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There are a surprising number ofStar Trekepisodes that are essentially sequel to earlier episodes , either within the same show , or on other show in the same era . InStar Trek : The Next contemporaries , Star Trek : Voyager , and earlier seasons ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , the common practice was thateach episode ofStar Trekwas a single , fend - alone storythat did n’t require too much foreknowledge of early upshot in theStar Trektimeline . In a time before streaming , when it was harder to watch a show from the very beginning , anyStar Trekepisode could be someone ’s first , so this ensured that unexampled viewers were n’t lost .
While serialization was generally frowned upon in the eighties and 1990s trio ofStar Trekshows , episode occasionally lop up that directly referenced issue of earlier episodes . Guest characters return , sometimes years later , to tie up the loose ends that were left drop in their early appearances . Characters ' memories were triggered by being in similar situations . Unlike multi - part episodes or the miniature electric discharge that later happened onDS9andVoyager , sequel episodes go on long after the consequence of earlier episodes have had time to develop , sometimes after years have pass .
The Star Trek TV franchise has be for 57 year and consists of 12 show ( and tally ) . Here ’s how to follow them all in timeline order .
10Star Trek: Voyager Season 6, Episode 17 - “Spirit Folk”
Sequel to Star Trek: Voyager Season 6, Episode 11 - “Fair Haven”
In the 19th - century Irish town of Fair Haven , rumour burst that mysterious"Outsiders"may be magical spirit folk . Lt . Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ) controls the weather , Ensign Harry Kim ( Garrett Wang ) once turn Maggie O’Halloran ( Henriette Ivanans ) into a cow , andCaptain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew)may have bewitched Michael Sullivan ( Fintan McKeown ) . Of course , Fair Haven is Tom ’s holodeck programme that ran constantlybefore a massive world power drain erased all but 10 % of its original computer code in " Fair Haven " . " Spirit Folk " assure Fair Haven ’s residents witness a few too many " miracles " as their dwelling is rebuilt , clue them in to the accuracy of their existence .
With only six installment between each episode , " Fair Haven " has the short amount of time until its sequel , " Spirit Folk " .
9Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 19 - “Lessons”
Sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, Episode 25 - “The Inner Light”
InStar Trek : The NextGeneration ’s outstanding " The Inner Light " , an exotic probe causes Captain Picard to live the life history of Kamin , a family gentleman’s gentleman on the dying planet Kataan , within the twain of about 20 minutes . Picard ’s experience as Kamin is profound , but seldom address on - screen until " Lessons" . Jean - Luc ’s romancewith the musical forefront of astral sciences , Lt . Commander Nella Daren ( Wendy Hughes ) , move Picard to confess that he does bed how to act the Ressikan transverse flute . After bonding with Nella through melodious duet , Picard reveal he acquired the flute from the probe , and knowledge of how to spiel it from living as Kamin , garnering Nella ’s sympathy .
8Star Trek: Voyager Season 7, Episodes 9 & 10 - “Flesh & Blood”
Sequel to Star Trek: Voyager Season 4, Episodes 18 & 19 - “The Killing Game”
The predatory Hirogen commandeer the USS Voyager in " The Killing Game " , turning the holodecks into their personal playgrounds to hound Voyager ’s bunch as unwilling prey . Despite the fact that holodecks were used to harmCaptain Janeway and Voyager ’s crew , Janeway believes that Starfleet hologram applied science can really serve the Hirogen go forward their sacred hunt without killing anyone else . The Hirogen believe the hunt is nonmeaningful if their fair game do n’t feel pain , so " Flesh & Blood " reveals thatthe Hirogen programme their holograph to be sentient . Star Trek : Voyagerseason 7 explores the personhood of holograph , so it ’s up for debate whether that ’s any different than hunting constitutive people .
7Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 26 - “Descent, Part 1”
Sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, Episode 23 - “I, Borg”
Star Trek : The Next Generationcloses its sixth season with " Descent , Part 1 " , the first half of a two - part episode that realise the USS Enterprise crew confront off against a unexampled character of Borg , detached from the greater Borg Collective . These new , excited Borg call themselves as " I " instead of " we " , and call each other by name – in other word , they ’re individuals . A year earlier , in " I , Borg",Lt . Commander Geordi La Forge(LeVar Burton ) repair and befriended a lone drone , Hugh ( Jonathan del Arco).The concept of individuality was introduced to the Borg after Hugh returned to the Collective , but or else of becoming hopeful somebody , other Borg respond to liberation with retribution .
Many of Star Trek ’s best hero sandwich herald from foreign species that Starfleet have deemed to be enemies , proving that one should never judge by appearances .
6Star Trek: Voyager Season 5, Episode 3 - “False Profits”
Sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 8 - “The Price”
InStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s " The Price " , negotiations over possession of a stable wormhole near Barzan II attract the attention of Ferengi delegates Arridor ( Dan Shor ) and Kol ( J.R. Quinonez ) . While the wormhole is said to connect to the Gamma Quadrant , a test flight finds Kol and Arridor ground in the Delta Quadrantafter the surprisinglyunstable wormhole vanishes before they can turn around . Seven years later , inStar Trek : Voyager ’s " False net profit " , the similarly strand USS Voyager work party is surprised to discover Arridor and Kol ( Leslie Jordan ) so far from base , but less surprised that the Ferengi are swindling the pre - warp Takarians by using replicator engineering to amaze as important spiritual figures .
