The BEST episodes of Star Trek: Discovery
Every episode of Star Trek: Discovery ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek: Discovery!
Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien.
#1 - Anomaly
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/25/2021
Saru returns to help the U.S.S. Discovery uncover the mystery of an unusually destructive new force. As Burnham leads the crew, she must also find a way to help Book cope with an unimaginable loss.
#2 - Terra Firma (1)
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/2020
The crew journey to a mysterious planet in hopes of finding a cure for Georgiou's deteriorating condition. Stamets and Adira make a breakthrough with the newly acquired Burn data.
#3 - Choose to Live
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/2/2021
Burnham and Tilly hunt the killer of a Starfleet officer. Stamets and the science team race against the clock to prevent the anomaly from killing anyone else.
#4 - The Sanctuary
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/2020
Burnham and the Discovery crew travel to Book's home planet to help rescue it from Osyraa, the formidable leader of the Emerald Chain. Stamets and Adira continue their search for valuable information about the origin of the Burn.
#5 - Kobayashi Maru
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/18/2021
After months spent reconnecting the Federation with distant worlds, Captain Michael Burnham and the crew of the Discovery are sent to assist a damaged space station—a seemingly routine mission that reveals the existence of a terrifying new threat.
#6 - Unification III
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/2020
While grappling with the fallout of her recent actions, and what her future might hold, Burnham agrees to represent the Federation in an intense debate about the release of politically sensitive but highly valuable Burn data.
#7 - That Hope Is You (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/2020
Arriving 930 years into her future, Burnham navigates a galaxy she no longer recognizes while searching for the rest of the Discovery crew.
#8 - Forget Me Not
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/2020
Burnham and Adira visit the Trill homeworld in hopes of unlocking the secrets trapped within Adira's mind. Back on the U.S.S. Discovery, Saru's efforts to help the crew reconnect with one another take a surprising turn.
#9 - New Eden
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/24/2019
A new signal appears, prompting Stamets’ emotional return to the mycelial network and leading Burnham, Pike and Owosekun to a pre-warp planet, where they face a complex ethical dilemma. Tilly’s overeagerness lands her in trouble but when the planet – and Discovery’s landing party – are threatened, her curiosity may be the one thing that can save them.
#10 - Through the Valley of Shadows
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/4/2019
A fourth signal leads the U.S.S. Discovery to an insular world, where Pike is forced to make a life-changing choice. Burnham and Spock investigate a Section 31 ship gone rogue, leading to a discovery with catastrophic consequences.
#11 - Such Sweet Sorrow (1)
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/11/2019
When the U.S.S. Discovery’s crucial mission does not go according to plan, Burnham realizes what must ultimately be done. The crew prepares for the battle of a lifetime as Leland’s Control ships get closer.
#12 - Such Sweet Sorrow (2)
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/18/2019
The U.S.S. Discovery battles against Control in a fight not only for their lives but for the future, with a little help from some unexpected friends. Spock and Burnham discern vital new connections between the red signals while Burnham faces one of life’s harshest truths: the right decisions are often the hardest to make.
#13 - Project Daedalus
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/14/2019
When the Discovery crew infiltrates Section 31’s headquarters, suspicions arise that the crew may have a traitor in their midst. Burnham tries to help Spock but her efforts don’t go as planned.
#14 - Into the Forest I Go
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/2017
Bypassing Starfleet’s orders, Lorca uses the U.S.S. Discovery crew’s ultimate asset, the ship itself, in an effort to end the war with the Klingons once and for all.
#15 - An Obol for Charon
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/7/2019
A mysterious sphere threatens the U.S.S. Discovery even as May, in her original form, implements a plan that puts Tilly’s life in danger. Saru and Burnham’s bond grows when Saru is forced to acknowledge a deeply unsettling Kelpien truth. Pike receives new intel on Spock from a loyal friend.
#16 - Context Is for Kings
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/2017
Michael’s shuttle is intercepted by Captain Gabriel Lorca of the mysterious U.S.S. Discovery, who orders her to join a dangerous recovery mission.
#17 - If Memory Serves
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/7/2019
Spock and Burnham head to Talos IV, where the process of healing Spock forces the siblings to confront their troubled past. Stamets desperately tries to reconnect with Hugh, while Tyler struggles to shed the crew’s suspicions of him due to his past as Voq.
#18 - Saints of Imperfection
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/2019
Burnham and the crew navigate a dangerous alien landscape in a race against time to save Tilly’s life, but Stamets is not at all prepared for what they find in the process. Section 31 is assigned to help track down Spock, much to Pike’s dismay.
#19 - The Sound of Thunder
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/21/2019
When a new signal appears over Saru’s home planet, Burnham, Saru and the crew embark on a perilous mission that puts Saru in danger and raises questions about the Red Angel’s intentions. Hugh struggles to come to terms with his new reality.
#20 - Vaulting Ambition
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2018
Burnham heads to the ISS Charon with a special “gift” for the Emperor. With the help of an unexpected source, Stamets gains clarity while trapped inside the mycelial network. Saru asks for L’Rell’s help.
#21 - The War Without, the War Within
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/2018
Burnham and the U.S.S. Discovery crew are faced with the harsh reality of the war during their absence. In order to move forward, Starfleet must use unconventional tactics and sources to take their next action against the Klingons.
#22 - Light and Shadows
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/28/2019
Burnham goes to Vulcan in search of Spock, where she unearths surprising family secrets. In researching what is left of the Red Angel’s signal over Kaminar, Pike and Tyler end up in battle with time itself. Georgiou has a few tricks up her sleeve for Leland and Section 31.
#23 - Perpetual Infinity
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/28/2019
Burnham receives the reunion she’s been longing for, but it doesn’t go quite as she imagined. Georgiou and Tyler sense a disturbing change in Leland.
#25 - Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/2017
A figure familiar to Lorca and Lt. Tyler from the Klingon prison ship attacks the Discovery, intending to deliver the ship to their former captors.