STAR TREK Recap: The Whole Story EXPLAINED

Star Trek has a long, rich history spanning movies and television shows. After all, it's the original cinematic universe. But it can be very overwhelming, trying to start watching this 55 year franchise. So we've compiled a recap of all things Star Trek, leading up to the beginning of Picard Season 2.
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Written and Hosted by Ryan Arey ( / ryanarey )
Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright
0:00 Star Trek, Explained
1:00 Ancient AI, Eugenics Wars, and World War 3
2:54 Zephram Cochrane, Vulcans, and Utopia
4:30 Star Trek: Enterprise and the Birth of the Federation
5:35 Discovery and the Klingon War
7:18 The Original Series, Kirk, Spock, and Khan
8:52 The Next Generation: Data, Q, and the Borg
11:36 Deep Space Nine
14:25 Voyager and Seven of Nine
15:30 Mars Attack and Romulan Supernova
17:31 Picard Recap
Star Trek Picard is about to debut it’s second season, after a couple years’ worth of COVID delays. So, maybe you forgot a lot of what happened in season 1.
Or maybe you’re a Star Trek novice, and you’re not sure where to begin in this nearly 60 year old cinematic universe. Or maybe you’re just like me, you love Star Trek, and you think it’ll be fun to relive the history and then nitpick in the comments with quotes from memory alpha.
Star Trek takes place in a Utopia 3 to 4 hundred years in the future, when humanity has finally sorted itself out and we’re exploring space. It’s a series about exploration, discovery, and believing in the best of humanity. This recap will try to cover the basics of all the main shows, while focusing on what you’ll need to know for Picard season 2.
So, eons ago, before humanity existed, a very powerful race of artificial intelligent beings moved 8 suns near one another, and left a message at the center. The message is intended for other artificial life forms, and basically said:
Hello, we are other super intelligent life forms from the distant past. If you ever want to, like, kill organic life forms or stuff, you should summon us. That would be cool.”
Let’s fast forward to the 1990s, when the timeline splits off from our own timeline. Genetic manipulation created a race of super-beings called the Augments, who rose up to conquer huge chunks of earth, kicking off the eugenics wars. Millions of people died, and humanity entered a new Dark age as one of these Augments, Khan Noonian Singh, conquered over a fourth of the planet. But humans fought back, overthrew Khan, and he fled earth with a bunch of his fellow supermen.
After this, wealth inequality choked the government, and the US forced people into slums called Sanctuary districts. In 2024 a riot broke out in San Francisco, dozens of people were killed, and this made people start focusing on actually improving the world instead of sweeping their poor people under the rug.
But, a couple years later that didn't matter much, because world war 3 kicked off and lasted nearly 30 years, reducing huge chunks of the planet to radioactive waste.
Afterwards America was fractured into smaller firms, led by tyrants like colonel green. And then in the post atomic horror that followed, many societies were reduced to barbaric tribes that held witch trials
But then, from a small refugee camp came a rock n roll loving scientist named Zephram Cochran who invented warp travel, which allows you to travel faster than light.
IN the year 2063 his first flight caught the attention of some aliens who were passing by. They were called Vulcans, and they are a race that has expelled all emotion and operates slowly on logic. Except for like, once every seven years during the pon farr and then they fuck like people.
Thousands of years before the Vulcans had a civil war, where they split off from another group who became the secretive, emotional Romulan empire.
But back on earth, things are great. First contact with an alien race unites humanity, and people finally put aside weath, money, racism, and influencers to build a perfect society. Cochrane becomes a hero, and he gives a speech that’s a mission statement for space expiration.
Over the next 90 years, the Vulcans are very slow to share their technology with earth, until we get our shit together. Finally-in the year 2151-we created our first deep space ship, the Enterprise-with a Vulcan advisor on board. And there is a weird sexually tense massage gel scene in the first episode.
#StarTrek #Picard #Recap

[@ScreenCrush]

What's your favorite Star Trek?

[@mrgreatbigmoose]

I could watch TOS anywhere, anytime. TNG used to be #1 but I've like DS9 more and more every time I watch it. So I guess TOS is my favourite.

[@dandeckr]

My favorite to re-watch is TNG, but the Best Trek™ is Deep Space 9. I enjoy TAS without irony, and I'm really digging all the modern Trek we're being treated to.

[@acolytesounds]

Next Gen and Voyager followed by DS9, then TOS, Enterprise. For the new shows, probably Discovery followed by Picard. Still need to watch the Lower Decks!!

[@EduardoMedradodeAndrade]

Deep Space Nine is the best!

[@matthewLkidder]

Probably next generation, but the Original is really good as well.

[@wraith7298]

The Enterprise C was captained by Rachel Garrett. Fraiser was the captain of the Bozeman, the ship that kept coming out of a timeloop and destroying the Enterprise D.

[@jasonstadnyk2348]

And when they needed a random ship to be close to help the enterprise it was the Bozeman (or in ST8)

[@drkoala]

If they were looking for a similar joke that works in canon, the Enterprise C was also briefly captained by Shooter McGavin.

