How to Watch Star Trek in Order: The Complete Series Timeline

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Ever since 1966’s premiere of the first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, the entertainment world has never been the same. This franchise that has boldly gone where no property has gone before has captured the hearts and minds of millions around the world and has grown into a space-faring empire of sorts filled with multiple shows, feature length films, comics, merchandise, and so much more. That being said, the amount of Star Trek out in the world can make it tough to know exactly how to watch everything it offers in either chronological or release order so you don’t miss a thing. To help make things easier for you, we’ve created this guide to break down everything you need to know about engaging with this Star Trek journey.

It used to be a bit trickier to track down all the Star Trek shows and movies you’d need to watch to catch up, but Paramount+ has made it a whole lot easier as it has become the home of nearly all the past, present and future Star Trek entries.

So, without further ado, come with us into the final frontier and learn how you can become all caught up with the adventures of Kirk, Picard, Janeway, Sisko, Spock, Pike, Archer, Burnham, and all the others that have made Star Trek so special over the past 56 years.

And, in case you're worried, everything below is a mostly spoiler-free chronological timeline that will not ruin any of any major plot points of anything further on in the timeline. So, you can use this guide as a handy way to catch up without ruining much of the surprise of what’s to come on your adventure! If you’d prefer to watch everything Star Trek as it was released, you’ll find that list below as well!

How to Watch Star Trek in Chronological Order

  • How to Watch Star Trek by Release Order

1. Star Trek: Enterprise (2151-2155)

Star Trek: Enterprise is the earliest entry on our list as it takes place a hundred years before the adventures of Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew of Star Trek: The Original Series. The show aired from 2001 to 2005 and starred Scott Bakula as Jonathan Archer, the captain of the Enterprise NX-01. This version of the Enterprise was actually Earth’s first starship that was able to reach warp five.

While the show had its ups and downs, it included a fascinating look at a crew without some of the advanced tech we see in other Star Trek shows, the first contact with various alien species we know and love from the Star Trek universe, and more.

2. Star Trek: Discovery: Seasons 1 and 2 (2256-2258)

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This is where things get a little bit tricky, as the first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery take place before Star Trek: The Original Series but Seasons 3 and 4 take us boldly to a place we’ve not gone before. We won’t spoil why that’s the case here, but it’s important to note if you want to watch Star Trek in order, you’ll have to do a bit of jumping around from series to movie to series.

As for what Star Trek: Discovery is, it's set the decade before the original and stars Sonequa Martin-Green’s Michael Burnham, a Starfleet Commander who accidentally helps start a war between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. She gets court-martialed and stripped of her rank following these events and is reassigned to the U.S.S Discovery.

3. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2259-TBD)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds also begins before the events of Star Trek: The Original Series and is set up by Star Trek: Discovery as its captain, Anson Mount’s Christopher Pike, makes an appearance in its second season. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Pike first appeared in the original failed pilot episode “The Cage” of Star Trek: The Original Series and would later become James T. Kirk’s predecessor after the original actor, Jefferey Hunter, backed out of the show.

Fast forward all these years later and now we get to learn more about the story of Christopher Pike and many other familiar faces from The Original Series alongside new characters. It’s made even more special as the ship the crew uses is the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701, the very same that would soon call Kirk its captain.

4. Star Trek: The Original Series (2265-2269)

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The fourth Star Trek series or movie you should watch in the order is the one that started it all - Star Trek: The Original Series . Created by Gene Roddenberry, this first Star Trek entry would kick off a chain reaction that would end up creating one of the most beloved IPs of all time. However, it almost never made it to that legendary status as its low ratings led to a cancellation order after just three seasons that aired from 1966 to 1969. Luckily, it found great popularity after that and built the foundation for all the Star Trek stories we have today.

Star Trek: The Original Series starred William Shatner as James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Spock, but the rest of the crew would go on to become nearly as iconic as they were. As for what the show was about? Well, we think Kirk said it best during each episode’s opening credits;

“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise . Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

5. Star Trek: The Animated Series (2269-2270)

While Star Trek: The Original Series may have been canceled after just three seasons, its popularity only grew, especially with the help of syndication. Following this welcome development, Gene Roddenberry decided he wanted to continue the adventures of the crew of the Enterprise NCC-1701 in animated form, and he brought back many of the original characters and the actors behind them for another go.

Star Trek: The Animated Series lasted for two seasons from 1973 to 1974 and told even more stories of the Enterprise and its adventures throughout the Milky Way galaxy.

6. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2270s)

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The first Star Trek film was a very big deal as it brought back the crew of Star Trek: The Original Series after the show was canceled in 1969 after just three seasons. However, even it had a rough road to theaters as Roddenberry initially failed to convince Paramount Pictures it was worth it in 1975. Luckily, the success of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and other factors helped finally convince those in power to make the movie and abandon the plans for a new television series called Star Trek: Phase II, which also would have continued the original story.

In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, James T. Kirk was now an Admiral in Starfleet, and certain events involving a mysterious alien cloud of energy called V’Ger cause him to retake control of a refitted version of the U.S.S. Enterprise with many familiar faces in tow.

7. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (2285)

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry had a sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture written, but Paramount turned it down after the reception to that first film was not what the studio had hoped for. In turn, Paramount removed him from the production and brought in Harve Bennett and Jack B. Sowards to write the script and Nicholas Meyer to direct the film.

The studio’s decision proved to be a successful one as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is considered by many, including IGN, to be the best Star Trek film. As for the story, it followed the battle between Admiral James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise vs. Ricardo Montalban’ Khan Noonien Singh. Khan is a genetically engineered superhuman and he and his people were exiled by Kirk on a remote planet in the episode ‘Space Seed’ from the original series. In this second film, after being stranded for 15 years, Khan wants revenge.

8. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (2285)

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock continues the story that began in Wrath of Khan and deals with the aftermath of Spock’s death. While many on the U.S.S. Enterprise thought that was the end for their science officer, Kirk learns that Spock’s spirit/katra is actually living inside the mind of DeForest Kelley’s Dr. McCoy, who has been acting strange ever since the death of his friend. What follows is an adventure that includes a stolen U.S.S. Enterprise, a visit from Spock’s father Sarek, a run-in with Klingons, and so much more.

9. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (2286 and 1986)

While it is undoubtedly great that Kirk and his crew saved Spock, it apparently wasn’t great enough to avoid the consequences that follow stealing and then losing the Enterprise. On their way to answer for their charges, the former crew of the Enterprise discover a threat to Earth that, without spoiling anything, causes them to go back in time to save everything they love. The Voyage Home is a big departure from the previous films as, instead of space, we spend most of our time in 1986’s San Francisco.

10. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (2287)

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier once again brings back our favorite heroes from Star Trek: The Original Series, but it’s often regarded as one of the weakest films starring Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc. In this adventure, our crew’s shore leave gets interrupted as they are tasked with going up against the Vulcan Sybok, who himself is on the hunt for God in the middle of the galaxy.

11. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (2293)

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is the final movie starring the entire cast of Star Trek: The Original Series, and it puts the Klingons front and center. After a mining catastrophe destroys the Klingon moon of Praxis and threatens the Klingon’s homeworld, Klingon Chancellor Gorkon is forced to abandon his species' love of war in an effort to seek peace with the Federation. What follows is an adventure that calls back to the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall and serves as a wonderful send-off to characters we’ve come to know and love since 1966, even though some will thankfully appear in future installments.

12. Star Trek: The Next Generation (2364-2370)

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After you make it through all six of the Star Trek: The Original Series movies, it’s time to start what many consider the best Star Trek series of all time - Star Trek: The Next Generation . The series, which starred Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, ran from 1987 through 1994 with 178 episodes over seven seasons.

There are so many iconic characters and moments in The Next Generation, including William Riker, Data, Worf, Geordi La Forge, Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher, and many of these beloved faces would return for Star Trek: Picard, which served as a continuation of this story.

While we are once again on the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, this story takes place a century after the events of Star Trek: The Original Series. However, there may just be a few familiar faces that pop up from time to time.

13. Star Trek Generations (2293)

While Star Trek Generations is the first film featuring the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew, it also features a team-up that many had dreamed of for years and years between Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Captain James T. Kirk.

Our heroes are facing off against an El-Aurian named Dr. Tolian Soran, who will do whatever is necessary to return to an extra-dimensional realm known as the Nexus. Without spoiling anything, these events lead to a meeting with these two legendary captains and a heartfelt-at-times send-off to The Original Series, even though not every character returned that we wished could have.

14. Star Trek: First Contact (2373)

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Star Trek: First Contact was not only the second film featuring the crew from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but it also served as the motion picture directorial debut for William Riker actor Jonathan Frakes. In this film, the terrifying Borg take center stage and force our heroes to travel back in time to stop them from conquering Earth and assimilating the entire human race.

This movie picks up on the continuing trauma caused by Jean-Luc Picard getting assimilated in the series and becoming Locutus of Borg, and we are also treated to the first warp flight in Star Trek’s history, a shout-out to Deep Space Nine, and more.

15. Star Trek: Insurrection (2375)

Star Trek: Insurrection, which unfortunately ranked last on our list of the best Star Trek movies, is the third film starring the Star Trek: The Next Generation crew and followed a story involving an alien race that lives on a planet with more-or-less makes them invincible due to its rejuvenating properties. This alien race, known as the Ba’Ku, are being threatened by not only another alien race called the Son’a, but also the Federation. Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew disobey Federation orders in hopes to save the peaceful Ba’Ku, and while it sounds like an interesting premise, many said it felt too much like an extended episode of the series instead of a big blockbuster film.

16. Star Trek: Nemesis (2379)

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The final Star Trek: The Next Generation movie is Star Trek: Nemesis , and it also isn’t looked at as one of the best. There are bright parts in the film, including Tom Hardy’s Shinzon who is first thought to be a Romulan praetor before it’s revealed he is a clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, but it also features a lot of retreaded ground. There are some great moments between our favorite TNG characters, but it’s not quite the goodbye many had hoped for. Luckily, this won’t be the last we’ll see of them.

17. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2369-2375)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the fourth Star Trek series and it ran from 1993 to 1999 with 176 episodes over seven seasons. Deep Space Nine was also the first Star Trek series to be created without the direct involvement of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, but instead with Rick Berman and Michael Piller. Furthermore, it was the first series to begin when another Star Trek Series - The Next Generation - was still on the air.

The connections between The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine don’t end there, as there were a ton of callbacks to TNG in Deep Space Nine, and characters like Worf and Miles O’Brien played a big part in the series. Other TNG characters popped up from time to time, including Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and certain Deep Space Nine characters also showed their faces in TNG.

Deep Space Nine was a big departure from the Star Trek series that came before, as it not only took place mostly on a space station - the titular Deep Space Nine - but it was the first to star an African American as its central character in Avery Brooks’ Captain Benjamin Sisko.

Deep Space Nine was located in a very interesting part of the Milky Way Galaxy as it was right next to a wormhole, and the series was also filled with conflict between the Cardassians and Bajorans, the war between the Federation and the Dominion, and much more.

18. Star Trek: Voyager (2371-2378)

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Star Trek: Voyager is the fifth Star Trek series and it ran from 1995 to 2001 with 172 episodes over seven seasons. Star Trek: Voyager begins its journey at Deep Space Nine, and then it follows the tale of Kate Mulgrew’s Captain Kathryn Janeway (the first female leading character in Star Trek history!) and her crew getting lost and stranded in the faraway Delta Quadrant.

The episodes and adventures that follow all see the team fighting for one goal: getting home. Being so far away from the Alpha Quadrant we were so used to letting Star Trek be very creative in its storytelling and give us situations and alien races we’d never encountered before.

That doesn’t mean it was all unfamiliar, however, as the Borg became a huge threat in the later seasons. It’s a good thing too, as that led to the introduction of Jeri Ryan’s Seven of Nine, a character who would continue on to appear in Star Trek: Picard and become a fan favorite.

19. Star Trek: Lower Decks (2380-TBD)

Star Trek: Lower Decks debuted in 2020 and was the first animated series to make it to air since 1973’s Star Trek: The Animated Series. Alongside having that feather in its cap, it also sets itself apart by choosing to focus more on the lower lever crew instead of the captain and senior staff.

This leads to many fun adventures that may not be as high stakes as the other stories, but are no less entertaining. There have already been three seasons of Star Trek: Lower Decks, and the fourth season is set to arrive later this summer.

The series is also worth a watch as it is having a crossover with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds that will mix the worlds of live-action and animation.

20. Star Trek: Prodigy (2383-TBD)

Star Trek: Prodigy was the first fully 3D animated Star Trek series ever and told a story that began five years after the U.S.S. Voyager found its way back home to Earth. In this series, which was aimed for kids, a group of young aliens find an abandoned Starfleet ship called the U.S.S. Protostar and attempt to make it to Starfleet and the Alpha Quadrant from the Delta Quadrant.

Voyager fans will be delighted to know that Kate Mulgrew returns as Kathryn Janeway in this animated series, but not only as herself. She is also an Emergency Training Holographic Advisor that was based on the likeness of the former captain of the U.S.S. Voyager.

The second season of Star Trek: Prodigy was set to arrive later this year, but it was not only canceled in June, but also removed from Paramount+. There is still hope this show may find a second life on another streaming service or network.

21. Star Trek: Picard (2399-2402)

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Star Trek: Picard is the… well… next generation of Star Trek: The Next Generation as it brings back not only Partick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard, but also many of his former crew members from the beloved series. The story is set 20 years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis and we find Picard retired from Starfleet and living at his family’s vineyard in France.

Without spoiling anything, certain events get one of our favorite captains back to work and take him on an adventure through space and time over three seasons and 30 episodes.

The show had its ups and downs, but the third season, in our opinion, stuck the landing and gave us an “emotional, exciting, and ultimately fun journey for Jean-Luc and his family - both old and new - that gives the character the send-off that he has long deserved.”

22. Star Trek: Discovery: Seasons 3 and 4 (3188-TBD)

While Star Trek: Discovery begins around 10 years before Star Trek: The Original Series, the show jumps more than 900 years into the future into the 32nd Century following the events of the second season. The Federation is not in great shape and Captain Michael Burnham and her crew work to bring it back to what it once was.

Star Trek: Discovery is set to end after the upcoming fifth season, which will debut on Paramount+ in 2024.

How to Watch Star Trek by Order of Release

  • Star Trek: The Original Series (1966 - 1969)
  • Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973 - 1974)
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1984)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 - 1994)
  • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
  • Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993 - 1999)
  • Star Trek: Generations (1994)
  • Star Trek: Voyager (1995 - 2001)
  • Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
  • Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
  • Star Trek: Enterprise (2001 - 2005)
  • Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
  • Star Trek (2009)
  • Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
  • Star Trek Beyond (2016)
  • Star Trek: Discovery (2017 - Present)
  • Star Trek: Picard (2020 - 2023)
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020 - Present)
  • Star Trek: Prodigy (2021 - TBA)
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022 - Present)

For more, check out our look at the hidden meaning behind Star Trek’s great captains, why Star Trek doesn’t get credit as the first shared universe, if this may be the end of Star Trek’s golden age of streaming, and our favorite classic Star Trek episodes and movies.

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Star Trek movies in order: Chronological and release

Untangle the different timelines and get the popcorn: Here are the Star Trek movies in order — both chronological and release.

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  • Chronological order
  • Prime Timeline

The Original Series movies

The next generation movies.

  • Kelvin Timeline
  • Release order

Upcoming Star Trek movies

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So long as movies stick numbers on the ends of their titles, it’s easy to watch them in order. Once they start branching out, however, things can get a little muddled, especially when reboots come along and start the whole process over from scratch. 

You may have heard that the even-numbered ones are good and the odd-numbered ones are not. That’s spot on for the films starring the cast of The Original Series (aka Kirk and friends) falls apart once you reach the tenth entry in the series. It would probably be worth your while to have this list of the Star Trek movies, ranked worst to best around to steer clear of the clunkers. Look, we’re not going to pretend everything here is worth two hours of your day, we’re just letting you know which came out after which.

Should your Trek appetite remain unsatiated after your movie watchathon, feel free to pull from either our list of the best Star Trek: The Original series episode s or best Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes . Either one will set you up for a weekend jam-packed with great Trek moments. Consult our Star Trek streaming guide for all the details on where to watch the movies and shows online 

Star Trek movies: Chronological order

Below is the quick version of our list if you just need to check something to win an argument, but it comes with a lot of in-universe time travel-related caveats that we'll explain below.

  • 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
  • Star Trek: First Contact
  • Star Trek: Insurrection
  • Star Trek: Nemesis
  • Star Trek Into Darkness
  • Star Trek Beyond

Star Trek: Prime Timeline

The first thing you need to know about the Star Trek films is that while they travel back and forth in time, they also diverge into two (for now) different timelines. The films of the original crew (well, the first iteration of them, anyway – more on that later) are all in what is known as the Prime Timeline. 

Within the Prime Timeline, the movies are then split between The Original Series movies and The Next Generation movies.

1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

  • Release date: December 8, 1979
  • Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley

This is the film that brought the voyages of the U.S.S. Enterprise to the big screen. An energy cloud is making its way toward Earth, destroying everything in its path. Kirk and crew intercept it and discover an ancient NASA probe at the heart of the cloud. Voyager – known as V’ger now – encountered a planet of living machines, learned all it could, and returned home to report its findings, only to find no one who knew how to answer. It’s a slow-paced film, and the costumes are about as 70s as they come, but there’s classic Star Trek at the heart of this film.

2. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

  • Release date: June 4, 1982
  • Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban

Ask a Star Trek fan what the best Star Trek movie is and more often than not, you’ll get Khan as your answer. A sequel to the events of the “Space Seed” episode of The Original Series, Khan is a retelling of Moby Dick with Khan throwing reason to the wind as he hunts his nemesis, James T. Kirk. Montalban delivers a pitch-perfect performance, giving us a Khan with charisma and obsession in equal parts.

3. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

  • Release date: June 1, 1984

Spock might have died in The Wrath of Khan, but this third entry set up the premise for his return, with the creation of the Genesis planet. Essentially a heist movie in reverse, Search for Spock has the crew defying orders from Starfleet in an attempt to reunite Spock’s consciousness with his newly-rejuvenated body. It’s not a great movie, but it does include two very important events: the rebirth of Spock and the death of Kirk’s son at the hands of the Klingons. That’ll be important a few flicks from now.   

4. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

  • Release date: November 26, 1986
  • Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Catherine Hicks

If Star Trek fans don’t say Khan is the best Star Trek movie, odds are very high they say Voyage Home is. It’s a funny film where the mission isn’t destruction, but creation – or more accurately, repairing the devastating effects of humankind’s ecological short-sightedness. 

A probe arrives at Earth, knocking out the power of everything in its path as it looks for someone to respond to its message (yeah, it happens a lot). This time, however, the intended recipient is the long-extinct blue whale. To save Earth, Kirk and co. go back in time to 1980s San Francisco to snag some blue whales. The eco-messaging isn’t exactly subtle, but it doesn’t get in the way of a highly enjoyable movie.

5. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

  • Release date: June 9, 1989

A writers’ strike and Shatner’s directorial skills (or lack thereof) doomed this film before a single scene was shot. The core plot is actually pretty good: Spock’s half-brother hijacks the Enterprise so that he can meet God, which he believes to be… himself. Some Star Trek fans have an odd fondness for this movie, as it showcases the camaraderie of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy when they’re off-duty.

6. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

  • Release date: December 6, 1991
  • Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Christopher Plummer

Right, so if that Star Trek fan you’ve been talking to doesn’t choose either Khan or Voyage Home as the best Star Trek movie ever, they almost certainly name Undiscovered Country (and if they don’t, they have highly questionable taste, frankly). The Klingon moon of Praxis explodes, putting the entire Klingon race at risk. The Enterprise hosts a diplomatic entourage of Klingons, much to Kirk’s discomfort. 

Remember how Klingons murdered Kirk’s son? Well, he certainly hasn’t forgotten. Kirk’s lingering rage makes him the perfect patsy for the murder of the Klingon Chancellor, sending him and McCoy to a prison planet and setting the stage for war. Christopher Plummer is perfection as a Shakespeare-quoting Klingon general with no taste for peace.

7. Star Trek: Generations

  • Release date: November 18, 1994
  • Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner

And thus the torch is passed from the crew of The Original Series to that of The Next Generation. It’s a bit of a fumble, to be honest, but they all did their best to get Kirk and Picard into the same film and have it make sense. Malcolm McDowell plays Soran, a scientist who will stop at nothing to control the Nexus, a giant space rainbow that exists outside of space-time. 

Soran lost his family when his home world was destroyed and he wants to re-join them (or at least an illusion of them) in the Nexus. He’s not so much a villain as a tragic figure, but the Nexus makes a meeting between Kirk and Picard possible. Not all that sensible, but possible.

8. Star Trek: First Contact

  • Release date: November 22, 1996
  • Cast: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Alice Krige

Okay, no, for real, if your Star Trek pal didn’t pick Khan or Voyage Home or… oh, nevermind. Cueing off the iconic two-part episode “Best of Both Worlds,” in which Picard is assimilated by the Borg, First Contact sees the collective traveling back in time in order to disrupt First Contact, the day Earth’s first foray into space attracted the attention of the Vulcans, kicking off the events that would eventually lead to Starfleet’s victory over the Borg. The Borg Queen torments Picard with visions of the past and tempts Data with humanity, going so far as to give him some human skin. 

The fight with the Borg aboard the Enterprise is thrilling, and the work on the surface to get first contact back on track is fun. Plus, there’s just nothing like Patrick Stewart turning it up to 11 as he lashes out at the enemy that haunts his dreams.

9. Star Trek: Insurrection

  • Release date: December 11, 1998
  • Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, F. Murray Abraham

Essentially an episode inflated for the big screen, Insurrection is about the Federation conspiring to displace a planet’s population in order to harvest the planet’s unique resource – super healing metaphasic particles. In addition to the rejuvenating natural resource, the Ba’ku also have access to exceptional technology, which they shun in favor of a more simple lifestyle. 

Data malfunctions, the villains are Federation allies (and former Ba’ku!), Picard gets to knock boots with a local – Insurrection is the very definition of “fine.” Chronologically, Insurrection is relevant for rekindling the romance between Riker and Troi, but not much else.

10. Star Trek: Nemesis

  • Release date: December 13, 2002
  • Cast: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Tom Hardy

Before he mumbled his way into our hearts as Bane, Tom Hardy was Shinzon, a clone of Picard the Romulans created in an eventually abandoned attempt to infiltrate Starfleet. Shinzon is dying, and all that will save him is a transfusion of Picard’s blood. Unfortunately, Shinzon also happens to be a megalomaniac who happens to want to destroy all life on Earth and maybe a few other planets, too, if he’s feeling saucy. 

Nemesis is notable mostly for killing Data with a noble sacrifice, only to resurrect him moments later in a duplicate body found earlier by the Enterprise crew.

Star Trek: Kelvin Timeline

The last of the Prime Timeline movies failed to impress at the box office, so it was a few years before anyone tried to bring the Enterprise back to the big screen. Rather than lean on any of the TV crews, this new slate of movies would serve as a reboot, welcoming new audiences while honoring long-time fans. Welcome to the Kelvin Timeline. (For all the ins and outs, check out our Star Trek: Kelvin Timeline explained article).

11. Star Trek

  • Release date: May 8, 2009
  • Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban

Back to the beginning! Star Trek introduces us to James T. Kirk, Spock, and “Bones” McCoy as they meet and join the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Though the plot is a relatively straightforward affair of a Romulan named Nero trying to destroy the Earth. His anger borne out of grief, what matters most is how it all came to be. In the future, Spock – the Prime Timeline version – tries to save Romulus from being destroyed by a supernova, but fails. Both his ship and Nero’s are kicked back in time, setting off a chain of events that diverge from the original, “true” timeline. 

The name “Kelvin” refers to the U.S.S. Kelvin, the ship heroically captained by Kirk’s father, which is destroyed in the opening moments of the movie.

12. Star Trek Into Darkness

  • Release date: May 16, 2013
  • Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch

The benefit of the Kelvin Timeline is that it not only allows Star Trek to explore canon material – such as Khan (he of the Wrath) – but to do something completely new with it. Khan features heavily in Into Darkness, but he has no beef with Kirk. Instead, a Starfleet Admiral is threatening the lives of Khan’s crew, forcing them to craft weapons of mass destruction. 

Khan inevitably eludes captivity and strikes out against Starfleet, killing Captain Pike (and a bunch of others) in the process. Kirk and company eventually take Khan down, but not before Kirk sacrifices himself to save his crew. Don’t worry, these things don’t last in either Star Trek timeline, as Kirk gets better moments later thanks to *checks notes* Khan's super blood.

13. Star Trek Beyond

  • Release date: July 22, 2016
  • Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Idris Elba

Beyond leans into the camaraderie of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy now that they’ve had some time together, much to the movie’s benefit. The Enterprise is lured to Altamid under false pretenses, leading to much of the crew being marooned on the planet. The architect of the deception was Krall, who wants an opportunity to return to a galaxy where war is the order of the day. 

Beyond is a significant point in the timeline for two reasons. First, it sadly marked the death of Spock Prime due to the passing of Leonard Nimoy. Second, it culminates in the Enterprise embarking on the five-year-mission that started everything back in 1966.

Star Trek movies: Release order

If you can't be bothered remembering two different orders for the Star Trek movies then we've got good news for you — the release order is identical to the chronological order that we've shown above (accounting for the Kelvin timeline as it's own entity anyway).

The full run of Star Trek films currently tops out at 13 entries; the fate of the 14th was hidden within a nebula of conflicting information. “Star Trek 4” was slated for December 22, 2023, but given that filming had yet to begin as of July 2022, it seems inevitable that date will change. Back in February 2022, Paramount that the principal cast would be returning for the fourth installment of the Kelvin timeline, a claim quickly disputed by the agents of those selfsame actors. Awkward.

Soon after, however, Chris Pine eventually signed on the dotted line, and his shipmates reached their own agreements. As of right now, Kirk (Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), McCoy (Karl Urban, assuming he can make it work around filming of The Boys), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Uhura (Zoe Saldaña), and Sulu (John Cho) are all ready to beam up and get filming. Sadly, this will be the first of the Kelvin films to not feature Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov. Yelchin died in an accident at his home in 2016. It’s currently unclear if Chekov will be recast or if a different character will take his place on the bridge of the Enterprise.

Though the Kelvin timeline is often referred to as “J.J. Abrams Trek,” he won’t be directing Star Trek 4; Matt Shakman will take on that responsibility, leaving Abrams to produce. As for what it will be about, that’s anyone’s guess, but Chris Pine told Deadline he hopes this one tells a smaller story that appeals to the core Trek audience. “Let’s make the movie for the people that love this group of people, that love this story, that love Star Trek,” he said. “Let’s make it for them and then, if people want to come to the party, great.” It’s a strategy that makes sense; the disappointment with recent Trek films hasn’t been their content so much as their box office. A Trek film with a smaller scope (and budget) would almost certainly have a very healthy profit margin while also resonating with the fanbase.   

With no new announcements coming from San Diego Comic-Con 2022, it seems that we’ll have to wait for any more insight into the next Star Trek film. Sill, recent comments from Paramount CEO Brian Robbins have us cautiously optimistic: “We’re deep into [Star Trek 4] with J.J. Abrams, and it feels like we’re getting close to the starting line and excited about where we’re going creatively,” he told Variety . 

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How to watch Star Trek in order

Whether you're wanting to check out the Original Series or Discovery, figuring out how to watch Star Trek in order is a breeze with this easy guide!

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Is it just us or is figuring out how to watch Star Trek in order getting more and more complex with each passing year? The prospect of watching Star Trek in order would be daunting for even the most decorated of starship captains with multiple series being brought to life on both the big and small screens. But fear not Trekkies - we've got you covered!

If you've ever tried to watch the Marvel movies in order , you'd be forgiven for thinking that was the most complicated franchise on the planet, but we kid you not - it has nothing on Star Trek. The 55-year-old sci-fi franchise includes nine (soon to be 11) TV shows and 13 movies and it spans 1000 years, making for one super complicated and vast timeline.

So, what is the best way to watch Star Trek in order? Well, that depends. For you purists out there, you might like to opt for viewing this franchise by release date, just like all the original Trekkie fans did back in the day. This will allow you to follow along as they did and get a similar experience. While the timeline does jump around, ( Star Trek: Discovery , for example, is set at the end of the 32nd century but was released before Star Trek: Picard , which is set in the 24th century), it gives you a more complete picture. 

Because the Star Trek franchise involves movies and TV series that take place at different times, another option is to watch everything in chronological order. This means you get to start with something a little bit more modern, but the one problem with this is that references will often be made to films you've not yet seen, which could make certain elements difficult to follow. 

To be honest, just like we recommend in our guide to how to watch the Star Wars movies in order , it really is a matter of personal preference. As long as you have one of the best TVs , you'll find you enjoy this franchise no matter what order you decide to watch it in.

So, without further ado, here's how to watch Star Trek in order - based on release date and in-universe continuity...

Star Trek TV shows and movies in chronological order

This is probably the list you're looking for if you're trying to figure out how to watch Star Trek in order. It's where things get really interesting, as Star Trek movies and TV shows have a habit of jumping around the franchise's chronology with sequels, prequels and bits in between. There are even two distinct timelines – but don't worry, we'll explain all that.

The original ‘Prime’ timeline was started by the Original Series, the Next Generation-era TV shows, and the first ten movies, The alternative ‘Kelvin’ timeline, meanwhile, was created in JJ Abrams’ first Star Trek (2009) to allow the familiar Enterprise crew of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura and Chekov to have new adventures without contradicting canon . To avoid confusion, we've defined the two timelines as separate entities below.

This list doesn't, however, include all of the brief Short Treks – short stories which are mostly set around the Star Trek: Discovery era – and adventures where Starfleet crews time-travelled to the eras before any of the shows/movies are set (eg visits to 1986 in The Voyage Home and 2063 in First Contact). We've also left out upcoming Discovery spin-off Star Trek: Section 31 , since it's not yet in production. (Also, we're not entirely sure exactly when it'll be set.)

Let's start with everything in one big list. 

  • Star Trek: Enterprise (seasons 1-4)
  • ‘The Cage’
  • Star Trek: Discovery (seasons 1-2)
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
  • Star Trek: The Original Series  (seasons 1-3)
  • Star Trek: The Animated Series 
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture 
  • Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan 
  • Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock 
  • Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home 
  • Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier 
  • Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country 
  • Star Trek: Generations (opening sequence)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (seasons 1-5)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (seasons 6-7), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (seasons 1-2)
  • Star Trek: Generations
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (seasons 3-4), Star Trek: Voyager (seasons 1-2)
  • Star Trek: First Contact 
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (seasons 5-6), Star Trek: Voyager (seasons 3-4)
  • Star Trek: Insurrection 
  • S tar Trek: Deep Space Nine (season 7), Star Trek: Voyager (season 5)
  • Star Trek: Voyager (seasons 6-7)
  • Star Trek: Nemesis 
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks
  • Star Trek: Prodigy
  • Star Trek (2009) – Prime timeline sequences
  • Star Trek: Picard
  • Star Trek: Discovery (season 3-)
  • Short Treks: 'Calypso'

If you watch in the order given above, you'll get a continuous ‘history’ of the 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 32nd centuries according to the Star Trek timeline. That said, you will notice some odd discrepancies – thanks to the time in which respective shows were made, the technology in prequel show Star Trek: Discovery is significantly more advanced than what Kirk and Spock used in the Original Series.

Below, we'll explain how the different eras of the shows and movies break down for context. 

Note that Gene Roddenberry's original pre-Kirk Star Trek pilot, 'The Cage', is counted as an instalment of the Original Series. You'll usually find it listed as a bonus episode as part of season one when you're watching it on streaming services.

Star Trek: Enterprise era (22nd century) Begins and ends with: Star Trek Enterprise seasons 1-4

About a century before James T Kirk and his crew embark on their famous five-year mission in Star Trek: The Original Series, Captain Jonathan Archer leads Earth's first steps into the wider universe.

Star Trek: The Original Series era (23rd century) Begins with: 'The Cage' Ends with: Star Trek: Generations (opening sequence)

For many this is the most familiar era of Star Trek, since it involves Kirk, Spock and the classic Enterprise crew.  

This section of the Trek timeline kicks off with the original unaired Star Trek pilot, 'The Cage' . Next up in franchise chronology are the first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery , which work as a prequel to the Original Series (they even feature a younger version of Spock), but it's all change in season 3 – the events of the season 2 finale send the crew into the distant future of the 32nd century. More on that later...

Upcoming spin-off Strange New Worlds will follow the adventures of Captain Pike, Number One and Spock on the Enterprise after the USS Discovery travelled to the future. And at some point after that, Captain James T Kirk will take command of Starfleet's most famous ship – a role he filled throughout The Original Series , The Animated Series and the first six Star Trek movies ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture , The Wrath of Khan , The Search for Spock , The Voyage Home , The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country ).

The latest point we've seen (so far) in the 23rd century era is James T Kirk being taken away by the Nexus ribbon in the prologue of Star Trek: Generations . This is the event that allows Kirk to meet Picard when the Next Generation crew take on the mantle of headlining the big screen franchise.

Star Trek: The Next Generation era (24th century) Begins with: Star Trek: The Next Generation Ends with: Star Trek (2009) – Prime timeline sequences

The richest, most complicated period in Star Trek chronology. During The Next Generation era, Star Trek was experimenting with the idea of a shared universe years before Marvel got in on the act, with three TV shows (TNG, Deep Space Nine and Voyager ) and four movies ( Generations , First Contact , Insurrection and Nemesis ) interweaving through the same timeline – Voyager's Captain Kathryn Janeway even shows up in Star Trek: Nemesis as a newly promoted admiral.

New animated comedy spin-off Lower Decks is set a year after Picard and the Next Generation crew's final mission in Star Trek: Nemesis, while Nickelodeon kids' cartoon Star Trek: Prodigy will see Kate Mulgrew reprising her role as Voyager's captain, Kathryn Janeway. That suggests it will presumably be set at a similar point in the Star Trek timeline.

In JJ Abrams' first Star Trek movie (2009), the destruction of Romulus and Spock Prime's accidental trip back to the pre-Original Series era (in the Kelvin timeline) also take place after the events of Nemesis.

In the list above, we've shown how the movies (roughly) fit into the chronology of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. 

Picard era (turn of the 25th century) Begins with: Picard Ends with: ???

Aside from glimpses of the destruction of Romulus in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: Picard gives us our first post-Star Trek: Nemesis look at what the United Federation of Planets has become. 

Since we last saw Jean-Luc Picard, he's retired to his vineyard in France, an android uprising on Mars has led to a ban on all synthetic life, and a disabled Borg Cube (known simply as the 'Artifact') is being mined for technology.

Distant future (32nd century) Begins with : Star Trek: Discovery season 2 (finale) Ends with: ???

In order to save the galaxy, the brave crew of the USS Discovery set off on a one-way mission 900 years into the future in Star Trek: Discovery 's season 2 finale. Their 32nd century destination is new territory for Star Trek – thanks to the mysterious 'Burn', most of the dilithium in the galaxy has been destroyed, making warp travel impossible. As a result, the Federation is a shadow of its former self – even Earth has decided to go it alone.

This isn't, however, the furthest Star Trek has ventured into the future – Short Trek ' Calypso ' is set on the Discovery in a distant future where the ship's computer has become sentient.

Star Trek's alternate 'Kelvin' timeline explained

In 2009's Star Trek movie directed by JJ Abrams, Spock Prime tries to save Romulus from a supernova, inadvertently creates a black hole while doing so, and gets pulled into the past, along with Romulan mining vessel the Narada. Once there, the Narada attacks the USS Kelvin on the day James T Kirk is born. The ship is destroyed as Kirk's father, George, sacrifices himself to save the rest of the crew. 

When all that happens, the alternative ‘Kelvin’ timeline is created, with events unfolding in parallel (but with remarkable similarity) to the original Prime timeline.

Got all that? There are just three movies set in the Kelvin timeline:

  • Star Trek (2009)
  • Star Trek into Darkness
  • Star Trek Beyond

Star Trek TV shows and movies in release date order

  • Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969)
  • Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-1974)
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
  • Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
  • Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock (1984)
  • Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home (1986)
  • ‘The Cage’ (previously unavailable Star Trek pilot from 1965, given VHS release in 1986)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)
  • Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier (1989)
  • Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999)
  • Star Trek: Generations (1994)
  • Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001) 
  • Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
  • Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
  • Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005)
  • Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
  • Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
  • Star Trek Beyond (2016)
  • Star Trek: Discovery (2017-)
  • Short Treks (2018-2020)
  • Star Trek: Picard (2020-)
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020-)
  • Star Trek: Prodigy (2021, TBC)
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TBC)

Considering The Original Series was cancelled after just three seasons in 1969, it's remarkable that Star Trek is still around half a century later. But as the show's popularity grew in syndication on US TV, Trek fandom became a big enough force for the five-year mission to resume via Star Trek: The Animated Series in 1973. Most of the original cast – with the notable exception of Walter Koenig (Chekov) – were enticed back to voice their characters. 

Then, helped by Star Wars turning sci-fi into the hottest genre in Hollywood, Star Trek beamed onto the big screen with 1979's The Motion Picture . The original crew headed up five more movies ( The Wrath of Khan , The Search for Spock , The Voyage Home , The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country ) before bowing out in 1991. The ’80s also gave the world a hint of the Star Trek that never was when 'The Cage' , the original unaired pilot, was released on VHS in 1986 (it appeared on TV two years later). Of the pilot crew, only Leonard Nimoy's Spock went on to reprise his role in the TV show, though footage from 'The Cage' was used extensively in the Original Series’ only two-parter, 'The Menagerie'. 

While the Enterprise was making it big in cinemas, the franchise returned to its TV roots in 1987 with The Next Generation . Set over 70 years after Kirk and Spock's final mission, it featured a new crew – led by Captain Jean-Luc Picard – on board a new starship Enterprise. The Next Generation was arguably even more successful than the Original Series, spawning two spin-off series: Deep Space Nine (which began in 1993) played with the Trek format by focusing on a space station, while Voyager (1995) dumped its crew on the other side of the galaxy, hundreds of light years from home. 

