Pluto TV launched on April 1, 2014, featuring short-form content across mobile before being picked up by Viacom in January 2019 for $340 million. They soon turned their attention to television, pioneering the concept of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) and growing to 80 million monthly active users as of April 2023. It has established itself as the go-to destination for movies and classic TV shows like Family Ties, Cagney & Lacey, and Perry Mason. You can now add the Star Trek franchise to their impressive list of content, with (most) of the TV series and all 13 movies available on the streamer as of August 14th 2026.
Star Trek Has a Long History of Places It’s Called Home Before Pluto TV
The brainchild of creator Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek: The Original Series premiered on NBC on September 8, 1966. Conceived as “Wagon Train to the Stars,” the series was “built around characters who travel to other worlds and meet the jeopardy and adventure which become our stories.” While that basic structure was left intact (and alluded to in the famed opening monologue as “to boldly go where no man has gone before”), the series was unlike any other science-fiction property to that point in execution. It showed humanity working side by side with alien lifeforms, eschewing the “shoot first, ask questions later” mentality that dominated the genre, and made less-than-subtle social commentary about hot-button topics like war and diversity. Canceled in 1969, the series rose from the ashes through syndication, prompting NBC to launch Star Trek: The Animated Series in 1973, running on Saturday mornings for two seasons.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
05
Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
08
What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
That’s four homes over the course of 60 years for Star Trek, with Pluto TV now the fifth. That said, it isn’t quite the coup one might think for the FAST platform: Pluto’s parent company is Paramount Skydance Direct-to-Consumer, so they have access to Paramount’s extensive library of content (but not exclusively, as Pluto TV boasts content from other studios as well). They are also not the only place to find Star Trek either, with all Star Trek content still available on Paramount+.
Pluto TV, however, is the only place to find Star Trek content for free, and that is an important distinction. Paramount certainly didn’t have to beam Star Trek onto the USS Pluto. They could just have easily kept the franchise exclusive to Paramount+ subscribers alone. But it is a savvy move for the conglomerate, allowing the content to be available for everyone and, in turn, generating interest among subscribers and non-subscribers alike for a franchise celebrating its milestone 60th anniversary this year.
Also working in Paramount+’s favor? The fact that not all Star Trek content has been made available. Pluto TV has all thirteen films, but only five series: The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. So once old and new Trekkers burn through it all in a massive 551-hour binge, they’ll have to subscribe to Paramount+ to watch anything from Star Trek: Discovery forward. Of course, some would still prefer to watch their Star Trek favorites on Paramount+ to avoid the ads. But for those of us who grew up timing bathroom breaks with commercial breaks, it’s not an issue. And if we can do it, PVR princesses, then so can you.
