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.
#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.
#2 - Hegemony (1)
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.
#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.
#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.
#5 - The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/14/2025
Lieutenant Commander James Kirk's first day in the Captain's chair of the U.S.S. Farragut takes a disastrous turn when the Enterprise is captured by a deadly Scavenger Ship.
#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.
#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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Hegemony (2)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/17/2025
Pike leads a risky rescue behind enemy lines as the landing party flees a deadly enemy.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Through the Lens of Time
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/7/2025
Chapel and Korby's quest to uncover the next step in human evolution leads the Enterprise to a planet where ancient ruins hide a deeper mystery and a terrifying secret.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Shuttle to Kenfori
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2025
Pike and M'Benga enter disputed Klingon space to find a cure for Batel, as M'Benga's past resurfaces on a planet swarming with deadly creatures.
#24 - Wedding Bell Blues
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2025
At a Federation celebration, an uninvited guest disrupts Spock and the crew's reflections.
#25 - What Is Starfleet?
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/21/2025
The Enterprise escorts cargo to help a war-ravaged planet, but controversial truths about it cause Pike and the crew to come under the scrutiny of an investigative journalist.