This site is NOT a chronology - it is a viewing guide that will assist you through watching the entire franchise in in-universe story order, all the way from the 21st to the 43rd centuries, while making adjustments as needed to ensure an enjoyable viewing experience. It is not rigid - some episodes are shifted in the order to keep things as clear and fun as possible. The guide is updated regularly to stay current with new episodes.
Voyager gets a much needed shot in the arm with the introduction of Seven of Nine, and Deep Space Nine delivers a great season as the Dominion War arc reaches full swing.
Voyager - Season 4, episode 1 - Scorpion, Part 2
Captain Janeway forges an unlikely alliance with the Borg.
Original airdate - September 3, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 2 - The Gift
Seven of Nine, the Borg drone that Voyager severed from the collective, tries to resist as her natural human physiology tries to regenerate.
Original airdate - September 10, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 3 - Day of Honor
The Klingon "Day of Honor" turns into a string of bad luck for B'Elanna.
Original airdate - September 17, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 4 - Nemesis
When Chakotay is stranded on a planet that is in the middle of a major war, he violates the Prime Directive by helping the soldiers that discover him.
Original airdate - September 24, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 5 - Revulsion
B'Elanna and The Doctor respond to a distress call and come to the aid of a malfunctioning hologram.
Original airdate - October 1, 1997
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 1 - A Time to Stand
Several months after Deep Space Nine was handed over to the Dominion, the Federation is losing the war.
Original airdate - September 29, 1997
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 2 - Rocks and Shoals
The damaged Jem'Hadar ship crashes on a planet. Dax is seriously injured, but kept alive by Dr. Bashir. A group of Jem'Hadar who also crashed on the planet finds them.
Original airdate - October 6, 1997
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 3 - Sons and Daughters
Worf must help his son, Alexander, to learn the ways of a Klingon warrior, while on a ship patrolling for Dominion vessels
Original airdate - October 13, 1997
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 4 - Behind the Lines
Sisko is promoted, and Dax is placed in command of the Defiant. Meanwhile, on Deep Space Nine, now named Terok Nor, Kira must find a way of preventing the minefield from being destroyed.
Original airdate - October 13, 1997
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 5 - Favor the Bold
Odo struggles with his choices between his friends and the Link. Sisko faces a suicide mission in order to reclaim Deep Space Nine.
Original airdate - October 27, 1997
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 6 - Sacrifice of Angels
Sisko faces thousands of Dominion warships alone in an attempt to regain Deep Space Nine.
Original airdate - November 3, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 6 - The Raven
As Janeway attempts to gain passage through alien territory, Seven of Nine believes that she is being contacted by the Borg.
Original airdate - October 8, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 7 - Scientific Method
When the crew begins suffering from stranger illnesses with each passing hour, Seven of Nine is the only one who is able to expose the threat to the crew.
Original airdate - October 29, 1997
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 7 - You are Cordially Invited
Worf and Dax's marriage is threatened when Martok's wife does not welcome Dax into the House of Martok.
Original airdate - November 10, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 8 - Year of Hell, Part 1
The Krenim Imperium is attempting to return to its former glory by using a temporal weapon ship that can erase entire species of their enemies from existence.
Original airdate - November 5, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 9 - Year of Hell, Part 2
Working with only a skeleton crew, Captain Janeway desperately attempts to repair Voyager in order to stop Annorax.
Original airdate - November 12, 1997
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 8 - Resurrection
The mirror universe's Bareil attempts to steal the Bajoran orb of Prophecy and Change. Things are complicated when Kira falls in love with him.
Original airdate - November 17, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 10 - Random Thoughts
While on shore leave on a planet of telepaths, B'Elanna is arrested for a murder that is blamed on her violent thoughts.
Original airdate - November 19, 1997
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 9 - Statistical Probabilities
Bashir is asked to help a group of genetically enhanced people integrate into normal society.
Original airdate - November 24, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 11 - Concerning Flight
When pirates steal some of Voyager's technology, Janeway and Tuvok discover her holographic Leonardo Da Vinci who helps them in their search.
Original airdate - November 26, 1997
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 10 - The Magnificent Ferengi
By orders of the Grand Negus Zek, Quark enlists the help of Rom, Nog, his cousin Gaila, a Ferengi assassin named Leck, and Brunt to attempt to rescue his mother.
Original airdate - January 1, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 11 - Waltz
While en route to Gul Dukat's war crimes hearing, the ship carrying them is attacked. Dukat escapes with an injured Sisko and they crash on a planet.
Original airdate - January 8, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 12 - Mortal Coil
Neelix is killed during an away mission, but is revived using modified Borg technology.
