Ok, I've been a big Star Trek fan all of my life, but, like most of my DVDs, my near complete ST DVD collection is largely unwatched.

One of my sillier 2007 New Year Resolutions will be to watch all of ST, from start to finish.

Anyone think I should watch Enterprise before TOS?

And I imagine it will ok to watch TAS after TOS, or would it better to intermix some episodes?

I guess I could go in stardate order....but I'm not quite that ocd....probably...

I would watch:

Enterprise
TOS
TAS
Star Trek I-VI
TNG 1-5
DS9 (whenever it started, it was mid-season)1
TNG 6
DS9 2
TNG 7
Generations
DS9 3-7
First Contact (or you could watch this in-timeline, I don't remember when it is though)
Insurrection
Nemesis
Voyager (also could be in order, starts near the end of DS9, but it's not related at all).

I thought the reason why Voyager got lost in space was because it's crew was pursuing rebels who were fighting a Cardassian occupation or something in DS9.

I don't really recall. I only got as far as the Voyager pilot and DS9 wasn't my cup of tea.

Ya, the Maquis were the reason Voyager was travelling to the Badlands when it got swept away, but essentially, this is the only relevant part of the DS9/VOY timeline.

Upon further investigation it looks like Voyager Season 1 took place during the beginning of Deep Space Nine Season 3 (essentially, right after TNG ended)

wow! good luck on your adventure,I thought my 2007 new years resolution of watching all 9 seasons of X-FILES in order was a task. lol.

My recommendation:

STAR TREK (the order the episodes were made)
STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES (the order the episodes were made)
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURES 1-6
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (the order the episodes were broadcast; start flip-flopping episodes with DS9 after sixth season two-part episode "Chain of Command")
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (the order the episodes were broadcast; start flip-flopping episodes with VOYAGER after third season two-part episode "Past Tense")
STAR TREK: GENERATIONS (after third season DS9 episode "Meridian")
STAR TREK: VOYAGER (the order the episodes were broadcast)
STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT (after fifth season DS9 episode "Things Past" and third season VOYAGER episode "Warlord")
STAR TREK: INSURRECTION (after seventh season DS9 episode "Covenant" and fifth season VOYAGER episode "Thirty Days")
STAR TREK: NEMESIS (after concluding VOYAGER)
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (the order the episodes were broadcast)

Once you add the movies in there, you're talking almost 2 episodes a day. I do not envy your task.

Good luck though.

I've been going through TNG and DS9 myself and here's the playback order I put together based on the IMDB's listing of air dates. Listing starts with the last solo TNG episode before you start flip flopping. Note that it isn't always back and forth and occasionally there will be some back-to-back eps in either show.

TNG: Season 6, Episode 11: Chain of Command: Part 2
Original Air Date: 19 December 1992

DS9: Season 1, Episode 1: Emissary
Original Air Date: 3 January 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 2: Past Prologue
Original Air Date: 10 January 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 3: A Man Alone
Original Air Date: 17 January 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 12: Ship in a Bottle
Original Air Date: 23 January 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 4: Babel
Original Air Date: 24 January 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 13: Aquiel
Original Air Date: 30 January 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 5: Captive Pursuit
Original Air Date: 31 January 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 14: Face of the Enemy
Original Air Date: 6 February 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 6: Q-Less
Original Air Date: 7 February 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 15: Tapestry
Original Air Date: 13 February 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 7: Dax
Original Air Date: 14 February 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 16: Birthright: Part 1
Original Air Date: 20 February 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 8: The Passenger
Original Air Date: 22 February 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 17: Birthright: Part 2
Original Air Date: 27 February 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 9: Move Along Home
Original Air Date: 14 March 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 10: The Nagus
Original Air Date: 21 March 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 18: Starship Mine
Original Air Date: 27 March 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 19: Lessons
Original Air Date: 3 April 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 11: Vortex
Original Air Date: 18 April 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 20: The Chase
Original Air Date: 24 April 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 12: Battle Lines
Original Air Date: 25 April 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 21: Frame of Mind
Original Air Date: 1 May 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 13: The Storyteller
Original Air Date: 2 May 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 22: Suspicions
Original Air Date: 8 May 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 14: Progress
Original Air Date: 9 May 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 23: Rightful Heir
Original Air Date: 15 May 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 15: If Wishes Were Horses
Original Air Date: 16 May 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 24: Second Chances
Original Air Date: 22 May 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 16: The Forsaken
Original Air Date: 23 May 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 17: Dramatis Personae
Original Air Date: 30 May 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 25: Timescape
Original Air Date: 12 June 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 18: Duet
Original Air Date: 13 June 1993

