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Once in a while , Star Trektakes a break from search strange young worlds to tell stories set up on Earth and here are the 12 best . One democratic Earth destination forStar Trekis San Francisco , the home of Starfleet Headquarters and Starfleet Academy . Star Trek : The Next multiplication , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , Star Trek : Lower deck , andStar Trek : Prodigyhave all visited either Starfleet HQ or Starfleet Academy at some degree inStar Trek ’s 24th century . The upcomingStar Trek : Starfleet Academyseries will be partially set on Earth in the thirty-second century .
The bestStar Trekstories that are set on Earth prove to the challenge of continue some elements ofStar Trekalive , even without sci - fi space action . Going to Earth provides a respite from spaceship battles after facing off against Klingons or Borg , and givesStar Trek ’s starship captainsand Starfleet gang members the chance to turn inward . Most interestingly , Star Trekstories set on Earth supply a look into what lifespan is like for occupier of Earth inStar Trek , in either the future or the past times , compared to Starfleet officers who spend their days on starships .
Star Trek is about search unknown unexampled world throughout the wandflower , but many key emplacement on Earth are crucially of import to the dealership .
12La Sirena’s Trip To 21st-Century Los Angeles
Star Trek: Picard Season 2
Star Trek : Picardseason 2weaves together disparate secret plan threads in 21st - century Los Angeles as the crew of La Sirena seek to restore the timeline that a dying Q ( John de Lancie ) altered . Picardhas element from earlier Earth - basedStar Trekstories , likeStar Trek : The Original Series’Supervisors , and nod toStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s Sanctuary Districts . Humanity has progressed further than in our timeline , however , since Admiral Jean - Luc Picard ’s ( Patrick Stewart ) antecedent , Renée Picard ( Penelope Mitchell ) , is designate to take part in Earth ’s first crew foreign mission to Europa in 2024 .
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11"Future’s End"
Star Trek: Voyager Season 3, Episodes 8 & 9
InStar Trek : Voyagerseason 3 , instalment 8 & 9 , " Future ’s final stage " , the USS Voyager gang makes it to Earth , but they ’re 300 years too ahead of time . On a commission from twenty-ninth - one C timeship captain Braxton ( Allan G. Royal ) that takes Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) and her bunch back to mid-90s Earth , technical school CEO Henry Starling ( Ed Begley , Jr. ) must be stopped from accidentally put down the wandflower . The sentence may be wrong , but the place is right , andit ’s fun to see the USS Voyager crew enjoy being on Earth again , even if " Future ’s final stage " only gives them a brief sense of taste of home .
" Future ’s terminal " is one of the first hints that the so - called originalStar Trektimeline has been alter in some means , because the Eugenics Wars , said inStar Trek : The Original Seriesto take home in the 1990s , are nowhere in sight .
10"Grounded"
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3, Episode 1
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 3 , episode 1,“Grounded " assert what previousStar Trekseries show about Earth inStar Trek ’s 2380s , through Ensign Beckett Mariner ’s ( Tawny Newsome ) tour ofStar Trek ’s famed Earth locations . To collect the USS Cerritos ' Warp Core Four , Mariner goes to Ensign Brad Boimler ’s ( Jack Quaid ) raisin farm , Sisko ’s Creole Kitchen eatery , and the site of the first Warp flight in Bozeman , Montana . Bozeman is a kitschy theme park , where a replica of the Phoenix ( go past out at warp 1 ) is a thrill ride for families , complete with a Zefram Cochrane ( James Cromwell ) hologram .
9"Pathfinder”
Star Trek: Voyager Season 6, Episode 10
Star Trek : Voyagerseason 6 , installment 10 , " Pathfinder " break the typicalVoyagerformat to show what ’s been happening in the Alpha Quadrant while the USS Voyager has been stranded in the Delta Quadrant . Star Trek : The Next Generation’sLieutenant Reginald Barclay(Dwight Schultz ) take center phase in " Pathfinder " , having become singularly focused on the plight of the USS Voyager crew . Despite Counselor Deanna Troi ’s ( Marina Sirtis ) touch on that Reg ’s Voyager simulation is a relapsing into holo - dependance , Barclay still find out a way to make inter-group communication with Voyager ’s crew , and starts the process of institute them home .
8“Assignment: Earth”
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2, Episode 26
InStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 2 , sequence 26 , " Assignment : Earth " , theEnterprise crew unwittingly becomes part of the time - discipline commission of Gary Seven ( Robert Lansing ) . Gary Seven is a Supervisor , a human raise by aliens and commit to Earth to keep world on the ripe caterpillar tread as a Supervisor . The curiously complex details and unexplored mysteries in Gary Seven ’s backstory come from " Assignment : worldly concern " being a back entrance airplane pilot for a failed Gene Roddenberry show , where Gary Seven would benevolently interpose in historical event on 1960s Earth .
