50 Star Trek Stories for the 50th Anniversary
by tomh1138-1 | created - 02 Dec 2015 | updated - 04 Dec 2015 | PublicFor the upcoming anniversary in 2016. Decided partly by IMDB user ratings, and partly by importance to the overall mythos. The list is mostly chronological.
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1.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Cage
(1966)
TV-PG | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett
Votes: 7,113
Ratings: 7.7/10 from 2,967 users (The originally unaired pilot episode)
2.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Where No Man Has Gone Before
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The flight recorder of the 200-year-old U.S.S. Valiant relays a tale of terror--a magnetic storm at the edge of the galaxy.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Gary Lockwood, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 6,367
Ratings: 7.9/10 from 2,551 users (The second pilot episode)
3.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Man Trap
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Dr. McCoy discovers his old flame is not what she seems after crew members begin dying from a sudden lack of salt in their bodies.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeanne Bal, Alfred Ryder
Votes: 5,814
Ratings: 7.3/10 from 1,705 users (The actual first aired episode)
4.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Enemy Within
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two halves: one meek and indecisive, the other violent and ill tempered. The remaining crew members stranded on the planet cannot be beamed up to the ship until a problem is fixed.
Director: Leo Penn | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney
Votes: 4,874
Ratings: 7.8/10 from 1,439 users
5.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Mudd's Women
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise picks up untrustworthy entrepreneur Harry Mudd accompanied by three beautiful women who immediately put a spell on all the male crew members.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roger C. Carmel, Karen Steele
Votes: 4,758
Ratings: 7.0/10 from 1,374 users
6.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Menagerie: Part II
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
At Spock's court martial, he explains himself with mysterious footage about when Capt. Pike was kidnapped by powerful illusion casting aliens.
Directors: Robert Butler, Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver
Votes: 4,614
Ratings: 8.4/10 from 1,338 users
7.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Menagerie: Part I
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Spock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.
Directors: Marc Daniels, Robert Butler | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver
Votes: 4,810
Ratings: 8.5/10 from 1,398 users
8.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Balance of Terror
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard, Paul Comi
Votes: 5,649
Ratings: 9.0/10 from 1,683 users
9.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Arena
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
For bringing hostility into their solar system, a superior alien race brings Captain Kirk into mortal combat against the reptilian captain of an alien ship he was pursuing.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei
Votes: 4,473
Ratings: 8.1/10 from 1,315 users
10.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Space Seed
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's Twentieth Century.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, Madlyn Rhue
Votes: 5,361
Ratings: 8.9/10 from 1,728 users
11.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The City on the Edge of Forever
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a temporarily insane Dr. McCoy accidentally changes history and destroys his time, Kirk and Spock follow him to prevent the disaster, but the price to do so is high.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Joan Collins, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 6,502
Ratings: 9.3/10 from 2,073 users
12.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Amok Time
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the throes of his Pon Farr mating period, Spock must return to Vulcan to meet his intended future wife, betrothed from childhood.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Celia Lovsky
Votes: 4,682
Ratings: 8.8/10 from 1,433 users
13.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Mirror, Mirror
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A transporter accident places Captain Kirk's landing party in an alternate universe, where the Enterprise is in the service of a barbarically brutal empire.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, BarBara Luna
Votes: 5,082
Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,563 users
14.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Doomsday Machine
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The USS Enterprise encounters the wrecked USS Constellation and its distraught commodore who's determined to stop the giant planet-destroying robot ship that killed his crew.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Windom
Votes: 4,460
Ratings: 8.8/10 from 1,359 users
15.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
I, Mudd
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Harry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Roger C. Carmel
Votes: 3,698
Ratings: 7.6/10 from 1,055 users
16.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Journey to Babel
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise hosts a number of quarrelling diplomats, including Spock's father, but someone on board has murder in mind.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Jane Wyatt
Votes: 3,979
Ratings: 8.6/10 from 1,144 users
17.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Trouble with Tribbles
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
To protect a space station with a vital grain shipment, Kirk must deal with Federation bureaucrats, a Klingon battle cruiser and a peddler who sells furry, purring, hungry little creatures as pets.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Schallert
Votes: 4,887
Ratings: 8.9/10 from 1,511 users
18.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
A Piece of the Action
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The crew of the Enterprise struggles to cope with a planet of imitative people who have modeled their society on 1920s gangsters.
