A guide listing the titles and air dates for episodes of the tv series star trek. Ive been rewatching voyager, tng, enterprise well basically the whole cannon and picard, discovery and have thought that those episodes bearing in mind the few duds. Discovery coming this sunday on cbs, we asked the people around the office which star. Alternate timelines are a staple of time travel genre, but they normally get trotted out as a fairly vague danger to the status quo that. But time travel is a trek staple, and has some of the best episodes of the franchise have dealt with crazy temporal adventures. The whole star trek saga has a mountain wealth of time travel episodes. Enterprise is the most sharply criticized star trek series ever produced, but despite its many disappointments the show still mustered some genuinely entertaining and. Enterprise is an american science fiction television series that originally aired on the upn network from september 26, 2001 to may, 2005. With entire shows dedicated to time travel, though, like doctor who or the more recent legends of tomorrow, star trek has always had to be a bit more creative with how it tackles the concept. This fan production is not endorsed by, sponsored by, nor affiliated with cbs, paramount pictures, or any other star trek franchise, and is a noncommercial fanmade film series intended for recreational use. The 10 best star trek time travel episodes, ranked nerdist.
The enterprise crew finds kevin living with a facsimile of his wife in the ruins of a federation colony devastated by the husnock, a warlike alien race. However, history has been altered, leaving nazi germany in control of a large portion of the eastern united states. The next generation, season 6, episode 21 1993 if david fincher had directed a star trek episode in the early 90s, perhaps it would have been something along these lines. For us airdates of foreign shows, click through to the futon critic. Enterprise was forever torn between our future and star. Everything else, however, feels like star trek by the numbers, as enterprise suggests a more compelling backstory but then begins at what is essentially the absolute earliest point where the future is recognizably star trek. Earth in the late 1960s had already done this trick, but a bigbudget movie version of the 1980s enterprise having adventures in san francisco was also something of a victory lap for fans. The original series way too many episodes to count while the more modern star trek series tended to not lean on time travel as a crutch, the same.
Enterprise is an american science fiction television series that originally aired on. Pages in category star trek time travel episodesthe following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. Ironically, enterprise is, by all indications, the only star trek series to take place in both the prime timeline comprising the prior shows and movies and the kelvin timeline subsequently created by star trek 2009, with mentions of the nowadmiral archer and a model nx01. The humans make first contact with the klingons, use the transporter to beam up a person for the first time, and even get. The other featurettes are perfunctory, but creating enterprise provides valuable firstseason perspective, and the time travel feature offers a handy reference for the many timetravel episodes from every trek series. Kirk, enterprise takes place during the early pioneering days of deep space exploration, when interstellar travel is in its infancy and the united federation of planets is still decades away. After silik attacks trip, vosk wants to make a deal with.
Star trek had its share of brilliant influential classics like space seed, amok time, the corbomite maneuver, and charlie x, but it had its stinkers too so were ranking all 79 episodes. Time travel existed in sciencefiction long before star trek came along. The study of this phenomenon is one of the focuses of temporal mechanics. Similar to episodes about holoprograms, time travel was a classic device used in the franchise to tell all types of stories. Fontana took viewers back to the famed planet of the time vortex, where city on the edge of forever. Season 4s opening episodes feature reptilian aliens who came from. True, a few fall apart under the weight of trying to handle complex ideas of bouncing around time, alternate futures.
Time travel is any movement through time that is not equivalent to the normal course of time, in particular a person or objects travel leading either to the past or faster than usual to the future any given time traveller moving from one time to another at a rate greater than the local entropic norm i. If you want to talk about the politics of the star trek galaxy, you have to talk about the romulans. Enterprise had a much harder time with its allegories than previous star trek series certainly never more than the painfully simplistic suicide bomber aliens episode but whether by. Join the adventure with all of the characters from star trek. Star trek episodes particularly ones from the older, more episodic series tend to end on an up note. The franchise had lasted 20 years, so much so that weve seen it grow up. Following the destruction of the xindi weapon, the enterprise crew discovers that they have been sent back in time to 1944. The handsdown best episode of star trek is a riveting tale of time travel and altered history. As late as 2154, time travel was deemed impossible by the vulcan science directorate. Star trek has played with crazy timetravel shenanigans more than any other franchise yes, even doctor who. Broken bow episodes 1 and 2when a klingon messenger is waylaid by the suliban, earth decides its time to rush its experimental warp drive ship out of drydock and into action. The original series, the next generation, deep space nine and voyager as they are transported back into time, discover mystery ships from the past and take courageous action to change history.