Original airdate - December 17, 1997
Voyager - Season 4, episode 14 - Message in a Bottle
When Voyager discovers an ancient communications relay that extends to the Alpha Quadrant, they send The Doctor to an experimental Federation ship, the Prometheus.
Original airdate - January 21, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 13 - Waking Moments
The crew is "attacked" by a species of alien that live in the human dream state.
Original airdate - January 14, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 12 - Who Mourns for Morn?
It is announced that Morn has died and has left his entire estate to Quark. But claiming his inheritance lands him in a web of lies and deceit over the nature of Morn's wealth.
Original airdate - February 4, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 13 - Far Beyond the Stars
Sisko has visions of himself and his crew as writers for a science fiction paper in 1950's Earth.
Original airdate - February 11, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 14 - One Little Ship
Dax, O'Brien, and Bashir take the Runabout Rubicon to explore a nebula, where the runabout and its contents shrink to less than 1% of their original size.
Original airdate - February 18, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 15 - Hunters
The Voyager crew face a new threat from a violent species of hunters called the Hirogen.
Original airdate - February 11, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 15 - Honor Among Thieves
O'Brien is ordered to infiltrate the Orion Syndicate to expose a Federation informant. However, his involvement may lead to the death of his new friend.
Original airdate - February 25, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 16 - Change of Heart
Worf is forced to choose between the life of his wife Jadzia, and the success of the mission.
Original airdate - March 4, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 16 - Prey
When Voyager beams aboard a wounded Hirogen aboard, they inadvertently allow aboard his prey, a member of Species 8472.
Original airdate - February 18, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 17 - Retrospect
While re-fitting Voyager's systems with newly traded weapons, Seven of Nine claims to have been assaulted by Kovin, the weapons dealer.
Original airdate - February 25, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 18 - The Killing Game, Part 1
The Hirogen capture and board Voyager, and use the holodecks to "hunt" the crew in various scenarios.
Original airdate - March 4, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 19 - The Killing Game, Part 2
The crew must find a way to defeat the Hirogen and reclaim Voyager.
Original airdate - March 4, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 17 - Wrongs Darker than Death or Night
When Gul Dukat reveals to Major Kira that her mother was a comfort woman for him during the Occupation, Kira uses the Bajoran Orb of Time to travel to the past and find the truth.
Original airdate - April 1, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 18 - Inquisition
Bashir falls under suspicion of unknowingly supplying information to the Dominion, however, all is not as it may seem.
Original airdate - April 8, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 19 - In the Pale Moonlight
Sisko and Garak lure the Romulans into the Dominion war in order to get them to join the Federation/Klingon Alliance.
Original airdate - April 15, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 19 - In the Pale Moonlight
Sisko and Garak lure the Romulans into the Dominion war in order to get them to join the Federation/Klingon Alliance.
Original airdate - April 15, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 20 - Vis à Vis
An alien test pilot who has the capability of switching bodies manages to take Tom's place aboard Voyager in order to escape the law.
Original airdate - April 8, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 21 - The Omega Directive
Voyager is forced out of warp by the detection of a dangerous and powerful particle, called "Omega", that has the power to destroy subspace.
Original airdate - April 15, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 20 - His Way
Odo uses Bashir's holosuite character of Vic Fontaine to bring himself and Kira closer together.
Original airdate - April 22, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 22 - Unforgettable
A mysterious but comely female alien claims to be in love with Chakotay, and requests asylum aboard Voyager.
Original airdate - April 22, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 21 - The Reckoning
A mysterious tablet is found in the ruins of B'hala, foretelling that "The Reckoning" will soon begin.
Original airdate - April 29, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 22 - Valiant
Nog and Jake are rescued by the U.S.S. Valiant when their ship is attacked by the Dominion while on their way to Ferenginar.
Original airdate - May 6, 1998
We are skipping Voyager episode 23 (“Living Witness”) for now, and will be watching it later.
Voyager - Season 4, episode 24 - Demon
Voyager lands on Demon-class planet in order to mine for deuterium to replenish the ship's dangerously low supply.
Original airdate - May 6, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 23 - Profit and Lace
Thanks to his relationship with Quark and Rom's mother Ishka, Grand Nagus Zek announces that he will allow equal rights for women on Ferenginar.
Original airdate - May 13, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 25 - One
Seven must deal with almost complete solitude when the crew must go into protective stasis for a month in order to cross a dangerous nebula.
Original airdate - May 13, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 24 - Time’s Orphan
While on a nearby planet, the O'Brien family picnic is interrupted when Molly wanders off and falls into a vortex that sends her 300 years into the past.
Original airdate - May 20, 1998
Voyager - Season 4, episode 26 - Hope and Fear
A mysterious alien with a knack for languages is able to repair a damaged message from Starfleet.
