Star Trek - Watch Order: Release Order

1979 - 201613 Films25h 9m3.9 Average

The Star Trek film series spans over three decades, beginning with films that continued the original 1960s television series and evolving into modern blockbuster cinema. This complete watch order includes both the original timeline films (1979-2002) and the alternate Kelvin Timeline reboot trilogy (2009-2016).

The first six films follow the crew of the original Enterprise, while films 7-10 feature the Next Generation cast. The 2009 reboot created an entirely separate timeline, allowing for fresh storytelling while honoring the franchise's legacy.

Linear Timeline: Release Order = Story Order

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture poster

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

19792h 11m3.6
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan poster

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

19821h 52m4.4
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock poster

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

19841h 45m3.7
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Cast: William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig

A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home poster

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

19861h 58m4.2
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei

When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize Earth's oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet.

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier poster

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

19891h 46m3
Director: William Shatner
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei

A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country poster

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

19911h 50m4.1
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei

After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter.

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Star Trek: Generations poster

Star Trek: Generations

19941h 57m3.6
Director: David Carson
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.

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Star Trek: First Contact poster

Star Trek: First Contact

19961h 51m4.3
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.

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Star Trek: Insurrection poster

Star Trek: Insurrection

19981h 42m3.6
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, F. Murray Abraham

When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the very ideals upon which the Federation itself was founded.

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Star Trek: Nemesis poster

Star Trek: Nemesis

20021h 56m3.5
Director: Stuart Baird
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.

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Star Trek poster

Star Trek

20092h 7m4.4
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.

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Star Trek Into Darkness poster

Star Trek Into Darkness

20132h 12m4.3
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldaña, Benedict Cumberbatch, Karl Urban

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

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Star Trek Beyond poster

Star Trek Beyond

20162h 2m3.9
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldaña, Simon Pegg

The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.

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