[@davechan8613]

@@drkoala When he went back in time, he told the Romulus that he eats pieces of shit like them for breakfast.

[@jerrronimo3861]

Thank you! Although I think they did that on purpose. For “engage”ment :)

[@jliller]

There's a Star Trek novel where Morgan Bateson gets to be captain of the Enterprise-E because of his seniority caused by the time travel accident. It doesn't go well. But technically Screen Crush isn't wrong.

[@GetIrked]

People can nitpick, but as a 45-year-old lifelong Trekkie, I think anyone would be hard-pressed to summarize the entire Star Trek universe in 20 minutes better than this. Mind-blowingly fantastic job!! Wow!! 😀👍

[@nvonliph]

Don't cover Discovery or Picard. Improved.

[@HansLemurson]

@@nvonliph I concur.

[@cactustree505]

totally agree

[@oneflowerninjamagic1912]

co-$ign . thumbs up#10

[@spaceace1006]

65 here!!

[@rugeeg]

Why wasn’t Archer’s contributions more highlighted here? His crew wasn’t even introduced. He literally helped found the beginnings of the Federation. I thought ST: Enterprise was highly underrated.

[@duelinglectrics]

Considering Johnathan archer went on to not only form the alliance through that treaty but helped form and then became the first president of the federation of planets . I feel like an entire show on that whole bit is warranted . And a bit on the progression to how they became so widely spread and the beginnings of the idea that it should continue and prosper

[@tiestofalljays]

Say what you will about Enterprise, but I honestly enjoyed it. I guess it kinda came out at a bad time (“Star Trek fatigue” and all). Archer, Tucker, and Phlox were well-done characters imo. I’d put Phlox as my #2 fav Star Trek Doctor behind the EMH from Voyager. The tech in the show felt appropriately “prequel”, unlike Discovery Season 1. *spolier below I just wish we knew what Archer’s speech was at the end of the show :(

[@ocirontariocryptidinvestig8010]

I was 13 when Enterprise came out and 17 it ended it was the first star trek I ever got to watch all the way through it will always be my favorite star trek. girls always thought it was surprising I was a huge star trek fan I used to force them to watch it, keep in mind this was before being a nerd was cool.

[@whom382]

Half Archer's crew are so bland I can't tell you one character traits about them.

[@apostolicfaithworx6756]

Underwritten unfortunately

[@cagedraptor]

One of the highlights of my nerdiness life was having dinner with Gene Roddenberry. Yes, the Great Bird of the Galaxy himself. It is a fond memory and a story I love telling, even to this day.

[@bethanygee6939]

That's amazing. I've often wondered what he was like in real life.

[@cagedraptor]

@@bethanygee6939 He was a very friendly and personable guy. After the showing of "The Cage" and the talk he gave we all went to a large dinning room where we sat. It was the friend I went with and two others, at our table. Gene came walking by and stopped at our table. He looked at us and asked if we would mind if he would sit and chat with us. He sat there for about 45 minutes and we talked, not about Star Trek or anything but just normal everyday things. Such a wonderful memory.

[@testfire3000]

@@cagedraptor Super cool! They say you should never meet your heroes, you proved them wrong.

[@benhemphill]

One point that was a big reveal in TNG was that all humanoid life was seeded by an original race that traveled the galaxy and found they were alone and they hoped the message they encoded in the DNA of their progeny would allow them to treat each other better through that shared link.

[@MarkShank]

very good point. the video should start here before it gets to the 1990s.

[@jeffk464]

Yeah, That was a good episode and explained how you could have mixed species children. That should be impossible, although in the original series Spock had green blood and I think they said his organs were different than humans, so should still be impossible. Remember how bones was always talking about how he wasn't familiar with Vulcan physiology.

[@Bill_Woo]

How does this tie to the Q "goo" as the species was formed, taking Picard there (in time) to torment him as the eliminator of their very formation? Or is that what you're already talking about.

[@ralphralpherson9441]

@@Bill_Woo That was the creation of life on EARTH, not the design of DNA for all humanoid life in the cosmos.

[@nathanieldaiken1064]

The reason Picard is French with a British accent is because countries as such no longer exist.

[@mikehibbett3301]

Wow. You just summarised my entire life (I'm 57) I saw the original Star trek on a black & white TV. Brilliant summary!

[@Cymru2k2]

And a red headed doctor, 'shut up wesley'. Nearly mad me slit my drink out 😂😂😂

[@YiYaEmperor]

Watching this is like having a constant stream of flashbacks to the best parts of my Star Trek youth... 😂

[@jfess1911]

"We do not discuss it with outsiders." The best line uttered in Star Trek!

[@seasidescott]

Absolutely! I laughed so much at the wannabe trek fans who made such a fuss of the different appearance of the Klingons in Discovery. For me it was a great uptake on Worf's old joke. I think only equaled by the line in the 2009 Star Trek movie "screw the timeline!".

