10 Best Star Trek Documentaries

10. 50 Years Of Star Trek

This documentary aired on the History Channel in 2016, before being released on DVD later that year. While it is a warm look at Star Trek's earlier years, it falls a little short of offering a full retrospective on the franchise. Added to this, while there are plenty of welcome contributors, the respective Captains are conspicuously missing.

Shatner, for one, is talked about a lot, though does not appear. An older interview with Leonard Nimoy seems to have been added to fill the Kirk-sized gap. Jeri Ryan however is one of the better 'talking heads' in the piece, with D.C. Fontana also getting a chance to shine.

Though this documentary skews closer to The Original Series and The Next Generation, in terms of the ground it covers, it feels right that on the 50th Anniversary the origins of Star Trek are the focus. Having said that, while there is plenty of talk about Gene Roddenberry, there is next to nothing about Gene L. Coon, the producer who was heavily involved in getting the Enterprise up into space.

Overall, the documentary is well worth a watch, if a little thin on material.