# Star Trek chronology **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [August 3, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659 "2025-08-03T13:35:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/41 "2025-08-04T22:30:43Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > After all 80 years later than that the French will have developed a rather nice RP accent. Make it so. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/42 "2025-08-05T00:16:55Z")
Enterprise is in the 22nd Century. It is before the Federation is founded in 2161 (although we do see the founding in a flash forward). TOS is in the 23rd Century about a 100 years later give or take. Discovery started about 10 years before TOS but ended in the 32nd Century far in the Future. Strange New Worlds is set a few years after Discovery’s 23rd Century setting and before TOS’. TNG begins around 100 years after (at one point they said it was 76 years but that doesn’t line up with the dates we are given) in 2364 the 24th Century. Starting with Season 1 of TNG, each season of the 90s-2000 era shows was a year of story time. Not counting flash forwards, Voyager ends in the late 2370s. Lower Decks is in the 2380s. Picard is in the early 25th Century. The TOS movies take place between TOS and TNG (barring time travel). The TNG Movies take place in the 2370s. The JJ Abrams Movies are an alternate universe but the Spock from the Prime one helped create it. He left the Prime universe in the 2370s but those movies are set in an alternate TOS era. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/43 "2025-08-05T00:17:02Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I didn’t remember that TNG used the theme from TMP as their own theme. They changed like one or two notes from the MP theme to TNG, and now the TNP version sounds very wrong! Also, I think they lengthened the flyby in the Special Edition. I don’t know how much more they could see, but they found a way. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/44 "2025-08-05T00:28:17Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > The new Scotty has a much better accent. And all of his fingers. For now. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/45 "2025-08-05T00:37:35Z")
It will be a really amazing coincidence if Martin Quinn ends up getting his fingers bitten off by a zombie. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/46 "2025-08-05T00:53:28Z")
I know that Doonan tried to hide his missing finger because he was ashamed of it, but really, they should have leaned into that, because it was perfectly in character for Scotty to have lost a finger somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/47 "2025-08-05T14:41:38Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > Star Trek: The Motion Picture That why people joking call it _Star Trek: The **Motionless** Picture._ ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/48 "2025-08-05T15:53:26Z")
I just made the mistake or trying to watch _Star Trek: Section 31._ I say trying because I got less than half an hour into it before giving up in disgust. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/49 "2025-08-05T17:02:32Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > because it was perfectly in character for Scotty to have lost a finger somewhere. Welllll….. With 23rd century tech, that can cure artificially engineered diseases that cause huge purple blotches, that magically fade away leaving no trace, or fixing radiation induced senility with no lasting damage, or reattaching all the nerves to a removed brain, then repairing a lost finger should be child’s play! So theoretically, by the 23rd century, there should be no missing limbs, or eyeglasses, bad teeth. I don’t disagree with hiding an actor’s missing limb. And I suspect that, by the 24th century, they would have cured MPB. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/50 "2025-08-05T18:08:50Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I just made the mistake or trying to watch _Star Trek: Section 31._ You were warned. > [@Star Trek Section 31 (The movie, not the general concept.) (Or, okay, the general concept too if you want the thread to go that way—I'm easy.)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-section-31-the-movie-not-the-general-concept-or-okay-the-general-concept-too-if-you-want-the-thread-to-go-that-way-im-easy/1013347): > > So very, incredibly bad. It reminds me a lot of the Rick and Morty episode parodying the Avengers, except it takes itself seriously. Or maybe it should be called Plan Oceans 11 From Outer Space? Early on during the character introductions it reminded me a little of Battle Beyond the Stars except that I like Battle Beyond the Stars. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/51 "2025-08-05T19:41:08Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I know that Doonan tried to hide his missing finger because he was ashamed of it, The show could spring for Nimoy’s ears but couldn’t drop a few bucks for a prosthetic finger? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/52 "2025-08-05T19:48:38Z")
Yeah, I missed that thread when it was posted, since I didn’t think I was going to be watching it at the time. The only reason I tried to watch it now was because I was bored and decided to catch up on movies I had missed. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/53 "2025-08-06T03:25:04Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And I suspect that, by the 24th century, they would have cured MPB. If I remember correctly Gene Roddenberry said(in reference to Picard being bald)—“_By the 24th century, no one will care._” ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659/54 "2025-08-06T03:25:17Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > That why people joking call it _Star Trek: The **Motionless** Picture._ I’m almost 55 and I still feel bad for making my Dad take me to see this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-chronology/1021659.md?page=2)