[@jfess1911]

@@seasidescott Although, as an old guy, the continually changing Klingons annoyed me for a long time. In the late 60's and though most of the '70's some of us literally grew up watching TOS after school. We had internalized that universe and its races. It is difficult for younger people to understand, but during the Cold War, when nuclear annihilation seemed very probable, the mere idea of Humanity surviving to the Star Trek era was hopeful and comforting. It was quite a shock to see the changes that each new director seemed to add with each new movie or series. I still see it mainly as a sign of the vanity of a director or art director to change previously existing designs. I have no problem with adding new things, like different races of Klingon. To change well known race and creature designs in an established series is merely an egotistical move. On a lighter note I will never forget a friend's reaction to the Klingons in Search for Spock: "The Bad Guys (Klingons) are BALD! Now kids are going to be afraid of bald men and run away in terror!" As you might guess, my friend was nearly bald at the time.

[@antoniojones6256]

It's right up there with, "I AM NOT A MERRY MAN!", also said by Worf in Sherwood Forrest attire.

[@wadeepperson6906]

I'm glad they finally told the story eventually even if we had to watch a completely different series 😆

[@robi6317]

i dont know about the best line

[@markconley9279]

I love how, with all the technology, poor Captain Pike can only communicate with a light that beeps once per yes and twice for no. I guess they no longer knew the ancient form of communication called Morse Code. 😁

[@DiscoTimelordASD]

I can not believe I missed this!

[@sagesheahan6732]

Not even a vocalizer... Like, wtf man. 😂😂

[@doesntmatter6736]

Vger had to come back from Cybertron to teach them

[@catherineeden6079]

I thoight he could only blink yes or no because he was so very damaged not even space technology could do better. Like he had been reduced to slime mold level.

[@chriselyr2484]

Glad to see DS9 get the love it deserves!!

[@elphiegleason3899]

Best show

[@vykx88]

7:49 Australia getting called out from the 1960s were wild! 😂

[@jakem5120]

It just warms my heart when I encounter another who appreciates DS9 for what it is. Thank you for your contribution, good sir.

[@captainnes8520]

All real Trekkies.. aka non Kelvin lens flare fans... Know ds9 was truly the best Trek!

[@TChalla616]

@@captainnes8520 DS9 has always been my favorite.

[@captainnes8520]

@@TChalla616 for me.. not always.. big Generations/Picard fan, but when Netflix first came out with streaming, circa 2009, i rewatched every ds9 episode and was like whoa.. not only best Trek.. but possible best TV of all time.. amazing!!!

[@thirdcoast6513]

DS9 is one of my favourites. When i watched the shows for the first time i went back and forth between TNG and DS9. Was a good time

[@aliengranpa]

I remember liking ds9 just fine, but the whole Dax character concept bugged me for some reason I can't remember.

[@ultramaximusreviews]

Fraiser did not Captain the Enterprise C, he was Captain of the USS Bozeman. The Enterprise C was commanded by Captain Garrett played by Tricia O'Neil who basically made a living guest starring on every single TV show in the 70s and 80s. The Voyager didn't fall into a wormhole - it was pulled to the Delta Quadrant via the Care Taker. And Voyager didn't go so fast - it was the Delta Flyer. Never made sense how the Synth was able to do a Vulcan Mind Meld... she's telepathic? And why didn't they just upload Data into a new body?

[@amybiblewski6038]

Good job. Maybe Screencrush should hire you.

[@maryham6533]

Any real fan already knows this so they either aren't that into Star trek or Ryan and co. are messing with us.

[@amybiblewski6038]

@@maryham6533 They have to be messing with the fans, right? Even if you were vaguely aware of Star Trek wouldn't you use Google or Memory Alpha to research what you didn't know?

[@brightross]

Ryan I love you but has the Frazier reboot made you really confused?

[@mathisb2889]

I think (and I have to admit, I hate the First season of Picard), they didn't uploaded him, because he wanted to finish his journey towards a full grown human. Death was his last step.

[@1badsj]

I am old enough to have watched the original series on TV when I was a kid. My favorite chapter was Voyager as it did not have all the political ties with all the alliances and enemies that the others had. However, you have shown glimpses of storylines I have not even been aware of. I will have to look into those.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

I like Voyager a bit better than DS9. It's not my very favorite Star Trek - it has a few issues. *Everyone* seems to pick on that one wacky Voyager episode in order to pan the whole thing. It's like the detractors are all *Borg.* DS9 was too focused on one place, had too many impossible things, and was too cheesy for me. Voyager did what Star Trek was supposed to do - explore new worlds, new tech, and new civilizations. ...With a little ♫Baby!♪ thrown in.

[@Klokinator]

@@FLPhotoCatcher My biggest issue with Voyager was and still is its failure to capitalize on several unique premises it could have followed, to develop villains properly, and to have longform plotlines instead of boring episodic content. But it was still a good series and had some of the greatest individual episodes in all of Trek. To me, the finale of Voyager concluded the era of Good Star Trek. Now we just have the soulless moneymaking spectacles.