The Next Generation crew also fronted four movies of their own ( Generations , First Contact , Insurrection and Nemesis ) between 1995 and 2002.

After Voyager came to an end in 2001, Star Trek left the Next Generation era behind, and went in a completely different direction – Star Trek: Enterprise was a prequel set a century before Kirk and Spock's adventures. Enterprise lasted only four seasons, however (The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager all made it to seven), and was canceled in 2005.

These were also dark times for the movie branch of the Trek franchise, as the disappointing box office performance of Nemesis had put the film saga on hiatus – it wasn't until 2009 that Star Trek warped back onto the big screen. 

Future Star Wars: The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams (already hot property as director of Mission: Impossible 3 and co-creator of Lost) gave the franchise an action blockbuster makeover, recasting Kirk, Spock and the rest of the original crew as rookies on their first mission. The reboot, simply titled Star Trek , made more than twice as much at the box office as any of its predecessors, and two sequels ( Star Trek into Darkness , Star Trek Beyond ) followed. 

Star Trek belatedly returned to TV in 2017 with Star Trek: Discovery . Set a decade before the Original Series, it was a darker, more serialized Trek than we’d seen before – more in tune with the prestige shows of the so-called Golden Age of TV. As it’s turned out, it was just the beginning of Star Trek's renewed assault on TV...

A series of brief Short Treks appeared online ahead of Discovery's second season, while The Next Generation follow-up Star Trek: Picard left spacedock in January 2020. Animated series Lower Decks followed in August 2020, and Discovery spin-off Strange New Worlds – featuring Anson Mount's Captain Pike, Rebecca Romijn's Number One and Ethan Peck's Spock on the pre-Kirk Enterprise – is now in production. 

There's also another cartoon offering heading for the Alpha Quadrant, in the form of animated kids show Star Trek: Prodigy.

And there's potentially even more to come, as the much-talked about Michelle Yeoh vehicle Section 31 is still in development. But with Paramount Plus programming boss Julie McNamara telling Variety that the streaming service's current aim is to debut "a new Trek every quarter", we may have to wait for Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks and/or Strange New Worlds to stand aside before we get a new TV iteration of Trek.

To keep things simple, all the shows above are listed by the date their first episode aired. While the chronology does jump around if you watch Star Trek in order of release date, there are some benefits. For example, the prequel shows assume a fair bit of knowledge of earlier series, like the Borg's appearance in Star Trek: Enterprise episode 'Regeneration', or Star Trek: Discovery's revelations about the ultimate fate of Christopher Pike (the Enterprise captain in 'The Cage', who later shows up in 'The Menagerie'). Moments like that undoubtedly make more sense in the context of later events in the Star Trek timeline. 

How to stream Star Trek TV shows and movies

If you just want to know how to stream the 13 Star Trek movies and eight TV shows in the US and the UK, we've laid it out below. 

In the US, the newly rebranded Paramount Plus (formerly CBS All Access) is definitely the place to go, with every TV show available to watch. In the UK, Netflix hosts all the Star Trek series except for Picard and Lower Decks.

Watching the 13 Trek movies is a rather more complex affair, with the films spread across numerous streaming services in the US and UK – and some of them you'll have to pay to rent/buy.

The TV shows

  • Star Trek: The Original Series ( US: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video UK: Netflix)
  • Star Trek: The Animated Series ( US: Paramount Plus UK: Netflix)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation ( US: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video UK: Netflix)
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( US: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video UK: Netflix)
  • Star Trek: Voyager ( US: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video UK: Netflix)
  • Star Trek: Enterprise ( US: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video UK: Netflix)
  • Star Trek: Discovery ( US: Paramount Plus UK: Netflix)
  • Star Trek: Picard ( US: Paramount Plus UK: Amazon Prime Video)
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks (US: Paramount Plus US: Amazon Prime Video)
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( US: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu UK: Only available to rent/buy)
  • Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan ( US: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu UK: Sky Cinema/Now TV)
  • Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock ( US: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu UK: Sky Cinema/Now TV)
  • Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home ( US: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video UK: Sky Cinema/Now TV)
  • Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier ( US: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu UK: Only available to rent/buy)
  • Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country ( US: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu UK: Only available to rent/buy)
  • Star Trek: Generations ( US: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video UK: Sky Cinema/Now TV)
  • Star Trek: First Contact ( US: Paramount Plus UK: Only available to rent/buy)
  • Star Trek: Insurrection ( US: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu UK: Only available to rent/buy)
  • Star Trek: Nemesis ( US: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video UK: Only available to rent/buy)
  • Star Trek 2009 ( US: DirectTV UK: Sky Cinema/Now TV)
  • Star Trek Into Darkness ( US : FX Now UK: Amazon Prime Video)
  • Star Trek Beyond ( US: Amazon Prime, Hulu UK: Amazon Prime Video)

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All The Star Trek Movies, Ranked

This is my definitive list.

William Shatner screaming as Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

There are so many Star Trek movies to enjoy -- 13, to be exact, and soon we’ll have 14 when Michelle Yeoh’s Section 31 movie is available for those with a Paramount+ subscription -- but which among them are the best of the best? That’s what I’m tasked with deciding here today, and I can certainly say there are some I like more than others. 

Opinion, by its nature, is subjective. I’m not sure I’ve seen any Star Trek fan with an identical top list of movies online, but I will say I enjoy most every Trek series I’ve watched. Therefore I wouldn’t expect this lineup to be too controversial, but I’ve been surprised before. Let’s dive in, and boldly go and make a definitive ruling on where each Star Trek series belongs. 

13. Star Trek: Generations (1994)

It’s a shame that Star Trek: Generations is near-universally panned as the worst of the Star Trek movies. Seeing Patrick Stewart ’s Jean-Luc Picard and William Shatner ’s James T. Kirk team up should unquestionably be the greatest thing that ever happened to the franchise. Unfortunately, the movie wasn’t quite all that, and what should’ve been a great introduction to The Next Generation crew making the transition from television to movies is a sloppy movie that delivered one of the most controversial moments in the sci-fi series’ history.

The movie killed off Captain Kirk by having him fall from a collapsing catwalk. I get that death comes for anyone in unexpected ways but in a scripted movie? They could’ve done better even if William Shatner had his reasons for how it was done. Still, the unique time travel elements and story has given this movie its fair share of fans over the years, so I’d say it’s still worth a watch. It wouldn’t be my first, second, or even 12th choice though, hence its rating on the list. 

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12. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

William Shatner has undoubtedly played a big part in Star Trek ’s early success. While his acting work as Captain Kirk will live on for decades, the same can’t be said for his directing. That may sound harsh to say, but when Shatner himself admitted directing Star Trek V: The Final Frontier was a mistake , it’s kind of hard not to agree with him.   

I don’t think it’s unfair to say Star Trek V: The FInal Frontier is the worst of the TOS movies, especially after the streak of movies that came before it. With that said, had it not been for this movie, we wouldn’t have gotten the subplot in Strange New Worlds with Spock running into his half-brother Sybok’s lover Angel , who I do hope we’ll see at a later date. 

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11. Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

Star Trek: Nemesis was, in many ways, a failure. The movie did not perform at the box office like previous movies and ultimately encouraged Paramount to go in another direction with its franchise. Critics panned the movie, and even the cast of The Next Generation was not a fan of the final project. In fact, it was why actress Marina Sirtis was grateful for Star Trek: Picard Season 3 years later, as she felt the cast was robbed of a proper send-off.  

The Next Generation crew dealing with a clone of Picard in control of the Reman people, played by a young Tom Hardy, sounds awesome. In execution, the whole thing fell flat. Even the memorable parts have aged poorly. Data, for example, was resurrected in Picard , killed, and then resurrected again. In fairness, Star Trek fans were glad to see him back in the mix again, but if they’re thrilled about a retcon to something established in Star Trek: Nemesis , it may speak to their overall enjoyment of the movie as a whole. 

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10. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

A lot of the older generation would rank Star Trek: The Motion Picture a lot higher than I have, and I think it's a matter of experience. Those who lived through the cancellation of the original series, only to see it return to the big screen after success in syndication? It was a huge coup for a new fandom, and the beginning of great things to come. 

I’m of the mind that Star Trek: The Motion Picture has gotten a bad rap as it aged, and suffered from being the first movie in the franchise ever made. There’s no way for younger generations to understand just how awesome it was to see the Enterprise from front to back. I still can appreciate it, but even the brutality of the transporter accident can’t stop me from glancing at the time on my phone while watching.  

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9. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

If there was a list of sins a Star Trek movie could commit to gain the ire of the fandom, Star Trek Into Darkness created perhaps the biggest. Trying to recreate a storyline involving Khan, the most notable villain of TOS , was going to set a high bar. 

Of course, these are the feelings of someone who is a true blue Star Trek fan. The mass audience reception to Star Trek Into Darkness was pretty good, and people were all about Benedict Cumberbatch as a villain. Even so, it wasn’t worthy of comparison to Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan , which is hard to ignore. 

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8. Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Star Trek: Insurrection had the impossible task of following up First Contact , which proved to be a huge challenge. Additionally, Paramount was interested in switching up the tone to something lighter than the previous movie, so the challenge to deliver to producers and audiences was high. 

Insurrection feels like a long episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. That's not a terrible thing, but when it comes to movies, the bar should be a bit higher than what audiences can already view on television. Frankly, Insurrection doesn't prove to be more entertaining than the best of TNG . 

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7. Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984)

Similar to Star Trek: Insurrection , The Search For Spock had the insurmountable challenge of following up the greatest movie to date. Perhaps even worse, the third TOS movie had to reverse the heart-wrenching death of Spock in a way that didn't upset audiences. 

I think it's fair to say the latter goal was a success, but is rescuing Spock's spirit from Bones' mind as thrilling as a face-off with Khan? It is not, but it's still a decent movie, and one worthy of its middling status in this ranking. 

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6. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

In hindsight, maybe Nicholas Meyer should've helmed all the Star Trek TOS movies. One can't help but wonder what these movies might've looked like had he kept runnings things post Wrath Of Khan . 

The Undiscovered Country , I think is a look at what could have been, and it's pretty damn promising. Of course, having big stars like Kim Cattrall and Christopher Plummer only bolster the enjoyment of a movie that feels like a return to form for the classic Enterprise crew, right before sending them off into the sunset. 

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5. Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Star Trek Beyond is the newest film in the franchise, as Hollywood struggles to try and make a fourth installment in the Kelvin timeline. Fortunately, if there's never another one, the third movie is a delightful send-off to the Kelvin crew and all they accomplished, after Star Trek Into Darkness left a sour taste in my mouth, Beyond is the perfect palette cleanser. 

If there is any part of Star Trek Beyond that isn’t enjoyable, it’s that the entire crew doesn’t spend a ton of time together. Instead, they’re sectioned off with their own respective storylines, which worked well for the actors and their increased fame. Unfortunately, it feels like if they had found time to do more scenes with the entire ensemble, this might’ve been the best movie of the Kelvin timeline. 

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4. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

The whale one? Yes, the whale one. It's always fun when a Star Trek project travels back to our present timeline, if only to remind us how strange our world would be to them, and how strange they'd be to us. 

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is funny, wholesome, and a good time all at once. It's not the best TOS film, but it's pretty high up there in comparison to everything else that was released. 

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3. Star Trek (2009)

J.J. Abrams’ 2009 re-imagining of Star Trek isn’t just a great movie, it could be the most significant film in the history of the franchise. The Next Generation crew’s set of movies didn’t perform quite as well as the TOS movies, and Enterprise was the last Trek series in five years leading up to this film. Had this re-imagining of Star Trek in another timeline flopped, the franchise might’ve died. 

Fortunately, that didn’t happen, and the more action-driven narratives of the movie bled into the new generation of Star Trek shows. While there are critics of the modern style of storytelling and increased action, the fact that there are plenty of upcoming Trek shows in the pipeline and people still clamoring for a fourth installment of the Kelvin movies. 

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2. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Star Trek: The Next Generation didn’t have as much success critically or financially as the TOS movies, but it still managed to make one of the best movies the franchise has ever delivered. First Contact is required viewing for any Star Trek fan, especially those who wish to see the origin of how the story of mankind’s massive leap into space exploration came to be. 

The success of the movie solidified Jonathan Frakes status as a reputed director, and he’s gone on to play a big part in directing episodes of Star Trek ’s new era. This is a movie that I would say is so good, it appeals to even the non- Star Trek fans despite being heavily entrenched in the lore of The Next Generation . For that reason, it’s ranked among the very best. 

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1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

I spent far too many years having not seen Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan , but after seeing it for the first time , I can see the hype. I don’t think there’s any real dispute this is the best film in the franchise, as much as I love First Contact . Seeing James T. Kirk in the Captain’s chair in a battle of wits against a former villain from the series is not only captivating, it’s “fascinating,” as Spock would say.

Speaking of Spock, it's his noble sacrifice that lays out the entire theme of the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few. A dark ending, to be sure, though of course, we all know Spock didn't stay dead! This, plus the fantastic showdown between Kirk and Khan make this the definitive best Star Trek movie, hands down. 

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Currently, the Star Trek movies are available to stream either over on Max or Paramount+. It’s really convenient for anyone who wants to make their own ranking list of the movies, though I’d like to think no one can do it better than I just did. 

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The "Star Trek" franchise continues to boldly go where no man has gone before. From "The Original Series" in 1966 to the spin-offs, sequels, and prequels of today, "Star Trek" has been a pop culture mainstay for more than 50 years. 

The franchise focuses on the adventures of various Starfleet crew members as they travel throughout the universe. And beneath the series' fun escapism, "Star Trek" movies and shows have used science fiction to comment on issues like racism, sexism, human rights, and politics. By exploring new worlds in "The Original Series," creator Gene Roddenberry was able to tell allegorical stories with thoughtful themes that relate to our own experiences.

In many ways, "Star Trek" has always highlighted diverse storytelling. In fact, one of the first interracial kisses ever aired on TV was in an episode of "The Original Series." This mix of sci-fi entertainment and social commentary is still present in the latest "Star Trek" installments, most of which air as Paramount Plus originals. "Star Trek: Discovery" introduced multiple queer leads, including the first transgender and non-binary characters in the "Star Trek" universe. 

If you're a new fan looking to explore the world of "Star Trek" for the first time, or you're a devoted Trekkie who just wants to watch it all over again, we've compiled a list of every "Star Trek" movie and TV show, along with details on where you can stream them all right now. 

Where to watch 'Star Trek' shows

There are 12 "Star Trek" shows in total, including nine live-action series and three animated shows. All of the shows are available on Paramount Plus, and many are also available to buy or rent from video-on-demand (VOD) services. One series, "Deep Space Nine," is also streaming on Netflix.

Where to watch 'Star Trek' movies

The "Star Trek" franchise includes 13 movies from 1979 to 2016. A new movie is also set to begin production in spring 2022. You can currently watch every "Star Trek" film on Paramount Plus. The movies are also available to buy or rent without a subscription through different VOD services, and you can stream a couple for free with ads.

'Star Trek' timeline and eras explained

"Star Trek" movies and TV shows all take place in different time periods that focus on different crews and starships. These time periods are generally categorized by fans and creators into four distinct eras: Pre-TOS, TOS, TNG, and Kelvin

Pre-TOS era

Movies and TV shows set during the Pre-The Original Series (Pre-TOS) era take place at some point before James T. Kirk becomes captain of the Enterprise.

A few notable series set during this early time period include "Star Trek: Enterprise," "Star Trek: Discovery," and " Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ."

The Original Series (TOS) era of movies and TV shows follows the crew members on the starship USS Enterprise after Kirk (William Shatner) becomes captain. Other notable characters featured during this period include Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and Hikaru Sulu (George Takei).

The Original Series era includes the first "Star Trek" TV show from the 1960s, as well as several spin-off movies that feature Captain Kirk and his crew. 

The Next Generation (TNG) era is set 100 years after Kirk's adventures during "The Original Series," and includes movies and TV shows about the new crew of the USS Enterprise with Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard.

"Deep Space Nine" and "Voyager" are set during this time period as well, but focus on other crews and starships. Captain Picard's story also continues after "The Next Generation" in the Paramount Plus original series "Star Trek: Picard."

Kelvin Timeline

The Kelvin Timeline was introduced in 2009 with the release of director J.J. Abrams' first "Star Trek" movie starring Chris Pine as Captain Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Commander Spock. This film features the crew from "The Original Series" but takes place in an alternate universe that's separate from the main "Star Trek" timeline. 

In this version of events, Kirk still becomes Captain of the USS Enterprise but his path to get there is brand new, which gives the writers freedom to explore different storylines with familiar characters. 

The Kelvin Timeline includes "Star Trek" (2009), "Star Trek Into Darkness" (2013), and "Star Trek Beyond" (2016). An upcoming fourth movie in the Kelvin Timeline is set to begin production in spring 2022.

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  • Star Trek is in a transitional period in 2024, with the final season of Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Prodigy moving to Netflix.
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Star Trek has an impressively robust lineup of film and television series in development, from the end of Star Trek: Discovery to the beginning of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy . 2022 saw a new episode from 5 new Star Trek series streaming on Paramount+ nearly every Thursday of the year. 2023 saw the critically acclaimed ending of Star Trek: Picard, the lauded Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, and Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, perhaps the best run of the animated comedy yet.

Star Trek is in a transitional period in 2024. The upcoming Star Trek: Discovery season 5 will be its last, while Star Trek: Prodigy moved to Netflix. Reflecting industry-wide changes in streaming content, Paramount+ is also said to be rethinking its Star Trek strategy, starting with an expansion into made-for-streaming movies that are designed to feel like blockbuster events. Meanwhile, there is no movement on Star Trek: Legacy , the spinoff of Picard sought after by fans and the cast and creatives of the Patrick Stewart-led series. While another moment of change seems imminent for the franchise, the future still looks bright for Star Trek .

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Star trek: discovery season 5, premieres april 2024 on paramount+.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5 is the show's final season . Star Trek: Discovery has a devoted fan base and should always be remembered as the show that saved Star Trek to ignited the franchise's renaissance . However, Discovery is also now an older series - five seasons for a streaming show is a minor miracle - which means it's getting more expensive to produce in an era where streamers are looking to cut costs, and this is likely a contributing factor to Paramount+ closing the curtain on Star Trek: Discovery.

Since it wasn't initially designed to be the final season, Star Trek: Discovery season 5 is a reset to a more adventurous tone as Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery go on an intergalactic treasure hunt, running afoul of various new aliens adversaries. Reshoots conducted in spring 2023 added a poignant epilogue that brings closure to Star Trek; Discovery . Following its March world premiere at SXSW, Star Trek: Discovery 's final 10 episodes will stream on Paramount+ starting in April.

The two-part series finale of Star Trek: Discovery is directed by Jonathan Frakes and Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5

Expected to premiere late summer/early fall on paramount+.

