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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Once La'An a Time
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/17/2026
We return to the Elysian Kingdom, but this time on a real fantasy planet.
#8 - A Space Adventure Hour
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/31/2025
When La'An tests a prototype holodeck with a fictional case only she can solve, the consequences of failure get greater and greater, with the Enterprise hanging in the balance.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Four-and-a-Half Vulcans
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/28/2025
After the Enterprise completes a mission requiring several of the crew to become Vulcan, new problems arise when it is time for them to change back into humans.
#13 - Terrarium
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/4/2025
When Ortegas crash lands on a deadly toxic moon, where the chances of survival are slim to none, she finds herself stranded and forced to challenge her most closely held beliefs in order to survive.
#14 - New Life and New Civilizations
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/11/2025
When an ancient, evil alien force re-emerges, Pike must make one of the hardest decisions of his life to stop the evil from spreading.
#15 - Valles Marineris
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/23/2026
Pike leads the crew into a stellar storm, which sends the Enterprise back 65 million years - to the time of the dinosaurs. The crew must find their way home before their actions affect the past and change the distant future.
#16 - The Griffin Incident
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/30/2026
Spock, La'An and Kirk board a lost Federation ship, where an old mystery becomes a survival crisis.
#17 - Human Best Friend
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/6/2026
The Enterprise crew visits a shore-leave planet that guarantees fun in an inebriating atmosphere.
#19 - Level-Five Transporter Accident
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/20/2026
A transporter accident turns everyone but Spock into puppets as pirates invade the ship.
#20 - Off-Hour
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/27/2026
The Enterprise falls into a slipstream that pushes them to a catastrophic warp threshold.
#21 - Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/3/2026
A space trickster traps the Enterprise crew in a soap opera as Pike mourns a lost life.
#22 - Orders of Magnitude
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/10/2026
Enterprise is commandeered by Admiral Reeger to track down an alien ship.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.