[@egustafson]

@@Klokinator have you seen strange new world?

[@quantumvideoscz2052]

@@egustafson Have YOU? The show is better than Disco and Picard, sure, but not by THAT much. It's basically a soap opera / CW show, but in space. The "best of the best of the best of Starfleet" act like goddamn teenagers. That show managed to make Spock worse than what Abrams did to him. And it straight up steals from other stories, quite interesting ones, like Those Who Walked Away from Omelas.

[@jfrader]

Great episode! Seriously so much work out into this. As a long time star trek fan who has other things to do, it’s tough to stay on top of all the content. Love this refresher!

[@jplonsdale7242]

You can skip everything after Enterprise and that will save you time

[@---oq5kb]

@@jplonsdale7242 lower decks, SNW, and prodigy are all better than enterprise lmao.

[@wills2140]

7:22 Capt Kirk *did not* take command of the Enterprise due to Capt Pike being injured. The accident that disfigured Capt Pike happened some time after Pike was promoted to Commodore and given another assignment off ship. Same thing that happens to both Kirk and Picard being promoted to Admiral and leaving their respective Enterprise.

[@spaceace1006]

08:50 - Another error! Fraiser😁 Never commanded any ship called Enterprise! He commanded the Bozeman!!

[@Robert08010]

@@spaceace1006 "On an interesting side note, ummmm, John Ratzenberger was tapped to play his ummmmm cyborg engineer. He practically saves the whole universe. "

[@lorenzwinterhoff8049]

Point of order: Kirk takes over for Pike in the KELVIN timeline, so it is correct, just not in the context of preparing for Star Trek Picard.

[@lesyankee6129]

& and in the "mirror" universe, Kirk takes command of ISS Enterprise by killing Pike.

[@bamfordsteele555]

Mr. Spock could beat Captain Kirk in a fight.

[@melaninxhalide1165]

Would love a longer version of this where you don’t have to speed through all the history and lore. Like I never knew any of the history of the nuclear war and all that stuff before the Federation was created.

[@montithered4741]

A separate video on each race history would be fantastic!

[@jasonscott7527]

It's not the same time line as TNG the contract for the rites states it has to be x amount different. This video dosent mean anything.

[@DaveMalkoff]

They have this great version on Paramount + where they go in-depth into each series. Each episode is, like, an hour long.

[@seasidescott]

It's all from quick references that don't always agree with each other so ScreenCrush actually did a fine job not spinning into those debates and giving the agreed upon general timeline. What is very interesting is the prediction (off by many decades) of the desperate decline of neoliberal capitalism and the slow brutality that is actually happening as they try to squeeze the last bits of power from it.

[@robi6317]

take the time to watch the shows?

[@jenergomes]

Wow! What a great summary! Kudos to the writer and the editing. The images very illustrative, the only error was showing a non-relevant ship while referring to the Enterprise E (which had one of my favourite designs). Also, as previously mentioned in the comments, a relevant plot was the humanoid seeding DNA - which was a great idea to explain why almost all beings are humanoid in the Star Trek universe (besides being performed by human actors).

[@methos-ey9nf]

Can't help but feel more time is spent summarizing Picard than all of DS9...

[@BernieDaddy]

Born in 1976 I have grown up loving Star Trek and I’m just thrilled to see Steve Carell‘s cousin chronologically recap the Star Trek universe. Great video!

[@raven4k998]

find him and kill him🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cecilj4129]

Glad to see someone acknowledge the masterpiece of film that is The Voyage Home

[@sethaldrich6902]

Yep, even numbered movies of star trek were great, odd numbered sucked.

[@xsu-is7vq]

and never mentioned that thing between the voyage home and undiscovered country

[@cecilj4129]

@@xsu-is7vq the only good part of that thing is Kirks talk with 'God' But we were robbed that sybock wasn't played by Leonard Nimoy in a Mustache. That would have made that movie at least hilariously bad and not just bad

[@ViroVV]

@@sethaldrich6902 The Voyage home is by far the worst TOS cast film hands down.

[@mikester1290]

@@ViroVV Well, it's my favourite one.

[@patrickmackin2128]

This was an outstanding, informative and entertaining summary. The next installment will have to explain Lower Decks, Prodigy, Strange New Worlds and the Kelvin universe. :-)

[@p.o.m.g5240]

Instant gag reflex at the mention of discovery

[@colonial6452]

"A Piece of the Action" was my favorite Star Trek episode. The original Star Trek, along with Laugh In, filled our college dorm TV room to the max.

[@brettlovell8761]

Vulcans still have emotions, they just keep them tightly under wraps and use logic as a framework for decision-making. That's why Tim Russ portrayed the best Vulcan yet seen on screen.

