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Star Trek TV Series and Films Chronological Order HOW TO REALLY WATCH THE STAR TREK TV SERIES AND FILMS AND IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER The BEST, the ULTIMATE, most detailed, and comprehensive chronological viewing order out there! Updated Nov 8, 2023 This is what I consider to be the definitive, fully chronological order in which to watch the Star Trek Saga. Of course, you may choose to omit to your preference or rearrange the order to your taste, especially since there's a lot of jumping around in The Original Series, and well as lots of back and forth with overlapping shows throughout The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. In researching this list, I was scouring the internet: various websites, fansites, forums, discussion pages looking for clues, overlaps, storyline references, trying to piece them all together as logically and chronologically as possible. That is, until I stumbled upon The Star Trek Chronology Project. They had pretty much done all the heavy lifting and deep research. Please check them out as they go into great detail behind the highly logical choices they made for episode and film placement. I've remained fairly true to their order, with only a few minor adjustments on my part. However, reading some comments, one of the drawbacks were that no Season or Episode numbers were listed. I took that feedback and ran with it, also condensing the list where possible. Season and episode numbers are based on Netflix and some other streaming services, not IMDb. Click HERE to see The Star Trek Chronology Project. Their list also doesn't fully include the Short Treks or The Animated Series whereas I've chosen to include them. As new films or TV series are released, this list will be updated to be as current as possible. If you want to watch Star Trek in FULL CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER ... here’s how to do it: Star Trek: Enterprise ENT Broken Bow S1E01 to ENT Fortunate Son S1E09 ENT Silent Enemy S1E11 ENT Cold Front S1E10 ENT Dear Doctor S1E12 to ENT Bound S4E17 ENT Demons S4E20 ENT Terra Prime S4E21 Star Trek: Short Treks SHR The Girl Who Made the Stars S2E05 SHR The Brightest Star S1E03 SHR Q&A S2E01 Star Trek: The Original Series TOS The Cage S1E01 SHR The Trouble with Edward S2E02 Star Trek: Discovery DSC Season 1 SHR The Escape Artist S1E04 SHR Runaway S1E01 Star Trek: Discovery DSC Season 2 SHR Ask Not S2E03 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds SNW Seasons 1 & 2 Star Trek: The Original Series These are listed in production order, not in episode order, mainly because Star Dates hadn't really been nailed down or perfected. These episodes can be viewed in the order the actors first filmed the scripts. TOS Where No Man Has Gone Before S1E04 TOS The Corbomite Maneuver S1E11 TOS Mudd's Women S1E07 TOS The Enemy Within S1E06 TOS The Man Trap S1E02 TOS The Naked Time S1E05 TOS Charlie X S1E03 TOS Balance of Terror S1E15 TOS What Are Little Girls Made Of? S1E08 TOS Dagger of the Mind S1E10 TOS Miri S1E09 TOS The Menagerie (Part I) S1E12 TOS The Menagerie (Part II) S1E13 TOS The Conscience of the King S1E14 TOS The Galileo Seven S1E17 TOS Court Martial S1E21 TOS Shore Leave S1E16 TOS The Squire of Gothos S1E18 TOS Arena S1E19 TOS The Alternative Factor S1E28 TOS Tomorrow is Yesterday S1E20 TOS The Return of the Archons S1E22 TOS A Taste of Armageddon S1E24 TOS Space Seed S1E23 SHR Ephraim and Dot S2E04 TOS This Side of Paradise S1E25 TOS Devil in the Dark S1E26 TOS Errand of Mercy S1E27 TOS The City on the Edge of Forever S1E29 TOS Operation:Annihilate! S1E30 TOS Catspaw S2E07 TOS Metamorphosis S2E09 TOS Friday's Child S2E11 TOS Who Mourns for Adonis? S2E02 TOS Amok Time S2E01 TOS The Doomsday Machine S2E06 TOS Wolf in the Fold S2E14 TOS The Changeling S2E03 TOS The Apple S2E05 TOS Mirror, Mirror S2E04 TOS The Deadly Years S2E12 TOS I, Mudd S2E08 TOS The Trouble with Tribbles S2E15 TOS Bread and Circuses S2E25 TOS Journey to Babel S2E10 TOS A Private Little War S2E19 TOS The Gamesters of Triskelion S2E16 TOS Obsession S2E13 TOS The Immunity Syndrome S2E18 TOS A Piece of the Action S2E17 TOS By Any Other Name S2E22 TOS Return to Tomorrow S2E20 TOS Patterns of Force S2E21 TOS The Ultimate Computer S2E24 TOS The Omega Glory