50 Star Trek Stories for the 50th Anniversary
For 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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- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsJeffrey HunterSusan OliverLeonard NimoyCapt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.Ratings: 7.7/10 from 2,967 users (The originally unaired pilot episode)
- DirectorJames GoldstoneStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyGary LockwoodThe 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.Ratings: 7.9/10 from 2,551 users (The second pilot episode)
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyJeanne BalDr. McCoy discovers his old flame is not what she seems after crew members begin dying from a sudden lack of salt in their bodies.Ratings: 7.3/10 from 1,705 users (The actual first aired episode)
- DirectorLeo PennStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyA 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.Ratings: 7.8/10 from 1,439 users
- DirectorHarvey HartStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyRoger C. CarmelThe Enterprise picks up untrustworthy entrepreneur Harry Mudd accompanied by three beautiful women who immediately put a spell on all the male crew members.Ratings: 7.0/10 from 1,374 users
- DirectorRobert ButlerMarc DanielsStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyJeffrey HunterAt Spock's court martial, he explains himself with mysterious footage about when Capt. Pike was kidnapped by powerful illusion casting aliens.Ratings: 8.4/10 from 1,338 users
- DirectorMarc DanielsRobert ButlerStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyJeffrey HunterSpock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.Ratings: 8.5/10 from 1,398 users
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyMark LenardThe Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory.Ratings: 9.0/10 from 1,683 users
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyFor 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.Ratings: 8.1/10 from 1,315 users
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyRicardo MontalbanWhile 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.Ratings: 8.9/10 from 1,728 users
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyJoan CollinsWhen 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.Ratings: 9.3/10 from 2,073 users
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyIn the throes of his Pon Farr mating period, Spock must return to Vulcan to meet his intended future wife, betrothed from childhood.Ratings: 8.8/10 from 1,433 users
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyA transporter accident places Captain Kirk's landing party in an alternate universe, where the Enterprise is in the service of a barbarically brutal empire.Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,563 users
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyThe 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.Ratings: 8.8/10 from 1,359 users
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyHarry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.Ratings: 7.6/10 from 1,055 users
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyThe Enterprise hosts a number of quarrelling diplomats, including Spock's father, but someone on board has murder in mind.Ratings: 8.6/10 from 1,144 users
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyTo 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.Ratings: 8.9/10 from 1,511 users
- DirectorJames KomackStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyThe crew of the Enterprise struggles to cope with a planet of imitative people who have modeled their society on 1920s gangsters.Ratings: 8.0/10 from 1,105 users
- DirectorJohn Meredyth LucasStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyAn apparently insane Capt. Kirk has the Enterprise deliberately enter the Romulan Neutral Zone where the ship is immediately captured by the enemy.Ratings: 8.6/10 from 1,131 users
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyWhen 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.Ratings: 8.3/10 from 995 users
- DirectorHal SutherlandStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyAfter finding himself erased from recent history, Spock must travel back in time to save himself as a youth.Ratings: 8.2/10 from 261 users
- DirectorNicholas MeyerStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyWith 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.Ratings: 7.7/10 from 86,518 users
- DirectorLeonard NimoyStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyAdmiral 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.Ratings: 6.6/10 from 55,257 users
- DirectorLeonard NimoyStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyTo 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.Ratings: 7.3/10 from 57,818 users
- DirectorNicholas MeyerStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyOn 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.Ratings: 7.2/10 from 52,298 users
- 1987–199446mTV-PG9.1 (6.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert ScheererStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen 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.Ratings: 9.0/10 from 1,603 users
- 1987–199446mTV-PG9.2 (6.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid CarsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe 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.Ratings: 9.1/10 from 1,724 users
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonLegendary 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.Ratings: 8.1/10 from 1,045 users
- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.3 (5.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonResponding 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.Ratings: 9.3/10 from 1,782 users
- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.2 (5.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonHaving absorbed Captain Picard and his knowledge, the Borg head for Earth, leaving Riker and the Enterprise desperate for an unanticipated way to defeat them.Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,628 users
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard and Data follow Spock into Romulan space on a dangerous mission.Ratings: 8.2/10 from 980 users
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.3 (3.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonOn 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.Ratings: 8.3/10 from 971 users
- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.4 (8.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorPeter LauritsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard 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.Ratings: 9.3/10 from 2,466 users
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe 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.Ratings: 8.5/10 from 1,064 users
- DirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesBrent SpinerThe 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.Ratings: 7.6/10 from 93,449 users
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsAvery BrooksRene AuberjonoisAlexander SiddigA 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.Ratings: 9.0/10 from 873 users
- DirectorDavid LivingstonStarsAvery BrooksRene AuberjonoisAlexander SiddigKira and Bashir find themselves in an alternate universe.Ratings: 7.9/10 from 534 users
- DirectorDavid LivingstonStarsAvery BrooksRene AuberjonoisMichael DornMelanie, 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.Ratings: 9.0/10 from 1,076 users
- 1993–199945mTV-PG9.3 (4.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorJonathan WestStarsAvery BrooksRene AuberjonoisMichael DornSisko 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.Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,026 users
- 1993–199946mTV-PG9.4 (4.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorVictor LoblStarsAvery BrooksRene AuberjonoisMichael DornTo save the Federation in a critical scheme, Sisko comes to realize that he must violate its fundamental principles to do so.Ratings: 9.2/10 from 1,055 users
- DirectorDavid LivingstonStarsKate MulgrewRobert BeltranRoxann DawsonAbout to enter Borg space, Voyager finds a threat so devastating that even the Borg cannot deal with it.Ratings: 8.9/10 from 608 users
- DirectorWinrich KolbeStarsKate MulgrewRobert BeltranRoxann DawsonVoyager 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.Ratings: 8.7/10 from 589 users
- DirectorRobert Duncan McNeillStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockHis 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.Ratings: 8.9/10 from 516 users
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockSet 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.Ratings: 8.8/10 from 552 users
- 2001–200543mTV-PG8.2 (1.9K)TV EpisodeDirectorMarvin V. RushStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockThe 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.Ratings: 8.7/10 from 502 users
- DirectorJames KerwinStarsVic MignognaTodd HaberkornChuck HuberThis 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 plot against Kirk to take control of the Enterprise.Ratings: 9.1/10 from 126 users (Entry in fan film series; this entry is set in the Mirror Universe.)
- DirectorJack MarshallStarsJames CawleyJeffery QuinnJohn M. KelleyA 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 when an old disease starts to age him at an alarming pace. Celebrating 40 years of Star Trek, Walter Koenig returns as Pavel Chekov, the best weapons officer the USS Enterprise will ever have.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)
- DirectorMarc Scott ZicreeStarsJames CawleyJeffery QuinnJohn M. KelleyDuring an emergency transport, Sulu returns 30 years older than when he left and with his daughter.Ratings: 8.2/10 from 258 users (Guest starring George Takei reprising his role as Sulu from The Original Series)
- DirectorTim RussStarsWalter KoenigNichelle NicholsAlan RuckIt 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 original USS Enterprise have gone their separate ways. Captain Nyota Uhura and Captain Pavel Chekov, along with Captain John Harriman of the Enterprise-B, come together for a special dedication in honor of Kirk's Enterprise. Their reunion is cut short when they receive a distress call from a mysterious planet, that presses the three friends to embark on a mission that will change their lives forever.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.")
- DirectorJ.J. AbramsStarsChris PineZachary QuintoSimon PeggThe 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.Ratings: 8.0/10 from 478,877 users