Useless Question: How do you group Star Trek?

[E-DUB]

Pretty simple for me. There are four groups.

The TOS era, which includes the TOS movies and TAS.

The TNG era, which includes everything from TNG through ENTERPRISE, including the TNG movies.

The Kelvin films, which are their own thing.

The modern streaming era: DISCO, PICARD, SNW, LOWER DECKS, PRODIGY, etc.

Pretty much the same for me. Except I say early, middle and recent.

 

[Annorax849]

I didn't notice this thread earlier. For me, the most basic way is to group it into three generations. The third generation starting with the 2009 movie. The second gen basically starts with TNG, but there's kind of an issue of where to put the movies.

You can also group into different "approaches" or you could also call it eras. I'd divide it:
Early Gene: TOS, TAS
Late Gene: TMP, first two seasons of TNG
Bennett: Movies 2-6
Berman: Everything (besides the last two TOS movies) from 1989-2004
Coto: Enterprise season 4 (different enough and independent from Berman enough to be it's own thing imo)
Abrams
Kurtzman

You could divide those further. Kurtzman into a bunch of different types; Berman into the more Episodic vs. semi-Serialized (ENT 3 and DS9 2-7)