Star Trek Viewing Order List

[Tiberius]

And there was a least one attempt by a fan to do that starting a few decades ago. What was his name? Anyway, he was very, very, committed to what he called the "Star Trek Technical Fandom Chronlogy".

He was a fanatic about his chosen chrology but had a lot of knowledge about Star trek Chorolology.

As for me I would be content to make a chronology which statisfies all the data in the various Star Trek productions without any inconisistencies - if possible - and let other people try to work out how the other Memory Beta type stuff fits into the chronology deduced form the peisodes and movies..

I honestly don't think it would be possible to have a single chronology that covers everything, including novels and comics. There are way to many contradictions.

 

[Tiberius]

If "Skin of Evil" and "Arsenal of Freedom" happen n alternate universes, Tasha can still be alive in "Arsenal of Freedom" because she was never killed. Pesumably all of the episodes after those two, epiodes where Tasha is not seen, could be sequels to "Skin of Evil" or happen alternate universes where Tasha was never on the Enterprise D.

You should also consider the possbility that stardate units might not have fixed relation to palnetary time periods. Possibly the number of Earth hours in a stardate could increase or decrease over periods of time. And maybe sometimes stardate numbers could decrease over time instead of always increasing.

It is possible that a stardate might correlate to the strength of a factor which influences how rapid warp travel is.

Thus it is possible that as stardates increase, the speeds of various warp factors will increase, and the travel times decreease. Or possibly as stardates increase, the speeeds of varius warp factors will decrease, and the travel times will increase.

Either way,knowng the stardate would indicated how much the basic warp factor would have to b emulitplied or divided to get the actual travel speed and trave time.

And possibly the strength of the unknown factor which influences the speed of warp travel would vary over time according to a complex wave pattern, so that if someone knew the formula for that wave funciton they could calculate past and future occurances of that strength of the unknown factor, and thus when the stardate corresponding to that would occur in thepast and in the future.

That's way too complicated a way to explain it, and if someone is just getting into Trek, it will leave them thoroughly confused.

 

[Kai-Winn Scenario]

For ToS, TAS, TNG, DS9, & VOY, there are several possible episode orders. Not listed in any particular order.

one) Airdate order.

two) Production order.

three) Stardate order for episodes with stardates.

four) By season order, and within each season by stardate order.

five) Stardate order, and production order for episodes without stardates.

six) Stardate order, and airdate order for episodes wtthout stardates.

seven) Season order, and within each season by stardate order, and production order for episodes without stardates.

eight) Season order, and within each season by stardate order, and airdate order for episodes wtthout stardates.

nine) By official episode number.

I note that each episode will have about one to two dozen stages of preproduciton, production, and postproduciton. Productio order usually means the order of what studios call production, filming scenes with actors, costuems, & props in sets or outdoors.. Theoretically some fans could order episodes by various stages of the production process, though not all episodes will have the same set of stages - numbers of script rewrites vary considerably, for example.

Then there are some goofy ways of ordering those episodes like:

Alphabetical order.

Reverse alphabetical order.

From best to worst (in one's opinion) episodes.

From worst to best (in one's opinion) episodes.

Reverse Stardate order.

Reverse airdate order.

reverse produciton order.

Etc.

Then there is the "Ephraim and Dot" order, which is no logical order at all. The Short Treks episode "Ephraim and Dot" shows scenes from several TOS episodes and movies that are not in any logical order that I can think of. In any ficitional universe where "Ephraim and Dot" is in the same canon as TOS and the TOS movies, the episodes and movies seen in "Ephraim and Dot" have to happen in their relative order seen in "Ephraim and Dot". Adn that means that all other TOS & TAS episodes can happen in any order without any apaprent logic or reason to it

Or possibly someone can think of a way to have the scenes in "Ephraim and Dot" happen in a different order than they are show in that epsiode. Which a lot of StarTrek Chronologists would like. But even if that is achieved, it will always seem possible that maybe there is no logical order to StarTrek episodes and moveis.

I think that I list more reasonable orders and unreasonable orders in this post than I have done in any earlier post. But I wonder if I have forgotten some orders which I have suggested earlier.

And of course I have suggested that most episodes of a Star Trek, or othe rlong lasting tv series, happen in alternate universes to all or almost all the other episodes. Of course putting the episodes in alternate universes will have little effect on theories of their relative dates.

Order by ascending airdate but sorting on month first, then date, then year. So first is The Defector (MM/DD/YYYY 01/01/1990), then Homefront (01/01/1996), then Rivals (01/02/1994), then Whom Gods Destroy (01/03/1969), and so forth.

 

[dupersuper]

I honestly don't think it would be possible to have a single chronology that covers everything, including novels and comics. There are way to many contradictions.

My list has little corrections noted ("Klingon heads bumpy" or "light years from Earth corrected)" or some such).

 

[brandnewfan]

I know none of us here know, but I'm already wondering how the upcoming SNW/Lower Decks crossover is going to fit into the viewing order list, since they take place in entirely different eras!!

 

[Tiberius]

I've updated the list (link in the first post) to include the first two episodes of Lower Decks Season 3. I'll add in more episode names as I find them.