Star Trek: The Next Generation leaving Netflix in April 2022

Star Trek: The Next Generation is exiting the streaming channel next month.

In a move that should come as absolutely no surprise, Star Trek: The Next Generation will be packing up all seven seasons and departing Netflix in April 2022, according to Whats On Netflix. This puts the popuar sci-fi drama exclusively on Paramount Plus just like the others that have already left Netflix. The Animated Series left in December 2019. Almost one year later, in October 2021, the Original Series, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Star Trek: Voyager were removed from the streaming channel.

One Star Trek series will remain on Netflix after The Next Generation leaves next month. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which is the only series to be set on a space station instead of aboard a starship, launched on Netflix on January 1, 2016. If its licensing deal only lasts seven years, we can expect Deep Space Nine to leave the channel at the beginning of 2023. Given how fast this year is flying by, that’ll be here before we know it.

Star Trek: The Next Generation will be solely available on Paramount Plus.

Though The Next Generation will remain on Netflix for international viewers, it will be exclusive to Paramount Plus subscribers after it departs the streaming giant. Though many fans have complained about being forced to subscribe to another streaming channel to watch their favorite Star Trek series, those complaints haven’t been acknowledged by Paramount.

Star Trek is one of the premier franchises owned by Paramount so it stands to reason the channel wants to reap all of the benefit from this point forward. So viewers who insist they won’t subscribe to Paramount Plus will be limited in their streaming options after all of the series have been removed from other channels. (All of the classic series have already departed Hulu and Amazon Prime.) It might not be what fans consider “fair,” but it is Paramount’s decision.