Every Star Trek Film & TV Show Ranked From Worst To Best

20. Star Trek: Short Treks (2018-Present)

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Comparing Short Treks to other Star Trek instalments is slightly difficult, as it was always meant to be merely a companion piece to Star Trek: Picard, Discovery, and other newly releasing Trek shows. However, the show has proven to be an amazing diversion from the heavy plots of the two aforementioned series.

Episodes like The Trouble With Edward perfectly illustrate the purpose of this show: to give answers to questions that nobody asked and dive deeper into Star Trek lore than ever before. Some episodes of Short Treks have even been important to the plot of the new shows, such as the first episode, Runaway, which introduces us to an alien royal who appears later in Discovery.

Unfortunately, some of the episodes also seem pretty pointless, such as Q&A and Ask Not, but most of the time, the show offers deeper insight into life in the Federation and the characters throughout the many new series.

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