The WORST episodes of Star Trek: Discovery
Every episode of Star Trek: Discovery ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - All Is Possible
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/9/2021
Tilly and Adira lead a team of Starfleet Academy cadets on a training mission that takes a dangerous turn. Burnham is pulled into tense negotiations on Ni'Var.
#2 - Jinaal
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/11/2024
On Trill, Captain Burnham, Book, and Culber must pass a dangerous test to prove themselves worthy of the next clue. Adira reconnects with Gray and Saru's first day as ambassador is complicated by his engagement to T'Rina.
#3 - Whistlespeak
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/2/2024
While undercover in a pre-warp society, Captain Burnham is forced to consider breaking the Prime Directive when a local tradition threatens Tilly's life. Meanwhile, Culber tries to connect with Stamets, and Adira steps up when Rayner assigns them a position on the bridge.
#4 - Stormy Weather
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/23/2021
Seeking answers, the U.S.S. Discovery ventures into a subspace rift created by the Dark Matter Anomaly. Meanwhile, Book faces a strange visitor from his past.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Red Directive
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/4/2024
Discovery investigates an ancient Romulan vessel where they face-off with some unexpected guests and uncover a vast mystery that sends them on a race across the galaxy. Meanwhile, Saru is presented with a unique opportunity.
#7 - Rosetta
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/3/2022
While Captain Burnham leads an away mission to a planet that was once home to the aliens responsible for the DMA, Book and Tarka secretly infiltrate the U.S.S. Discovery.
#8 - Mirrors
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/25/2024
Captain Burnham and Book journey into extradimensional space in search of the next clue to the location of the Progenitors' power. Meanwhile, Rayner navigates his first mission in command of the U.S.S. Discovery, and Culber opens up to Tilly.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Life, Itself
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/30/2024
Trapped inside a mysterious alien portal that defies familiar rules of time, space, and gravity, Captain Burnham must fight Moll -- and the environment itself -- in order to locate the Progenitors' technology and secure it for the Federation. Meanwhile, Book puts himself in harm's way to help Burnham survive and Rayner leads the U.S.S. Discovery in an epic winner-takes-all battle against Breen forces.
#11 - Under the Twin Moons
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/4/2024
On the heels of their startling discovery, Captain Burnham and the crew investigate a seemingly abandoned planet in their continued quest to solve the galaxy’s greatest mystery. Meanwhile, Saru helps Burnham make an important decision.
#12 - The Galactic Barrier
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/24/2022
Captain Burnham and her crew must go where few have gone before: beyond the Galactic Barrier. Book learns the truth of what drives Ruon Tarka.
#13 - The Examples
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/16/2021
Burnham and Book race to evacuate a group of stranded colonists in the anomaly's path as one of the Federation's brightest scientists comes aboard the U.S.S. Discovery to do high-stakes research with Saru and Stamets.
#14 - Erigah
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/9/2024
With Moll and L'ak finally in custody, the Federation is pulled into a diplomatic and ethical firestorm when the Breen arrive and demand they be handed over. Meanwhile, a frustrated Book looks for ways to help as Tilly, Adira, and Reno work to decipher the latest clue.
#15 - All In
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/10/2022
Following a hunch, Captain Burnham tracks Book to an old haunt from their courier days and gets drawn into a high-stakes competition for a powerful weapon
#16 - Labyrinths
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/16/2024
When Captain Burnham is trapped within a "mindscape" designed to test her worthiness to retrieve the Progenitor’s powerful technology, Book, Rayner, and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery must hold off the Breen long enough for her to escape.
#17 - Rubicon
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/17/2022
Captain Burnham and the U.S.S. Discovery race to stop Book and Ruon Tarka from launching a rogue plan that could inadvertently endanger the galaxy.
#18 - …But to Connect
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/30/2021
Tensions rise as representatives from across the galaxy gather to confront the threat of the Dark Matter Anomaly. Zora’s new sentience raises difficult questions.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Face the Strange
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/18/2024
On the way to the next clue, the U.S.S. Discovery is sabotaged by a mysterious weapon, leaving Captain Burnham, Rayner, and Stamets as the only crew members who can possibly save the ship in time.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Terra Firma (2)
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/2020
Georgiou uncovers the truth about the plot against her, leading her to a revelation about how deeply her time on the U.S.S. Discovery changed her.
#24 - Coming Home
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/17/2022
The DMA approaches Earth and Ni'Var. With evacuations underway, Burnham and the team aboard the U.S.S. Discovery must find a way to communicate and connect with a species far different from their own before time runs out.
#25 - Lagrange Point
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/23/2024
After Moll and the Breen capture a mysterious structure that contains the Progenitors' power, Captain Burnham must lead a covert mission to retrieve it before the Breen figure out how to use it.