2005
  3. 3 Film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock SHO Ephraim and Dot forward 35.5 years 1984 → 2019
  4. 4 VOY Living Witness DSC That Hope is You, Part 1 forward 22.5 years 1998 → 2020
  5. 5 Film Star Trek: Nemesis LDS Second Contact forward 17.6 years 2002 → 2020

48 pairs were released on the same day. Captain Jonathan Archer never returned home.

Oldest and newest

The earliest-released stop is TOS The Cage, first aired September 8, 1966 (Production - 1964-1965), which you reach in 2254.

The most recent is SNW Tomorrow's Enterprise, September 24, 2026, in 2261.

What's on screen

Stops per series, in the order each first appears in the guide. “Runs” counts how many separate times the guide picks the show back up.

SeriesStopsRunsLongest run
ENT Enterprise 97 (98 eps)493
SHO Short Treks 1063
TOS The Original Series 80364
DSC Discovery 65423
SNW Strange New Worlds 40239
TAS The Animated Series 22122
Film Films 1483
TNG The Next Generation 176 (178 eps)28136
DS9 Deep Space Nine 173 (176 eps)869
VOY Voyager 170 (172 eps)6058
LDS Lower Decks 50226
PRO Prodigy 40140
PIC Picard 30130
SFA Starfleet Academy 10110

How the mix changes, chapter by chapter

1 The Road to the Federation 2063–2161 aired 2001–2005
2 Toward the Five-Year Mission 2230s–2261 aired 1966–2026
3 The Expanding Federation 2265–2268 aired 1966–1968
4 The Long Road to Khitomer 2268–2293 aired 1968–2019
5 A New Generation 2324–2367 aired 1987–1990
6 Continuing Voyages 2367–2369 aired 1990–1992
7 New Frontiers and Foundations 2369–2370 aired 1992–2005
8 Exploring New Quadrants 2371–2372 aired 1994–1996
9 Storms on the Horizon 2372–2373 aired 1996–2003
10 The Dominion War 2373–2375 aired 1997–1999
11 Trying to Get Home 2375–2379 aired 1999–2002
12 Life on the Lower Decks 2380–2382 aired 2020–2024
13 Echoes and Legacies 2383–2401 aired 2009–2024
14 The Far Future 3074–42nd century aired 1998–2026

Where the weave is tightest

Fictional years with the most switches between shows.

  1. 2370 34 switches in 52 stops TNGDS9ENT
  2. 2371 28 switches in 46 stops DS9VOYFilm
  3. 2373 26 switches in 54 stops VOYDS9FilmENT
  4. 2374 25 switches in 51 stops VOYDS9
  5. 2372 24 switches in 47 stops VOYDS9

The whole guide in one strip

All 977 stops, coloured by series. Point at a stripe to see it; select to open it.

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