Director: James Komack | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Anthony Caruso
Votes: 3,778
Ratings: 8.0/10 from 1,105 users
19.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Enterprise Incident
(1968)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An apparently insane Capt. Kirk has the Enterprise deliberately enter the Romulan Neutral Zone where the ship is immediately captured by the enemy.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Joanne Linville
Votes: 3,864
Ratings: 8.6/10 from 1,131 users
20.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
All Our Yesterdays
(1969)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When Kirk, Spock and McCoy investigate the disappearance of a doomed planet's population, they find themselves trapped in different periods of that world's past.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Mariette Hartley
Votes: 3,353
Ratings: 8.3/10 from 995 users
21.
Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode:
Yesteryear
(1973)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After finding himself erased from recent history, Spock must travel back in time to save himself as a youth.
Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei
Votes: 1,114
Ratings: 8.2/10 from 261 users
22. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
PG | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 128,830 | Gross: $78.91M
Ratings: 7.7/10 from 86,518 users
23. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned U.S.S. Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis Planet to recover Spock's body.
Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 85,877 | Gross: $76.47M
Ratings: 6.6/10 from 55,257 users
24. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.
Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 91,139 | Gross: $109.71M
Ratings: 7.3/10 from 57,818 users
25. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 80,636 | Gross: $74.89M
Ratings: 7.2/10 from 52,298 users
26.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Measure of a Man
(1989)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When Data resigns his commission rather than be dismantled for examination by an inadequately skilled scientist, a formal hearing is convened to determine whether Data is considered property without rights or is a sentient being.
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 6,176
Ratings: 9.0/10 from 1,603 users
27.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Yesterday's Enterprise
(1990)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise C enters the Enterprise D's time and space continuum, where they find Picard and crew in a constant state of war with the Klingons, and only Guinan knows it.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,987
Ratings: 9.1/10 from 1,724 users
28.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Sarek
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Legendary Federation ambassador Sarek visits the Enterprise to conclude peace talks with a race called the Legarans. His arrival is accompanied with a rash of unusual emotional outbursts among the crew.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,789
Ratings: 8.1/10 from 1,045 users
29.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Responding to a distress call on one of the Federation's outer-most colonies, the Enterprise arrives...only to find a big hole in the ground where the town used to be, and discovers the Borg are behind the attack.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,749
Ratings: 9.3/10 from 1,782 users
30.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Having absorbed Captain Picard and his knowledge, the Borg head for Earth, leaving Riker and the Enterprise desperate for an unanticipated way to defeat them.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,378
Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,628 users
31.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Unification I
(1991)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard and Data follow Spock into Romulan space on a dangerous mission.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,512
Ratings: 8.2/10 from 980 users
32.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Unification II
(1991)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
On Romulus, Picard finds Spock, as well as an underground peace movement, a double agent, a bold ulterior motive against the Federation, and a familiar adversary.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,476
Ratings: 8.3/10 from 971 users
33.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Inner Light
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard awakes to find himself living in a small village where he is a well-known member of the community who is suffering from a delusion of being a starship captain.
Director: Peter Lauritson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 8,177
Ratings: 9.3/10 from 2,466 users
34.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Relics
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise stumbles upon a Dyson sphere, with a ship crashed on the outer surface. An away team finds some systems still powered up and the chief engineer from the old Enterprise, Montgomery Scott, locked in the transporter cycle.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,898
Ratings: 8.5/10 from 1,064 users
35. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Borg travel 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.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton
Votes: 131,678 | Gross: $92.00M
Ratings: 7.6/10 from 93,449 users
36.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
Duet
(1993)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Cardassian suffering from Kalla-Nohra, a disease that indicates he served in a labor camp, visits DS9. Kira is determined to convict him as a war criminal.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Terry Farrell
Votes: 3,673
Ratings: 9.0/10 from 873 users
37.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
Crossover
(1994)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Kira and Bashir find themselves in an alternate universe.
Director: David Livingston | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Terry Farrell
Votes: 2,271
Ratings: 7.9/10 from 534 users
38.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
The Visitor
(1995)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Melanie, an aspiring writer, wants to know why Jake Sisko stopped writing at 40. Jake tells how his father died in an accident and then suddenly reappeared.
