All of Star Trek in canon order

[trekfan_1]

I'm planning to do a massive Star Trek rewatch soon in canon order. I believe I made a fairly accurate list order. I've made a couple of exceptions ( personal preference) . Also made some projections as to where unreleased Star Trek projects may place in the canon order once/if they're released. Obviously, this is a hardcore Trekkie"s list and I would probably select a different order if I was suggesting it to a non Star Trek fan whos wanting to get into the franchise.

Came up with this:

ENT
The Cage
Disco S1-2
SNW
TOS
TAS
TMP
TWOK
TSFS
TVH
TFF
TUC
TNG S1-5
TNG S6/DS9 S1
TNG S7/ DS9 S2
DS9 S3/ VGR S1 / GEN
DS9 S4 /VGR S2
DS9 S5 /FC/ VGR S3
DS9 S6 VGR S4
DS9 S7 VGR S5 / INS
VGR S6
VGR S7
NEM
Prodigy
Lower Decks

ST 2009 ( by virtue of Spock Prime flashback scenes re Romulan Supernova but movie could be omitted or watched out of order)

Picard
Disco S3-5
Starfleet Academy (if it happens)

TBD: Section 31 ( if it happens)

Exceptions: Technically the first part of GEN should be viewed after TUC but I'm not splitting a movie acoss 75 years. So counting it as TNG timeline. Same goes with FC, TVH or any movie or tv show involving time travel. Short Treks not bothering to stay true to canon order. I could, but that would be overdoing for me. Not attempting "stardate" order either.

No particular order or could be omitted - Into Darkness, Beyond ( zero percent of it takes place in Prime Timeline)

I'm fairly certain I probably have made a significant mistake or 2 and / or fellow trekkies may have different interpretations to the chronology . Wouldn't mind feedback on corrections or hearing other views of proper rewatch chronology.

I think many would probably prefer a less rigid order ( something like ENT, Disco, SNW, TOS/ TAS,/TOS movies , TNG / TNG movies, DS9 ,VGR Prodigy, , LD , Picard). Thats probably the order I would suggest to someone wanting to watch canon order with being new to Trek.

 

[drt]

Off the top of my head GEN should be be before VOYs1, and I guess FC somewhere in the middle of DS9s5 since the uniforms change mid season.

I believe Prodigy is after LD.

 

[NCC-73515]

Begin with the big bang scene from the VOY Q episode.
Next is the beginning of life on earth scene from TNG AGT.

 

[Tosk]

Personally, I keep all eps where they go based on the wraparound. (ie: time travel stuff is 'set' whenever the start/end is.)
So that said, you gotta move VOY's Living Witness to after Picard and before Disco season three.

 

[NCC-73515]

So you wouldn't put the J scene in ENT between PIC and Living Witness?

 

[Unimatrix Q]

If you consider the Temporal (Cold) War(s) or generally time travel as reason for most of the retcons that happened over the decades, like I do, the production order is the canon order

 

[JesterFace]

If I were to go through everything Trek has done I think I might go in the order everything was made in.

 

[The Wormhole]

I guess FC somewhere in the middle of DS9s5 since the uniforms change mid season.

First Contact should be before In Purgatory's Shadow since there is a direct reference to the movie in that episode.

I believe Prodigy is after LD.

Correct.

 

[herofhyrule]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline#Trek_timeline
Memory Alpha has a timeline page that inserts the Short Treks into the appropriate places where an exact date is known. Otherwise, they provide a range of possible dates.

 

[Paul755]

all that looks right to me except I think LD is either before Prodigy or parallel to it.

 

[matthunter]

all that looks right to me except I think LD is either before Prodigy or parallel to it.

Before it. Prodigy starts in 2383 and LDS in 2380. And LDS seasons are not full years.

 

[Lord Garth]

There are too many hundreds of hours of Star Trek to make this feasible for me to do in reality, but in the abstract, my viewing order for re-watching Star Trek going forward would be: TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, PIC, DSC.

No interest in re-watching ENT, SNW, or LD. I could go either way on TAS or PRO. Alternating between TNG & DS9 and DS9 & VOY when they were overlapping would drive me nuts. I'd rather just watch each series straight through, if I were doing it this way.

 

[Tuskin38]

Before it. Prodigy starts in 2383 and LDS in 2380. And LDS seasons are not full years.

Yeah. LDS seasons are half-years because they're almost half the length of a regular TNG season.

 

[herofhyrule]

Around quarter the length if you factor in that its episodes are also half as long.

 

[1001001]

Around quarter the length if you factor in that its episodes are also half as long.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

If I were to go through everything Trek has done I think I might go in the order everything was made in.

The one time I did it, that's what I did.

Actually not exactly. I didn't split shows and watch parts of DS9/TNG concurrently for example and I watched the movies in order.

I divided into blocks:

TOS
TOS Movies
TNG
TNG movies
DS9
VOY
ENT

I missed TAS because it hadn't come out on DVD at the time.

Maybe not the right way to do it, but I liked going through everything with a particular cast and then moving on to the next 'block'.

Great days. Took me and the Ex 5 years to do it.

 

[JesterFace]

Maybe not the right way to do it, but I liked going through everything with a particular cast and then moving on to the next 'block'.

Perhaps the right way is to watch the series in the order you want to.
That could be the order it's official or the order you made yourself, there is no only one way to do it.