[@daxbradley4346]

Russ's Tuvok was the greatest thing about Voyager. Unfortunately, producers brought in 38DD of 9 and every episode became an attempt to bring in the 13-year-old boys and good stories with characters like Tuvok went to the back-burner

[@mikester1290]

You say Tim Russ, my brain says "WE AI'NT FOUND SHIT!"

[@jdhenge]

@@mikester1290 Combing the desert??

[@hydmonger2816]

@@jdhenge That was then. This is now.

[@pat34lee]

How about Spock's brother on the last ST movie? Of course, the movie itself wasn't that good.

[@Mistrblank]

The description of the crew for NG is amazing delivery and why I love this channel.

[@NateWoollard]

Thank you for this. I just finished watching all of the new shows (including Lower Decks.) Now I am just confused with the whole timeline and series of events. I had to watch this twice to really get it. Great video

[@alexcontreras8189]

What is confusing? The alternate Star Trek universe is mostly consistent, only the years/ stardates have varied. History is often off by a few years.

[@dawnturner7010]

I've been a Trekkie since the first episode of the original series and have loved them all since. This is the number one best synopsis I've ever seen and now I want to watch them all again from beginning to end! :)

[@dawnturner7010]

@@NecessaryTruths Quite possibly!

[@DrG65199]

You loved them all? You watched the majesty of TNG and ds9 and somehow enjoy discovery? Disappointing

[@elgueydelaesquina]

@@DrG65199 and what right do You have on other person likings?

[@hollaifyahearme5771]

Discovery's characters are lame

[@sabrewolf4129]

@@elgueydelaesquina After decades of actual Trek, we get Jar Jar Trek, Rick and Morty Trek, Prodijunk and Star Drek Pecan. @DrG6519 is right, NuDrek is garbage.

[@razzle1964]

For those who say they don't like or get it, or care - the point is outlined at the start: it's supposed to show a better, more promising side to humanity - ironed out some problems, still working on others, etc. & riddled with metaphor (as accentuated in 'Darmok' S5 e2).

[@nickrich56]

I don't think Roddenberry would have steered the shows the way they've gone. His outlook was a lot brighter.

[@godoftwinkies574]

Seal should be proud his song was so often associated with "fun times".

[@mgrids455]

Brilliant recap! Please consider making individual ones for each series, especially DS9 - it’s my favourite as well and there’s a lot that got skipped over

[@lectornox]

Your favorite what are you crazy lol jk it's my favorite too well one of them lol

[@becausepuppets]

We third this! A recap of each individual iteration would be awesome!

[@mgrids455]

@@lectornox it really got good with Way of the Warrior and the new upbeat intro, really marked a turning point for the series. Ryan can skip all but the essential bits of seasons 1-3 :P

[@markrothenbuhler6232]

DS9 is the best! Highlighted best episodes: Duet, The Wire, The Visitor, Our Man Bashir, Rules of Engagement, Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places,

[@sallgoodman2323]

I'm trying to get into ds9 right now

[@jamesgravil9162]

"... three to four hundred years in the future, when humanity has finally sorted itself out." That's the most farfetched aspect of this show's premise.

[@Terminator484]

Sadly, things are far more likely to end up looking like The Expanse in 300 years. (sigh)

[@AramisWyler]

@@Terminator484 We should be so lucky. Humanity will be sorted out in 70 years when there's nothing left but radioactive dust.

[@jrus690]

What, no confidence. Granted, our history is not a great indication, but it is our history, not our future. We might actually be doing fine.

[@mundanestuff]

I'm a pessimistic optimist? An optimistic pessimist? I think we'll do fine, and in the Star Trek universe, we don't start out fine, we stumble quite a bit until some key technologies are brought to bear that eliminate scarcity and subsequently quite a bit of need for competition. Sure it'll look more like The Expanse, dirty, gritty, smelly, but iron/steel, water, energy etc will be trivially inexpensive, and not what they are made out to be in The Expanse because most of the solar system has easy access to water if you're able to accelerate at more than 1G for extended periods of time. The problem won't be cost of resources, cost of transportation, cost of energy. The problem will be political.

[@Cthulhu4President]

...No it's not... Part of that "humanity getting their act together" involved a war to keep people from augmenting their bodies with technology and gene manipulation.

[@maxjohansen9475]

This channel owes so much of its appeal to Seal’s Kiss from a Rose

[@eddruff]

The descriptions to the TNG crew had me cracking up

[@tehcks]

For new fans to clarify some language: The Enterprise from the 60s show had the serial number NCC-1701. Over time, new Enterprises were built and given the same number, but with a letter appended, eg NCC-1701-A. In the show, and among fans, we'll say eg "Enterprise D" when we need to be clear about which one we mean. There's some debate about which is the best or coolest of course, but they share the most important feature of all: You treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home.

[@ChrisPyle]

Unless you use the auto destruct sequence to kill Kahn lol

[@brettlovell8761]

@@ChrisPyle or play too rough with the Klingons. Or fight too many Romulans. Or crash her in to a planet...

