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What is the chronological order for the Star Trek series?


A while back, my dad got a couple volumes of Star Trek Voyager. Out of the entire series he's only seen some of Next Generation and the Star Trek: First Contact, so he never knew about Voyager. During his holiday break he walked into my room while I was on the computer, he does this on occasion when he passes my room, after having to explain why Sono Hanabira has only girls kissing girls he noticed that on my TV, Star Trek Deep Space 9 was on (it had been on for the entire time).


He said he hasn't "seen these Voyager episodes before" so i had to correct him. He then asked me when it occurs in relevance to Star Trek Voyager. Since I'm not entirely into Star Trek and I only had the TV on as ambiance for my room, I couldn't answer. I know now that now he knows of yet another Star Trek series, he'll be wanting me to find sources for him to buy DVDs/VHSs from.


Because he'd rather watch a series or franchise in its chronological order, I think it would be better if I started sourcing the DVDs/VHSs chronologically. However, since I'm not entirely into the series i have no idea the chronological order for the entire franchise apart from that Star Trek (2009) is a new continuity and Into Darkness follows after it.


So I am wondering, what is the chronological order for the Star Trek franchise. I am mainly just looking at the Movies and TV Series.



Answer




Notes:




  • Because of the (over)abundance of time travel in the franchise, the "chronological" order is actually completely jumbled up. E.g. some episodes/movies are set in far future or far past for a part or nearly entirety of the episode. I will be omitting those from the first part of the answer..




  • The question is very extensively answered in a very good Wikipedia article - the answer below is merely a useful distillation.




Trek Timeline




In large strokes:




  1. 2151 to 2155: Star Trek: Enterprise (ST:ENT)


    Finale is set in 2161.




  2. 2233 to 2258: 2009 Star Trek reboot film (Alternate universe)





  3. 2259 to 2260: Star Trek Into the Darkness (Alternate universe)




  4. 2254 to 2269: Star Trek: The Original Series (ST: TOS).


    Individual per-season in universe years can be found on the Wiki




  5. 2269 to 2270: Star Trek: Animated Series (ST: TAS)





  6. 2273 to 2273: Star Trek the Motion Picture




  7. 2285 to 2293 Star Trek movies #2-6


    The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country; in that order.


    In-universe years on the Wiki.




  8. 2293 to 2371: Star Trek: Generations starts



    Movie prologue is before ST: TNG starts; the end of the movie happens after ST: TNG ends.




  9. 2364 to 2370: Star Trek: The Next Generation (ST:TNG)




  10. 2371 to 2371: Star Trek: Generations (bulk of the movie except prologue)




  11. 2373 to 2373: First Contact





  12. 2375 to 2375: Insurrection




  13. 2369 to 2375: Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (ST: DS9)



    • Partially overlaps with TNG, Generations and 2 TNG movies

    • Season 1 is same time as TNG season 6

    • Season 3 follows the end of TNG





  14. 2371 to 2378: ST: Voyager



    • Partially overlaps with DS9, Generations and 2 TNG movies.

    • Season 1 starts the year after TNG ends and same year as DS9 season 3

    • Season 5 follows the end of DS9.





  15. 2379 to 2379: Nemesis




  16. 2387 to 2387: 2009 ST reboot - before time travel backwards to 2233.





Individual episodes, as mentioned above, featured time travel to vaious past and future dates. Full list on the Wiki, but some random ones:




  • 3.5 Billion years ago (TNG)

  • 2840 BC (TOS)

  • 1893 (TNG)

  • 1930 (TOS)

  • 1986: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

  • 2063: First Contact Cochrane timeline.

  • 31st Century (ENT)


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