Star Trek: Lower Decks is the only other Star Trek series on Paramount+'s 2024 schedule, and it's also delivering its 5th (but hopefully not last) season. Mike McMahan's animated comedy was creatively firing full phaser banks in Lower Decks season 4, promoting the Lower Deckers of the USS Cerritos to junior grade Lieutenants and homaging Star Trek: Voyager' s "Tuvix," visiting Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's new Ferengi Grand Nagus, and tying Lt. Beckett Mariner's (Tawny Newsome) backstory to the animated show's namesake, the classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Lower Decks". Star Trek: Lower Decks has won over most fans as a definitive and very appreciated part of the Star Trek franchise.

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4's viewership hopefully benefited from Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid playing Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler in live-action in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' comedic crossover episode.

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2

Premiering on netflix in 2024.

Star Trek: Prodigy rallied ardent fan support to secure Netflix as its new streaming home after Paramount+ unexpectedly canceled the beloved all-ages CGI animated series. Netflix released all 20 episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 on Christmas Day 2023, and it quickly charted in the Top 10 Kids shows, which bodes well for the yet unspecified 2024 release of Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 . The next 20 episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy launches Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the heroic alien teenage crew of the USS Protostar, now Starfleet warrant officers, on a new time travel rescue mission aboard the USS Voyager-A. Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 promises to be even more epic and will tap into every other iteration of Star Trek in the franchise.

The Doctor (Robert Picardo) from Star Trek: Voyager joins Star Trek: Prodigy season 2, and he's just one of many surprise guest stars and callbacks.

Star Trek: Section 31

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Long discussed as the premise for an ongoing series, the Section 31 project is now set to be the first Star Trek original movie for Paramount+, and the Section 31 film is said to delve into the origin and secrets of Starfleet's insidious black ops agency. Star Trek: Section 31 will star Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh reprising her anti-heroine Emperor Philippa Georgiou, the former ruler of the Mirror Universe. Once a ruthless despot, Georgiou's time in Star Trek' s Prime universe with Michael Burnham taught her compassion, although Georgiou remains crafty and dangerous. Star Trek: Section 31 is directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi from a screenplay by Craig Sweeney, and it filmed in winter 2024 for a possible release later in 2024 on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Section 31 is hopefully the first of a new wave of made-for-Paramount+ Star Trek movies to be released every 2 years.

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Another long-gestating project, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was officially announced in early 2023. Details about the YA-aimed series, developed by Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman and Nancy Drew writer Noga Landau, are still under wraps. What little plot information that's been made available suggests Starfleet Academy will likely be set in the post- Star Trek: Discovery 32nd century and will spotlight a diverse assortment of alien and human teenage Cadets, with possible guest starring roles from familiar Discovery faces . Star Trek: Starfleet Academy doesn't have a release date, but production is slated to start in 2024 with a potential 2025 release date.

Star Trek: Lower Decks ' Tawny Newsome, a self-described Star Trek "continuity cop," is part of Starfleet Academy's writer's room.

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Theatrical Star Trek movies have been in limbo since Star Trek Beyond bowed in 2016, but recent announcements indicate Paramount Pictures is finally moving ahead with 2 potential new Star Trek projects. Director Toby Haynes ( Star Wars: Andor ) and writer Seth Grahame-Smith ( Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ) are reportedly developing a Star Trek origin film set "decades before" J.J. Abrams ' Star Trek (2009) movie. Abrams' Star Trek 4 is also still in development as "the final chapter" of Chris Pine's Star Trek movie saga, although no writer or director have been announced. Meanwhile, Patrick Stewart has been vocal about wanting a Star Trek: Picard follow-up movie but, despite rumors, there's no indication that it will happen.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3

In production now.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 finally began production in December 2023 after being delayed 7 months by the combined WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The next 10 episodes of Strange New Worlds are slated to film until May 2024. While Strange New Worlds season 3's premiere will pick up and resolve the Gorn cliffhanger of Strange New Worlds season 2 finale , the contents of the rest of the episodes are top-secret but should continue the "big swings" into different genres that made season 2 so memorable. Whether or not Paramount+ will release any part of Strange New Worlds season 3 in late 2024 or hold everything back to be the centerpiece of Star Trek in 2025 remains to be seen.

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The latest entry to the Star Trek universe - the new Star Trek: Picard series - debuts 23 January on CBS All Access in the US and Prime Video in the UK.

The latest entry to the Star Trek universe - the new Star Trek: Picard series - just debuted on CBS All Access in the US and Prime Video in the UK.

It sees Patrick Stewart return as Jean Luc Picard, one of the most beloved captains in Star Trek. The new series focuses on a retired Picard, who now owns a winery and is enjoying his break from Starfleet, but it’s not long before adventure calls, and he must return to the stars.

Stewart last played Picard in 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis. But, 15 years before that, he had been the captain of the Enterprise for 178 episodes in Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as in four feature films that he helmed. So, if you want to catch up on all-things Picard before diving into the new CBS All Access series, we think you might have trouble finding the time.

There are hundreds of hours of Picard-centric content you can binge - and that’s without getting into the other characters and plotlines that are likely to surface in Star Trek: Picard. To help you get ready as quickly as possible, we've rounded up a list of episodes from The Next Generation and Voyager, plus a few films, which should cover everything you need to see.

What to watch before Star Trek: Picard

NOTE: THERE ARE SPOILERS.

We recommend watching the episodes and movies below, in this order. To avoid any spoilers, jump to the bottom for our bulleted list version. 

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Battle

  • Season 1 Episode 9

This TNG episode sees the Enterprise pay for a decision made by Captain Picard nine years earlier - when he was in command of the Federation ship Stargazer. They were attacked by an unknown ship. Picard survived the encounter, however, thanks to the first use of what became the Picard Maneuver. This episode hints at Picard’s past and focuses on what makes him unique as a captain.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Measure of a Man

  • Season 2 Episode 9

Picard and his old friend Data (Brent Spiner) might reunite soon - if the trailers for Star Trek: Picard are any indication - making this TNG episode a must-watch. In it, we meet a cyberneticist who wishes to deconstruct Lt Commander Data to see how his positronic brain functions. When Data doesn’t want to undergo the procedure, which could wipe his entire memory, the cyberneticist attempts to have the Federation compel Data, arguing he is the Federation’s property. The ensuing conflict sees a sci-fi courtroom drama take place, with Captain Picard representing Data for the right to have control over his own body.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds

  • Season 3 Episode 26
  • Season 4 Episode 1

The Borg is one of the most terrifying villains in Star Trek, and they return in some form for the new Picard series, which is why we’re including this two-parter, which ranks up there with the greatest episodes in any Star Trek series.

The Enterprise responds to a distress signal from a Federation colony only to find everyone in the colony has disappeared. It’s discovered that the Borg, a hive mind that forces all life it meets to assimilate under its control, is responsible for their disappearance. When another Starfleet vessel is attacked by a Borg Cube, the Enterprise heads off to face them, beginning an encounter that will have a lasting impact on Picard.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Family

  • Season 4 Episode 2

Following the battle with the Borg, the Enterprise is docked near Earth to undergo repairs, allowing Picard to return to his family home to see his brother, Robert, who’s running the family’s vineyard. This episode gives us an early glimpse at what we think Picard will be doing at the opening of the new CBS All Access series - running a vineyard - but this episode is important because we see Picard struggling with the horrible things he was forced to do while he was assimilated. He even reveals that he’s considering leaving Starfleet for a position that will keep him on Earth.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - I, Borg

  • Season 5 Episode 23

This TNG episode sees the Enterprise discover a wrecked Borg ship with only one survivor, a Borg Drone initially called Three of Five (Jonathan Del Arco). There’s two main reasons to watch this episode. For one, we see Picard still struggling with his hatred for what the Borg did to him while he was assimilated. The normally cool and moralistic Captain spends the episode considering using the recovered Borg as a weapon that could destroy the entire Borg Collective. The second reason for watching this episode is that the recovered Borg drone - which ends up showing signs of its own individualism returning by taking the name Hugh - is slated to appear in Star Trek: Picard.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Gambit Part I and II

  • Season 7 Episode 4
  • Season 7 Episode 5

This two-parter from the final season of TNG shows the relationship between Captain Picard and one of his most trusted friends - who’s also confirmed to appear in Star Trek: Picard - William Riker (played by Jonathan Frakes). While searching for a missing Picard, Riker is abducted by a group of mercenaries. When among them, he finds that Picard is actually another captive, and together, the two of them must formulate a plan to escape from their captors with an ancient Vulcan weapon.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things

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The series finale to TNG is particularly interesting because we get a glimpse at the future leading up to Star Trek: Picard. In the finale, Picard finds himself jumping between the present and two different points in time: Seven years in the past, right before the events of the series' first episode, and 25 years into the future when he’s retired to a vineyard, or when Star Trek: Picard is expected to begin.

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Star Trek: Voyager - The Scorpion

This isn’t an episode from The Next Generation, and there’s no Picard, but it's still worth watching during your catch-up because it shows the debut of another important character who is featured prominently in the trailers for the new Picard series: Seven of Nine (played by Jeri Ryan).

In this episode, while journeying home, The Voyager is forced to travel through a section of space controlled by the Borg, but in the process, it ends up in a middle of an ongoing war between the Borg and an alien species the Borg calls Species 8472. In order to make it through the area, Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) decides to ally with the Borg, accepting Seven onto the ship in the process.

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Star Trek: Voyager - Endgame

The original Endgame! This two-part series finale of Star Trek: Voyager sets off events that will surely affect the world of Star Trek: Picard.

An older Captain Kathryn Janeway is seen celebrating the 10th anniversary of Voyager finally coming back to Earth when she devises a plan to return to the past and help the Voyager make it home 16 years faster. But she sets off an encounter with the Borg Collective that should’ve left the hive mind devastated. We should get our first look at what the Borg look like, following the events of this episode, in Star Trek: Picard.

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  • Star Trek: Short Treks - Children of Mars

CBS All Access has a 12-episode anthology series of short Star Trek stories, and the most recent episode appears to show a key event that happens just before the events of Star Trek: Picard. The 10-minute episode shows an attack by a group of rogue synths on Mars through the eyes of two teen girls on Earth whose parents both work on Mars. At the end, we can see a picture of Picard on the news.

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  • Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

First Contact is considered one of the best Star Trek films, which makes it worth a rewatch ahead of Star Trek: Picard. But the real reason it’s worth firing up this film is that it shows Picard still struggling with the time he spent assimilated to the Borg six years earlier. He’s forced to confront these feelings head-on when he must travel back in time to prevent the Borg from changing the past and assimilating all of Earth.

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  • Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

The final Star Trek film featuring Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard sees him face off with a clone of himself, played by an extremely young Tom Hardy. While the film wasn’t exactly an Oscar contender, it does have important details that will have an impact on the events of Star Trek: Picard, such as Lt Commander Data’s death near the end and the reveal that he transferred some of himself into B-4, an android similar to Data himself. There’s also the fact that the Romulans create the clone Picard must stop, which could also factor into the events of the new series.

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  • Star Trek (2009)

The latest Star Trek films from JJ Abrams operate on a completely different timeline from Star Trek: Picard and The Next Generation series. However, there’s one key event that triggers the split timelines and might be the reason Picard leaves Starfleet, and that is the destruction of Romulan by a star going supernova. While Star Trek only shows the effects of that - in terms of a Romulan who survived and heads back in time to seek vengeance on Spock -  Star Trek: Picard should give us our first glimpse at the universe following the dissolution of the Romulan Empire.

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What to watch before Star Trek: Picard (spoiler-free)

Here's the same list as above, in an at-a-glance, bulleted list free of spoilers.

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Battle (Season 1 Episode 9)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Measure of a Man (Season 2 Episode 9)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds (Season 3 Episode 26)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds (Season 4 Episode 1)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - Family (Season 4, Episode 2)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - I, Borg (Season 5 Episode 23)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - Gambit (Season 7 Episode 4)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - Gambit (Season 7 Episode 5)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things (Season 7 Episodes 25)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things (Season 7 Episodes 26)
  • Star Trek: Voyager - Scorpion (Season 3 Episode 26)
  • Star Trek: Voyager - Scorpion (Season 4 Episode 1)
  • Star Trek: Voyager - Endgame (Season 7 Episode 25)
  • Star Trek: Voyager - Endgame (Season 7 Episode 26)

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Everyone is excited to get back to set, even Princess Runa!

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  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 is now filming in Toronto.
  • The series may not return until 2025 due to extensive post-production.
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 resolved Una's arrest (a cliffhanger from Season 1), and featured unprecedented episodes like an animated crossover and a musical episode.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is finally ready to begin its latest voyage. The third season of Paramount+'s sci-fi hit is now filming in Toronto, Ontario. The news comes from the Instagram account of Runa Ewok , the adorable dog of Strange New Worlds star Christina Chong . Chong, who plays the USS Enterprise 's security chief La'an Noonien-Singh in the series, posted a picture of Runa in the Enterprise 's ready room set, indicating that filming is now underway.

Collider previously had the exclusive news that Strange New Worlds had set a post-strike production window from December 2023 to June 2024. Given the series' extensive special effects and post-production time, it is unlikely that the series, which chronicles the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) and the Enterprise before the events of Star Trek: The Original Series , will return this year. Star Trek fans do have the upcoming fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery to look forward to; Strange New Worlds was spun off from that series after a well-received guest stint by Mount and fellow Enterprise crew members Spock ( Ethan Peck ) and Una Chin-Riley ( Rebecca Romijn ) in its second season. Discovery will take its final bow starting April 4 , with Strange New Worlds likely to air in 2025.

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Season 2 of Strange New Worlds resolved Season 1's shocking ending — when Una was arrested by the Federation for concealing her genetic enhancements. Pike won a court battle to have her freed and reinstated. Over the course of the season, the show traveled back in time to 21st-century Toronto, crossed over with the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks , and featured the franchise's first-ever musical episode . The season ended with a cataclysmic cliffhanger — the Enterprise is under attack from the hostile reptilian Gorn aliens, and Pike's fellow captain and lover Marie Batel ( Melanie Scrofano ) has been implanted with a Gorn embryo, spelling her doom. It hearkened back to the legendary cliffhanger of Star Trek: The Next Generation 's season-ending " The Best of Both Worlds " — and unfortunately, fans will have a lot longer than a few months to learn the fate of all involved.

Runa has appeared in the series herself; she was featured as the pet of Princess Thalia (also Chong) in " The Elysian Kingdom ", a first-season episode in which the Enterprise 's crew is transformed into storybook characters by a mysterious space entity. Star Trek has a long tradition of on-screen animal appearances, from Data's cat Spot from The Next Generation to Captain Archer's beagle Porthos, who was a regular on Enterprise .

The third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is now filming, but has not yet set a release date . Stay tuned to Collider for future updates, and watch Collider's interview with Chong and castmates Celia Rose Gooding and Melissa Navia below. Keep up with our guide to Season 3 here .

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (played by Anson Mount) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) in the 23rd century as they explore new worlds throughout the galaxy in the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series.

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Day 4 of Star Trek: The Cruise 7 arrived at its first destination with a visit to  Curaçao on Sunday. The island is a constituent country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and is known to most people for being a producer of the blue liqueur of the same name (which, incidentally, makes for a great Romulan Ale). The city offered Star Trek Cruise passengers walking tours, snorkeling, and beach fun in perfect weather.

The schedule for Star Trek activity on board gets noticeably lighter while in port, but the Star Trek celebrities are just as eager to get out and explore the island, so passengers are just as likely to bump into them on land as on the ship. Once everyone is back aboard, the Star Trek fun picks up where it left off. A highlight for day 4 was the Enterprise panel but there were other fun events including seeing Beverly, Jack, and Wesley Crusher on stage together.

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The Mariner of the Seas arrives in Curaçao

Enterprise panel brings laughter and tears

Shortly before arriving in Curaçao, Lolita Fatjo hosted the Star Trek: Enterprise panel with Connor Trinneer, John Billingsley, Anthony Montgomery, and Dominic Keating. Unsurprisingly, many of the audience questions focused on the series’ short four-season run and sore feelings about the finale. Cast members talked about when they knew that Enterprise would be cancelled, and Connor Trinneer brought up the now-infamous request to add a boy band:

Connor Trinneer: When I heard that one of the VPs at Paramount or UPN in an effort to bolster viewership, had this fantastic idea to put a boy band in mess hall, I just went “What’s that sound?” and it was a death knell. And it never went away.

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John Billingsley talks about early signs that Enterprise wasn’t doing well.

John Billingsley saw the end of Enterprise as a symptom of Star Trek burnout on both sides of the screen:

John Billingsley: In fairness to Rick and Brandon, they wanted a year off in between Voyager and Enterprise , and they were told they couldn’t have it. So, they kind of had to rush into production. And although there were some astute choices, mostly in the casting of the doctor, I do think they could have stood to have a little bit more thinking time.

Anthony Montgomery announced many projects he’s been working on, including a new movie (which he can’t talk about yet), plus some music arriving later this year. His memoir will be released on August 1 just in time for the STLV convention.

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The Enterprise cast bonds during the panel

Lolita Fatjo, who worked on the DS9 doc What We Left Behind and the upcoming Voyager doc To the Journey,  said that an Enterprise documentary could be next on the list. She wouldn’t reveal details beyond “stay tuned,” though Keating chimed in with “I might even put the uniform back on for that.”

The panel ended on a somber note. Early in the morning, news had reached the ship that Kenneth Mitchell had passed away . Mitchell had been an integral part of the Star Trek: The Cruise experience for many years and passengers felt a great deal of love for him. A moment of silence was held at the end of the panel in his honor.

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The passing of Kenneth Mitchell set a bittersweet tone for the day

Star Trek Squares returns with Walter Koenig in center

A fan favorite activity, Star Trek Squares, is a modified, Trek-centric version of Hollywood Squares . Cruise passengers compete by listening to actors answer trivia questions and deciding if the actor answered correctly or not, but the real fun is in watching the actors banter about what the answer might be, or should have been.

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Star Trek Squares has become one of the signature events of STTC

The Crusher Family Comedy Hour turns up the heat

Anyone who enjoyed the previous evening’s hilarious (and raunchy) take on “Spock’s Brain” would have been advised to attend The Crusher Family Comedy Hour, a series of sketches led by Gates McFadden alongside Ed Speleers, Wil Wheaton, and Todd Stashwick.

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Beverly finds out what would happen if her two sons met

All four actors reprised their Star Trek: Picard roles (with Todd Stashwick’s Captain Shaw conveniently no longer dead) and analyzed the strange Crusher family dynamic. The first sketch had Shaw acting as a therapist trying to sort through Beverly’s lack of communication skills.

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The family therapist gives both Jack and Wesley dolls of Beverly. Jack’s doll is significantly curvier.

Return to Risa

As the ship prepared for departure from Curaçao, passengers adopted the evening’s theme of “Return to Risa.” People threw on tropical prints, shiny fabrics, and anything that seemed appropriate to wear to a 24th-century pleasure planet. The giant Horga’hn statue stood in front of the pool deck as the band started up the party just as the Mariner of the Seas pulled away from shore at 11 PM.

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The ship’s morale officers start off the Risa party by dancing with the band

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UPN brass was not the reason Enterprise failed. It failed because it was a piss-poor Star Trek show that most fans had abandoned by S4. Moonvies was gracious enough to let them try the Manny Coto (RIP) experiment beyond S3 and approve an undeserving 4th season, but fans kept dropping out at the same rate that they did on the previous seasons — Coto’s Enterprise was viewed then to be just as bad as the earlier seasons.

