Star Trek: A Viewing Order

There’s a lot of Star Trek out there and it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Here’s my recommended order to view them all.

A couple of years ago, Sarah and I watched the entirety of Star Trek from beginning to end (or the end as it was then). I posted about her reactions to it, but what I didn’t do was post the order that we watched them all in. More recently, we watched Babylon 5 and I had to search the internet for a viewing order to integrate the TV movies and Crusade. I was reminded that I had written an order to show Star Trek to Sarah and now here it is. Well almost, we actually watched the first Abrams film first to test the water.

This isn’t a strict broadcast order list, because that would mean alternating back and forth throughout the run of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in a way that I thought would make it difficult for any series to build momentum. Instead, for periods when more than one series was on air at the same time we watched in batches as detailed below to maintain an overview of both shows.

Star Trek
Seasons One to Three
The Man Trap to Turnabout Intruder

Don’t start with The Cage or Where No Man Has Gone Before, because no one in 1966 did. Watch all seventy-nine episodes of the original series in broadcast order, beginning with The Man…