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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.