People can try NOW to rewrite the history all they want, but the truth is spelled out in my paragraph above. It is what it is — a failed series.

TOS was also a failed series. It didn’t mean it was bad.

Like TOS I was very heartbroken when Enterprise was cancelled. I know many people didn’t like it at the time including some of my personal friends but most really started to like it more by the end. But if was obvious it didn’t win over enough people to stay on the air just like TOS at the time.

I had always liked it but understand why others didn’t because most people didn’t want a prequel show. I don’t understand why they keep making them? They made Discovery as another prequel and people hate that show much worse than Enterprise.

Because Bryan Fuller wanted it and no one had a clue what to do with the franchise when they decided to make a new show for All Access.

And even Fuller didn’t truly want a prequel he really wanted an anthology show with a new ship and crew in a new century. It was only supposed to start in that time period first. But they knocked that idea quickly and he just expanded on the Discovery idea. But I do think he was pulled into doing a 23rd century show but I don’t think that’s all he wanted either.

I think Fuller really just wanted to reboot the franchise in his image and why we got the show we got for better or for worse.

Well it was certainly a bad decision because Discovery sucks in any century.

And they should’ve just rebooted the show or put it in another timeline like they are with SNW.

Yes they should have. That should’ve just been the mandate from the start and Discovery could’ve stayed in the 23rd century.

As far as SNW being in another timeline, no one has said officially it is yet. But you have Khan born in two different decades and yet both SNW and TOS are considered canon. One of them either has to be wrong or one is simply living in a different timeline from the other? You can’t have it both ways.

And since nothing about SNW makes any real sense in terms of its connection to TOS even if the baby Khan thing never happened, I’m guessing it’s the latter.

I don’t know how anyone can believe SNW just isn’t in a new timeline? If it wasn’t it would just be overwriting everything in TOS right now, especially the Gorn..The show doesn’t care about TOS canon at all and I really wish they never bothered.

At least with Discovery it can’t do anymore damage although it did quite enough unfortunately.

Because Goldman is trying to have his cake and eat it too..He wants to say history was changed with Khan but he doesn’t want to acknowledge that would decanonize TOS or at least Space Seed and TWOK so he conveniently ignores that which is ridiculous.

This is why I hate prequels. They retcon or explain things few people were asking to change and they have to put their stamp on stuff to justify those changes, the same complaints people made about Enterprise.

If it was up to me, Enterprise, Discovery and SNW would’ve never existed because they all just muddied up the waters more. Just keep TOS as your starting point and just kept pushing forward like the other shows did only going back to it for nostalgia purposes only. But here we are instead.

That’s why I don’t take NuTrek very seriously because it’s so lazy and inconsequential. They don’t take into account how it effects old canon and then the few times they do they just hand wave every thing like the ridiculous idea that Spock has a sister or that spore drives belong in the 23rd century or that they discovered the Mirror universe first although no one told the poor Defiant its fate so they could avoid it in a few years.

What was Discovery answer to all of this? They just classified it all. No real resolutions, just Section 31 it all away. They will probably do that with the Gorn eventually.

Why are these shows have such bad writing? 🙄

It’s not that good writers aren’t out there, they are – a few examples would be Fargo, Peaky Blinders, The Expanse, Severance, True Detective (arguably – I like the last season), For All Mankind…the list goes on and on, way back to the Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men. It’s just that imo, Secret Hideout does not hire good writers. I picture a bunch of late 20-somethings sitting around a room, most of them on their phones, saying things like ‘wouldn’t it be cooool if we gave Spock feelings,’ or ‘how funny would it be to just have Captain Pike cooking in an apron most of the season.’ Probably not an accurate description of what it’s really like – I’m sure they work hard – but they’re just not good. Again, just my opinion. Anyway, I agree with you.

Yes so many great shows out there with incredible writers. For All Mankind is one of my favorite shows ever and because it has the fabulous Ronald D. Moore running it who is actually a good writer and cares about silly things like logic, details and consistency. I really miss his time on Star Trek.

Then we get the embarrassing NuTrek where lazy writers and directors can’t even care enough to get Khan’s nationality right while ripping off TWOK because they don’t have any original ideas of their own. Or pretending the Gorn was in conflict with Starfleet years before they showed up in Arena and suddenly everyone has amnesia. Or putting in the Khan girl on the ship but somehow no one immediately recognizes her infamous ansestor just a few years late either.

And then you have sillier shows like Picard and Discovery that couldn’t tell a coherent story if the destruction of the galaxy depended on it. Picard season 3 was the only exception and that is still nowhere close to the golden era but a marked improvement to the crap we been getting in the last 15 years.

This is not the work of consistent and thoughtful writers. Just people who has no real foresight or talent to write any serious stories.

Moore is not the day to day showrunner on FAM. The whole “NuTrek SuCkS” is just a lazy comment. People bitch about Kurtzman and heap praise on Matalas but ignore Kurtzman hired Matalas, ignore Matalas showran seasons they hate, heap praises on plots that originated in series they hate, and for the true rage addicts, heap scorn upon series overwhelmingly loved because whining is like crack to them.

The producers, actors and writers of all of the new Trek seasons love Star Trek. Some episodes don’t deliver. Some series aren’t well received and then 30 years later are beloved. I was reading old message boards from the early 2000s and everyone hated Berman era Trek and now everyone hates NuTrek and heaps praise on Berman Trek. Rage addiction is cyclical. Ken Mitchell was in a handful of episodes, barely recognizable, and hundreds of Trek fans are celebrating his life and remembering him be because he’s tied forever to a franchise people love and share with their children to pass it on, as my late father did for me.

There will always be the non fans who hate it and miss every message it’s ever taught.

I won’t disagree with you much. I know many people at the time hated the old shows too. But I think many feel the new shows are simply worst.

It feels similar to the prequels and Disney Star Wars. I originally hated those too but after seeing how bad the sequels turned out I do have a better appreciation of the prequel ms even if I think they are still bad

As for Moore I know that. He has a lot of things going on but the quality control of For All Mankind is still there because he has the right people making it and in lock step with his vision. Kurtzman isn’t running Discovery but he’s still responsible for it and it’s still a mess of a show. He needs to fire the people running it.

The people making Star Trek today may love it as you say but they are doing a poor job honoring it when they don’t bother to put in the effort to make it line up with the older stories. Why couldn’t Khan be Indian? Why do you use the Gorn when it doesn’t align with TOS? Why is T’pring hanging around characters who never even met her until years later? Why do you even need a Khan character on the Enterprise other than forced fan service no one was even asking for?

I understand things get retcon or changed but when it’s at the cost of basic common sense much less canon you lose my respect.

As for Ken Mitchell I didn’t even remember who he played on Discovery. But he seemed like someone who was giving and loved being part of Star Trek. I am very happy to see the outpouring he is getting by the fans. I lost someone close to me who died at a similar age and it’s truly devastating.

And of course I do acknowledge people do really like some of these new shows. Lower Decks for example seems to be very popular. Before it started people were trashing it and now it gets heaps of praise. I never watched it, it doesn’t interest me but I would never take away how much people seem to love it which I’m happy they do

I also know most love SNW which I do watch but I know my feelings are in the minority although others do agree with me. But if others don’t, I don’t expect them too either and very glad they enjoy it.

And I’m going to give Prodigy a chance since a few nice people here have encouraged me to try it and for my love of Janeway. So maybe that show will turn me around haha.

Unfortunately, that’s all you’ll get out of. This guy is insults and more insults on every Trek series from the last 15 years.

He’s trying to get reactions from us and I decided to pretty much ignore him from now on

For All Mankind is truly an amazing show. I wish Moore could come back to Star Trek too. This was a guy that was writing twice the amount of stories a year these new people are doing and yet manage to write some of the most timeless Trek stories with a fraction of the time and budget.

Now we get h.a.c.k.s like Abrams and Kurtzman who uses magic blood to bring back 25 year old Starfleet Captains and make silly tech like personal transporters that can beam you from Earth to Kronos. Oh and apparently have starships fast enough that can get you to and from said planets jn 10 minutes when it used to take days. Oh and your starship being pulled into Earth’s orbit although your starship is near the moon. That’s not even a made up Star Trek mistake, that’s just basic science they are getting wrong on a profound level. The socalled ‘science fiction ‘ writers. 🙄

This is what happens when you replace real writers with amateurs.

Exactly. You stated it all perfectly. They pretend to really care about Star Trek but don’t take the time to understand it or want to understand it. No one is writing 25 episodes a season any, they have more time to get things right and it’s even worse.

As for STID they spent four years on it and all this PR over how they waited to get it right only to make basic science mistakes you learn in the fifth grade. That movie was so nonsensical. Why doesn’t Marcus just get rid of the torpedoes to cover up his crimes instead of literally just handing them to Kirk? How far can those transporters beam people? To the Delta Quadrant? Why is a starship under water? How is Kirk not drummed out of Starfleet for being an idiot?. Because the people writing for him are bigger idiots. I thought Nemesis was awful this takes the cake.

Marcus doesn’t just get rid of the evidence because JJ verse is the Mirror universe for stupid people.

Here is a guy that is not only head of Starfleet but part of Section 31. This guy should be at the top of his game.

Instead he does some of the dumbest decisions I seen a mustache twirling villain ever make.

For starters he wakes up a 300 year old man and for some odd reason thinks he can design advance starships better than the top engineers in Starfleet could. He then let the guy outsmart him by somehow secretly putting 80 people in torpedoes which to this day I have no idea how he could do that without so much as a security guard not noticing. But take heed it’s the universe of stupid people so of course he can

So Marcus now knows he unleashed this freak on the Alpha Quadrant and wants to destroy Starfleet for his vengeance. So instead of getting his top Section 31 boys to find and make an example out of him he calls up Starfleet Captains to handle the situation. Like why are these people trying to hunt down a cunning terrorist on Earth? Why not an actual police force then? They still have those in the 23rd century I’m guessing?

Then of course Khan does his thing and conveniently goes to the one place Marcus actually wants to go. And then just hangs out waiting to be captured. If the writing was any lazier it would be asleep.

Now here is where Marcus is a world class idiot. Khan just gave him EVERYTHING he wanted. He just murdered multiple Starfleet officers and then jumped to the planet Marcus wanted to start a war with. Marcus could now claim Khan did that under the command of the Klingons. That he became a double agent and aligned with the them to wipe out Starfleet top brass. On top of that he works for Section 31, so making fake evidence Khan was working with them should be very easy to do.

Maybe they could manufacturer, say, a fake data rod showing Khan meeting with the Klingons at high command, perhaps? Not sure where I got that idea. 😁

Marcus doesn’t even need his convoluted story of the Klingons destroying the Enterprise because Khan already gave him enough justification to attack on his own. Even if the Klingons claim they had nothing to do with it Marcus now has the ‘evidence’ they in fact did. So he got his war because Khan turned out to be an even bigger idiot.

But unfortunately Marcus isn’t anywhere as smart or cunning as someone like Garek is because Garek is is from the universe of intelligent villains.

Marcus is from the universe that gives idiot fratboys their own starships even though they are still students. The one irony in all of this is Kirk is not as stupid as he was hoping to be and why his ridiculous plan fell apart…thanks to Spock. 😉🙄

Haha this was such a delicious read! Thank you!

Maybe they should’ve just hired you to write their movies. But they want stories where people don’t have to think too much. That might stop them from munching on their popcorn and no one wants that.

I honestly remembered watching that movie thinking we were in for a bigger twist somewhere.

The writing for this movie couldn’t be this ridiculous and from the same acclaimed writers who gave us Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? It’s no way Kirk, Khan and Marcus are all seriously this stupid? Clearly one of them must have a real plan and that didn’t happen by circumstance and lazy conveniences.

What I honestly thought was going to be revealed was that Marcus and Khan were actually working together. That either they came up with it together or that Marcus simply forced him to do it in exchange of getting his little Nazis family back. It was all a charade with him blowing up the archive and then attacking the headquarters. So when Khan went and sat his white butt on that planet for an entire day it was just part of the plan and he was waiting for Marcus to arrive. That would at least make more sense, right?

That’s why I thought when Khan was telling Kirk exactly why his engines had stalled and he was in fact in cahoots with Marcus. MUHAHAHAHA!!!!

I thought Marcus was playing some serious 4 D chess and then maybe Khan would show how cunning he can be by turning on Marcus instead. A real cat and mouse game the Enterprise happened to be in the middle of.

Nope, it was all just by happenstance instead. The only reason why anything in this story happened because one guy happened to be a bigger idiot than the other guy while Kirk still being the biggest idiot of them all since he was played by both of them. This is why he needed that extra year in school. 😉

Ok how did I start ranting so much over STID??? Sorry. 😂

Ten years on and this movie still really really bugs me I guess.

To be honest I never gave the movie much thought because I didn’t watch it until it came to cable and I had already knew everything about the story and how divided the movie was. So I didn’t really care just watched because it was a Star Trek movie.

I will admit like with Enterprise I was expecting the worst when I finally saw it. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be given the vitriol the movie was getting, but it wasn’t good either. As you said because the characters did so many nonsensical things which was only done to move the plot along and not for any logical reasons. Khan at least had a decent motive but how he went about it was silly. And I couldn’t understand why would he go to Kronos other than gave Marcus a motive to carry out his plan against the Klingons? If Khan went to Bajor instead there would be no movie.

Just so much lazy writing in it.

I straight up hated the show when it premiered. Hated it was a useless prequel when I wanted to keep going forward after Voyager. I stopped watching it halfway through the first season and had no plans to ever watch it again.

When the first JJ verse movie came out that felt like I just watched a live action video game on speed instead of Star Trek I went back to it and really appreciated the stories they were telling for the first time. They were the most Trek stories at their core and I just accepted the 22nd century era

It’s amazing how much a little time can change your perspective on things.

Weird then that in the two decades since Enterprise was cancelled that we never got Enterprise TAS and Enterprise TMP???

So where are the direct follow-ons of this supposedly still successful series that you are claiming like we got with the cancelled TOS???

There actually was talk of an Enterprise revival at one point. Netflix was reportedly very happy with the performance of Voyager and Enterprise on their streaming service and approached CBS/Paramount (whatever it was called then) about relaunching Enterprise as the easiest path to new Trek. This was around 2010-11, so only 5-6 years after Enterprise ended. CBS instead decided to do it themselves, and we got CBS All Access, and eventually a new series (though it still took them years to bring Discovery to life.)

I remember that — it seemed to me like Doug Drexler was pushing that a lot more than Netflix actually considering it.

I really would’ve loved that revival idea on Netflix. I understand why Moonves said no, but we would’ve had a show MUCH sooner then waiting over a decade to finally get another show. 🙄

Eh, no, OS hit the ground running in its 1st season and was still watchable by series end. It was just that network TV, especially in the 60s, was not the place for ST.

No one is saying the series didn’t fail, but this isn’t anymore objective as to the cause than someone saying UPN was the main problem. You’re projecting just as much as the likes of Bakula because you detest the show so much.

A balanced and correct view would be to say it’s a little of column A and a little of column B, without the pejoratives you always feel you need to twist things with.

Creatively it didn’t excite enough fans in its first two seasons. We were all there, we remember the message board complaints and the falling ratings. I contributed my fair share to the former. They tried something new for seasons 3 and 4 and got more traction with fans by the end, but ratings didn’t stabilize. And while neither of us can claim superiority when it comes to something as subjective as fan reception, I’d say IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes pre-review bombing are a little more reliable for older shows than it they are now, and you have season rating averages of:

Season 2: 7.36 Season 3: 7.32 Season 4: 7.7 (7.81 w/o TATV)

RT Audience scores: Season 2: 77% Season 3 & 4: 83%

Franchise fatigue is a thing – it’s harder to convince people to come back to any show after they drift away, regardless of if it has a creative revival, and a heavily serialized war storyline or a new showrunner are not the same kinds of stunts as adding Worf or a Borg babe to your cast.

UPN for its whole existence was making do with whatever it could get for ratings and never hit the high water mark of Voyager’s premiere ever again. After years of carrying the network, by season 5 Voyager was actually protected by being on UPN versus any other big network that had higher ratings bars to clear. When the ratings for season 2 of Enterprise settled at a fairly low ebb, the same was true of it, and anyone saying first run syndication would have saved it isn’t being honest about what that market looked like after 2001.

That said, UPN was a mess from 2001-2005. If Berman Trek was in its last throes, obviously so too was UPN. There was zero flow to the network lineup. Urban sitcoms on Monday. Teen genre shows on Tuesday. Star Trek on Wednesday. Wrestling on Thursday. Movies on Friday. In seven seasons of UPN trying to build new hits off of it, Voyager’s longest lasting lead-out was The Sentinel, hardly a scintillating companion series. Enterprise was stuck with the likes of Special Unit 2, Wolf Lake and an ill-fated Twilight Zone reboot. Does anyone remember them? Of course Enterprise kept getting renewed by comparison – considering how much Les Moonves didn’t care for sci-fi, that’s more than being gracious, it’s an acknowledgment the franchise had value. And no one would say a person could not like The Hughleys, wrestling, Buffy and Star Trek, but… there’s a reason The WB, Fox and CBS had better traction overall – they knew their audience and their lineups were more cohesive.

By the time of season 4 when Enterprise was shunted to Friday night with no companion show at all, the network was focusing on the teen audience. America’s Next Top Model and Veronica Mars were the flavors of the week and they and a couple urban sitcoms and wrestling would be all that made it over to The CW. UPN outlasted Star Trek by a whopping one year. Only the most obtuse person could say their fundamental issues had nothing to do with why Enterprise failed.

Plenty of Enterprise’s problems were creative own goals, but it was the last of an 18 year unbroken stretch of a franchise, on a dying network forever flailing to find an identity and lost in an ever more fragmented TV market. As usual, the reasons for its failure were not all on one factor.

I didn’t even have UPN. It wasn’t available where I lived at the time. I didn’t watch Voyager or Enterprise until the came to DVD. I used to rent them from Blockbuster lol.

When Enterprise aired in syndication on other channels I watched it religiously. It was great for me who grew up with TOS and I loved the vibe of the show. I didn’t love it as much as TOS and TNG but it’s my third favorite show today.

And I’m happy to see how much more popular it is today. I think you have to thank sites like Netflix and Amazon where new people watched it and even people who gave up on it early and gave it another chance.

Enterprise is seen very differently today than when it started.

IMHO that was a HUGE issue for both VOY and ENT. Ironically speaking enough even though those 2 shows were “network” shows and TNG/DS9 were first run syndication the latter two were able to reach a much larger audience across the US. It’s a lot easier for an affiliate to buy into paying for a series or 2 than to commit to handing over their stations to Network big wigs that *might* know what they are doing but probably don’t.

Nevertheless, when Seven was introduced on Voyager, the fans responded, and it stabilized the ratings drop-off by season to a much slower rate which allowed the show to get a full seven seasons in.

By contrast, when Coto was brought in for Enterprise for S3 and S4, there was zero noticeable ratings stabilization — fans at that time did not respond to the supposedly improved version of the Enterprise that today’s revisionists insist was the case.

