The WORST episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Every episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.