Star Trek - Chronological Watchlist - Essential Episodes & Movies
A guide to the best and most important Star Trek episodes and movies in chronological order following the timeline of The Star Trek Chronology Project. This list follows all the major plot lines, but also features great character focused episodes, some episodes noteworthy for context and coherency and a few lighthearted episodes for a full Star Trek experience.
Essential episodes lists of seperate series:
Enterprise https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058840097
The Original Series https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070069775
The Animated Series https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070094671
The Next Generation https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070097838
Deep Space Nine https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070701731
Voyager https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058985045
Essential episodes lists of seperate series:
Enterprise https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058840097
The Original Series https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070069775
The Animated Series https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070094671
The Next Generation https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070097838
Deep Space Nine https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070701731
Voyager https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058985045
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- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockIn the mid-22nd century, the Earth ship Enterprise is launched under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. When the crew rescues an alien from a crashed spaceship, Earth gets its first look at the alien's race - the Klingons. Archer and his crew must walk a fine line as they attempt to communicate with the Klingon pilot, whose language is completely unknown, and whose homeworld wants him back. Is this the beginning of friendship...or interstellar war?
- DirectorRoxann DawsonStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockArcher, Trip and T'Pol are captured by the Andorians at a Vulcan monastery on P'Jem. They believe that the monastery is being used to spy on Andoria.
- DirectorRobert Duncan McNeillStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockEnterprise has a group of aliens watching a stellar phenomenon on board. When the ship is miraculously saved from blowing up, crewman Daniels has an important message for Archer.
- DirectorJames A. ContnerStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockPhlox is asked to save the Valakians from annihilation by disease. However, he discovers something unusual about the Menk, another humanoid race on the planet.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockEnterprise tries to rescue a Klingon ship from sinking into a gas giant.
- DirectorMichael VejarStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockT'Pol is being recalled because of Enterprise's involvement in the destruction of the P'Jem sanctuary. She and Captain Archer are later kidnapped while visiting the planet Coridan.
- DirectorRob HeddenStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockWhen Enterprise encounters a ship of Vulcan pilgrims, T'Pol is convinced by one of them to perform a Vulcan mind meld.
- DirectorJames Whitmore Jr.StarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockAlmost the entire crew is left unconscious when four Ferengi pirates raid Enterprise. A still conscious Trip is the only one who can get rid of them.
- DirectorDavid LivingstonStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockArcher and Mayweather are captured by the Tandarans and placed in a Suliban internment camp.
- DirectorPatrick R. NorrisStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockEnterprise is planning a trip to the relaxation planet Risa, when it gets an urgent request from the Vulcan High Command. They must pick up ambassador V'Lar who has fallen in disgrace. Apparently she misused her position during negotiations on the planet Mazar and has been evicted. After Enterprise picked up V'Lar and is on its way for a meeting with the Vulcan warship Sh'Ran, suddenly a Mazarite ship appears. They want V'Lar for further interrogating. When captain Archer wants to discuss it first with Starfleet Command, they open fire.
- DirectorAllan KroekerStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockEnterprise discovers a mining colony of the Paraagans. The crew gets an invitation for a meeting on the surface and a shuttle pod tries to break through the atmosphere. All of a sudden just under the shuttle a giant explosion begins and scorches the earth beneath. All 3600 colonists are reported dead. After examination, Enterprise finds out plasma leaking from the pod's vents ignited tetrazine in the atmosphere. Lieutenant Reed, however, ensures he closed the plasma vents before the shuttle went of. After conversations with admiral Forrest of Starfleet Command, Captain Archer learns that Enterprise's mission is canceled and they must return home, not to return to space for another ten or twenty years. When the ship has altered course, crewman Daniels, a time traveler, pays a visit to captain Archer.
- DirectorAllan KroekerStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockCaptain Archer and temporal agent Daniels have been stranded in the 31st century. In a library they investigate the damage to the time line and try to find way a to get Archer back in his own century. Meanwhile Silik the Suliban leader is trying his utmost to find the whereabouts of Archer and he is willing to go far for the answer. But the crew of Enterprise has plans of their own. Trip finds a way to use the com system and is able to speak with Reed. Together they try to contact other crew members and make plans to purge Enterprise of the Sulibans.
- DirectorJames A. ContnerStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockThe safety of Enterprise rests on Reed's shoulders when the ship becomes trapped in a Romulan minefield and Romulan ships are closing in on them.
- DirectorRoxann DawsonStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockEnterprise seeks repairs from their encounters with the Romulans, where they stop at a desolate but idyllic repair station. But all is not what it seems when Mayweather is suddenly found dead.
- DirectorMichael VejarStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockAfter receiving a warning about a radioactive storm approaching Enterprise, the crew is forced to take shelter in the ship's catwalk.
- DirectorDavid LivingstonStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockT'Pol is diagnosed with a possibly fatal neurological disease as a result of a mind meld. Meanwhile, one of Phlox's wives visits Enterprise and becomes very interested in Trip.
- DirectorDavid StraitonStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockCaptain Archer is asked to negotiate between the Andorians and Vulcans who are fighting over a small planet.
- DirectorJames Whitmore Jr.StarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockEnterprise discovers a pod with the body of a human that seems to be wanted by both Sulibans and Tholians.
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockAfter Enterprise lends aid to a group of accused rebels, Captain Archer faces a tribunal and charges of conspiring against the Klingon Empire.
- DirectorLeVar BurtonStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockEnterprise encounters a hyper-giant star. While there, they make first contact with the Vissians, a technologically sophisticated race with three genders. While making quick friends, and eagerly learning about the advanced technology, Trip gets curious about the Vissians third gender, known as the Cogenitor, who is crucial in the Vissian reproductive process. Against the wishes of the Vissians, Trip befriends the Cogenitor and encourages it to defy its cultural boundaries, which the Vissians are made aware of, and are angered by.
- DirectorDavid LivingstonStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockAn Arctic research team makes a startling find: cybernetic creatures - Borg - buried in the ice. When the revived aliens seize control of a spacecraft, it's up to Archer to keep them from contacting the Collective and threatening Earth.
- DirectorRoxann DawsonStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockAfter exploring an uninhabited planet, Captain Archer is taken prisoner by a Tellarite bounty hunter who was hired by the Klingons to return Archer to Qo'noS.
- DirectorAllan KroekerStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockAn alien probe launches a devastating attack on Earth. Archer, still being hunted by the Klingons, brings the Enterprise back home to investigate.
- DirectorAllan KroekerStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockEnterprise has been in the Delphic Expanse for six weeks and have yet to get any intel about the Xindi. Strange anomalies affect the ship, sending cargo flying violently through the bays, pockets of atmosphere losing gravity and other incidents defying the known laws of physics. T'Pol helps Trip's insomnia with an intimate Vulcan therapy. Archer and Trip find another race of Xindi imprisoned in a mine.
- DirectorDavid StraitonStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockAfter an attack by Osaarian pirates, Enterprise follows them to a mysterious sphere.