Ratings wise it may not have stabilised but quality wise I personally think the show vastly improved in its 3rd and 4th seasons. But it was too little too late.

Totally agreed. Enterprise came into it’s own in season 3 and 4 back then and lived up to the other shows. It went from my worst show to one of my favorites. And it puts shows like Discovery to shame that only got worse in its third and fourth seasons.

Putting a Star Trek show on a network was a big risk at the time.

And UPN was just a really bad network. I really wish Enterprise could’ve been in syndication like TNG and DS9 was. It could’ve lasted longer. Maybe not 7 seasons like the others but longer.

Ironically, UPN and the WB were part of the death knell of first run syndication. Independent stations got snatched up and the good timeslots converted to their programming. There really wasn’t a market any more once Xena was cancelled – the scant few dramas that tried to find success after that were short lived gambles. 2001 is almost exactly when there really stopped being a syndicated market anymore for dramas. TNG created space for all sorts of fantastical dramatic shows, and DS9, Hercules, and Xena ruled over the last gasps of that market.

Enterprise IMO would have been better off going to cable (when Sci Fi was still a semblance of a channel with meaningful new programming) or CBS’ own Showtime where even 2 million paying subscribers would make it a hit.

But consider the effort that goes into finding a new home for an expensive show that’s 4 years old (or 18 if you could the franchise it capped off), one they’d always controlled all aspects of distribution for and has already met its syndication threshold. Loyal following or not, it’s still niche sci-fi and the studio seemed to finally listen to the people who said give it a rest for its own good, rather than license it to someone else to make some money off of.

Me and you are agreeing a lot today Ian lol.

But yes that’s exactly what happened. I live in LA and the local channel that ran TNG and others in syndication and where they were premiering these shows in primetime all dried up when UPN started. At the beginning the syndicated shows were still being shown in the week days because UPN wasn’t a full week network at the time and only 8-10 pm like FOX did and to this day even that network never tried to create a third hour of prime time content like the big three.

But as UPN grew and had a full week roster those other first run shows got regulated to the weekends and market just dried up.

The funny thing is once UPN died the channel just started syndicating shows again and air basically reruns to this day. But the first run type of shows never returned. It’s shocking syndication is even a thing at all today with all the streaming and VOD options but I guess there are still people like watching old Seinfeld episodes 5 days a week.

And game shows! Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy will outlive us all.

Yeah totally. Ent might have had a rough start but many don’t seem to remember that TNG and DS9 pre dominion did too. But whereas you might survive that in syndication, it’s never going to happen on Network TV. TBH I don’t think a Trek show could survive on Network TV even today.

No one even knows these new shows even exist accept old fans. My friends watch some of them because they been fans for decades but no one in my family even heard of them because they don’t watch Star Trek.

Star Trek has always been a niche franchise but it feels even more so today.These new shows don’t feel mainstream at all. I don’t think they could last on a network. Didn’t Prodigy get cancelled on Nickelodeon and that only lasted a season. I think all the others would get the same fate.

They don’t feel mainstream because they are on a streaming service most people don’t have or want. If they were on something like Netflix they would get way more exposure and more people outside the base would be talking about them. I’m not saying they would be Stranger Things or anything but at least can get higher views. Prodigy looks like it got way more viewers there but that’s probably due to fans rallying around it after it got cancelled. I even watched it there and I have it on digital lol.

There are still a lot of Trekkies out there that refuses to even get Paramount+ because they don’t think it’s worth it or have too many services. And with so much content today it’s really easy to overlook stuff like Star Trek unless you’re just already in the bubble like we are.

I lived in two different cities in two different states (Colorado and Texas) during the life of UPN. Never had a dedicated UPN station, in both cases Voyager and later Enterprise were broadcast on Sunday at 9pm (Central/Mountain Time) on the Fox affiliate, four days after the rest of the country had seen it. This time slot was atrocious during football season as every other week football ran over its allotted time and delayed the Fox programming that followed it (that also hurt shows like Futurama , which often was simply not aired if the game ran too long.) Which in turn meant that Voyager and later Enterprise were delayed. Even padding a TiVo schedule an extra half-hour sometimes wasn’t good enough to get the whole episode. These bad timeslots on “UPN” were one reason I was so excited when CBS All Access announced new Trek.

I was lucky because back then I lived within broadcast/cable distance of New York City so obv UPN had a presence there. Channel 9 IIRC. But ya I can see how in other parts of the country that would have been way harder. It’s too bad because who knows what might have happened if Paramount didn’t fail with UPN and now it looks like P+ too.

DS9 beat (sometimes only just) Voyager in the ratings despite how sh*tty the first run syndicated landscape had become. In my market by season 6 it was being shown Saturday nights after midnight. That was definitely not an isolated incident.

Ya I remember even from back then that on the internet message board so many people were complaining that either they could never get the show or at best POILER ALERT we haven’t seen it yet!

Only way to watch Voyager in my town from fall 1997 onwards was cable. Voyager was syndicated where I lived for the first three seasons. When Seven of Nine came onto the scene I had to press a school friend to tape the show every week for the next couple years until we finally broke down and got cable.

UPN was technically capable of decent ratings, as proved by a good few Voyager episodes and the first handful of Enterprise episodes, but it had very little to publicize besides having Star Trek and could never capitalize on that, so fell into niche programming. Things like losing a bunch of affiliates in 1998 and having to rebuild definitely didn’t help. It was always #5 and always in turmoil and that was a double edged sword for Trek shows.

Back then the only way we could watch Voyager was on cable but it was so expensive I couldn’t justify it to watch just one show. And I was happy enough with DS9. Luckily by the time DS9 had ended Voyager was now syndicated on a local channel and I got to watch it regularly even though I was still a few years behind. But that’s how I watched Voyager.

Enterprise didn’t start airing in syndication until the last year it was cancelled. I had only kept up with it reading about it online. I do remember how much people complained about it in the beginning but I heard it was much better in the final season. So I thought I would hate the first few seasons listening to all the complaints about it.

It was just the opposite. I thought it was a fabulous show out of the gate. I guess my expectations were so low listening to the complaints for so many years. But It felt the closest to TOS and I loved that Archer was the first Captain without a handbook. Picard and Kirk always knew what to do even if it didn’t always go to plan. Archer was always winging it.

Enterprise really spoke to me and I was truly sad when it was cancelled.

Those are great memories to hang onto though. I associate all of Berman Trek with different memories as I grew up. TNG I was always a kid for, DS9 took me through High School. Both I associate with my mother who adored the shows and Picard, Sarek, Data, Q, K’Heylar, Odo, Sisko, Vic, Garak and the Ferengi in particular. I still have vivid memories of us coming out of separate rooms having just watched “What We Leave Behind” and wiping tears from our nerdy faces. Voyager is connected to my teenaged years, and lots of bartering to get my friend to tape it when it stopped being syndicated. And Enterprise lasted for exactly as long as I was in college, so it managed to be a little link to home.

It’s fun to talk about the shows and even to argue about them to a point, but it’s those personal memories that mean the most to me.

I am much older than you and I grew up with TOS watching it for the first time in 1968. But between that time through 2005 had so many great memories for me. I met so many people in the 70s and 80s who loved Star Trek. I had my daughter just before TNG started and she grew up watching all those shows too. We especially watched TNG and DS9 together. She ended up loving Voyager the most but like me like them all equally.

But the 90s were very fun because there was so much Star Trek on and so much to talk about. It really was a fun time to be a fan.

By the time the Abrams movies started, I gotten too old to really enjoy this phase of it and haven’t bothered to watch a lot of it today. It’s clearly made for younger people like Lower Decks and the reboot movies and I respect that. But I have problems with it beyond just their demographics but I digress.

But I still love Star Trek and I respect anyone who loves any and all of it of course. My Trek was done by 2005 and I have plenty of it to watch endlessly so no complaints.

I really don’t think anything will ever top the 30th anniversary celebration. Special episodes of two shows running at the same time, a pompous awards show, a great movie… That was bliss.

That’s when Star Trek was at it’s height of popularity. That was an amazing time for the franchise.

Twenty years later and we’re nowhere close to that anymore. The 50th anniversary which should’ve been twice as big was a joke and all we got was a failed movie that no one cared about and once again killed off the movie franchise. Oh and Discovery a year later…joy.

“Franchise fatigue is a thing – it’s harder to convince people to come back to any show after they drift away, regardless of if it has a creative revival, and a heavily serialized war storyline or a new showrunner are not the same kinds of stunts as adding Worf or a Borg babe to your cast.”

I can only speak for myself but it definitely was for me. I ha d watched every new episode diligently for 15 years straight. But by the time Voyager was ending I was kind of hoping they took a break from doing another show for awhile. There would still be the movies obviously but I felt maybe wait 2-3 years another show.

Now of course I was going to watch it regardless lol but there was no longer excited about the idea of a new Trek show for the first time since TNG. That’s already not a great sign.

And once they announced it was a prequel I just had even less interest in it. A lot of people did. People were torn on the idea of a Trek show going backwards for the first time in the franchise s history. And people hated the idea that would uphend the idea of TOS being the first show. It was one thing to make a prequel but to make one that was before Kirk’s time was blasphemy to a lot of people too. It’s forgotten now but that was an issue.

I got through the first season but didn’t return to the second. I have to always make clear it being a prequel or even fatigue was the main issue. The main issue is I simply thought the show sucked. It just didn’t grab me on it’s own. And I never bothered watching it again until literally 2013.

Now that said I also didn’t think TNG or DS9 was amazing either at the outset but I kept watching regardless. But by Enterprise I was already ready to take a break from Star Trek so once it wasn’t doing it for me it was easier to move on.

And I think that’s what happened with a lot of people. And you’re right I heard the show was getting better. I wasn’t watching it but I would still read what was going on with it and none of it enticed me to come back. Didn’t care about any of it. I was just checked out at that point and was just happy to catch the odd TOS or TNG rerun on TV.

And I think once they moved Enterprise to Friday sealed it’s fate just like what happened with TOS. It was history sadly repeating itself.

When I finally decided to give Enterprise another chance and watched the other seasons I fell in love with it lol. I thought every season got better after the last one. Enterprise wasn’t any worse than how the other spin offs started but people were more cynical and jades back then

But numbers and feedback doesn’t lie. Go to any social media site discussing the show. It’s wildly more popular now. Read any of the comments section of any YouTube video discussing it, people generally say how much they love it now. NOT everyone but most which is surprising.

On RT it’s audience score is 80% at the moment. The only other shows at 80% or above are TOS, TNG and DS9 (although to be fair both VOY and SNW are pretty close to it as well, just 3 or 4 points off). So it has either captured a lot of new fans or old fans like me just saw it with fresh eyes today. It’s probably a little of both.

So the show is definitely more popular for sure. A lot of people like me want a fifth season today. Twenty years ago that was the last thing on my mind lol.

I don’t think it was so much franchise fatigue as it was formula fatigue. Who cares if it was a sequel, it was Archer/Kirk and T’Pol/Spock and trip/McCoy back on the Enterprise doing the same old thing.

I think I have mentioned this here before but I really wanted ENT to be a NASA type show where they were trying to explore the solar system for the first time since Cochran and trying to figure out how not to blow up if they were at Warp 1 for too long.

Site I can agree with that which is funny now considering SNW has went back to that same formula and everyone is loving it again lol.

But like Star Trek itself, everything old is new again I guess.

And of course as you know that’s what Braga wanted to and to have the first season take place on Earth. UPN shut that down fast because that’s not Star Trek to them.

And that was the entire problem, UPN didn’t want want a prequel show. They wanted Star Trek to go to the 26th century and the creatives wanted to scale things back. The show was compromised on day one

Yeah nothing ever works when the suits try to control the creatives. That’s a big reason why (until only recently) the MCU has been so successful.

It’s totally funny about SNW. But if you think about it, DIS and PIC were so far off the beaten path of what Trek was supposed to be that a return to it after all these years felt fresh again.

Now I am not saying that changing things up for those 2 shows was the bad idea, I just think they went about it the wrong way. IIRC Bryan Fuller was trying to go for a full on reboot show of Trek (which is why we got so many inconsistencies and a tone even darker than the Dominion War) and Sir Patrick Stewart wan’t to turn PIC into his Trek version of Logan.

That’s why both DIS and PIC failed at the beginning, they were both just too different and poorly written at that. That’s why Discovery jumped a thousand years into the future to get a soft reboot I’m season 3 and Picard just became more TNG again in season 3.

Picard season 3 actually got really good because it had Terry Matalas who understands Star Trek and got his start working on Enterprise.

But Discovery managed to get even worse because the people running that show has no clue how to tell a good story, reboot or not.

IMHO even jumping DIS to the 32nd didn’t help. Ironically it was done to be able to ignore canon issues but they just doubled down on them. Like, no WARP in the 32nd century? So what? Daniels from ENT was able to cross not just time but light years as easily as the iconians could. Voyager made it home through slipstream. The Enterprise D was experimenting with “warp, without warp drive” in one ep. But 700 something years later they are just ended? That’s like saying if someone were to stop steam engines from working a Tesla is stuck.

Bro the people running Discovery are clueless. The 32nd century relying on warp alone is just ridiculous. They wanted their ridiculous Burn storyline so ignored everything else that would contradict instead of coming up with reasons why they don’t use those other options.

That and the fact spore drives are just not a thing every ship is using that far in the future. It’s all a fail because Discovery is a really bad show.

Agreed. I was actually looking forward to the 32nd century storyline. I basically gave up after how ridiculous it got. Some kid yelling that crippled the galaxy was just inherently awful story telling.

They spent way more time making it look good then trying to write a coherent back story and we get ridiculous conclusions like that.

The Burn started out as a really inventive idea but sadly it was written by h.a.c.k.s who have no clue how to make compelling sci fi.

Season 4 also had potential but fell into more silliness and boredom.

To be fair I think everyone making Discovery and later Picard just had the mindset that in order for any new shows to succeed today it has to change with the time. And even I thought that at the time because I remember people saying Trek can’t be more TNG again or not in that style. It has to feel like something that would feel more relevant to people watching TV today and closer to shows like GOT, TWD, Breaking Bad, etc.

That’s probably why Fuller was hired because his non Trek shows like Hannibal fit more in that darker and serialized space. The fact he started his career on Star Trek made it more appealing because he can both understand what Trek is but update it to feel totally different than what we got before.

But yeah I think A. Fuller probably just went too far off the reservation and B. they didn’t really understand how strong the old fanbase was and they really wanted a return to the more wholesome and optimistic vibe the old shows gave us. IE more nostalgia and comfort food.

I have always stated if Discovery was the second or third new show the reception may have been better. Or if they made it clear it was simply a reboot but I have said that more than enough.

It was just TOO different…and not very good at that.

Yes same for PIC although I don’t think people were that bothered it was different because it still had enough elements to feel like it was in the TNG universe unlike Discovery and TOS. And no one complained about canon. I think it just wasn’t great after so much buildup that gave it its problems. But yes the torture stuff didn’t help.

Now we got more TOS and TNG and now people are begging for more of it.

What I think happened is that these shows never really got many new fans but just brought in mostly old fans and why DIS failed in it’s original form.

They thought it was going be a lot of young newbies signing up to watch the show but when that didn’t pan out and was just older fans signing up and complaining then they changed course and we got Pike and Spock again the next season.

Yes also agree. Now I’m sure there have been many new fans, some I interacted with on Reddit. And a few who also likes Discovery; but it’s obvious they are not at a mass level either and their involvement isn’t going to make or break a show like the long term fans do.

Again everything they been doing since Discovery basically proves that. They been bending over backwards to keep the old fans happy from changing the Klingons to making a lot of post Nemesis shows while also giving them SNW over Section 31.

I know the new shows still have problems but all I can say for me personally this has been some of the best Trek since the early to mid 90s. I know you disagree but I really do think they are doing more good than bad these days because they ARE listening to their audience.

No one is watching these shows but old fans. If they want to keep their subs up they really have to appeal to the base as much as possible. No one cares about Discovery, Picard or Strange New Worlds except people whose been watching at least since the 90s.

And I definitely agree, thanks to LDS, PRO, SNW and now Picard season 3 has been a complete joy to watch as a fan. I never thought Kurtzman Trek would be good lol. But he finally started hiring the right people, especially McMahan and Matalas who grew up watching TNG and now made great Trek due to it

It is funny how we started with dreary and dark shows like Discovery and Picard but ultimately ended up with light and fun stuff like Lower Decks, Prodigy and Strange New Worlds. Also not a shock how much people fawned over those shows because they went back to optimistic and heartfelt stories again and not just WE MIST SAVE THE GALAXY FROM EVIL Discovery and Picard started off doing.

Well said! 👍

Except that RT and IMDB were not rating Enterprise when it was on the air as a first run series, so that’s meaningless not only given that it does not represent opinions back then, but more importantly that fans who like it today are of course going to upvote it on non-scientific, voluntary internet polls where the people who didn’t like it 20 years back are unlikely to care to take the time to downvote it now.

You want data — look at the ratings by year when it actually ran, and then you will see that the viewership drop-off is about the same rate every year. But even then, let’s say you come back at me and bring up the UPN network issues and promotion issues…OK, that’s all well and good, but please then explain to me why THE WEEK-TO-WEEK RATINGS WITHIN SEASON 3 AND SEASON 4 — when the show was on at the same day time, and when Coto was supposedly delivering Trek the fans liked more — explain to me why fans kept dropping off watching the show nearly every week as those two seasons went along? — there was zero of the ratings stabilization for Enterprise during those two Coto seasons that we saw when Seven was brought onto Voyager.

It’s an urban legend that the show was well liked back then; it’s an urban legend that fans back then thought Coto’s seasons were any better than the first two; and it’s an urban legend that Moonvies and the studio wanted to cancel the show — they had no choice, because most of the fans had bailed out on it after they nicely threw good money after bad and let S4 go ahead, when it should have been cancelled after S3. No modern voluntary internet scoring by fans who by and large happen to like the show now can change that reality.

Now if you want to say that a larger percentage of fans like it today versus two decades ago, sure, that’s obvious, but I was never saying that was not the case.

Declaring something as an urban legend because you don’t like it doesn’t actually make it one, you know. There are interviews with people close to the situation that detail Moonves’ distaste for science fiction and Star Trek. Season 4 happened because of budget cuts and a looming syndication deal. Its downfall was a combination of creative issues and UPN’s ineptitude, you would do well to admit that even though it doesn’t adhere strictly to your narrative.

When did IMDb start rating individual episodes of shows? The user ratings system has been in place for decades. You’re also presuming a lot about the motivations of the people who would vote for it.

And saying things like how Manny Coto didn’t stabilize the ratings when you know full well the show was shunted to a graveyard Friday night slot paired with reruns is a bad faith argument.

You also know full well that a show can increase in quality and not get its viewers back. Doctor Who’s ratings dropped precipitously for series 9 and 10, despite ecstatic reviews saying the show had returned to form, including what were even at the time some of its best reviewed episodes ever (one of them IS the best reviewed still). The Good Wife lost viewers every season despite a gripping creative renaissance in season 5. Deep Space Nine lost viewers every season, with its lowest rated episode being “The Dogs of War” of all stories. Most shows lose viewers as they age, it’s just a question of if they erode slowly enough for the network’s taste. To use ratings as empirical evidence of a show’s quality is also a bad faith argument. It’s as much to do with pulling the right stunts and capturing the zeitgeist and having the right promotion as it is being good.

