Star Trek: The Original Series
Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Rating: TV-G
Running Time: 50 minutes per episode
Number of Seasons: 3
Number of Episodes: 79
Vintage: September 8, 1966 - June 3, 1969
Plot Summary: Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Genres: Animation, Action, Adventure
Rating: TV-Y7
Running Time: 30min per episode
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of Episodes: 22
Vintage: September 8, 1973 – October 12, 1974
Plot Summary: The further adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise, as they explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Genres: Sci-Fi
Rating: PG
Running Time: 2h 12min
Vintage: December 7, 1979
Plot Summary: When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine and hopefully stop the intruder.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1h 53min
Vintage: June 4, 1982
Plot Summary: With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1h 45min
Vintage: June 1, 1984
Plot Summary: Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock’s body.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1h 59min
Vintage: November 26, 1986
Plot Summary: To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to 20th century Earth to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it, humpback whales.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Rating: TV-PG
Running Time: 44 min per episode
Number of Seasons: 7
Number of Episodes: 178
Vintage: September 28, 1987 – May 23, 1994
Plot Summary: Set decades after Captain Kirk’s five-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers set off in a new Enterprise on their own mission to go where no one has gone before.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1h 47min
Vintage: June 9, 1989
Plot Summary: Captain Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock’s long-lost half-brother who hijacks the Enterprise for an obsessive search for God at the center of the galaxy.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1h 53min
Vintage: December 6, 1991
Plot Summary: On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Rating: TV-PG
Running Time: 45 min per episode
Number of Seasons: 7
Number of Episodes: 176
Vintage: January 3, 1993 – June 2, 1999
Plot Summary: Orbiting the liberated planet of Bajor, a Federation space station guards the opening of a stable wormhole to the far side of the galaxy.
Star Trek: Generations
Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1h 58min
Vintage: November 18, 1994
Plot Summary: Captain Picard, with the help of supposedly dead Captain Kirk, must stop a madman willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter an energy ribbon.
Star Trek: Voyager
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: TV-PG
Running Time: 45 min per episode
Number of Seasons: 7
Number of Episodes: 172
Vintage: January 16, 1995 – May 23, 2001
Plot Summary: Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.
Star Trek: First Contact
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1h 51min
Vintage: November 22, 1996
Plot Summary: The Borg go back in time intent on preventing Earth’s first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
Star Trek: Insurrection
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG
Running Time: 1h 43min
Vintage: December 11, 1998
Plot Summary: When the crew of the Enterprise learn of a Federation conspiracy against the inhabitants of a unique planet, Captain Picard begins an open rebellion.
Star Trek: Enterprise
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Rating: TV-PG
Running Time: 42 min per episode
Number of Seasons: 4
Number of Episodes: 98
Vintage: September 26, 2001 – May 13, 2005
Plot Summary: A century before Captain Kirk’s five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains Earth ship Enterprise NX-01 during the early years of Starfleet leading up to the formation of the Federation and the Earth-Romulan War.
Star Trek: Nemesis
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1h 56min
Vintage: December 13, 2002
Plot Summary: The Enterprise is diverted to the Romulan homeworld Romulus, supposedly because they want to negotiate a peace treaty.
Star Trek (2009 film)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2h 7min
Vintage: May 8, 2009
Plot Summary: The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father’s legacy with Commander Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Star Trek Into Darkness
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2h 12min
Vintage: May 16, 2013
Plot Summary: After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.
Star Trek Beyond
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2h 2min
Vintage: July 22, 2016
Plot Summary: After stopping off at Starbase Earhart, a remote outpost on the fringes of Federation space, the USS Enterprise, halfway into their five-year mission, is destroyed by a powerful, unstoppable wave of unknown aliens. With the crew stranded on a unknown planet and with no apparent means of rescue, they find themselves in conflict with a new ruthless enemy who has a well-earned hatred of the Federation and what it stands for.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017 TV series)
Genres: Sci-Fi
Rating: TV-MA
Running Time: 60 minutes per episode
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of Episodes: 29
Vintage: September 24, 2017 – present (CBS All-Access)
Plot Summary: Set roughly ten years before the events of Star Trek: The Original Series, the show sees the united Klingon houses in a war with the United Federation of Planets that involves the crew of the USS Discovery.
Star Trek: Picard
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of Episodes: 20
Vintage: January 23, 2020 (CBS All-Access)
