Expanded STAR TREK catalog beams abroad Pluto TV

Star Trek just found its fifth home in 60 years, and this time there's no subscription required. As of August 14, Pluto TV has added five of the franchise's series and all 13 films to its free, ad-supported lineup — a 551-hour binge that lands squarely in the middle of Trek's 60th-anniversary year.

The catalog covers The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise, plus the complete run of feature films. What's missing is everything from Discovery forward — Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, Strange New Worlds, and Starfleet Academy all stay locked behind Paramount+.

That gap isn't an accident. Pluto TV's parent company is Paramount Skydance Direct-to-Consumer, so this isn't really a rival platform poaching content — it's the same conglomerate hedging its bets. Free, ad-supported access widens the audience and stokes anniversary buzz; keeping the newer shows exclusive still gives people a reason to subscribe. Gene Roddenberry's creation has bounced between homes before — NBC, first-run syndication, UPN, and eventually CBS All Access/Paramount+ — so this is really chapter five, not some unprecedented leap.

Worth noting: longtime Pluto TV users have already flagged that Star Trek content isn't strictly new to the platform, so "new streaming home" is more accurately read as an expanded, formalized library push tied to the anniversary than a from-scratch launch.

Source: https://collider.com/star-trek-free-streaming-pluto-tv/