I was fully immersed in the fandom conversations back then, as I assume you were too, and they were a lot more active and populated than they are now. The complaining wained in seasons 3 and 4 and there was absolutely a collective sense of the show righting itself, hence the fan campaign to actually find season 5, which actually raised a few million dollars in donations.

And in the end, it’s a little silly to go so hard to prove a point about people hating a show back then when you’re already arguing that more people like it now. It’s just shouting into the wind, I think.

I agree with this as well. A lot of people liked the show more in season 3 and definitely in season 4. That was very evident back then. But there were definitely still a lot of people on the fence. I was one of them. I didn’t care either way at that point personally.

And every Trek lost viewers, DS9 especially. That’s why they brought in Worf and it worked but it still lost viewers, just less so after he arrived. TNG was the only show to buck that trend.

There were a lot of factors that created Enterprise cancellation, the biggest being the show was just too expensive for the ratings it was getting and the network was moving away from sci fi and wanted a younger and more urban demographic by then. Once a network shutter something off to Fridays then they are just waiting for it to die sadly.

And the reality is the show is more popular today for a reason because it simply improved in people’s eyes. Enterprise has aged VERY well today and a big reason why people want to see those characters back. I’m hoping someday we will see them again.

Enterprise did age well, probably the best out of all of them. But it was also the newest.

I think what bothered people at the show in the beginning is that it didn’t tie things closer to TOS out of the gate. It didn’t really try to be a birth of the Federation show it was marketed as. At the beginning it just felt like a ship going planet to planet and I think people were just sick of that. They needed something more by then. I always thought the show should’ve started with the Romulan war from the start and just build on the Federation idea as it went. But it started with the Temporal Cold War stuff and turned a lot of people off right away.

I agree with all of this. I think Berman was hesitant to tie it to TOS right away and wanted the show to have it’s own identity which I had no issues over.

But I do agree with people who says they didn’t really keep to its premise with the entire birth of the Federation premise and the show felt like it had no real direction. To be fair neither did TOS or TNG. It really was just crisis of the week story telling. And also why people felt Enterprise was just more TNG because it did a lot of similar stories.

TCW was something that made it stand out but it was so vague and loosely told most people didn’t care about it.

I think in hindsight they would do a LOT of things differently. The biggest just make season 4 into season 1. That’s where the show really got its groove and you felt a real mythology happening and obviously tying closer to TOS.

And I think after coming off the hills of something like DS9 and the Dominant War there really needed to be a stronger narrative out of the gate, especially for all the prequel doubters out there at the time.

They did finally turn that tide in season 3 but it was probably too too late to get many people who gave up before then.

Yeah people may rag on some of its 20(!) year old CGI, but for a network show not in its last years paying its stars a million an episode, Enterprise was slick and expensive. For a mini network, doubly so. I know for years Voyager had a very advantageous licensing deal for Paramount that UPN finally was able to renegotiate to get a little more profit out of it. Enterprise switching to digital cameras when it did was as much about cost as it was being forward thinking. But season 3 leaves very little money on the table – it’s got some damned good production values.

I do think Voyager did stunt episodes better than Enterprise or even DS9 (not that they indulged as much). Most of the two parters felt like big event episodes in the run-ups and got good ratings thanks in part to a more robust UPN promotional arm at the time, but they also were just a little more enticing at first glance than Enterprise’s. Like, “Regeneration” isn’t really as glorious a stunt as “Scorpion” or “Dark Frontier,” and “North Star” isn’t as intriguing a gimmick as “The Killing Game.” Voyager really embraced the idea of having PR-friendly high concept episodes UPN was happy to promote, even if they did turn every other promo into a suggestive one about Seven of Nine.

Oh yeah agree about Enterprise and that it had AMAZING production values for its time. You really did see all the money on the screen, especially for such a smaller network like UPN. They would certainly do a few bottle episodes a year to keep costs down but the show never showed it’s downgraded budget throughout its run like say TOS did in season 3 lol.

And I think that’s why it has aged very well. It still looks like a show from it’s time but it doesn’t feel very dated either. Obviously the CGI lacks more today but that’s every show during that time.

That’s actually a good point and Enterprise never did the big spectacle two parters like Voyager did. It really had some of the best (although DS9 had a few solid ones too). But I also think this was another example of how things slowly changed at that network in relation to Star Trek. When UPN started obviously Voyager was the biggest show there and Rick Berman said a lot of people running it were the same people who was part of Trek since TNG started and so they always pushed to highlight the show any way they could.

By the time Enterprise showed up, so many things changed internally including the old regime running the network. So all those special promotions of big event two part episodes went away. Enterprise never got the same treatment. But of course since ratings fell much faster so the executives probably didn’t see the need anymore. And as you been talking about the programming overall was changing focus in general, so Enterprise was no longer the anchor as Voyager was.

But all that said they still threw a lot of money at the show, but sadly no longer the priority like it was originally. We’re starting to see that happening with Paramount+ and the modern shows now but that’s a different thread lol.

Voyager had some of the best two parters in the franchise. Scorpion is the first episode I watched of Star Trek ever and still love it to this day.

I really miss those days. 😥

Oh man that was such a good time to be watching Trek. We had that big bold season finale with the Borg, and then DS9 paid off its long game with Call to Arms a couple weeks later. Plus a wonderful summer of speculating and learning what was coming next after such big successful creative swings. I think the only other time two concurrent Trek shows really nailed their finales was 1994 with All Good Things… and The Jem’Hadar.

Hmm? I was significantly involved in fandom and conventions back then, and I did not perceive that fans thought the series was improving. I mean, look at Tiger2’s comments — that was the norm of fans checking out…and OK, if you want to hypothetical say that if fans who had already checked out would have come back and liked the series again if they had given it a chance, well I can’t prove that, but it sure sounds like wishful thinking.

This is where you missed a key point that is backed up by data. Yes, the series was in a Friday night slot, but it was in that slot for a full season — but THE WEEK-TO-WEEK RATINGS WITHIN THA SEASON 3 DROPPED EVERY WEEK THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. How do you explain that??? I mean, you start the season with a set of fans willing to watch the graveyard shift on Friday nights when the weather is still nice and fall sport and activities are going strong, and then winter comes but yet numbers of your keep bailing out at the same rate every week — yet the Star Trek Coto is providing you every week is supposedly improved? THIS MAKES ZERO SENSE

I fully stand by my point that if there was a Coto quality effect, that at the very least the ratings curve downturn within those last two seasons would have showed less of a steep curve then the previous seasons — there should have been at least a minor ratings stabilization in the downward trend.

correction : “SEASON 4”

Again, your argument flies in the face of conventional wisdom that shows do not increase their ratings over the course of a season, regardless of quality. And back then, they ALL dropped mid-season barring some big stunt or artificial lead-in boost, especially in between unpredictable rerun stretches. On the Bubble shows would bet the house on a May sweeps surge which sometimes would come but rare is the show that ends a season on an higher note than it began in the ratings.

And you’re not correct about season 4’s numbers. Its lowest rated episode was in January (“Babel One,”) but in February it was getting higher ratings than in the first three weeks it premiered. It’s not a steep curve at all, but rather the most stable ratings the show ever had.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Enterprise_(season_4)

Thanks for keeping logic and basic facts on this thread dude lol. It’s been a fun read.

Enterprise became an amazing show in seasons 3 and 4.. or the total opposite of Discovery. 😂🙄

It’s exhausting. It’s like… fun because there’s passion, but also frustrating when it’s not engaging with a good faith argument in kind.

Pretty sure if I was in Congress I’d be one of those Senators who compromises a few times but then quits after making a big speech about how no one wants to work together anymore.

My mother always said I should be a lawyer because I “like to argue,” but it takes too much of a toll. I really do prefer to just be nice, and while it can feel like I’m in the zone writing a treatise on something, it usually feels pretty gross after any arguments I have if they get heated.

“It’s exhausting. It’s like… fun because there’s passion, but also frustrating when it’s not engaging with a good faith argument in kind.*

This quote is exactly why so many stopped putting up with the guy. But as this entire thread has proven no one here is buying what he’s even selling and he’s been trying to sell it for nearly 20 years now lol. I’ll never get it either.

This quote is exactly why so many stopped putting up with the guy. But as this entire thread has proven no one here is buying what he’s even selling and he’s been trying to sell it for nearly 20 years now lol. I’ll never get it either.

Lol, dude, you can’t stop talking about me today, and you could not stop talking about me last week either. It’s just so lame that you need to take these potshots at me through others like this, but then pretend you aren’t interested. LOL, so juvenile.

No, first, in the first half of season 4, E had 9 out of 11 eps above a 3 rating, while in the second half there were only 5 eps above a 3 rating…and if you exclude the final 3 eps which were the series close-out eps and heavily marketed, E went on a dismal run from Eps 16-19 of never cracking a 3 rating.

Secondly, you miss my point again on the lack of a “Coto quality effect” in the ratings. Look at Voyager’s ratings stabilization effect by what happened when Seven was introduced in S4 — my point was that both between seasons and within seasons of E, we see absolutely no trend improvement during E in the final two seasons when Coto supposedly improved the product like we saw with VOY when Seven was brought it — in VOY, we can see clearly see the effect of Seven’s entry in that the ratings curve downtown was minimized from that point on — there is zero evidence on that happening with Coto’s eps on E.

When Seven was introduced in VOY the ratings downturn stabilized — fans responded it. When Coto came in on Enterprise and tried to improve the series that ratings showed zero effect — the fans didn’t respond to it at all.

That’s the thing tho. The thing that is bad about Friday and Saturday nights isn’t just because it competed against other shows, it competed against people going out and having lives on the weekend. A week after week drop? Sure, I can buy that as a quality thing. But I can also buy it as people checking the show out in September and then as time passed they had other things to do whereas a weekday night time slot is like “whatever, I have to go to bed in 2 hours anyways”.

I am not saying this is the case, but ratings for those 2 nights have never been nearly as solid as the other 5.

I don’t disagree with that. I am just saying that we did not see the ratings stabilization with Coto’s seasons on E like we saw with Seven’s intro on VOY — I think the stats bear that out, but like Ian won’t even acknowledge that?

Well, you’re exaggerating the long term ratings effect of Seven of Nine, while trying to equate the effect of the casting of a beautiful woman in a sexualized catsuit with *the promotion of a writer*, you don’t admit that UPN contributed to Enterprise’s ratings problems, you engage in spin when presented with data that Enterprise season 4 ratings didn’t fall week to week the way you asserted, and you fail to acknowledge that Nielsen ratings aren’t even an indicator of actual quality.

But yes, I’m the one being unreasonable. 😂

Exactly. But it’s fun to see literally everyone pushing back on this silly narrative everyone hated Enterprise regardless. It’s been hilarious to read.

Meanwhile back in delusional land, Discovery is the most beloved show since TNG! Hell maybe ever! 😂🙄

And here I thought that for once TG-blabberpuss was out of pocket for a day and we might avoid your awkward indirect personal attack drivel on me just for one freaking article.

Oh, well, there is always next week’s article…lol

PS: Can you please let me know what week you are planning to go on vacation this year, because I will look forward more than usual to discussions here that week?

Not reading nor responding.

Classic emmy winners like ‘hill street blues’ and ‘homicide’ stayed on the air despite ratings falls.

And the reason for that is the first three words of your sentence.

Even if ENT had been a runaway hit it would have died with Season 5. When the WB (the more successful network) merged with UPN, very little UPN programming came over to the newly-formed CW.

Also true. UPN died a year later and the CW was a much smaller start up than UPN was, it couldn’t afford a show like Enterprise even if they wanted it

If it had been a runaway hit, Moonvies would have simply moved it to syndication if he could not work out a deal with WB. But I have a hard time believing that if it had been a runaway hit, that P and WB wouldn’t have worked out a deal for it to be on WB — money talks.

Again, consider that you said “runaway hit.”

What syndication? The market was all but gone by then. The WB and its successor The CW were largely female-centric shows (i.e., Gilmore Girls ) and Star Trek definitely didn’t fit in their market focus. UPN’s Veronica Mars was much closer to The CW’s brand, and so lasted one more year after the merger/buyout. The CW resembled The WB far, far more than it resembled UPN.

Don’t shoot the messenger — iMike said if Enterprise was a RUNAWAY HIT . Runway hit to most of us would mean at perennial Top 5 TV show like CSI or SVU.

In that rare case where let’s say it was extremely popular, it would have been viable for the 7 PM hour once a week when you always get syndicated repeat shows like Big Bang Theory, Seinfeld, as well as Judge Judy and game shows.

Let me make myself perfectly clear — it was never going to a runaway hit, in fact, I don’t think I would call any Trek series in history a runaway it. That is all iMike’s hypothetical comment — I am not saying this at all.

Besides, with iMike’s hypothetical “runaway hit” scenario, WB would have kept it, and hell, CW would have kept it as well if it was a “runaway hit” as iMike imagines — so the syndication option here is a moot point anyway.

Syndication was no longer an option even in this hypothetical RUNAWAY HIT scenario. Far more likely, I think would have been a move to cable, probably TNT or Spike (at the time). Or possibly even to the CBS mothership. There are a few cases of formerly non-network shows moving to network TV, the most famous probably being Mr. Ed .

Or possibly even to the CBS mothership. 

OK, I agree, if it was a runaway hit, bring it into CBS. Again, this is iMike’s hypothetical — at a high level I am just saying that if you have a Top 5 runaway hit TV series without a home, you as the network will figure it out.

I do not think Moonves would have moved it to syndication to save it. The syndication market for new shows was dying at that point. And no, the WB couldn’t afford it anyway. The two heaviest special effects shows that transferred to the CW were Smallville and Supernatural .

Again, the syndication market in 2005 was shattered. There were no first run dramas of note in syndication anymore – the market was already starting to crater as DS9 ended, and didn’t survive once Hercules and Xena were cancelled. Syndication went back to being for daytime shows, game shows, and a few cheap reruns.

And take one look at The CW’s inaugural lineup and tell me where a Star Trek show fits in cosily. It would be as ostracized as it was on UPN.

Dude, and I explained this to Thorny — take up your issues on this with iMike — he poised a hypothetical that if Enterprise were a runaway television hit (think SVU, CSI).

I am not defending this hypothetical! But obviously if it were a Top 5 show in viewership, CBS would have made a deal to have it one some network or syndicated agreement — I mean, if it was a runaway hit, they would just move it onto CBS anyway, am I right?

But again, THIS IS NOT MY HYPOTHETICAL — take it up with iMike.

And your hypothetical solution hinged on a faulty premise – that a hit show would do well in a market that didn’t even exist, or in a CW lineup with limited space where it would be a pariah again. You made no mention of any other network. And no, being a top 5 show on UPN would never have meant a bump up to CBS. Even DS9 and Voyager would have been cancelled had they needed to meet the bar for renewals at that network.

So you are telling me with a straight face, that if (again, iMike’s, not my hypothetical) Enterprise on UPN was somehow had ratings that made it a Top 5 rated, runaway hit TV series, that when UPN folded they would not either bring this Top 5 runaway hit onto the mother CBS network or find another network to make a deal with — you’re saying that they would simply cancel a Top 5 TV series, runaway hit and be done with it?

Are you effing serious??? :-)

This is so pedantic.The narrow confines of your post I was replying to were about syndication and the CW.

Do you mean a top 5 show, period? Because if we are talking about a top 5 ON UPN show like I was, then no, that was no guarantee that an expensive series they never were able to build on would make it to the CW. The CW was basically The WB plus WWE Smackdown!

If it had managed over 4 million viewers on Friday nights then perhaps it would have gotten a season 5, obviously we have no idea.

iMike said a runaway hit. That was his hypothetical that we’re talking about.

Why do you keep debating me by challenging iMike’s hypothetical? Please take it up with him if you have an issue with it?

All I’m saying is if you go with that hypothetical of course CBS would have found a way to continue the series either on the mothership or on another network.

Can you please not respond to me yet again with trying to attack the hypothetical — that’s between you and I Mike if you have issues with it. i’m getting rather fatigued trying to explain how if-then conditional statement logic works to you?

Moonvies has been on the record many times stating how he didn’t like SCIENCE FICTION – PERIOD! First chance he got, he canceled ENTERPRISE – change of power structure at CBS, Paramount and Viacom have him the chance (along with a particular VP leaving the studio who was protecting the series.) Truth is, it wouldn’t have gotten a 6th year – it wouldn’t have survived the UPN/WB merger, so all we really lost was 22 episodes.

The anti-SF bias and particularly anti-space bias has often been a factor impacting TREK. Barry Diller was huge at Paramount in the 70s and he always hated the idea of doing anything in that vein, even though if Par had coughed out any kind of TREK movie in 76 it would have redefined the expression ‘cleaned up’ by tapping into the demand for more TOS that STAR WARS wound up cashing in on so well. When he was able to, decades later, cancel FARSCAPE w/o much cause, Diller did so immediately, which I recall as being an utter jerk move with a show I had only just discovered. Now why a SF hater like Diller was even in a position to run the SciFiChannel staggers me, but then again, we had a guy at ILM who said he hated the look of the Enterprise model who was responsible for the VFX on most TOS movies.

Was he the moron who changed the name to SyFy from SciFi?

That’s about as dumb as rebranding Buy.com to Rakuten.

They couldn’t trademark SciFi, which was an established term in publishing and film. So they changed it to something they could trademark: SyFy.

Well, I boycotted that network for several years after that made that change – as a science fiction fan, I took it as an insult.

But then again, I have a lot of vitriol as we all know. ;-)

Yes you do. Constantly. All day, every day.

It must be exhausting knowing you in real life. Certainly makes me spend less time on this site.

Perhaps that’s a win-win for some of us if you need to personally attack someone instead of discussing Star Trek?

Moonvies didn’t personally like sf, but he liked successful shows and franchises. He’s the one, who against his better judgement, gave Coto and Enterprise one more season than it deserved. He’s also the one who not only approved and greenlighted DSC and the new Trek franchise, but stepped in and got things reorganized after the Brian Fuller moron mucked things up during DSC’s development.

He liked cheap shows. Veronica Mars was no more successful than Enterprise . Both were largely kept alive by cult followings. But Veronica Mars was cheap and Enterprise was expensive, hence Veronica Mars was retained and Enterprise was canceled. See also extremely cheap shows like America’s Next Top Model and whatever the Wrestling show was called. We see that even more today, with the sea of cheap “reality” shows having supplanted scripted shows all over the TV landscape.

That simply doesn’t compute with him bankrolling DSC and all the CSI shows. CBS was also the prestige broadcast network for years and many of the series were not “cheap”.

This sounds more like a fan excuse to explain away an uncomfortable cancellation.

Did he really bankroll DSC, or was that the influence of the Netflix partnership? Note that when Netflix support ended, DSC didn’t last much longer. Anyway, didn’t the entire CBS All Access Star Trek originals concept begin when Netflix approached CBS about restarting Enterprise production for them around 2011?

CSIs and NCISs are dirt cheap compared to Star Trek.