Director: David Livingston | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell
Votes: 4,268
Ratings: 9.0/10 from 1,076 users
39.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
Trials and Tribble-ations
(1996)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Sisko tells two men from Temporal Investigations how he and his crew went back in time to when Captain James Kirk of the first Starship Enterprise exposed a Klingon spy with the help of Tribbles.
Director: Jonathan West | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell
Votes: 4,086
Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,026 users
40.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
In the Pale Moonlight
(1998)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
To save the Federation in a critical scheme, Sisko comes to realize that he must violate its fundamental principles to do so.
Director: Victor Lobl | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell
Votes: 4,289
Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,055 users
41.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Scorpion
(1997)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
About to enter Borg space, Voyager finds a threat so devastating that even the Borg cannot deal with it.
Director: David Livingston | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 2,544
Ratings: 8.9/10 from 608 users
42.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Scorpion, Part II
(1997)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Voyager finds a solution to combat the invader of Borg space. All Captain Janeway asks is free passage through their territory and Voyager will share their knowledge.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 2,521
Ratings: 8.7/10 from 589 users
43.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
Twilight
(2003)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
His memory crippled, Archer awakens years in the future, after the Xindi have reduced Earth to a cinder and the remnants of humanity have settled on a distant planet. Now, Archer learns that he may be the key to undoing this tragedy.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 2,121
Ratings: 8.9/10 from 516 users
44.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
In a Mirror, Darkly
(2005)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Set in the dark and oppressive Mirror Universe, Commander Archer leads a mutiny in a bold attempt to seize control of an advanced starship - a vessel from the future that may be the key to saving the Terran Empire.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 1,989
Ratings: 8.8/10 from 552 users
45.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II
(2005)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Mirror Universe saga concludes as Archer declares himself captain of a formidable starship from the future, while his alien crew launch a rebellion in a desperate bid to keep him from achieving ultimate power.
Director: Marvin V. Rush | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 1,870
Ratings: 8.7/10 from 502 users
46.
Star Trek Continues (2013–2017)
Episode:
Fairest of Them All
(2014)
41 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
This sequel to the TOS episode "Mirror Mirror" picks up the story in the alternate universe immediately after. Spock plans to rebel against the Empire in a quest for peace, but first must ... See full summary »
Director: James Kerwin | Stars: Vic Mignogna, Todd Haberkorn, Chuck Huber, Christopher Doohan
Votes: 501
Ratings: 9.1/10 from 126 users (Entry in fan film series; this entry is set in the Mirror Universe.)
47.
Star Trek Phase II (2004–2016)
Episode:
To Serve All My Days
(2006)
TV-PG | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A group of Klingons are planning to expand their territory, but while the crew is doing everything in their power to stop the invaders, one famous Lieutenant has to fight off his own demons... See full summary »
Director: Jack Marshall | Stars: James Cawley, Jeffery Quinn, John M. Kelley, Walter Koenig
Votes: 193
Ratings: 7.0/10 from 132 users (Entry in different fan film series, guest starring Walter Koenig reprising his role as Chekov from The Original Series)
48.
Star Trek Phase II (2004–2016)
Episode:
World Enough and Time
(2007)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
During an emergency transport, Sulu returns 30 years older than when he left and with his daughter.
Director: Marc Scott Zicree | Stars: James Cawley, Jeffery Quinn, John M. Kelley, George Takei
Votes: 353
Ratings: 8.2/10 from 258 users (Guest starring George Takei reprising his role as Sulu from The Original Series)
49. Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007 Video)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
It is the year 2306. Thirteen years have passed since Captain James T. Kirk was swept away by the Nexus, after saving the crew of the USS Enterprise-B. The remaining crew members of the ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Russ | Stars: Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Alan Ruck, Garrett Wang
Votes: 1,490
Ratings: 6.4/10 from 896 users (Fan film featuring many Trek alum in their original roles. Written and directed by Tim Russ, an actor on "Star Trek: Voyager.")
50. Star Trek (2009)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy
Votes: 619,105 | Gross: $257.73M
Ratings: 8.0/10 from 478,877 users
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