Although the spinoff never got made , Star Trekhasn’t forget the Supervisors . Star Trek : Picardseason 2 features Tallinn ( Orla Brady ) , a Romulan Supervisor quietly pulling historical strings in Earth ’s twenty-first hundred , with a lot of the same equipment Gary Seven had inTOS . The Supervisors also get a outcry - out inStar Trek : Prodigy .
7“Carbon Creek”
Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 2
Star Trek : Enterpriseseason 2 , episode 2 , " Carbon Creek " is great for its Vulcan view on Earth ’s past . AsSubcommander T’Pol ( Jolene Blalock)tells it , her foremother , T’Mir ( also Jolene Blalock ) crash - landed on Earth in the fifties with a sketch team . The team must sail humanity ' queer societal customs for immix in and get the parts they need to prepare their ship . alternatively of showing anything fresh about 22nd hundred Earth , T’Pol uses T’Mir ’s taradiddle to reveal more about herselfwithout having to in reality spell it out : a fascination with humankind runs in T’Pol ’s family , and T’Pol kind of the likes of being on Enterprise .
6“The First Duty”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, Episode 19
Star Trek : The Next Generationseason 5 , installment 19 , " The First Duty " , take viewer to Starfleet Academy , where Wesley Crusher ( Wil Wheaton ) is a cadet . Wesley ’s Nova Squadron flight of stairs squad must face a auditory sense after the inadvertent end of one of their own members is cover up by fellowCadet Nick Locarno(Robert Duncan McNeill ) . Though Wesley is on Earth and far from the enterprisingness , life at Starfleet Academy still challenges Wesley with chance to rise , from the earreach itself to the sage advice from Groundskeeper Boothby ( Ray Walston ) , who had once been Captain Picard ’s wise man .
Starfleet Academy lore first establish in " The First Duty " re-emerge inStar Trek : Voyagerseason 5 , episode 4 , " In the Flesh " , in which Species 8472 recreates a version of Starfleet Academy to better understand their opposition .
5"Family"
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4, Episode 2
Star Trek : The Next Generationseason 4 , installment 2 , " Family " , is a rarified instance of sequential storytelling inTNG , since it deal with Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) processing the world - shaking weight of being assimilate by the Borg . After being de - assimilated , Picard is timid whether to abide in Starfleet , so Jean - Luc visits his brother , Robert ( Jeremy Kemp ) , at the Picard folk estate . Humanity may be unify on many things onStar Trek ’s Earth , butRobert ’s antipathy for Starfleet shows that stress and division among family penis still exist . That tensity is , of course , on the dot what Jean - Luc need to confirm that Picard ’s heart is among the principal .
4“Past Tense”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 3, Episodes 11 & 12
InStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 3 , instalment 11 & 12 , " Past Tense " , a transporter accident fill Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) , Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) , and Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax ( Terry Farrell ) to 2024 San Francisco , days before the historical Bell Riots . While Dax see how the ultrarich live , courtesy of tech bro billionaire Chris Brynner ( Jim Metzler ) , Sisko and Bashir get a first - hand report of life in San Francisco ’s Sanctuary District .
Gabriel Bell is the man who lights the spark to get going the fires of change , but when Bell is killed untimely , Sisko must mistreat in to ensure humanity takes the road to the Federation ’s development . With a glimpse at this polar turning gunpoint in Earth ’s account , " Past Tense " shows that our present society is , in fact , capable of getting on the route to theStar Trekfuture , if those in power are uncoerced to try the stories of the less - fortunate , and take action to change .
3Star Trek: First Contact
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Captain Picard ’s USS Enterprise - E time travel to Earth circa 2063 inStar Trek : First Contact , the good of theStar Trek : The Next Generationmovies . Although half of the pic is sic aboard the Enterprise , which Captain Picard defends from an plague led by the Borg Queen ( Alice Krige ) , the second one-half takes place in Bozeman , Montana . Commander William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) leads an away squad that mustensure Dr. Zephram Cochrane ( James Cromwell ) launches his historical first warp flight .
Star Trek : First Contact ’s Earthbound minute turn in crucial levity .
Star Trek : First Contactdepicts the fallout of World War III on the literal eve before meeting the Vulcans changes the course of world for the better . Riker , Counselor Deanna Troi ( Marina Sirtis ) , and their gang arefish out of water in Montana , befuddled by Cochrane ’s drunken hesitation to be the beacon of the future . Star Trek : First Contact ’s Earthbound moment deliver crucial levity versus the anti - Borg fierceness aboard the initiative , and Cochrane ’s First Contact with the Vulcans is a rousing and inspirational second marking theorigin ofStar Trekitself .
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