Text commentary
A text commentary is a type of DVD commentary in which information appears on the screen, predominantly of a production background, or behind-the-scenes nature, also referred to as "trivia". As such, they are considered a form of special features when included in/on home video format releases. The text commentary of Star Trek DVDs take the form of standard subtitles, or, on rarer occasions, of PiP (Picture-in-Picture) pop-up text boxes, like the one pictured on the right. All text commentaries were written by Michael and Denise Okuda – a natural choice for the franchise as the couple were also the authors of both the Star Trek Chronology and the Star Trek Encyclopedia.

,  and  are the only series that have text commentaries included in their box sets, although one episode in the second season of , , contained a, PiP pop-up, text box commentary. The other episodes listed below have received these commentaries in the Fan Collective DVDs, the majority of these not ported over to later released home media formats, the Blu-ray Disc one in particular.

All of the Special Edition DVDs of the  have text commentaries, but like the television DVD productions, those of Enterprise excepted, none of these were ported over to their later released Blu-ray Disc counterparts – save for the 2016  release. Indicative of a generic trend of the phenomenon somewhat losing its appeal in the Blu-ray era as of late, and contrary to the audio commentary counterpart, none of the alternate reality films and  home video releases, be it DVD or Blu-ray, consequently carry text commentaries as of 2019.

The very first text commentary for Star Trek, had been the one included on the 2001  release, as was the audio commentary for that matter.

Episodes with text commentaries

The Original Series
  (found on Season 1 of Star Trek: The Original Series)
  (found on Season 1 of Star Trek: The Original Series)
  (found on Season 1 of Star Trek: The Original Series)
  (found on Time Travel Fan Collective)
  (found on Season 1 of Star Trek: The Original Series)
  (found on Season 2 of Star Trek: The Original Series)
  (found on Season 2 of Star Trek: The Original Series and Klingon Fan Collective)
  (found on Season 3 of Star Trek: The Original Series)
  (found on Season 3 of Star Trek: The Original Series)

The Animated Series
  (found on Star Trek: TAS)
  (found on Star Trek: TAS)
  (found on Star Trek: TAS)

The Next Generation
  (found on Q Fan Collective)
  (found on Time Travel Fan Collective)
  (found on Borg Fan Collective)
  (found on Borg Fan Collective)
  (found on Klingon Fan Collective)

Deep Space Nine
  (found on Q Fan Collective)
  (found on Klingon Fan Collective)
  (found on Time Travel Fan Collective)
  (found on Klingon Fan Collective)

Voyager
  (found on Season 2 of Star Trek: Voyager)
  (found on Q Fan Collective)
  (found on Borg Fan Collective)

Enterprise 
  (found on Season 1 of Star Trek: Enterprise and Klingon Fan Collective)
  (found on Season 1 of Star Trek: Enterprise)
  (found on Season 1 of Star Trek: Enterprise)
  (found on Season 2 of Star Trek: Enterprise)
  (found on Season 2 of Star Trek: Enterprise)
  (found on Season 3 of Star Trek: Enterprise)
  (found on Season 3 of Star Trek: Enterprise)
  (found on Season 3 of Star Trek: Enterprise)
  (found on Season 4 of Star Trek: Enterprise)
  (found on Season 4 of Star Trek: Enterprise)
  (found on Season 4 of Star Trek: Enterprise)

Errors
In the commentary of "Little Green Men", the text mentions that the Bell Riots took place in the episodes "Future Tense, Parts 1 and 2". The commentary confused the DS9 episodes  and  with the ENT episode .

In the commentary of "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", the text claims that a set used as the 's battle bridge was later reused as the bridge of the  in . However, it is the bridge of the Enterprise-C that appears in that episode, not the bridge of the Enterprise-B.

The commentary on  seems to imply that, prior to appearing in that film, the observation lounge of the  appeared in . The room actually does not appear in that film, its only other appearance being in .

In the commentary of Star Trek Generations, the character of Tuvok is referred to as "the Vulcan science officer on ," though he was actually the tactical officer on that show.

The commentary of  claims that Lawrence H. Styles' quarters aboard the  appear in "Star Trek II" when, in actual fact, they are shown in .

The commentary of  alleges that views of planet 's surface terrain were created and embellished with matte paintings, whereas such vistas were actually accomplished using a series of three backdrops created by Tom Lay.

The commentary of "The Counter-Clock Incident" cites the Capellan flower as being a reference to  and states that that episode is set on Capella IV. However, both of these statements are actually true of .

According to the commentary of "The Andorian Incident", the Vulcan mummies in this episode were re-used for the fourth season episode . But the Vulcan mummies were instead re-used for the fourth season episode .

The commentary of "Impulse" states that all Vulcan zombies were played by stunt performers but most of them were played by background performers and only a handful by stunt performers.

Not exactly an error, but a misleading one nonetheless, the commentary on  stated that the Motion Picture bridge set was virtually destroyed during a storm while being stored outside. This actually happened, but not before all the bridge scenes for The Final Frontier had been shot. It has necessitated the build of a new one for , not for The Final Frontier, as implied though not explicitly stated in the commentary. As such, this commentary excerpt would have been better placed on the DVD release for the latter, instead of the former.

See also
Audio commentary
Starfleet Access

 Text commentary