The BEST episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Every episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!

Follow Christopher Pike, Spock and Number One in the decade before Capt. Kirk boarded the Enterprise as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

Last Updated: 11/16/2024Network: Paramount+Status: Continuing
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A Quality of Mercy
star
8.14
2474 votes

#1 - A Quality of Mercy

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/7/2022

Captain Pike considers his path forward after encountering someone who brings his dark fate front and center — leading the officer to wonder if he can save himself from the future.

Directors: Chris Fisher
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Hegemony
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8.11
1881 votes

#2 - Hegemony

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/10/2023

When the U.S.S. Enterprise investigates an attack on a colony at the edge of Federation space, Captain Pike and his crew face the return of a formidable enemy.

Directors: Maja Vrvilo
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Those Old Scientists
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8.00
2251 votes

#3 - Those Old Scientists

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/22/2023

An accident while investigating a time portal sends Ensign Brad Boimler through time from the twenty-fourth century, and Captain Pike and his crew must get him back where he belongs before he can somehow alter the timeline.

Directors: Jonathan Frakes
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Ad Astra per Aspera
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7.95
2061 votes

#4 - Ad Astra per Aspera

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/22/2023

Commander Una faces court-martial along with possible imprisonment and dishonorable dismissal from Starfleet, and her defense is in the hands of a lawyer who’s also a childhood friend with whom she had a terrible falling out.

Directors: Valerie Weiss
Writer: Dana Horgan
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Strange New Worlds
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7.85
3370 votes

#5 - Strange New Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/5/2022

Captain Christopher Pike comes out of self-imposed exile to rescue an officer gone missing during a secret mission.

Directors: Akiva Goldsman
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Charades
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7.84
1910 votes

#6 - Charades

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/13/2023

A shuttle accident leads to Spock's Vulcan DNA being removed by aliens, making him fully human and completely unprepared to face T'Pring's family.

Directors: Jordan Canning
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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7.83
2017 votes

#7 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/29/2023

La'An travels back in time to twenty-first-century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity's future history and bring her face to face with her own contentious legacy.

Directors: Amanda Row
Writer: David Reed
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Memento Mori
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7.81
2681 votes

#8 - Memento Mori

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/26/2022

Pike must find unconventional Starfleet methods to deal with a malevolent force that attacks the Enterprise.

Directors: Dan Liu
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All Those Who Wander
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7.78
2440 votes

#9 - All Those Who Wander

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/30/2022

The U.S.S. Enterprise crew comes face-to-face with their demons – and scary monsters too – when their landing party is stranded on a barren planet with a ravenous enemy.

Writer: Davy Perez
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Children of the Comet
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7.73
2948 votes

#10 - Children of the Comet

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/12/2022

An ancient alien relic thwarts the Enterprise crew from re-routing a comet on track to strike an inhabited planet.

Directors: Maja Vrvilo
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The Broken Circle
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7.72
2090 votes

#11 - The Broken Circle

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/15/2023

A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the U.S.S. Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.

Directors: Chris Fisher
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Spock Amok
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7.66
2629 votes

#12 - Spock Amok

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/2/2022

It's a comedy of manners when Spock has a personal visit in the middle of Spock and Captain Pike's crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.

Directors: Rachel Leiterman
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Under the Cloak of War
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7.66
1946 votes

#13 - Under the Cloak of War

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/27/2023

Captain Pike and his crew welcome a Klingon defector aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, but his presence triggers the revelation of some shocking secrets.

Directors: Jeffrey W. Byrd
Writer: Davy Perez
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Ghosts of Illyria
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7.61
2792 votes

#14 - Ghosts of Illyria

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/19/2022

Una must confront a secret she's been hiding when a contagion ravages the ship, incapacitating the rest of the crew.

Directors: Leslie Hope
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Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
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7.61
2556 votes

#15 - Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/9/2022

A threat to an idyllic planet reunites Captain Pike with a lost love. To protect her and a scientific holy child from a conspiracy, Pike offers his help and is forced to face unresolved feelings of his past.

Directors: Andi Armaganian
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The Serene Squall
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7.58
2536 votes

#16 - The Serene Squall

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/16/2022

While on a dangerous humanitarian mission, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise stumbles into a harrowing game of leverage with the quadrant’s deadliest space pirate.

Directors: Sydney Freeland
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Among the Lotus Eaters
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7.50
1911 votes

#17 - Among the Lotus Eaters

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/6/2023

Returning to a planet that dredges up tragic memories, Captain Pike and his landing party find themselves forgetting everything, including their own identities as he confronts a ghost from his past.

Directors: Eduardo Sánchez
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Lost in Translation
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7.50
1950 votes

#18 - Lost in Translation

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/20/2023

Uhura seems to be the only one who can hear a strange sound. When the noise triggers terrifying hallucinations, she enlists an unlikely assistant to help her track down the source.

Directors: Dan Liu
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The Elysian Kingdom
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6.83
2481 votes

#19 - The Elysian Kingdom

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/23/2022

The U.S.S. Enterprise becomes stuck in a nebula that is home to an alien consciousness that traps the crew in a fairy tale.

Directors: Amanda Row
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Subspace Rhapsody
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6.62
2205 votes

#20 - Subspace Rhapsody

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/3/2023

An accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the U.S.S. Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike.

Directors: Dermott Downs
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