Pluto TV is again expanding its offering of Trek programming, becoming the first streaming service to offer the entire Star Trek film series for free. All six of the TOS movies, all four TNG movies, and the three modern Kelvin movies are coming to Pluto for the month of August.
Watch Star Trek films for free
Paramount’s free ad-supported streaming service is adding “Star Trek: The Motion Pictures,” a pop-up channel just for the month of August. The new channel is solely dedicated to the Star Trek feature films. Here is the official channel description:
The real final frontier was the cinema. For a limited time, watch all 13 theatrical STAR TREK movies for free, all on one channel. From the Original Series crew to the Next Generation to the Kelvin timeline, catch them all before they boldly go away.
Pluto already has three channels dedicated to Star Trek TV shows and the service periodically features different Star Trek films, but this is the first time they have had all of the movies and a channel dedicated to them.
New Star Trek channel logo
The Pluto TV team is excited by the expansion of the sci-fi offering. “I could leave Star Trek, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine or Stargate on all day,” said Chief Product & Technology Officer Vibol Hou in a statement. Senior Program Manager Dina DeLong said of 2009’s Star Trek “fast-paced popcorn film reboots the Star Trek film franchise with a charming new cast of the USS Enterprise with fun nods to the original series. Buckle up for a funny, thrilling, and lens-flare filled adventure.” Channel Coordinator Mario Tardón pointed to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home as his favorite, adding “This movie has comedy, time travel, romance, and huge whales! I vividly remember watching it in the movie theatre in the north of Spain, where I grew up with my parents, and feeling that there’s life out there. Take your shoes off, grab a snack, and enjoy Spock in a karate outfit running through the eighties in San Francisco.”
Pluto promo banner for new channel
Pluto Trek
Back in March Pluto TV added the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Channel, joining the Star Trek: Voyager Channel (previously “More Star Trek Channel”) and their original Star Trek channel (which streams The Original Series and The Next Generation) All four Trek shows are also available on-demand. Several Star Trek documentaries are also available on demand including Get A Life!, What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Chaos On The Bridge, and The Captains.
Just today Pluto promoted their TNG reruns by celebrating International Day Of Friendship….
Data, you’re my best friend in ANY galaxy. 💛
Stream Star Trek: The Next Generation on Pluto TV! #InternationalDayOfFriendship pic.twitter.com/EvnC2J7ahE
— Pluto TV (@PlutoTV) July 30, 2024
And check out this Trek-themed promo highlighting Pluto TV’s sci-fi programming from March…
Pluto TV is available on the web at pluto.tv, and via apps for smart TVs, consoles, and mobile devices.
Keep up with the Star Trek Universe on TV here at TrekMovie.com.
Great news! It’s always good to see Star Trek getting more exposure and especially free sites like this that probably have way more people have than P+.
And they have actually been showing a few movies for free on Youtube as well. I saw all three Kelvin movies, Insurrection and First Contact listed for free with ads. There could’ve been more but those came up on my feed.
Oh and that Pluto ad is hilarious lol.
28ish hours to watch the evolution of filmmaking over the past 45 years. An interesting crash course.
Pluto is a great streaming app. I like it better than P+. I always have it on to one of the Star Trek channels for background noise.
Same here, I always have it on in the background, it drives my wife up the wall 😄
You guys are so lucky to get Pluto USA with so many Star Trek options! Up here north of the border we are stuck with just one channel which just keeps playing TOS reruns along with TNG. I like TOS, but with only about 50-55 episodes worth watching, it gets tired pretty fast.
Just connect a VPN and set to US Brodie.
Best to worst revised list, (it changes for time to time, depending on mood)
II – the best, the favourite, then. now. theres no debate. You know it. I know it. and i guarantee everyone knows it
III – for me theres no debate on 2nd best, its always been Search.
First Contact – on a previous list i think i put VI 3rd place but rewatched FC other week and was shocked how awesome it (still) was, its Terminator/Aliens meets Trek, and its like the ultimate Trek movie (after II)
VI – i really want to put IV after II/III for the ‘Genesis trilogy’, but VI was so good (at the time for the 25th..and still now).. So much going on and so impactful in the Trek canon (subtly foreshadowing TNG), and like FC it just feels like the ultimate Trek movie.