I think it was more the positive reaction and decent $ on the Trek 2009 movie than that highly doubtful report of Netflix looking at Enterprise — that seemed more like a wish and prayer thing that Doug Drexler fabricated.

Also, season costs of CSI Miami and DSC are roughly the same.

The only reason why Discovery wasn’t cancelled sooner was due to it’s partnership with Netflix. Netflix gave them a lot of money to run it. Once that ended it got cancelled the very next season.

Discovery is not a popular show. I bet more people watched Enterprise than that show.

And I would agree with that too. I think the Netflix deal really had a much bigger impact on that show overall.

And once it left Netflix the viewing abroad probably drindled to low numbers and P+ hasn’t exactly been wowing the world abroad with huge subscriptions.

Sadly there are probably more people outside of America just pirating the show now who was once paying for it legally through Netflix.

The vitriol in your posts is just so unnecessary. Why do you do it? It comes out of nowhere.

He seems to be someone who just likes arguing with people. He’s arguing about something that happened nearly 20 years ago.

There is really no point.

Please leave me alone.

I wasn’t talking to you. 🙄

I was weirdo.

I’m going to save you the trouble now. Don’t go down that hole lol.

You guys had your exchange, just move on now.

Yes you’re correct. Moving on now.

I wish there were more people like you here to talk to. 😊

I am easy to talk to… until someone pisses me off! 😉

These boards just need an ignore button. I know plenty would ignore me lol.

I’m sure me as well! 😁

I know you think I’m joking but I used to be very outspoken about my issues with Discovery during the first season. And there were a group of people who used to tell me weekly in a round about way to STFU already!

As you can see that worked wonders. And most of them either bailed or been banned since and it’s now just the same 27 people lol. It’s a lot more laid back these days and everyone is nice. :)

Haha funny! 😂

I’m very direct with what I say but I usually only talk to people who agrees with me like this thread. I don’t go out of my to disagree with others or tell people they are wrong. I don’t like silly arguments I’m not going to care about two minutes after I had it. So I just respond to either like minded people or people like you who is very open minded and like to have a real conversation. Less angry people I think haha.

Yeah we’re Star Trek fans, we are going to be very passionate over it. But as long as people are civil and can just disagree with others without making it personal then I have no issues with anyone.

And while this board has a ‘reputation’ most people are actually very friendly or civil compared to the old days. This thread for example has been fine and fun to debate in. If this conversation was ten years ago the moderators would’ve threatened a dozen people of being banned by now lol.

Same. I usually just enjoy talking to like minded people. I don’t mind talking to people who disagree with me of course just as long as they are not obsessed lunatics who gets triggered when someone says something they don’t like. I won’t go any farther than that. 😂

Please leave me alone

Moonvies didn’t personally like sf, but he liked successful shows and franchises. He’s the one, who against his better judgement, gave Coto and Enterprise one more season than it deserved. He’s also the one who not only approved and greenlighted DSC and the new Trek franchise, but stepped in and got things reorganized after the Brian Fuller moron mucked things up during DSC’s development.

Please point out my vitriol here that you were responding to?

Direct and hard hitting? Well, sure. Vitriolic? I just don’t see it?

What did Bryan Fuller do to you to deserve being called a stupid person with low IQ? Of all the ways you could have thought to bring him into the conversation, you decided the best way would be to call him a moron, and by way of propping up the disgraced Les Moonves of all people.

It’s hardly the first time. Based on nothing but a publicity photo, you labeled a cast member of the Wrath of Khan stage musical a bozo. What’s the point?

How direct, how hard-hitting.

Based on his actions and decisions during the development of DSC, watching the awful product and also hearing what went down on American Gods, then having issues and being booted off of The Vampire Chronicles, I think he’s vastly overated, and so I find his project work and actions as a professional showrunner since Pushing Daisies to be rather moronic.

And that dude in the Wrath of Khan stage musical looked more like a circus clown than Khan…I mean, that’s how the dude looked.

I guess I could be nicer and not use those words, but these are my honest opinions, and I would say this to their faces at a convention with a smile on may face, and they would be free to call me a spoiled a-hole fan, and then perhaps we’d all have a drink, with you possibly watching from a distance, all uptight and shocked. ;-)

PS: Moonvies is an a-hole misogynistic abuser of women in the workplace who deserved to get sacked — much worse than a moron or a bozo. But he’s not responsible for Enterprise being cancelled, and he greenlighted DSC and cleaned up Fuller’s mess.

Yes, I can really see Bryan Fuller of all people inviting you to a drink after you call him a moron. Rudeness excused as honesty is not my thing. If you think that makes me uptight, I won’t lose any sleep over it.

We get that you dislike ENT … Les Moonves was on record as disliking science fiction. Calling him gracious (even at this point, given what we know about him) is a stretch

He liked successful TV shows and franchises because they made money, increased shareholder value and increased the size of his TV empire — regardless of what his personal tastes were

How is that any different than many other people in business these days? I’m guessing there are some Execs at CBS and Fox who don’t enjoy watching NFL games…like, so what?

And the dude saved Discovery and I would argue was the single most important exec at CBS in founding this new franchise.

Of course he was a bad person and deserved to get sacked — don’t get me wrong on that account. But that’s a different discussion and topic

Except S4 of Enterprise is probably the best Season in the whole franchise since TOS season 1. How is a show with so many great episodes a “failure”??

It certainly was for me. NuTrek is just a bad imitation of Star Trek today. I don’t speak on the cartoons since I never seen them but The live action shows have been mostly bad.

Is anyone going to be talking about Discovery 20 years from now like people talk about Enterprise? I just don’t think so. But maybe I will be proven wrong.

A lot of NuTrek is certainly bad but I do think is improving. Will it ever be as good as the Berman era though? I doubt it but it’s OK in its own right for me at least.

I love the enthusiasm, even though I could not disagree more.

As hard as I am on Enterprise, I don’t begrudge anyone loving it at all.

Well some people simply disagree with that notion. I love Enterprise but I still think Prodigy is better and SNW is a tie basically for me. Also really enjoyed Picard season 3.

Ent improved greatly when Cotto joined in s3 and it became the show it should have been by s4

I believe it failed 100% because of the theme song. That was an indication right from the jump that things were going to be off

A little bit of advice – you may not want to book one of these cruises. Seven days of you running around screaming “YOU SUCK” at various cast and fans of shows you detest will likely get you thrown overboard.

The second I saw how many people responded to this thread I knew this was going to be a fun read and I wasn’t disappointed. 😂

Speaking of death knell, Connor Trinneer just put a statement out to say hes quit the Shuttlepod show and it wont continue in its current iteration

Wait really? That’s sad! I wonder what happened. Hope he is OK. I’m on DS9 with Delta Flyers myself currently.

That follows closely on the heels of Dominic Keating leaving the show. I wonder what’s going on. Seemed like they were ramping up with all sorts of new plans.

I wonder if its down to creative differences with that producer Mark who to be honest is a bit full of himself and I hate how competitive he gets for the quiz. At the moment they are setting up a new studio for the show

Certainly plausible. It was weird how the show didn’t officially announce Dominic leaving. And if the show isn’t really continuing (who would watch without Dom and Connor?), that studio will be a waste.

Hopefully they open up and discuss whats happened.

Like Dom, Connor will not be doing the live event that Shuttlepod was going to do in April

Season 5! 😂

Wow really?? I watch them all the time. I had no idea of any problems with it. We will probably hear more soon but very sad.

Just seen on Shuttlepods instagram they maybe rebranding as the chairty event in April is no longer called Shuttlepod Live but now called Treks and Trekkers Live

Oh thank you for the information. It’s disappointing but maybe they will come back in another show. But I don’t understand why they left the other one since they are basically the show. I guess that will be answered soon.

Did someone really thought of putting boy bands on Enterprise? 🙄

I never heard this before. How asinine can you be? Was JJ Abrams running UPN at the time or something?

I always loved the show and had the pleasure of meeting Conor Trinneer, Scott Bakula and John Billingsly. All wonderful and very giving people. I can’t say enough about Bakula.

I really wish Enterprise could’ve continued but a lot of people didn’t like it including a lot of my friends. It wasn’t perfect but it was the last great Star Trek until we got the superficial and melodrama schlock today with bad stories and one note characters. Now a lot of those same people like the show today and think the newer shows are even worse.

I think some took for granted what we had back then. But of course others thought those were bad too but I have no idea how this new stuff is considered better? Discovery and Picard are awful. SNW is a little bi but all it’s doing is copying what the old stuff did and usually for the worse.

Oops I meant SNW is a little better, not bi lol.

I believe the idea was that whatever hot band was making waves would play on a stage in the mess hall. Like the little venue Olivia Wilde’s character ran on The OC that somehow attracted the likes of The Killers to play their dinky town.

Shows you what the execs’ mindset was and the demographics they were gunning for. Also shows they didn’t really pay much attention to what the show was like or did, they were starting to write it off the more it didn’t fit into their lineup.

I remember one of the reasons Chekhov was created for TOS was because executives and Roddenberry wanted to appeal to younger people like me at the time and bands like Beetles and the Monkees were the rage then so they found an actor that resembled that look and even gave him a wig.

You really can’t make this stuff up lol. I’m sure everyone here knows this story so it’s not a new idea, TV and movie people come up with all kinds of ways to attract certain demographics.

But that was at least a reasonable way to do it and Chekhov became a popular character.

What they were proposing for Enterprise were just completely clueless executives who had no idea what Star Trek was as you said.It works on the OC for obvious reasons, the biggest that’s what that show was already geared to.

No wonder that network folded.

They so weren’t paying attention. They replaced Enterprise with a Britney Spear reality TV show that got cancelled like after a week.

To be fair, they are the same people that put the Rock on Voyager and that was OK.

A lot of eyes rolled about that, too.

Mine did too. But it didn’t take me out of the story. The story just was bad lol.

I didn’t really enjoy that episode though but it was OK. I agree.

The best they could manage for Enterprise was a guest star from “Girlfriends” in season 4.

I think he was there at the time cause both Voyager and WWE or WWF or whatever were on UPN at the time and it was a promotional stunt.

He was, and it created a ratings bump. But it does go to show how limited the crossover potential was for Star Trek and the rest of UPN’s hodgepodge lineup at any time.

It stands to reason that a decade of not finding any hits that dovetailed with the core Trek demographics would contribute to the decline of Voyager and then Enterprise. UPN was impatient, desperate, mismanaged (passing on “Malcolm in the Middle” but greenlighting crap like “Homeboys from Outer Space” and “Shasta McNasty,”) and kept changing its demographic focus every season, always either ignoring or failing to take advantage of the audience that was tuning into Voyager reliably. By the time Enterprise came around, it was basically abandoned.

I’m assuming you didn’t watch the ENT Blu-Ray docs when those seasons were released on Blu-Ray? It’s talked about. That and so much more were talked about.

I watched some of the blu ray clips and interviews on YouTube but don’t remember that at all.

Yes as others said it’s certainly true. And to this day I’m very curious what the execution would’ve been like? Were they going to just be some 22nd century boy band with real artists and playing more ‘classical music ‘? Or were they going to be more creative and have famous artists creating new music that would align the show and time period?

I’m guessing it would’ve been the former like Vic Fontaine on DS9 and just play contemporary songs.

Yeah it sounded like it would’ve been a disaster lol.

And while I agree with others the executives were clueless but end of the day their job is to keep the shows on the air. The ratings for the show was cratering and they were coming up with ideas to save it, as left field as it was. They didn’t want the show to get cancelled and they clearly knew how important a Star Trek show was, but it was clearly foreign to them.

And of course every show and movie gets these bizarre notes all the time. It just depends on the project and how much clout who is running it and can push back on it. And Berman had a lot of clout to just overrule certain things. And my guess is that was never a serious idea, just something an executive threw out as a suggestion and it was dropped once they said no.

Clueless executives at the time sadly. Enterprise didn’t have a hope in hell with the people running that network.

Okay I seriously hope there is video of The Crusher Family Comedy Hour. Gates McFadden is theatrical and hilarious, and I can only imagine what Wil Wheaton, Ed Speleers, and Todd Stashwick added to that. Please someone release video of this and the Spock’s Brain skit

Seconded. I’m so mad I couldn’t be there!

Yeah, we gotta see the Spock’s Brain skit!

Totally. It’s my new “NYE resolution” to make it to this next year!

Oh yeah that would be so much fun to see! I really hope it gets posted.

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The Chronological Star Trek Saga

Every series of Star Trek and all of the movies in rough Stardate order. This is the order I would recommend watching them in if you want to work your way through the entire saga. Be sure to only watch the specific seasons mentioned in my notes. For maximum enjoyment, I would recommend saving Enterprise series 1-4 and Discovery until last.

  • Movies or TV
  • IMDb Rating
  • In Theaters
  • Release Year

1. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.

Stars: Scott Bakula , John Billingsley , Jolene Blalock , Dominic Keating

Votes: 58,551

Season 1-4 in order.

2. Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien.

Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green , Doug Jones , Anthony Rapp , Emily Coutts

Votes: 131,937

3. Star Trek (1966–1969)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.

Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Nichelle Nichols

Votes: 92,008

Season 1-3 of the original series in order.

4. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The further adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise, as they explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.

Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , George Takei

Votes: 8,077

All 22 episodes of the short lived animated series.

5. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

G | 143 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan

Votes: 96,057 | Gross: $82.26M

The first movie.

6. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

PG | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan

Votes: 128,612 | Gross: $78.91M

The second movie.

7. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to recover Spock's body.

Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan

Votes: 85,738 | Gross: $76.47M

The third movie.

8. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Votes: 90,970 | Gross: $109.71M

The forth movie.

9. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

PG | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock's long-lost half-brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God at the center of the galaxy.

Director: William Shatner | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan

Votes: 63,871 | Gross: $52.21M

The fifth movie.

10. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.

Votes: 80,494 | Gross: $74.89M

The sixth movie.

11. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Set almost 100 years after Captain Kirk's 5-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers sets off in the U.S.S. Enterprise-D on its own mission to go where no one has gone before.

Stars: Patrick Stewart , Brent Spiner , Jonathan Frakes , LeVar Burton

Votes: 134,504

Season 1-6 in order.

12. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, the Federation space station Deep Space Nine guards the opening of a stable wormhole to the far side of the galaxy.

Stars: Avery Brooks , Rene Auberjonois , Cirroc Lofton , Alexander Siddig

Votes: 70,073

Season 1 only.

13. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)

Season 7 only.

14. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)

Season 2 & 3 only.

15. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is seventy-five years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.

Stars: Kate Mulgrew , Robert Beltran , Roxann Dawson , Robert Duncan McNeill

Votes: 76,609

16. Star Trek: Generations (1994)

PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

With the help of long presumed dead Captain Kirk, Captain Picard must stop a deranged scientist willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix.

Director: David Carson | Stars: Patrick Stewart , William Shatner , Malcolm McDowell , Jonathan Frakes

Votes: 86,653 | Gross: $75.67M

The seventh movie.

17. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)

Season 4 only.

18. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)

Season 2 only.

19. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)

Season 5 only.

20. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)

Season 3 only.

21. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart , Jonathan Frakes , Brent Spiner , LeVar Burton

Votes: 131,508 | Gross: $92.00M

The eighth movie.

22. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)

Season 6 only.

23. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)

24. star trek: deep space nine (1993–1999), 25. star trek: voyager (1995–2001), 26. star trek: insurrection (1998).

PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When the crew of the Enterprise learn of a Federation conspiracy against the inhabitants of a unique planet, Captain Picard begins an open rebellion.

Votes: 79,104 | Gross: $70.12M

The ninth movie.

27. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)

Season 6 & 7 only.

28. Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise is diverted to the Romulan homeworld Romulus, supposedly because they want to negotiate a peace treaty. Captain Picard and his crew discover a serious threat to the Federation once Praetor Shinzon plans to attack Earth.

Director: Stuart Baird | Stars: Patrick Stewart , Jonathan Frakes , Brent Spiner , LeVar Burton

Votes: 83,527 | Gross: $43.25M

The tenth movie.

29. Star Trek (2009)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine , Zachary Quinto , Simon Pegg , Leonard Nimoy

Votes: 618,537 | Gross: $257.73M

The eleventh movie but the first in the new timeline.

30. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.

Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine , Zachary Quinto , Zoe Saldana , Benedict Cumberbatch

Votes: 495,793 | Gross: $228.78M

The twelfth movie. Second in the new timeline.

31. Star Trek Beyond (2016)

PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test.

Director: Justin Lin | Stars: Chris Pine , Zachary Quinto , Karl Urban , Zoe Saldana

Votes: 257,334 | Gross: $158.85M

The thirteenth movie. Third in the new timeline.

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We're sad to report the passing of Canadian actor Kenneth Mitchell at the too-young age of 49. His death was confirmed in an X/Twitter post (made via the account previously belonging to Mitchell himself) which eulogized him. Mitchell is survived by his family, including his parents, his siblings, and his wife, fellow actor Susan Pratt, and their children Lilah and Kallum (a GoFundMe has been set up for Mitchell's family by friends).

Mitchell built up a wide TV resume during the 2000s and 2010s. He didn't have many starring roles, granted, but he was in the main cast of the cult classic post-apocalyptic series "Jericho." Mitchell kept racking up guest roles on every major procedural series under the sun: "NCIS," "Grey's Anatomy," "Criminal Minds," "Castle" — the list goes on.

In recent years, Mitchell became a name that science-fiction fans will recognize. He had a small role in "Captain Marvel," appearing in flashbacks as Joseph Danvers, the father of the film's hero Carol (Brie Larson). Something of a chauvinist, Joseph discourages his daughter's dream of being a pilot.

Mitchell had a bigger presence on "Star Trek: Discovery" where, like many "Star Trek" guest actors , he played multiple recurring roles in the same show (the alien makeup helped conceal this).

Acting with a disability

During "Star Trek: Discovery" season 1, Mitchell played a recurring role: namely, the Klingon villain Kol. It seems the crew liked working with Mitchell (he even got to voice some incidental characters in "Veritas," an episode of the animated series "Star Trek: Lower Decks" ). And although Kol met his demise in "Discovery" season 1's ninth episode, "Into the Forest I Go", Mitchell returned.

In season 2, Mitchell played two more Klingons: Kol's aged father, Kol-Sha, and the albino Klingon Tenavik (son of recurring characters Voq and L'Rell). In season 3, Mitchell played a different kind of character, one much truer to himself — and not just because there was no Klingon makeup. 

During the last five years of his life, Mitchell lived with the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He was diagnosed in 2018 but only made his condition public in 2020. By October 2019, he began to use a power wheelchair. So, in "Discovery" season 3 Mitchell began playing the character Aurellio, a human scientist who used a hover chair to retain mobility. Mitchell's last credited role, in the Jeff Bridges-led series "The Old Man," likewise had him play a disabled character. I don't want to turn Mitchell's life into a boilerplate inspirational story, but it is heartwarming how his colleagues collaborated to help him keep working while taking his condition into account. 

Actor Ethan Peck, who plays Spock in "Discovery" and "Strange New Worlds," wrote a moving tribute to Mitchell on his Instagram Stories: "Enjoy the stars, Ken. I'll see you out there someday. 'Star Trek' is lucky to have you forever."

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