9.0/10762 votesLoading...#1 - Fissure Quest (1)
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/2024
Fissures must be closed before they get inflamed.
Director: Brandon Williams
Writer: Lauren McGuire
9.0/10573 votesLoading...#2 - The New Next Generation (2)
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/19/2024
Season finale where lots of wild stuff happens!
Director: Megan Lloyd
Writer: Mike McMahan
8.7/101,419 votesLoading...#3 - wej Duj
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/7/2021
Boimler tries to find a friend from the bridge, while the crew of the USS Cerritos has free time during a long warp trip.
Director: Bob Suarez
Writer: Kathryn Lyn
8.6/101,826 votesLoading...#4 - No Small Parts
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/8/2020
The USS Cerritos encounters a familiar enemy. Tendi helps a struggling recruit find her footing.
Director: Barry J. Kelly
Writer: Mike McMahan
8.6/101,286 votesLoading...#5 - First First Contact
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 10/14/2021
In the season two finale, the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked to aid another class starship on a first contact mission.
Director: Jason Zurek
Writer: Mike McMahan
8.6/101,296 votesLoading...#6 - Hear All, Trust Nothing
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 9/29/2022
The Cerritos crew unexpectedly spends a day on Deep Space Nine.
Director: Fill Marc Sagadraca
Writer: Grace Parra Janney
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8.6/10814 votesLoading...#7 - Old Friends, New Planets (2)
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/2/2023
Mariner faces her past.
Director: Bob Suarez
Writer: May Darmon
8.5/101,033 votesLoading...#8 - The Stars at Night
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 10/27/2022
The Cerritos crew must prove their worth in a mission race.
Director: Jason Zurek
Writer: Mike McMahan
8.4/101,333 votesLoading...#9 - I, Excretus
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/30/2021
A consultant arrives on the U.S.S. Cerritos to run drills that require the lower deckers and bridge crew to swap duties.
Director: Kim Arndt
Writer: Ann Acacia Kim
8.2/10945 votesLoading...#10 - Twovix
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/2023
The Cerritos ensigns must assist a caretaker on the voyage of a historically significant starship.
Director: Barry J. Kelly, Jason Zurek
Writer: Mike McMahan
8.2/10476 votesLoading...#11 - Fully Dilated
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/28/2024
It's a pre-warp society undercover Girls Trip!
Director: Megan Lloyd
Writer: Andrew Mueth
8.1/101,633 votesLoading...#12 - Crisis Point
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/1/2020
Mariner repurposes Boimler's holodeck program to cast herself as the villain in a Lower Decks style movie.
Director: Bob Suarez
Writer: Ben Rodgers
8.1/101,032 votesLoading...#13 - Reflections
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/22/2022
Mariner and Boimler work the Starfleet recruitment booth at an alien job fair, Rutherford challenges himself.
Director: Michael Mullen
Writer: Mike McMahan
8.0/10711 votesLoading...#14 - The Inner Fight (1)
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 10/26/2023
Captain Freeman assigns the Lower Deckers an overly safe mission to try and keep a self-destructive Mariner out of danger.
Director: Brandon Williams
Writer: Mike McMahan
7.9/101,003 votesLoading...#15 - Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/13/2022
Boimler's holodeck movie sequel tries to live up to the original.
Director: Michael Mullen
Writer: Ben Rodgers
7.9/10863 votesLoading...#16 - I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/2023
Mariner tries to get demoted, Rutherford tries to get promoted, and Boimler makes a big move.
Director: Megan Lloyd
Writer: Aaron Burdette
7.8/10919 votesLoading...#17 - Trusted Sources
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 10/20/2022
A visiting reporter on the Cerritos puts Captain Freeman on edge.
Director: Fill Marc Sagadraca
Writer: Ben M. Waller
7.8/10780 votesLoading...#18 - Parth Ferengi's Heart Place
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/5/2023
The Cerritos visits the Ferengi homeworld.
Director: Brandon Williams
Writer: Cullen Crawford
7.7/101,183 votesLoading...#19 - Where Pleasant Fountains Lie
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 9/23/2021
Mariner and Boimler are stranded on an uninhabited planet with a sentient computer. On the Cerritos, Lt. Commander Billups must prove his engineering abilities to an old adversary.
Director: Jason Zurek
Writer: Garrick Bernard
7.7/101,130 votesLoading...#20 - Grounded
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/25/2022
Mariner enlists her friends on a rogue mission to exonerate her mother, as Captain Freeman faces a military tribunal for the destruction of Pakled Planet.
Director: Jason Zurek
Writer: Chris Kula
7.7/101,039 votesLoading...#21 - The Least Dangerous Game
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/1/2022
On a tropical paradise planet, Mariner questions Commander Ransom on how he structures his away team. Boimler makes a bold career decision.
Director: Michael Mullen
Writer: Garrick Bernard
7.7/10811 votesLoading...#22 - Something Borrowed, Something Green
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/2023
Tendi is summoned back to Orion for a wedding.
Director: Bob Suarez
Writer: Grace Parra Janney
7.7/10725 votesLoading...#23 - Caves
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/19/2023
The Lower Deckers go on a classic cave mission.
Director: Megan Lloyd
Writer: Ben Rodgers
7.7/10584 votesLoading...#24 - Dos Cerritos
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/24/2024
A spatial anomaly forces the Cerritos crew to face their own faces. Tendi pirates.
Director: Megan Lloyd
Writer: Aaron Burdette
7.7/10489 votesLoading...#25 - Starbase 80?!
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/2024
Ransom uses too much disinfectant gel while Mariner gets paranoid about curses.
Director: Bob Suarez
Writer: May Darmon
The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks
Every episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks!
The lives of the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi...
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Episodes
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Avg. Rating
7.8
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E3
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Best Episodes Summary
"Fissure Quest (1)" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks". It scored 9/10 based on 762 votes. Directed by Brandon Williams and written by Lauren McGuire, it aired on 12/12/2024. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The New Next Generation (2)".