Original airdate - May 20, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 25 - The Sound of Her Voice
The Defiant attempts to rescue Captain Lisa Cusak who has crashed on a planet with high amounts of carbon dioxide, with a limited supply of triox to keep her alive. Meanwhile on the station, Quark attempts to keep Odo distracted while planning an illegal transaction.
Original airdate - June 10, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 6, episode 26 - Tears of the Prophets
Sisko is ordered to launch attacks against Cardassia and the Dominion. In his absence, Dax is left in command of the station.
Original airdate - June 17, 1998
Voyager - Season 5, episode 1 - Night
Crew morale hits an all-time low when Voyager must spend two years crossing an expanse devoid of any stars or signs of life.
Original airdate - October 14, 1998
Voyager - Season 5, episode 2 - Drone
An accident merges Seven's Borg nanoprobes with The Doctor's mobile emitter and an ensign's DNA to create a 29th Century Borg drone.
Original airdate - October 21, 1998
Voyager - Season 5, episode 3 - Extreme Risk
In order to retrieve a probe stuck in a hazardous atmosphere, Tom Paris designs a new type of shuttlecraft.
Original airdate - October 28, 1998
Voyager - Season 5, episode 4 - In the Flesh
The crew of Voyager discover a simulation of Starfleet Headquarters being run by Species 8472.
Original airdate - November 4, 1998
Voyager - Season 5, episode 5 - Once Upon a Time
Neelix is caring for Naomi Wildman while her mother is on an away mission.
Original airdate - November 11, 1998
Voyager - Season 5, episode 8 - Nothing Human
When an alien attaches itself to B'Elanna's nervous system, the Doctor enlists the help of a holographic recreation of an expert.
Original airdate - December 2, 1998
Voyager - Season 5, episode 6 - Timeless
When Voyager uses new quantum slipstream technology in an attempt to get home, a miscalculation causes the ship to crash into an ice planet.
Original airdate - November 18, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 1 - Image in the Sand
With the wormhole closed and the orbs darkened, Sisko struggles to find a way to re-establish contact with the Bajoran Prophets.
Original airdate - September 30, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 2 - Shadows and Symbols
Sisko's quest to find a mythical Bajoran orb leads him to unlock the truth about his own existence.
Original airdate - October 7, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 3 - Afterimage
Ezri Dax's arrival unleashes conflicting emotions in everyone who knew Jadzia - particularly in Worf.
Original airdate - October 14, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 4 - Take Me Out to the Holosuite
Determined to prove the superiority of his race, a Vulcan Starfleet officer challenges Sisko and his crew to a baseball game.
Original airdate - October 21, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 5 - Chrysalis
Bashir becomes romantically involved with a genetically engineered patient.
Original airdate - October 28, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 6 - Treachery, Faith and the Great River
Odo is thrust into a violent showdown when a Dominion war leader defects.
Original airdate - November 4, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 7 - Once More Unto the Breach
Worf's decision to send a legendary Klingon warrior back into battle could have deadly consequences.
Original airdate - November 11, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 8 - The Siege of AR-558
Sisko and the crew fight for their lives during a violent standoff at a key communications outpost
Original airdate - November 18, 1998
Voyager - Season 5, episode 9 - Thirty Days
Paris defies a direct order when he insists on helping a people whose maritime planet is in danger of becoming uninhabitable.
Original airdate - December 9, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 9 - Covenant
Kira is held hostage by her old enemy Dukat, who has become the leader of a Bajoran religious faction.
Original airdate - November 25, 1998
Voyager - Season 5, episode 7 - Infinite Regress
Seven of Nine begins exhibiting the personalities of people that she assimilated as a member of the collective.
Original airdate - November 25, 1998
Voyager - Season 5, episode 10 - Counterpoint
Janeway must find a way to hide her telepathic officers, as well as twelve telepathic refugees.
Original airdate - December 16, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 10 - It’s Only a Paper Moon
Traumatized by the loss of his leg, Nog retreats to the holographic world of 1960's lounge singer Vic Fontaine
Original airdate - December 30, 1998
There’s no place where Insurrection’s references to the Dominion War and the presence of Worf really make perfect sense, but this is probably the closest to working. I’m not going to go too nuts about it.
Movie - Star Trek: Insurrection
When the crew of the Enterprise learn of the Federation plot against the inhabitants of a unique planet, Captain Picard begins an open rebellion.
Original airdate - December 11, 1998
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 11 - Prodigal Daughter
When Ezri returns home to investigate O'Brien's disappearance, she uncovers disturbing family secrets.
Original airdate - January 6, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 11 - Latent Image
When The Doctor discovers that his short-term memory has been tampered with, he launches an investigation.
Original airdate - January 20, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 12 - Bride of Chaotica!
