The annex · Dossier 01
Star Trek, in order.
Every series and film, sequenced by in-universe timeline. This is the order the universe happened, not the order it aired, and it is the order I am watching it.
Keeper’s mark · Discovery S02 E09
Entries marked new joined the file since this dossier was first opened in 2024.
01
Star Trek: Enterprise
Logged
S1 · 26 ep
S2 · 26 ep
S3 · 24 ep
S4 · 22 ep
- Timeline
- 2151 to 2155
- Captain
- Jonathan Archer
- Ship
- NX-01 Enterprise
- Unique fact
- Explores the early days of space exploration and the foundation of the United Federation of Planets.
02
Star Trek: Discovery, Seasons 1 and 2
In progress
S1 · 15 ep
S2 · Keeper’s mark at E09
- Timeline
- 2256 to 2258
- Captains
- Gabriel Lorca, then Christopher Pike
- Ship
- USS Discovery (NCC-1031)
- Unique fact
- The spore drive jumps the ship across the galaxy instantly, a technology found nowhere else in the fleet.
03
Star Trek: Strange New WorldsNew to the file
Queued
S1 · 10 ep
S2 · 10 ep
S3 · 10 ep
- Timeline
- 2259 onward
- Captain
- Christopher Pike
- Ship
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
- Unique fact
- Season three arrived in 2025, continuing the direct bridge between Discovery and the original five-year mission.
04
Star Trek: The Original Series
Queued
S1 · 29 ep
S2 · 26 ep
S3 · 24 ep
- Timeline
- 2265 to 2269
- Captain
- James T. Kirk
- Ship
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
- Unique fact
- Where it all began in 1966: the five-year mission that invented the franchise and half of science fiction television.
05
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Queued
S1 · 16 ep
S2 · 6 ep
- Timeline
- 2269 to 2270
- Captain
- James T. Kirk
- Ship
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
- Unique fact
- The original cast returned to voice the continuation of the five-year mission in animation.
06
The Original Series Films
Queued
I · 1979
II · 1982
III · 1984
IV · 1986
V · 1989
VI · 1991
- Timeline
- 2273 to 2293
- Captain
- James T. Kirk
- Ships
- USS Enterprise NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A
- Unique fact
- Six films that carried the original crew from The Motion Picture to The Undiscovered Country.
07
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Queued
S1 · 26 ep
S2 · 22 ep
S3 · 26 ep
S4 · 26 ep
S5 · 26 ep
S6 · 26 ep
S7 · 26 ep
- Timeline
- 2364 to 2370
- Captain
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Ship
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)
- Unique fact
- Introduced the holodeck, a virtual reality system for leisure and training that became a staple of every series after it.
08
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Queued
S1 · 20 ep
S2 · 26 ep
S3 · 26 ep
S4 · 26 ep
S5 · 26 ep
S6 · 26 ep
S7 · 26 ep
- Timeline
- 2369 to 2375
- Commander
- Benjamin Sisko
- Station
- Deep Space 9, with the USS Defiant
- Unique fact
- The first Trek set on a station instead of a starship, and the first to tell one long serialized war story.
09
Star Trek: Voyager
Queued
S1 · 16 ep
S2 · 26 ep
S3 · 26 ep
S4 · 26 ep
S5 · 26 ep
S6 · 26 ep
S7 · 26 ep
- Timeline
- 2371 to 2378
- Captain
- Kathryn Janeway
- Ship
- USS Voyager (NCC-74656)
- Unique fact
- Stranded seventy thousand light-years from home, Voyager turns the whole series into one long journey back.
10
The Next Generation Films
Queued
Generations · 2371
First Contact · 2373
Insurrection · 2375
Nemesis · 2379
- Timeline
- 2371 to 2379
- Captain
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Ship
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)
- Unique fact
- First Contact shows the single most important day in Federation history: the moment Vulcans notice Earth.
11
Star Trek: Lower DecksNew to the file
Queued
S1 · 10 ep
S2 · 10 ep
S3 · 10 ep
S4 · 10 ep
S5 · 10 ep
- Timeline
- 2380 to 2381
- Captain
- Carol Freeman
- Ship
- USS Cerritos (NCC-75567)
- Unique fact
- Trek from the bottom of the org chart: the ensigns who do the work nobody writes captain’s logs about. The fifth and final season landed in 2024.
12
Star Trek: ProdigyNew to the file
Queued
S1 · 20 ep
S2 · 20 ep
- Timeline
- 2383 onward
- Guide
- Hologram Janeway
- Ship
- USS Protostar
- Unique fact
- A crew of escaped kids teaches itself Starfleet from scratch. Season two arrived in 2024.
13
Star Trek: Section 31New to the file
Queued
Film · 2025
- Timeline
- Early 24th century
- Lead
- Philippa Georgiou
- Outfit
- Section 31
- Unique fact
- The franchise’s first streaming film, following the former Terran Emperor into Starfleet’s shadow branch.
14
Star Trek: Picard
Queued
S1 · 10 ep
S2 · 10 ep
S3 · 10 ep
- Timeline
- 2399 to 2402
- Lead
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Ships
- La Sirena, USS Titan-A, Enterprise-D
- Unique fact
- Season three reunites the entire Next Generation crew for one last mission.
15
Star Trek: Discovery, Seasons 3 to 5New to the file
Queued
S3 · 13 ep
S4 · 13 ep
S5 · 10 ep
- Timeline
- 3188 onward
- Captain
- Michael Burnham
- Ship
- USS Discovery (NCC-1031-A)
- Unique fact
- The ship jumps nine hundred years past everything else in the franchise; the final season closed the story in 2024.
16
The Kelvin Timeline Films
Queued
Star Trek · 2009
Into Darkness · 2013
Beyond · 2016
- Timeline
- 2258 to 2263, alternate reality
- Captain
- James T. Kirk
- Ship
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
- Unique fact
- A time incursion in 2233 split reality; these films run parallel to the Prime timeline and can be watched as an appendix.