TNG: Season 6, Episode 26: Descent: Part 1
Original Air Date: 19 June 1993

DS9: Season 1, Episode 19: In the Hands of the Prophets
Original Air Date: 20 June 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 1: Descent: Part 2
Original Air Date: 18 September 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 2: Liaisons
Original Air Date: 25 September 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 1: The Homecoming
Original Air Date: 26 September 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 3: Interface
Original Air Date: 2 October 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 2: The Circle
Original Air Date: 3 October 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 4: Gambit: Part 1
Original Air Date: 9 October 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 3: The Siege
Original Air Date: 10 October 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 5: Gambit: Part 2
Original Air Date: 16 October 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 4: Invasive Procedures
Original Air Date: 17 October 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 6: Phantasms
Original Air Date: 23 October 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 5: Cardassians
Original Air Date: 24 October 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 7: Dark Page
Original Air Date: 30 October 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 6: Melora
Original Air Date: 31 October 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 8: Attached
Original Air Date: 6 November 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 7: Rules of Acquisition
Original Air Date: 7 November 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 9: Force of Nature
Original Air Date: 13 November 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 8: Necessary Evil
Original Air Date: 14 November 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 10: Inheritance
Original Air Date: 20 November 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 9: Second Sight
Original Air Date: 21 November 1993

TNG: Season 7, Episode 11: Parallels
Original Air Date: 27 November 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 10: Sanctuary
Original Air Date: 28 November 1993

DS9: Season 2, Episode 11: Rivals
Original Air Date: 2 January 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 12: The Pegasus
Original Air Date: 8 January 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 12: The Alternate
Original Air Date: 9 January 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 13: Homeward
Original Air Date: 15 January 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 14: Sub Rosa
Original Air Date: 29 January 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 13: Armageddon Game
Original Air Date: 30 January 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 15: Lower Decks
Original Air Date: 5 February 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 14: Whispers
Original Air Date: 6 February 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 16: Thine Own Self
Original Air Date: 12 February 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 15: Paradise
Original Air Date: 13 February 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 17: Masks
Original Air Date: 19 February 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 16: Shadowplay
Original Air Date: 20 February 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 18: Eye of the Beholder
Original Air Date: 26 February 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 17: Playing God
Original Air Date: 27 February 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 19: Genesis
Original Air Date: 19 March 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 18: Profit and Loss
Original Air Date: 20 March 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 20: Journey's End
Original Air Date: 26 March 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 19: Blood Oath
Original Air Date: 27 March 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 21: Firstborn
Original Air Date: 23 April 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 20: The Maquis: Part 1
Original Air Date: 24 April 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 22: Bloodlines
Original Air Date: 30 April 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 21: The Maquis: Part 2
Original Air Date: 1 May 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 23: Emergence
Original Air Date: 7 May 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 22: The Wire
Original Air Date: 8 May 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 24: Preemptive Strike
Original Air Date: 14 May 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 23: Crossover
Original Air Date: 15 May 1994

TNG: Season 7, Episode 25: All Good Things...
Original Air Date: 21 May 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 24: The Collaborator
Original Air Date: 22 May 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 25: Tribunal
Original Air Date: 5 June 1994

DS9: Season 2, Episode 26: The Jem'Hadar
Original Air Date: 12 June 1994

If you're actually willing to do so, I'd go with original broadcast date (including movies). There's a lot of cross-references between the series and the movies and watching them as originally present is the best way, IMO.

A couple reasons: The two-parter Spock TNG episode references STVI. The Scotty TNG episode doesn't correctly reference Generations, but I think watching the ep before the movie makes it a bit more open ended. The Sulu Voyager episode fits nicely after STVI. The TNG episode "Journey's End" and the two-part DS9 episodes "The Maquis" lead indirectly into Voyager.

Decent advice with all sequel shows, but a horrible recommendation for the Original Series. Trust me--watch TOS in the order the episodes were filmed, not broadcast.

If it were me, I would not start with Enterprise. Despite being set prior to TOS, the simple fact is it just looks too darn modern and slick, especially with CGI.

Because of the various shows penchant for time travel episodes, you will find that they will pull villains in from later series that have not yet been introduced at that time.

Yes, yes, I know you can argue that though they did not exist at that point time travel, wormholes etc make it possible for them to have appeared at that time, but if you start trying to arrange the various episodes and movies in some sort of chronological order, by the time you have figured that out it will be 2008!

Just watch them in either filmed or broadcast order, it's far easier and less hassle.

I agree, but for wholly different reasons. Where is the pleasure in watching ENTERPRISE's "In a Mirror Darkly" before TOS's "Mirror, Mirror" or "The Tholian Web"? Or seeing T'Pol go through pon farr before Spock? Or meeting the Borg before TNG's "Q Who"? Many of ENTERPRISE's charms come from a thorough knowledge of Classic TREK and TNG... (not to mention that the lackluster series finale benefits a bit from viewers being familiar with a STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION episode called "The Pegasus").

If I were you, I'd start with Voyager, pause briefly to watch Insurrection and Nemesis and then move on to Enterprise. Otherwise, it's like running a marathon where the last 40% is a 60-degree incline ... of gravel ... in a driving hailstorm. Pick your favorite show and try to end strong on that. This is a long journey -- you want to feel good about it when you're done, not bitter. If you're a TOS fan, end with The Undiscovered Country. TNG fan? "All Good Things" or First Contact. DS9 fan? "What You Leave Behind". Voyager fan? Why are you talking to me? Look, I don't know you.

das

I agree with das, ending with Voyager/Enterprise back to back is a good way to find yourself alone in the bathroom with a razor blade by New Year's Eve.