[@JohnFourtyTwo]

That's not how ship hull number sequences work in real life. The shipyard that builds ships has their own hull numbers for each ship build that corresponds with the number the customer finally gives them, they're never the same number. Also when ships reuse previous names, they get a new unique hull number.

[@xp8969]

What did you do to make your mother decide to abandon you at the grocery store?

[@L1z43vr]

@@JohnFourtyTwo Uh, dude. We talking about Star Trek. Not the Navy. In fact, the Navy would probably scowl at the sight of the 60’s and TNG’s “space pajamas” because they’re not proper uniform. Along with the crew’s sometimes weirdly unprofessional behavior in TOS. ( Mitchell calling the captain “Jim” in “Where no man had gone before” and McCoy and Spock fighting come to mind), also are we forgetting about Starfleet ships who are supposed to be made before the Constitution and Enterprise (NCC-1700 and NCC-1701 respectively) having registry numbers like NCC-1684, it’s clear Starfleet doesn’t use the Navy’s hull code

[@ctford27]

I cracked up at Geordie being a blind reading enthusiast 😂

[@Cthulhu4President]

Not sure why that's funny... blind people read, it's called Braille. And no, I didn't miss the obvious reading rainbow reference.

[@jeffk464]

Being blind with augments that make it so you can see is not exactly the same thing as being blind.

[@chumgrinder25]

Thanks for calling that out. I listened to that line four times and still couldn't make out the middle word.

[@richardthomas5362]

In the beginning of TNG he was the navigator, I believe.

[@jim-stacy]

Everything I hear those first few notes I from the OG trek get a warm fuzzy feeling.

[@GeetSivananthan]

This is the chaotic mess of merging all timelines into a relevant continuity that I didn't know I needed lol. Update to S3 of Picard pls. thanks

[@mackharrisiii3306]

Wow! I didn’t think a video this short could cover so much Star Trek. Awesome job!

[@iSleepy59]

This was the best star trek overview i've ever seen....and that ending was awesome lol...had me rolling

[@jamesonsmitty4953]

30 year Star trek fan, highly approve. Excellent work.

[@mtjoy747]

Loved hearing your comical take on the ENTIRE series of series LOL. In Quora, some have asked, what is the best way to start watching Star Trek, I shall take them to this video in KZbin...

[@katykat1313]

I've been a trekkie my whole life but this was fun to see its history mapped out like this. I needed a reminder of the first season before picard season 2. Also I didn't know so much about pre federation history. Thank you!! 🖖

[@violacharlie]

needs more tribble..... :)

[@katykat1313]

@@violacharlie I love all the trouble with Tribbles(ds9 one too)! 😍

[@RLucas3000]

I thought this was fantastic. The two things I would have found time to add: The Organians (and the Organian Peace Treaty), and Lore (Spot gets several mentions but zero for Lore)?

[@optimusprime028]

Became a fan because of the movies and it's lovely to know that the series had a lot more to offer.

[@Daekar3]

This confirms that ST:TOS and ST:TNG are head and shoulders better than subsequent productions by far. Even in hyper-compressed format they're far more interesting. Honorable mention for Voyager, which has always been underrated.

[@thunderofgr]

Even the Voyager video games were criminally underrated.

[@BinyaminTsadikBenMalka]

Best quote of the summary: 14:45 "Neelix, I guess"

[@BoxCatKeys]

Never got into Star Trek although I sometimes wish that I did. Thank you for an excellent overview and mad props to whoever edits these 😂🙌🏻

[@luthandondarala6270]

Time

[@ZoeyZoco]

It’s never too late! Start watching now :)

[@robertcartier5088]

@@ZoeyZoco @LeeTele I second this... It really is worth it. And do it in the order of release dates. That's the way the story is told. Be patient with the older stuff, allow for the growing storytelling and production styles that evolved as television itself did. It's truly, _"fascinating"_ .

[@ForceMaximus84]

TOS and TNG are great. The rest? Not so much.

[@Sorc47]

@@ForceMaximus84 DS9 is amazing, just in a different way.

[@jaeusa160]

@14:55 I thought they kind of soft canon'd that Tom Paris is the same guy from the Wesley episode, with some kind of name change or whatever to give a fresh start. Also, amusingly, Dukat's actor played a completely different and basically identical Cardassian in an episode of TNG as well. Also also Tuvak's around as a human in First Contact. Star Trek series are quite liberal with their reusing of actors.

[@liwoszarchaeologist]

Tim Russ also appears as a lieutenant on the Enterprise B, which makes me wonder how badly Tuvok f'd up that he's STILL a lieutenant on Voyager some 80 years later....

[@AlMcpherson79]

@@liwoszarchaeologist According to Jeri Taylor's 'crew backstory' books, (her first being mosaic for janeway, the second, pathways, for the rest), tuvok retired and eventually returned to starfleet. I dont recall much else, only that they created a short-range transporter that slowly created a cavern nearby a cubic inch at a time to escape a prison, the beamed-in material being left on the prison's "field" as dust like its bloody The Shawshank Redemption.

