My husband is being inflicted with ST:TNG because he was unfortunately not exposed to it properly as a child - we’re up to season 5 now, and getting into the Cardassian/Bajoran deal, which naturally made me think of DS9, which I think he’d also enjoy.
I know there’s a bit of crossover between the two series, and that’s fine and all, but it would be fun to watch them concurrently because I am pretty sure they were both airing at the same time for a while.
But I can’t find out (google-fu failure) when *exactly *the first episode of DS9 is supposed to fall in the TNG series chronology.
The Borg assimilate Captain Jean-Luc Picard – the Battle of Wolf 359 is fought 7.7 light years from Earth in Sector 001. The battle results in the loss of 39 Starfleet vessels and over 11,000 lives; the Borg continue to Earth. Picard is rescued and the Borg cube is destroyed via the actions of the Enterprise-D.
2369–2375
The events of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
2371
The events of Star Trek Generations. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) is destroyed – the stardrive section by a warp core breach; the saucer section containing the crew makes a forced landing on Veridian III. The ship is subsequently declared a total loss. James T. Kirk reappears from the temporal continuum in which he had been since his disappearance in 2293; Kirk is killed on Veridian III (Kirk is resurrected a month later in a subsequent story).
2371–2378
The events of Star Trek: Voyager.
"Caretaker": the USS Voyager is stranded in the Delta Quadrant.
it probably means I have WAAY too much time on my hands, but back when I was watching TNG in proper order finally, I put together a chronological list of DS9 and TNG episodes, based on their air dates. They only overlap for TNG’s 6th and 7th seasons, so it’s not that hard to sync them up. It does make a difference to watch these in the correct order, as events from one series are directly applicable to the other (the Federation/Cardassian peace-treaty for example).
So here it is:
TNG S6E10 “Chain of Command, Part I”
TNG S6E11 “Chain of Command, Part II”
DS9 S1E01-102 “Emissary”
DS9 S1E03 “Past Prologue”
DS9 S1E04 “A Man Alone”
DS9 S1E05 “Babel” 46423.7
TNG S6E12 “Ship in a Bottle”
DS9 S1E06 “Captive Pursuit”
TNG S6E13 “Aquiel”
DS9 S1E07 “Q-Less”
TNG S6E14 “Face of the Enemy”
DS9 S1E08 “Dax”
TNG S6E15 “Tapestry”
DS9 S1E09 “The Passenger”
TNG S6E16 “Birthright, Part I”
TNG S6E17 “Birthright, Part II”
DS9 S1E10 “Move Along Home”
DS9 S1E10 “Move Along Home”
TNG S6E18 “Starship Mine”
DS9 S1E11 “The Nagus”
TNG S6E19 “Lessons”
DS9 S1E12 “Vortex”
DS9 S1E13 “Battle Lines”
TNG S6E20 “The Chase”
DS9 S1E14 “The Storyteller”
TNG S6E21 “Frame of Mind”
DS9 S1E15 “Progress”
TNG S6E22 “Suspicions”
DS9 S1E16 “If Wishes Were Horses”
TNG S6E23 “Rightful Heir”
DS9 S1E17 “The Forsaken”
TNG S6E24 “Second Chances”
DS9 S1E18 “Dramatis Personae”
DS9 S1E19 “Duet”
TNG S6E25 “Timescape”
DS9 S1E20 “In the Hands of the Prophets”
TNG S6E26 “Descent”
TNG S7E01 “Descent, Part II”
DS9 S2E01 “The Homecoming”
TNG S7E02 “Liaisons”
DS9 S2E02 “The Circle”
TNG S7E03 “Interface”
DS9 S2003 “The Siege”
TNG S7E04 “Gambit, Part I”
DS9 S2004 “Invasive Procedures”
TNG S7E05 “Gambit, Part II”
DS9 S2E05 “Cardassians”
TNG S7E06 “Phantasms”
DS9 S2E06 “Melora”
TNG S7E07 “Dark Page”
DS9 S2E07 “Rules of Acquisition”
TNG S7E08 “Attached”
DS9 S2E08 “Necessary Evil”
TNG S7E09 “Force of Nature”
DS9 S2E09 “Second Sight”
TNG S7E10 “Inheritance”
DS9 S2E10 “Sanctuary”
TNG S7E11 “Parallels”
DS9 S2E11 “Rivals”
DS9 S2E12 “The Alternate”
TNG S7E12 “The Pegasus”
TNG S7E13 “Homeward”
DS9 S2E13 “Armageddon Game”
TNG S7E14 “Sub Rosa”
DS9 S2E14 “Whispers”
TNG S7E15 “Lower Decks”
DS9 S2E15 “Paradise”
TNG S7E16 “Thine Own Self”
DS9 S2E16 “Shadowplay”
TNG S7E17 “Masks”
DS9 S2E17 “Playing God”
TNG S7E18 “Eye of the Beholder”
TNG S7E19 “Genesis”
DS9 S2E19 “Blood Oath”
TNG S7E20 “Journey’s End”
DS9 S2E20 “The Maquis, Part I”
TNG S7E21 “Firstborn”
DS9 S2E21 “The Maquis, Part II”
TNG S7E22 “Bloodlines”
DS9 S2E22 “The Wire”
DS9 S2E23 “Crossover”
TNG S7E23 “Emergence”
TNG S7E24 “Preemptive Strike”
DS9 S2E24 “The Collaborator”
TNG S7E25-26 “All Good Things…”
DS9 S2E25 “Tribunal”
DS9 S2E26 “The Jem’Hadar”
Voyager begins right after DS9 S3E12 “Past Tense, Part II” - building on the established Maquis storyline. But since Voyager ends up in another quadrant of the galaxy, they don’t interact with the other series. So besides the premier, it doesn’t matter when you watch the remainder (just skip “Tuvix”)…
There’s a lot more of Voyager that Tuvix that’s worth skipping. Like that episode where Tom breaks warp 10… Oh man… I’d rather watch the space hippies ep of TOS than that.
We’re probably going to skip Voyager entirely, as there are other series that we need to get on to, but that timeline of episodes was epic. Too much time indeed, damn man!
Why? The Space Hippies episode is boring. “Threshold” may be worse, but it’s entertainingly bad. It’s just one ludicrous thing after another. They don’t have long sections of the story bring artificially lengthened by singing that has nothing to do with the plot.
And oh those typos in the Tuvix thread. I read like I’m an ESL speaker.
There are some fantastic moments in Voyager - several of the doctor centric episodes are well worth watching - as is “the year of hell” - its unfortunate that they had so many craptastical episodes in between - “Tuvix” actually has some interesting issues within it to think about from a sci-fi type perspective - and went way downhill well after they nullified the borg, etc.
ETA - I quit watching voyager around the time they introduced 7 of 9 - the crossover with the WWE was the nail in the coffin.
Agreed. While the premise is a bit ridiculous on it’s face - and the thought that the hybrid is actually more interesting than either character being generally true - it does bring up some serious moral issues, which some would expect good sci-fi to do…