9.1/105,391 votesLoading...#1 - A Quality of Mercy
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/7/2022
Just as Captain Pike thinks he's figured out how to escape his fate, he's visited by his future self, who shows him the consequences of his actions.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
8.9/108,357 votesLoading...#2 - 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.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: Bill Wolkoff, Kathryn Lyn
8.6/103,358 votesLoading...#3 - Hegemony
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.
Director: Maja Vrvilo
Writer: Henry Alonso Myers
8.5/105,996 votesLoading...#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.
Director: Valerie Weiss
Writer: Dana Horgan
8.4/105,152 votesLoading...#5 - Memento Mori
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/26/2022
While on a routine supply mission to a colony planet, the U.S.S. Enterprise comes under an attack from an unknown malevolent force. Pike brings all his heart and experience to bear in facing the crisis, but the security officer warns him that the enemy cannot be dealt with by conventional Starfleet means.
Director: Dan Liu
Writer: Davy Perez, Beau DeMayo
8.3/105,362 votesLoading...#6 - 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.
Director: Amanda Row
Writer: David Reed
8.2/104,580 votesLoading...#7 - 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.
Director: Christopher J. Byrne
Writer: Davy Perez
8.2/104,722 votesLoading...#8 - 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 during an important ceremonial dinner.
Director: Jordan Canning
Writer: Henry Alonso Myers, Kathryn Lyn
8.2/104,541 votesLoading...#9 - 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.
Director: Jeffrey W. Byrd
Writer: Davy Perez
8.1/106,914 votesLoading...#10 - Strange New Worlds
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/5/2022
When one of Pike’s officers goes missing while on a secret mission for Starfleet, Pike has to come out of self-imposed exile. He must navigate how to rescue his officer, while struggling with what to do with the vision of the future he’s been given.
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Writer: N/A
8.0/105,592 votesLoading...#11 - Children of the Comet
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/12/2022
While on a survey mission, the U.S.S. Enterprise discovers a comet is going to strike an inhabited planet. They try to re-route the comet, only to find that an ancient alien relic buried on the comet’s icy surface is somehow stopping them. As the away team try to unlock the relic’s secrets, Pike and Number One deal with a group of zealots who want to prevent the U.S.S. Enterprise from interfering.
Director: Maja Vrvilo
Writer: Henry Alonso Myers, Sarah Tarkoff
8.0/105,146 votesLoading...#12 - 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.
Director: Rachel Leiterman
Writer: Henry Alonso Myers, Robin Wasserman
7.7/105,076 votesLoading...#13 - Ghosts of Illyria
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/19/2022
The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a contagion that ravages the ship. One by one, the entire crew is incapacitated except for Number One, Una Chin-Riley, who must now confront a secret she’s been hiding as she races to find a cure.
Director: Leslie Hope
Writer: Akela Cooper, Bill Wolkoff
7.7/104,634 votesLoading...#14 - Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/9/2022
A threat to an idyllic planet reunites Captain Pike with the lost love of his life. 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.
Director: Andi Armaganian
Writer: Bill Wolkoff, Robin Wasserman
7.6/105,076 votesLoading...#15 - 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.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
7.3/104,082 votesLoading...#16 - 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.
Director: Eduardo Sánchez
Writer: Davy Perez, Kirsten Beyer
7.3/103,787 votesLoading...#17 - 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.
Director: Dan Liu
Writer: Onitra Johnson, David Reed
7.2/105,058 votesLoading...#18 - 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.
Director: Sydney Freeland
Writer: Sarah Tarkoff, Beau DeMayo
6.8/1012,620 votesLoading...#19 - 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.
Director: Dermott Downs
Writer: Bill Wolkoff, Dana Horgan
6.2/106,468 votesLoading...#20 - 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.
Director: Amanda Row
Writer: Akela Cooper, Onitra Johnson
The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Every episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!
Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds...
Genre:Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Paramount+
Best Episodes Summary
"A Quality of Mercy" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds". It scored 9.1/10 based on 5391 votes. Directed by Chris Fisher and written by Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman, it aired on 7/7/2022. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Those Old Scientists".