[@vashisl33t]

He was supposed to be the same guy but they couldnt get the rights for the character So they changed his name.

[@masere]

@@liwoszarchaeologist And was in the TNG episode "Starship Mine".

[@usnationalist]

I enjoyed this. DS9 was by far the best. Grew up watching Next Gen, DS9, and Voyager. Watched Enterprise some time later. Haven't kept up with it beyond that, so this was fun.

[@OmikronTitan]

11:47 The Bajoran Provisional Government asked the Federation to have a presence in the system following the Cardassian withdrawal. The Cardassians didn't agree to anything with the Federation, and as far as I know there was never a peace treaty. They just left as a "political" decision, hence the new Bajoran government asking for a sort of deterrent in keeping them from coming right back.

[@sweatshirtcraft3377]

9:54 Poor Lore, everyone forgets about him. :(

[@phillipponcejr5247]

Also B4, who was in the box.

[@arvindmv7166]

I guess that is why he became evil 🤣

[@carlmagrath6389]

Who? lol

[@danplaysguitar11]

Kelsey Grammer was Captain Bateson of the USS Bozeman, not the Enterprise C, that was captained by Rachel Garret

[@EPogue6]

Good call you beat me by 5 minutes I was just heading here to say the same thing. 🖖🏻

[@MrMann0123]

Ditto

[@FuccoTheClown]

Yep. Also, Voyager didn't get there by wormhole- it was the Caretaker.

[@Arnewyn]

Good catch, I was actually thinking about this tidbit when I saw it in the video, that I have a different memory - a woman captain for Enterprise NCC-1701-C

[@a4realbrotha50]

Thanks for breaking down "Star Trek" Universe, I really do appreciate this.

[@bluecarpettiles]

Love how stuff like DS9 and TNG took a minute or so to describe but Picard is so all over the place it takes ages to go through.

[@AdrianParsons]

Well, the premise of the video is to get viewers ready for Picard season 3. Far more of Star Trek: Picard is relevant to that than is any other series.

[@phillyman2837]

This man just broke down *50 plus* years of Trek🤯

[@mannyalejo772]

Maybe I missed it, but I did not hear any mention of temporal cold war from the 27th century. You are going to have to do another recap of all the alternate timelines and mirror universes. Good luck sorting it all out.

[@chrissennfelder7249]

I miss sci-fi shows like DS9 and TNG. Modern Star Trek feels so dumbed down and violent. The best show of the last decade was The Expanse for me, as it managed to capture some of that old magic, while having great world building due to the novels.

[@Cheiff117]

just finished Picard ! was great , now re watching all of the old ones me and my dad used to watch when i was younger!

[@kyjara]

That was exactly what I was wondering after having bingewatched in a random order. Thanks for laying it out so perfectly.

[@GetMiked]

I'm so used to seeing just Marvel here that seeing Star Trek content feels so strange :'D But I LOVE seeing it in Ryan Arey style :'D DS9 was incredible.

[@bellomori9944]

Dad loves this before he passed now here I am tearing up trying to watch his favorite show and not getting any of it

[@Howwerelivingfishing]

The Klingon singing was killing me. Also I think it’s hilarious that my phone recognizes Klingon as a word. 🖖

[@Dethmegadeth]

This is a cool quick recap. I like how you went through the time line and think even if you did an hour episode just like this there would still be stuff left out.

[@PeteOliva]

This was actually awesome. I actually didn't think it'd be possible to recap everything relevant to the Picard series in 20-ish minutes but yeah, you did it.

[@ItsDrike]

Possibly the best outro I've ever seen

[@dew5090]

Been sleeping on this Star Trek episode of ScreenCrush

[@OziJo1]

Great stuff! I’ve seen probably about 70-80% of Star Trek and knew most of this but you filled some gaps and reminded me of some important details in time for the new season of Picard. Thanks :) Oh my favourite Star Trek will always be TNG and Picard will always be mon Capitaine.

[@frogsnacks]

"A blind reading enthusiast named Jordy" cracked me up way more then it probably should have.

[@ryanheinrick5049]

::cough:: Geordi

[@realzico]

Yo Ryan!! Excellent job my man, also: you are on fire man pumping out vids everyday day it seems like :)

[@teedepefanio4974]

Just.. i love it... "...baby..."... and back to the story... lmao.. thank you for the smiles throughout this program.. great stuff.. 💜🙏💜

[@chrissheffield5468]

The best episode of DS9 was when Odo stunned Garak in the leg and interrogated him by pushing on the wound with his foot as Garak yells "This is against the Prime Directive, man!"

[@spiritof6663]

Besides the Fraser captain snafu, I noticed one more small error: Kirk did not come to command The Enterprise after Pike had his disfiguring accident; that accident happened after Kirk had already taken over the ship.

[@steakslave]

You are correct. Unfortunately, the most recent episode of Strange New Worlds even got that wrong.

