This page has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of this website (which is about “Concordant” theology). I just happen to also be a big fan of Star Trek and needed a place to post my recommended viewing order list of the TV series and movies which I created for new viewers of the series. If you aren’t into Star Trek, please feel free to ignore this and read other parts of this site. If you are newly into Star Trek, however, and want to watch every episode and film but don’t know where to start, here’s what I consider to be the best viewing order (the legend of series names is at the end of the post):
TOS Pilot (First Pilot called The Cage)
TOS S1E3 (Second Pilot, called Where No Man Has Gone Before. Watch before rest of TOS)
TOS S1E1-2 The Man Trap to Charlie X
TOS S1E4-S3E24 The Naked Time to Turnabout Intruder (series finale)
TAS S1-2 Beyond the Farthest Star to The Counter-Clock Incident (series finale)
Star Trek 1: The Motion Picture to Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country
TNG S1E1-S6E11 Encounter at Farpoint part 1 to Chain of Command part 2
DS9 S1E1-4 Emissary part 1 to A Man Alone
TNG S6E12-15 Ship in a Bottle to Tapestry
DS9 S1E5-8 Babel to Dax
TNG S6E16-S7E1 Birthright part 1 to Descent part 2
DS9 S1E9-20 The Passenger to In the Hands of the Prophets
TNG S7E2-13 Liaisons to Homeward
DS9 S2E1-12 The Homecoming to The Alternate
TNG S7E14-20 Sub Rosa to Journey’s End
DS9 S2E13-21 Armageddon Game to The Maquis part 2
TNG S7E21-26 Firstborn to All Good Things part 2 (series finale)
DS9 S2E22-S3E8 The Wire to Meridian
Star Trek 7: Generations
DS9 S3E9-12 Defiant to Past Tense part 2
VOY S1E1-16 Caretaker part 1 to Learning Curve
DS9 S3E13-26 Life Support to The Adversary
VOY S2E1-12 The 37s to Resistance
DS9 S4E1-10 The Way of the Warrior part 1 to Our Man Bashir
VOY S2E13-S3E1 Prototype to Basics part 2
DS9 S4E11-26 Homefront to Broken Link
VOY S3E2-16 Flashback to Blood Fever
DS9 S5E1-13 Apocalypse Rising to For the Uniform
Star Trek 8: First Contact
VOY S3E17-S4E2 Unity to The Gift
DS9 S5E14-26 In Purgatory’s Shadow to Call to Arms
VOY S4E3-9 Day of Honor to Year of Hell part 2
DS9 S6E1-11 A Time to Stand to Waltz
VOY S4E10-26 Random Thoughts to Hope and Fear
DS9 S6E12-S7E9 Who Mourns for Morn? to Covenant
VOY S5E1-9 Night to Thirty Days
Star Trek 9: Insurrection
DS9 S7E10-26 It’s Only a Paper Moon to What You Leave Behind (series finale)
VOY S5E10-S7E26 Counterpoint to Endgame part 2 (series finale)
Star Trek 10: Nemesis
ENT S1-4 Broken Bow part 1 to These Are the Voyages… (series finale)
Star Trek (2009 reboot movie set mostly in the Kelvin timeline)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2nd reboot movie)
Star Trek Beyond (3rd reboot movie)
DIS S1E1-15 The Vulcan Hello to Will You Take My Hand?
ST S1E1-4 Runaway to The Escape Artist
DIS S2E1-14 Brother to Such Sweet Sorrow part 2
ST S2E1-6 Q&A to Children of Mars
PIC S1E1-10 Remembrance to Et in Arcadia Ego part 2
DIS S3E1-13 That Hope Is You part 1 to That Hope Is You part 2
LD S1E1-S2E10 Second Contact to First First Contact
PRO S1E1-S1E20 Lost & Found to (currently untitled)
DIS S4E1-13 Kobayashi Maru to (currently untitled)
Legend:
TOS: The Original Series (set in the 23rd century)
TAS: The Animated Series (begins immediately after TOS)
TNG: The Next Generation (begins approximately 70 years after The Undiscovered Country)
DS9: Deep Space Nine
VOY: Voyager
ENT: Enterprise (begins about 100 years before TOS)
DIS: Discovery (set in the Prime timeline again, beginning a couple years after the first TOS Pilot: The Cage, and about 10 years before the rest of TOS S1)
ST: Short Treks
PIC: Picard (begins about 20 years after Nemesis)
LD: Lower Decks (begins very shortly after Nemesis)
PRO: Prodigy (begins a few years after the beginning of Lower Decks)
SNW: Strange New Worlds (upcoming series, presumably set shortly after Discovery season 2)
S31: Section 31 (upcoming series, presumably also set sometime after Discovery season 2)
In case the series in the above legend which haven’t actually begun yet don’t make it obvious, I plan to keep this list up to date, so bookmark this page if you want to see the new episodes added in the future as they air.