The BEST episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks
Every episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks!
Focusing on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the USS Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi must keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies. The ship's bridge crew includes Captain Carol Freeman, Commander Jack Ransom, Lieutenant Shaxs and Doctor T'Ana.
#1 - No Small Parts
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/8/2020
The U.S.S. Cerritos encounters a familiar enemy. Tendi helps a struggling recruit find her footing.
#2 - The Stars at Night
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/27/2022
The Cerritos crew must prove their worth in a mission race.
#3 - Old Friends, New Planets
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/2/2023
Mariner faces her past.
#4 - First First Contact
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/14/2021
The U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked to aid another starship on a first contact mission.
#5 - wej Duj
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/7/2021
Boimler tries to find a friend from the bridge, while the crew of the USS Cerritos has free time during a long warp trip.
#6 - Hear All, Trust Nothing
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/29/2022
The Cerritos crew unexpectedly spends a day on Deep Space Nine.
#8 - I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/2023
Mariner tries to get demoted, Rutherford tries to get promoted, and Boimler makes a big move.
#9 - The Inner Fight
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/26/2023
Captain Freeman assigns the Lower Deckers an overly safe mission to try and keep a self-destructive Mariner out of danger.
#10 - Twovix
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/2023
The Cerritos ensigns must assist a caretaker on the voyage of a historically significant starship.
#11 - An Embarrassment of Dooplers
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/2021
Mariner and Boimler try to track down the location of a legendary Starfleet party while the bridge crew deals with an insecure alien diplomat.
#12 - Crisis Point
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/1/2020
Mariner repurposes Boimler’s holodeck program to cast herself as the villain in a Lower Decks style movie.
#13 - Trusted Sources
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/20/2022
A visiting reporter on the Cerritos puts Captain Freeman on edge.
#14 - Something Borrowed, Something Green
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/2023
Tendi is summoned back to Orion for a wedding.
#15 - Where Pleasant Fountains Lie
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/23/2021
Mariner and Boimler are stranded on an uninhabited planet with a sentient computer. On the Cerritos, Lt. Commander Billups must prove his engineering abilities to an old adversary.
#16 - Reflections
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/22/2022
Mariner and Boimler work the Starfleet recruitment booth at an alien job fair, Rutherford challenges himself.
#17 - Parth Ferengi's Heart Place
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/5/2023
The Cerritos visits the Ferengi homeworld.
#18 - Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/13/2022
Boimler's holodeck movie sequel tries to live up to the original.
#19 - The Least Dangerous Game
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/1/2022
On a tropical paradise planet, Mariner questions Commander Ransom on how he structures his away team. Boimler makes a bold career decision.
#20 - Grounded
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/25/2022
Mariner enlists her friends on a rogue mission to exonerate her mother, as Captain Freeman faces a military tribunal for the destruction of Pakled Planet.
#21 - Empathalogical Fallacies
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/2023
A trio of Betazoids cause chaos on the Cerritos.
#22 - In the Cradle of Vexilon
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/2023
Boimler leads his first away mission on an alien megastructure.
#23 - Caves
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/19/2023
The Lower Deckers go on a classic cave mission.
#24 - Kayshon, His Eyes Open
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/19/2021
Our Lower Deckers have trouble bonding with Ensign Jet Manhaver, who has been assigned Boimler’s bunk and shift duties. Boimler’s life on the U.S.S. Titan proves to be more intense than he thought it would be.
#25 - We'll Always Have Tom Paris
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/26/2021
Assigned a special task by Dr. T'Ana, Tendi enlists Mariner for help. On the U.S.S. Cerritos, Rutherford is consumed by a bridge crew mystery.