Photonic life forms mistake the characters in Tom's holonovel for real people, which leads to a war with the holodeck characters.
Original airdate - January 27, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 12 - The Emperor’s New Cloak
Quark and Rom risk their lives by crossing into an evil alternate universe to rescue the captive leader of Quark's homeworld.
Original airdate - February 3, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 13 - Gravity
When Tuvok, Paris and The Doctor's shuttle crashes on a barren planet, they befriend a female alien who had also crashed there years earlier.
Original airdate - February 3, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 13 - Field of Fire
Ezri summons the suppressed homicidal memories of a previous Dax incarnation in order to solve a series of murders.
Original airdate - February 10, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 14 - Bliss
The crew is elated to discover a wormhole that appears to lead directly to Earth.
Original airdate - February 10, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 14 - Chimera
A nomadic Changeling asks Odo to leave the space station and join his search for their shapeshifting brethren.
Original airdate - February 17, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 17 - The Disease
Without medical clearance, Kim becomes involved in a love affair with a member of the Varo species.
Original airdate - February 24, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 15 - Badda-Bing Badda-Bang
A glitch in Vic Fontaine's holosuite program leads the crew to attempt a daring heist of a mob-run casino.
Original airdate - February 24, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 16 - Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
Bashir becomes an unwitting pawn in a deadly game between Romulan intelligence forces and a covert Starfleet organization.
Original airdate - March 3, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 18 - Course: Oblivion
After Paris and Torres tie the knot, the ship and its crew start to disintegrate on the molecular level.
Original airdate - March 3, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episodes 15-16 - Dark Frontier, parts 1 and 2
After defeating a Borg ship, Captain Janeway decides to launch an attack on another damaged Sphere to steal a trans-warp coil.
Original airdate - February 17, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 19 - The Fight
Voyager becomes trapped in an area of "chaotic space", where the laws of physics are in constant flux.
Original airdate - March 24, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 20 - Think Tank
Voyager is ambushed by a race known as the Hazari with no way of escape.
Original airdate - March 31, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 17 - Penumbra
While Ezri searches for a missing Worf, Sisko makes plans to marry Kasidy Yates.
Original airdate - April 7, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 18 - ’Til Death Do Us Part
As Sisko agonizes over his broken engagement, Dukat's latest evil plan is revealed.
Original airdate - April 14, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 19 - Strange Bedfellows
While Worf and Ezri face execution, an alliance between enemies threatens to turn the tide of the war against the Federation.
Original airdate - April 21, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 20 - The Changing Face of Evil
The war reaches a crucial turning point when the Cardassian leader breaks from the Dominion-Breen alliance.
Original airdate - April 28, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 21 - When it Rains…
While Kira consults with Damar's rebel forces, Bashir makes a shocking discovery about the disease that is ravaging the Founders.
Original airdate - May 5, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 22 - Tacking into the Wind
Kira masterminds a plot to obtain an enemy weapon, while Worf investigates a dramatic power shift within the Klingon Empire.
Original airdate - May 12, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 23 - Extreme Measures
Bashir and O'Brien link minds with the man who holds the cure to Odo's deadly disease.
Original airdate - May 19, 1999
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episode 24 - The Dogs of War
With the Cardassian Resistance crushed, the Federation war against the Dominion reaches the prelude to one final showdown.
Original airdate - May 26, 1999
Farewell, DS9. I’ll always love you best.
Deep Space Nine - Season 7, episodes 25-26 - What You Leave Behind, Parts 1 and 2
While Sisko, Ross and Martok plan a final assault in space, Kira and Garak lead the Cardassian resistance on the ground, into Dominion headquarters.
Original airdate - June 2, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 21 - Juggernaut
After encountering a damaged Malon freighter, a repair crew from Voyager tries to contain a toxic chemical leak that threatens a nearby inhabited planet.
Original airdate - April 26, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 22 - Someone to Watch Over Me
The Doctor tries to introduce Seven of Nine to the concept of dating.
Original airdate - April 28, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 23 - 11:59
Captain Janeway relates the story of her distant ancestor, and her involvement in the construction of Earth's "Millennium Gate"
Original airdate - May 5, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 24 - Relativity
Seven is recruited by Captain Braxton of the 29th century timeship Relativity to go back in time and stop an unknown culprit from destroying Voyager.
Original airdate - May 12, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 25 - Relativity
An alien missile with artificial intelligence takes over The Doctor's systems, and insists that it be allowed to complete its mission of mass destruction.
Original airdate - May 19, 1999
Voyager - Season 5, episode 26 - Equinox, Part 1
Voyager comes to the aid of the Equinox - another Federation starship also abducted by the Caretaker.
Original airdate - May 26, 1999