S2E23 TOS Assignment:Earth S2E26 TOS Spectre of the Gun S3E06 TOS Elaan of Troyius S3E13 TOS The Paradise Syndrome S3E03 TOS The Enterprise Incident S3E02 TOS And the Children Shall Lead S3E04 TOS Spock's Brain S2E01 TOS Is There in Truth No Beauty? S3E05 TOS The Empath S3E12 TOS The Tholian Web S3E09 Star Trek: Enterprise ENT In a Mirror, Darkly, Part I S4E18 ENT In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II S4E19 TOS For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky S3E08 TOS Day of the Dove S3E07 TOS Plato's Stepchildren S3E10 TOS Wink of An Eye S3E11 TOS That Which Survives S3E17 TOS Let That Be Your Last Battlefield S3E15 TOS Whom Gods Destroy S3E14 TOS The Mark of Gideon S3E16 TOS The Lights of Zetar S3E18 TOS The Cloud Minders S3E21 TOS The Way to Eden S3E20 TOS Requiem for Methuselah S3E19 TOS The Savage Curtain S3E22 TOS All Our Yesterdays S3E23 TOS Turnabout Intruder S3E24 Star Trek: The Animated Series TAS Seasons 1 & 2 Star Trek: The Motion Picture Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Star Trek: Generations stop at 18m10s mark Star Trek: The Next Generation TNG Encounter at Farpoint S1E01 to Datalore S1E12 TNG Heart of Glory S1E19 TNG Angel One S1E13 to Coming of Age S1E18 TNG The Arsenal of Freedom S1E20 to The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2 S1E04 stop at 16m40s mark after Riker's conversation with Guinan Star Trek: Deep Space Nine DS9 Emissary S1E01 stop at 4m40s mark at the "Three Years Later" title card TNG The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2 resume at 16m40s mark after Riker's conversation with Guinan TNG Family S4E02 to The Wounded S4E12 TNG Clues S4E14 TNG Devil's Due S4E13 TNG First Contact S4E15 to TNG Chain of Command, Part II S6E11 DS9 Emissary S1E01 resume at 4m40s mark at the "Three Years Later" title card to DS9 The Passenger S1E08 Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine overlap TNG Ship in a Bottle S6E12 to TNG Timescape S6E25 DS9 Move Along Home S1E09 to DS9 In the Hands of the Prophets S1E19 TNG Descent, Part I S6E26 to TNG Forces of Nature S7E09 DS9 The Homecoming S2E01 to DS9 The Alternate S2E12 TNG Inheritance S7E10 to TNG Homeward S7E13 Star Trek: Enterprise ENT These Are the Voyages... S4E22 DS9 Armageddon Game S2E13 to DS9 Tribunal S2E25 TNG Sub Rosa S7E14 to TNG All Good Things ... S7E25 Star Trek : Deep Space Nine DS9 The Jem'Hadar S2E26 to DS9 Civil Defense S3E07 Star Trek: Voyager VOY Caretaker S1E01 to VOY Prime Factors S1E09 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager overlap DS9 Meridian S3E08 to DS9 Distant Voices S3E18 Star Trek: Generations resume at 18m11s mark VOY State of Flux S1E10 to VOY Learning Curve S1E15 DS9 Through the Looking Glass S3E19 to DS9 The The Adversary S3E26 VOY The 37's S2E01 to VOY Resistance S2E12 DS9 The Way of the Warrior (Part I, II) S4E01 to DS9 Our Man Bashir S4E09 VOY Prototype S2E13 to VOY Resolutions S2E25 DS9 Homefront S4E10 to DS9 Broken Link S4 E25 VOY The Basics, Part I S2E26 to VOY The Q and the Grey S3E11 DS9 Apocalypse Rising S5E01 to DS9 For the Uniform S5E13 VOY Macrocosm S3E12 to VOY Blood Fever S3E16 Star Trek: First Contact DS9 In Purgatory's Shadow S5E14 to DS9 In the Cards S5E25 VOY Unity S3E17 to VOY Worst Case Scenario S3E25 DS9 Call to Arms S5E26 to DS9 Change of Heart S6E16 VOY Scorpion, Part I S3E26 to VOY The Killing Game, Part II S4E19 DS9 Wrongs Darker than Death or Night S6E17 to DS9 Tears of the Prophets S6E26 VOY Vis A Vis S4E20 to VOY Unforgettable S4E22 VOY Demon S4E24 to VOY Hope and Fear S4E26 DS9 Image in the Sand S7E01 to DS9 The Siege of AR-558 S7E08 VOY Night S5E01 to VOY Counterpoint S5E10 DS9 Covenant S7E09 to DS9 It's Only a Paper Moon S7E10 Star Trek: Insurrection DS9 Prodigal Daughter S7E11 VOY Latent Image S5E11 to VOY Think Tank S5E19 DS9 The Emperor's New Cloak S7E12 to DS9 What You Leave Behind S7E25 Star Trek: Voyager VOY Juggernaut S5E20 to VOY Endgame S7E24 Star Trek: Nemesis Star Trek: Lower Decks (animated series) LDK Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4 Star Trek: Prodigy (animated series) PDG Season 1 Star Trek (2009) Star Trek Into Darkness Star Trek Beyond SHR Children of Mars S2E06 Star Trek: Picard PIC Seasons 1, 2, 3 Star Trek: Voyager VOY Living Witness S4E23 Star Trek: Discovery DSC Seasons 3 & 4 SHR Calypso S1E02