IV – the ultimate 80s Trek movie BHC/BTTF/Croc Dundee meets ST. (like the way S31 looks to be the ultimate 20s Trek movie Guardians/SuicideSquad/GenZ meets Trek..on crack)
Generations – im conflicted as to put ST09 here but Gen won out bc. well its like the ultimate 90s Trek movie! Kirk in TNG, kirk & picard team up, time travel, khan like villian (from Meyers Time After Time) with Genesis like superweapon, klingons, new Ent B, kirks death, first big screen TNG …its such an important movie in the canon, just unfortunate its not great as we all know and lament on what couldve been (Yesterdays Enterprise: The Movie)
ST09 – maybe should be higher, just such a great revival/reboot/prequel/sequel for fans (a 150m TOS origin movie?! with Unification Spock?! ) non fans alike (its Star Trek but done like Star Wars!), literally made Trek cool that summer of 09 (like only FC had done before for a short time)
ID – know you all hate it but i (and many moviegoers) thought this 200m non stop rollercoaster space action movie was kind of awesome (and continued to make Trek ‘cool’ for a while, until SW came back.. and the next movie.. )
TMP – i know everyone loves it now (esp uber fan Robert Meyer Burnett) bc its Trek does 2001, bc its Roddenberry, bc its Robert Wise, bc they all still look young , but its still a slog to get through and oh so 70s.. like a live action Marshak & Culbreath
TFF – while it may seem incomprehensible to put near ‘police academy’ TFF this high up in the listings i have to do it bc its TOS, and a bad TOS movie for me automatically trumps any mid/bad TNG/Kelvin (and the JG score and certain scenes like the end kirk vs BoP are awesome)
Nemesis – think i said before this deserves abit of a reappraisal in light of ST:Picard to which it was so important, yeah its not great but has superb end battle (possibly the best in Trek after II and VI battles) and a great ending (absent friends, TMP drydock/full circle)
Insurrection – long considered by me (and many) to be the worst Trek film of all, but i caught a few minutes just other week just happened to be the excellent ‘how many people does it take Admiral?!’ scene between Picard and Dougherty and that one scene alone pushes it above what i now consider to be the new ultimate worst Trek film…
Beyond – the ‘new’ worst Trek movie (imo) just everything about it was off from the off , or more accurately when they jettisoned the Orci/Shatner version of ST3 and then hired Pegg and Jung to thrash out a random fairly nonsensical script over a weekend in time to meet the (delayed) summer release, a Guardians/Furious meets TOS s3/Goldkey script that threw out most/all of the build up of the previous 2 films that were going toward something epic and impactful and timeline/travely for the franchise to commemorate the 50th anniversary (like Dr Who and Bond did for their 50s). Only one good scene at the end of Spock finding the Trek V cast photo drew a gasp from the audience (i.e. me) but i get the feeling Orci’s version wouldve been like that scene for the entire movie..
Now where will S31 reside..?
There is something comforting about Pluto in that it does harken back to the heyday of cable with commercial breaks and set programming, but with the bonus of being able to marathon anything from Iron Chef to Star Trek. It was Viacom’s canniest purchase.
That said, watching a movie on there is torture for me. They insert A LOT of ad breaks, and even as a kid I couldn’t stand seeing films that way.
Is this on demand or do they just cycle through the 13 movies over and over again and you have to pick the right time if you want to watch a specific one?
Dear Pluto Tv,
Please give TOS and TNG their own channels. DS9 and VOY have their own. TOS and TNG shouldn’t have to share.
+1. That would be better, I never know which I’m going to get.
A little nitpick here – I know it’s a free app, but they’re showing the films out of order. It may be the OCD in me, but they just played TFF and next was TVH….🙄. Anyway, pretty cool to have all the movies playing all the time. As a kid I would have lost my mind over this!
We had the films on Pluto in France, for like 2 weeks and then it disappeared out of nowhere.