Alterations to historical events can cause, among other things, alternate timelines and realities. Time travel is having the ability to or the act of travel forward or backward in time, thus breaking the seemingly irreversible flow of time. List of star trek episodes featuring time travel higgypop. Time travelstar trek just a general post about my desire to see the time travel element used in star trek more often or even to create a series with that as a main component. Picard feature several romulans, including the swordwielding elnor evan. Star trek loves time travel, and thats what yesterdays enterprise is all about. The voyage home has kirk and crew traveling back to get some whales, and the first two trek reboots have regular visits from future spock. Time travel memory beta, noncanon star trek wiki fandom. Enterprise episodes, get episode information, recaps and more. Until the episode extinction towards the start of the third season, the series was called simply enterprise without the star trek prefix. Instead, many trek episodes about the subject bend the rules, making more. This is corroborated by the statement that the federation time signal is 17. However, no tv franchise has used it so often and in so many different ways. The animated series, yesteryear saw spock travel through time to save his younger self from dying, thereby preventing an alternate timeline where he was never the first officer of the enterprise due to his untimely death.
Whether our characters were traveling through time, being visited by people from the future, living through changed timelines, or dealing with something else time related, weve seen the characters of. Enterprise tvpg action, adventure, science fiction, aliens tv series 2001 set in the 22nd century, nearly 100 years before james t. The series aired for 98 episodes across four seasons, centering on the adventures of the 22nd century. In this instance, though, how the episode accomplishes the trick is pretty slick. Every single trek series has had at least a dozen episodes involving time travel and all of them do their best to use it well. The question whether enterprise 2 really vanished as we would expect from all we know about time travel, at least on star trek, or if the ship was simply destroyed by the aliens in the corridor, is solved much more skillfully than in the ds9 episode when e2 just stays behind without a trace. Future tense, for example, every projection through time think the future guy, the benefactor to the suliban cabal and episodes that deal with the temporal cold war on the show enterprise. And in order to really understand whats going on in star trek. With scott bakula, john billingsley, jolene blalock, dominic keating. This list includes all episodes the television series and the movies with time travel plots, from the original series through to the next generation, deep space nine and voyager, as.
Picard, its a good time to brush up on your knowledge of the pointyeared aliens who are not the friendly vulcans each of the trailers for star trek. Some episodes have time travel as a plot twist and i see at least one episodes on the list that will be spoilt just by its mentioning but i guess thats an inevitable catch 22. The fact that the enterprise is destroyed in star trek generations might be a sign that the tng episode does not describe an actual future, but only a future in qs imagination. The visitor another possible future is shown, and the future defiant crew wear the same uniforms and badges as on the future enterprise and pasteur. One of the most classic science fiction concepts is time travel, and star trek is no exception to trying their hand at it. Star trek enterprise storm front ii the mastery of. Star trek and all related marks, logos and characters are solely owned by cbs studios inc. Pages in category star trek time travel episodes the following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. Here are our picks for the top ten star trek time travel episodes. No commercial exhibition or distribution is permitted. Fan collective time travel has the top ten most popular time travel episodes as picked by the fans.
A century before captain kirks fiveyear mission, jonathan archer captains the united earth ship enterprise during the early years of starfleet, leading up to the earthromulan war and the formation of the federation. When mccoy steps through a time portal back to depressionera earth, he saves the life of a. But its in the various series where theyve used time travel not just to tell a fun story, but to reveal. I have comprised a list of every known instance of time travel for the show enterprise, including the appearance of artifacts from the future ent. In other words, the enterprise and her crew do not travel back in time, but time itself is not continuous within a small region of space. Every star trek series included episodes that dealt with time travel.
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