[@likeasparrowinthewildernes8333]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 2 Esdras 2: 31 -100 '''''''''''''''''' ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@ipissed]

Nordz

[@willlopez5808]

@@steakslave Such a Strange New World it is, connecting via the internet and discussing plot points of artwork spanning generations. Let alone debating about said artwork decades after it was made.

[@spiritof6663]

@@willlopez5808 But it's cool!! Before the internet it was hard to find other people who were interested in debating the same kind of arcane plot points, artwork, etc. For years I thought I was the only person who liked the early 70s prog band Spring, but on the internet I'm able to find the other few hundred or so people who also know of the band, and we can geek out in tandem. With Star Trek, there's so much to discuss in over a half-century of episodes and films, it's interesting comparing them all against each other.

[@davefarris2014]

So where do I got to get deprogrammed so I don't start laughing every time I hear "Kiss From a Rose" by Seal?

[@ParalyzerDE]

"The Borg - A hive mind culture of cyborgs, that wanna strip mine the galaxy for technical manuals" 😂

[@pobsdad]

If Guinan's race, the El-Aurians, were able to face down the Q to a standstill, how come they had so much trouble with the Borg?

[@raven4k998]

14:10 find him and kill him🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cheese0killer]

For the plot

[@SlashTempest]

So the story can happen!

[@raven4k998]

@@SlashTempest yes he must die for the story to happen set your phaser to maximum so there is no body and there for no crime

[@godoftwinkies574]

Species had probably better adapted to fighting Qs, the same way a pikeman is great vs mounted units but not infantry.

[@mrgreatbigmoose]

Why does Gabriel Bell look so much like Captain Sisko?

[@user-lr3gr3rp2i]

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

[@FTATF]

I remember growing up in a small town in alaska where you coukd only get 1 channel on TV. They showed a lot of start trek. I was never a huge fan, but sometimes it served to pass the time. Certain elements I thought were entertaining.

[@BrianWoodard]

Would love to have you cover Star Trek more regularly.

[@jperickson7737]

Great job. As a star trek fan who hasn't been able follow the story since the ng movies, this was helpful and really enjoyable to watch. Thanks!

[@jplonsdale7242]

Trust me you haven't missed anything

[@jakewicks9514]

Mate! Hands down the best Star Trek breakdown on youtube!

[@mikegunn7912]

"shut up Wesley" was my favorite part of this video

[@TheGblue02]

I feel like I was just given an extensive homework assignment on watching star trek. I've always wanted to get into Star Trek and im glad this video shall guide me into becoming fan

[@ariellekolodzinski6947]

Have fun!!! It’s given me ENDLESS hours of enjoyment

[@raylopez99]

That was excellent. I never watched Star Trek except maybe one or two episodes and I was not expecting such a detailed story line.

[@sabinem.702]

21 minutes and you found time for the Space Lizards. I bow before your greatness.

[@eclipsenow5431]

From my Australian Army days I think Trekkies back there would say "Yeah, I'd buy Garrick a beer." That's army for "WE LOVE YOU GARRICK!"

[@TK0_23_]

That was awesome. I like ST but was never totally immersed. Mostly a Next Gen guy. But seeing the entire history laid out like this was pretty freakin cool. Thank you.

[@IamRobotMonkey]

I'm a very, *very* casual fan of the Star Trek universe having only seen, heard, read a small part of it but I was quite surprised by how much I already knew. This was superbly done though and you helped fill in the missing bits. Massive kudos.

[@angryagain3801]

For a casual Trek guy like me (who mostly appreciates the movies and does not follow the various television series) this was very cool and informative Maybe I'll check out one of the series.

[@Vegita1123]

"Then there's Garak....we love Garak" - most true statement lol

[@Aurich88]

That's an impressive amount of ground covered in 20 minutes of recap.

[@JoeGullo_surfrock66]

Ryan, your videos enhance my viewing of things so much...this video is going to be my go to for explaining trek to people from this point on. I love this so much.

[@MrMann0123]

Have I watched this? Yes I've watched this. Am I going to watch it again? Of course I am

[@Diarmuhnd]

.. nerds .. Nerds. Nerds! *NERDS!* Yes. i am a nerd also. Thanks for sharing this fun and brutally fast Star Trek recap

[@EvanAdnams]

Never forget, all of Star Trek is a post-apocalyptic story.

[@ChrisPyle]

I never thought about that, but you’re right!

[@EvanAdnams]

@@ChrisPyle just that it’s a post-apocalyptic utopia instead of dystopia, haha.

[@ChrisPyle]

@@EvanAdnams Exactly! Lol

[@geoffharris724]

Not bad for a speed run though Star Trek. Two mistakes jumped out at me though, first is Discovery went 930 years into the future, not 700. Second, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) never Captained a Enterprise, he was Captain of the USS Bozeman.

[@jimmythebold589]

bump

[@TimNorton]

This was funny and I liked it. For all you 40 something's who "have watch Star Trek all your lives", I was alive before the first Star Trek show was ever aired. Bow before my advanced age! Bwahahahahahaaa!