Easy fix for that: watch the last five eps of ENT in this order, it won't affect any storylines.


#420 Demons
#421 Terra Prime
#422 These Are The Voyages
#418 In A Mirror, Darkly - Part I
#419 In A Mirror, Darkly - Part II

'Enterprise' takes place before 'TOS' chronologically, but the events of 'Enterprise' are affected by the events of 'First Contact', so it probably wouldn't make sense to watch it first.

Personally, I wouldn't reccommend doing it strictly by broadcast once there are multiple seasons; later seasons of DS9 should be watched straight through, not interrupted by the irrelevant 'Voyager', and I don't know of any major reason why the early seasons would be directly related to seasons of 'TNG'. I might see the value in alternating seasons between the last few of 'TNG' and the first few of 'DS9', but so much of the later seasons of 'DS9' depends on a good memory for the early seasons, so I'd think 'TNG' in the middle would just kind of clutter it up.

'Insurrection' (if not 'First Contact' and/or 'Nemesis') does specifically refer to Worf returning to the Enterprise from DS9, though.

TAS takes place after TOS. (Though, technically, Roddenberry apparently declared that TAS was not canon.)

TAS is supposed to be squeezed somewhere in between Turnabout Intruder and the first movie. And the "non-canon" thing came about from some guy named Richard Arnold, who was working for Roddeberry and/or Paramount who tried to "streamline" the franchise by declaring all books, including the detailed FASA gaming resources as not being canon, so as to keep production of TNG "clean", without having a big backstory to have to keep up with. IIRC, even The Original Series was relegated to some sort of secondary canon, as in, there were adventures with Jim Kirk and crew, but if the writers of TNG needed to contradict something stated in TOS, they could if they wanted.

Personally, TAS was done by Roddenberry, with most of the original cast, and with many of the original series' writers, and there have been many things referenced in later treks that have drifted their way into canon-icity, so I consider it canon. Any blatant errors can be attributed to them being in-universe dramatizations of the adventures of the legendary James T. Kirk, and some details were changed for security reasons.

Off topic: I was reading the other day that somebody is taking the original audio from "The Time Trap" TAS episode and redoing the animation in CGI.

Sounds interesting.

ETA: Fall 2007.

Thought the same thing when I first read the topic of this Thread.

The Tribble eps in DS9 was great because you already knew about in TOS.

ENTERPRISE's "In a Mirror Darkly" is great as a standalone show, but it is even better if you watch the other shows "Mirror" eps first.

Not to mention the fact that In a Mirror Darkly actually retconned a TOS episode into the Mirror saga. The Tholian Web deals with the ship crossing universes, but it wasn't until ENT that the connection was made.

FYI, from Wikipedia, the official Mirror episodes in production order.

Series # Title

TOS 204 "Mirror, Mirror"
TOS 309 "The Tholian Web"
DS9 223 "Crossover"
DS9 319 "Through the Looking Glass"
DS9 420 "Shattered Mirror"
DS9 608 "Resurrection"
DS9 712 "The Emperor's New Cloak"
ENT 418 "In a Mirror, Darkly"
ENT 419 "In a Mirror, Darkly Part II"

Ugh, Enterprise really screws things up.

I disregarded the Borg episode, but ya... those mirror episodes don't really make sense wihtout the TOS episodes.

For some reason, I wasn't getting the email that my topic had responses, so I thought it died a lonely death.

But wow, thanks for the responses all!

I think I'll go with the "filmed order" advice.

I do fear the suicidal thoughts from watching that much Voyager near the end, maybe I'll skip Voyager. The 30 or so episodes I watched back when they were first broadcast were fairly dreadful. I actually don't even own them yet (except the bonus discs). I think I own every other ST disc, and planned to buy the Voyager complete set when I found it super cheap somewhere just for completist sake.

2 episodes a day! Really? Wow, I didn't think it would be that many. If I finish this task I'll sadly be very proud of doing so. Maybe I'll make it a 5 year mission.

There was 3 Seasons of TOS (plus TAS), 7 Seasons of TNG, 7 Seasons of DS9, 7 Seasons of VOY, and 4 Seasons of ENT. You're going to be watching 29 years worth of Star Trek next year.

If worse comes to worse, you could always either buy the last few seasons of Voyager(like most Trek, parts of 3 and 4-7 were far superior to the early years in my opinion). But all together, it's not that necessary. IMHO.

I'm catching my girlfriend up myself and did:
Star Trek II-VI
then Star Trek: TNG Season 1, but she was basically falling asleep watching these season 1 episodes. And... I can't blame her.

Don't do this with STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION! Watch it in broadcast order, or you will encounter a few major continuity flaws, such as a major character dying, then being alive in the next episode. I reiterate, go with filmed order for TOS and TAS, then broadcast order for TNG, DS9, VOYAGER and ENTERPRISE.