This is the first of two posts marking Star Trek’s 60th anniversary with Reelgood’s US availability data. This one covers where Star Trek actually streams and who owns those services. Part two will cover what is in the 97-title catalog and why 51 of those titles are in no streaming catalog at all.

Key takeaways

• Star Trek is carried by 24 US streaming services. Two of them, Paramount+ and Pluto TV, are Paramount’s. They hold 128 of the 264 SVOD and AVOD windows. 19 other catalog services hold the remaining 136.
• Paramount+ resolves to four distinct catalog entities, not one, which is why 26 titles produce 102 windows. If your dashboard shows one row for Paramount+, it is hiding three.
• All 13 Star Trek feature films are free with ads on Pluto TV. Seven also stream on Kanopy, which runs on a library card.
• Star Trek: Prodigy has no US SVOD or AVOD window, only TVOD. If it is an acquisition target, you found it before it was written up. If it is yours, you found the gap before a partner emailed you about one.

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Star Trek turned 60 on September 8, and Paramount marked it with restored films in more than 750 US theaters and a Guinness World Record attempt for mass Vulcan salutes in London. The message was simple: Paramount+ is where you watch Star Trek.

Reelgood’s US availability data says something more complicated.

The 97 titles we map to the franchise hold 414 US availability windows across 24 services, drawn from the availability record Reelgood maintains across 300+ services and 25+ countries. Everything below is a live count as of September 15.

How you read every number below depends on one distinction.

A window is one title on one service under one set of terms. Catalog windows are SVOD (subscription) and AVOD (ad-supported), plus the vMVPD bundles: the title sits in a library someone licensed. Storefront windows are TVOD (buy-and-rent) on Apple TV, Prime Video, Fandango, Google Play and YouTube, where the rights holder is selling a copy rather than licensing a catalog. Of the 414 windows, 264 are catalog and 150 are TVOD.

The historical availability record tracks both over time, up to seven years depending on the country.

Paramount+ is four catalog entities, not one

Paramount+ resolves to four separate entities in streaming availability data, not one:

1. Paramount+ Essential,
2. Paramount+ Premium,
3. Paramount+ via Prime Video, and
4. Paramount+ via Roku,

each with its own terms.

Start here, because it is the finding most likely to be wrong in your own data right now. That is why 26 Star Trek titles on Paramount+ produce 102 availability windows.

In practice, a title your dashboard reports as “on Paramount+” may be reachable only by someone who bought Paramount+ as a Prime Video channel. Different subscriber base, different revenue share, different answer in a competitive readout, and one row of data hides all three. The contract says what should be true. The availability record says what is.

Worth checking today: does Paramount+ resolve to one row in your source, or four? If one, you cannot tell an SVOD tier from a channel subscription bought through a retailer.

Star Trek streaming availability splits evenly between Paramount and everyone else

Star Trek’s US SVOD and AVOD windows split almost evenly: Paramount’s two services hold 128 of 264, and 19 services it does not own hold the other 136.

Pluto TV and Paramount+ carry 26 Star Trek titles each, more than any other catalog service.

Those title counts and the window count reconcile through the four-entity problem above: Pluto TV’s 26 titles are 26 windows, while the same 26 titles on Paramount+ produce 102 windows spread across its four entities.

This is where the TVOD distinction earns its keep.

Prime Video looks like the biggest Star Trek service at 41 titles, but all 41 are TVOD and only 12 are catalog. Apple TV, Google Play and YouTube carry Trek solely through their transactional storefronts, not their subscription services. Counting a rental listing as a rival service would overstate the case badly, and Paramount is the rights holder taking the revenue on every one of them.

The catalog services Paramount does not own are the real finding.

Peacock carries the three Kelvin-timeline films, meaning the 2009 reboot and its two sequels with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto: Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond. Tubi carries 15 Trek titles, The Roku Channel nine. Then the tail gets strange: Shout! Studios, Plex, Fawesome, Cineverse, Midnight Pulp, History Vault, Docurama, Guidedoc, and The CW each carry at least one.

Three of the 24 are vMVPDs, the internet-delivered pay TV bundles: DIRECTV Stream, fuboTV, and Philo.

And all of this is the US picture alone. Run the same franchise across the 25+ countries Reelgood tracks and the service list stops being 24: rights are sold territory by territory, the same title can sit on a different service in every market, and a catalog that looks complete at home turns patchy two borders away. The US is the simple version.

All 13 Star Trek films are free with ads, and seven stream on a library card

Every one of the 13 Star Trek feature films is free with ads on Pluto TV, and seven of them also stream on Kanopy through a library card. Pluto is Paramount-owned, so this is a portfolio decision rather than a licensing surprise, but it reframes the anniversary. The films Paramount put back in 750 theaters are simultaneously free, with no subscription, on a Paramount service.

The library finding is the one I did not expect.

Kanopy streams through public and university library memberships, and it carries: The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, Generations, First Contact, Into Darkness, and Beyond. The service carries 10 Trek titles in all.

Kanopy rarely appears in competitive catalog tracking because it is not a consumer subscription and does not report like one. It is still a real distribution channel with real licensing terms. Leave it out and your picture of where a film library earns is short by a channel.

This is the same long-tail blindness in the Streaming Iceberg analysis, where 88% of movies sit outside the three services most people check.

Worth checking today: does your availability source carry Kanopy, Fawesome, Midnight Pulp and Docurama, or does the long tail simply not appear?

One of the 26 core Star Trek titles has no SVOD or AVOD window

Star Trek: Prodigy is the one core Star Trek title with no SVOD or AVOD window anywhere in the US. 25 of the 26 are on Paramount+, 18 are also AVOD on Pluto TV, and all 26 are available on TVOD. Prodigy is TVOD only.

The path there is public record. Paramount+ cancelled Prodigy in June 2023 and removed it from the service the same month. Netflix picked it up that October, streaming season one from December 2023 and season two from July 2024. Those licenses expired on June 24 and December 31, 2025, and the rest of the Trek library left Netflix internationally on January 8, 2026 as Paramount consolidated rights. What none of that reporting tells you is the state today: a finished, two-season, well-reviewed series with no SVOD or AVOD window during its franchise’s biggest anniversary year.

Prodigy is an animated spinoff that has already moved between services once, so it is not the typical shape of a Star Trek asset. That is part of why it works as an example.

The titles that fall out of a catalog quietly are the ones furthest from the flagship: a spinoff, an animated series, a co-production, a title that has changed hands before. Those are the ones least likely to have someone watching them.

For content acquisition, this is what an opportunity looks like before anyone writes it up. For rights and compliance, it is what a gap looks like before a partner emails you about one.

One franchise, one country, and it still takes 24 services to describe

Star Trek is a clean test case because the ownership is unambiguous and the distribution is not. One rights holder, one franchise, one country, and it still takes 24 services and four Paramount+ entities to account for. Most catalogs are messier on all three counts, and that is where the reconciliation work actually lives.

If the two questions above are ones your current source cannot answer, tell us which franchise or service you would want looked at and what decision is waiting on it. Email data@reelgood.com with “franchise availability” in the subject.

Data: Reelgood Movie & TV Metadata & Streaming Availability Database, US, September 15, 2026. Scope is 97 titles carrying a Star Trek franchise relationship. A window is one title on one service under one monetization model. Catalog windows are SVOD, AVOD and vMVPD; storefront windows are TVOD. Service counts collapse tier and channel variants to the parent brand; window counts do not. vMVPDs are included and identified separately.