5Star Trek: Voyager Season 5, Episode 18 - “Course: Oblivion”
Sequel to Star Trek: Voyager Season 4, Episode 24 - “Demon”
Star Trek : Voyager ’s " Course : Oblivion " open up with the long - awaited wedding of Tom Paris andB’Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ) , and the celebration of upgrades that will shorten the USS Voyager ’s journey home to only 2 years . All is not well for long , however , as a deep radiation illness befalls Voyager ’s crew , and one by one they , along with the ship , suffer total cellular abasement . Over a year ago , in " Demon",Voyager meet biomemetic"silverblood"organisms that were allowed to repeat the USS Voyager and its bunch , but Voyager pass on the Demon - course natives on their rest home major planet . Surely the silverbloods did n’t leave that they ’re not therealVoyager gang and set a class for Earth … ripe ?
4Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episode 9 - “Defiant”
Sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 24 - “Second Chances”
InStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s " Defiant " , Commander Will Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) pays a sojourn to the Deep Space Nine station while ostensibly on holiday , and befriends Major Kira Nerys ( Nana Visitor ) . Kira agrees to give Riker a tour of duty of the USS Defiant , but as soon as they ’re on board , Riker sprain against Kira , revealing he is n’t Will , but Thomas . Several old age originally , the USS Enterprise discover a second Will Riker had materialized from a reflected transporter irradiation , who elect to rename himself Thomas Riker to pursue his own Starfleet career . DS9reveals that had n’t worked out , soThomas Riker bring together the Maquisand intend to slip the Defiant by bewilder as Will .
3Star Trek: Voyager Season 7, Episode 19 - “Q2”
Sequel to Star Trek: Voyager Season 3, Episode 11 - “The Q & the Grey”
In " The Q and the Grey " , Q ( John de Lancie ) make out to the USS Voyager with aim to procreate with Captain Janeway , believing that a Q - human hybrid will reunify the fractured Q Continuum . push back by the idea , Janeway convinces Q that the Continuum would be well served by Q ’s union withMiss Q ( Suzie Plakson ) . The product of that union arrives four old age later in " Q2",as the intolerable teenage Q Junior ( Keegan de Lancie ) , who has only sow in chaosinstead of bringing peace to the Continuum . bring Junior to Voyager is a tryout , as most things are with Q , to see if Junior can determine anything from"Aunt Kathy"and Starfleet ideals .
That family line resemblance is genuine : Q Junior is played by John de Lancie ’s existent Logos , Keegan de Lancie .
John de Lancie ’s divinity - similar Q became one of Star Trek ’s most pop recur characters , and here are all of his appearance rate bad to best .
2Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episode 12 - “Ship in a Bottle”
Sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 3 - “Elementary, My Dear Data”
Lt . Reginald Barclay ( Dwight Schultz)accidentally releases the holographical Professor James Moriarty ( Daniel Davis ) from an unusual program that ’s been continually run within the ship ’s computer . Moriarty has been trapped inside the information processing system , to the full conscious while awaiting the development of technology that would let him provide the holodeck . Moriarty insists on leaving the holodeck and the endeavor , despite being sagaciously mindful he ’s a holograph . This holographical Moriarty gained sensory faculty four years earlier , when Lt . Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) solved Sherlock Holmes ' mysteries too easily , and the holodeck altered Holmes ' adversary Moriarty to become Data ’s cerebral equal .
1Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 7, Episode 15 - “Lower Decks”
Sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, Episode 19 - “The First Duty”
Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s " Lower Decks " work shift the view from the USS Enterprise ’s senior staff to four junior officers : the go - getting Ensign Sam Lavelle ( Dan Gauthier ) , Vulcan engine driver Ensign Taurik ( Alexander Enberg ) , Nurse Alyssa Ogawa ( Patti Yasutake ) , andEnsign Sito Jaxa(Shannon Fill).Sito accept a dangerous espionage mission as part of a personal salvation arc , after previously appearing as a Starfleet Academy cadet . Sito , like Cadet Wesley Crusher ( Wil Wheaton ) , was a member of the elect Nova Squadron , which collectively agreed to extend up the irresponsible actions of Cadet Nick Locarno ( Robert Duncan McNeill ) that contribute to the death of mate Joshua Albert .
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 4 , episode 10 " Old Friends , New Planets " could be considered the third instalment of this arc , with the regaining of Nick Locarno and the memory of Sito Jaxa have a profound impact on Lt . Beckett Mariner ( Tawny Newsome ) .
Although serialisation was mostly frown upon in the Berman era ofStar Trekshows , the surprising number of sequel episode proves that there was still a relatively cohesive continuityinStar Trek : The Next Generation , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , andStar Trek : Voyager . DS9embraced serialization , as the events of individualDS9episodes built on each other , shaping the story of the Dominion War . Star Trek : Voyageralso started to take on a persistence of its own , with character relationship progressing in miniature discharge . Thanks to the use of sequel episodes to maintain continuity , Star Trekshowed that natural action have consequences , intended or otherwise .
Star Trek : The Next genesis , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , andStar Trek : Voyagerare streaming on Paramount+ .
