8.1/106,932 votes#1 - 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
8.0/105,610 votes#2 - 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
7.7/105,094 votes#3 - 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
8.4/105,170 votes#4 - 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
8.0/105,166 votes#5 - 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
7.7/104,656 votes#6 - 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
7.2/105,079 votes#7 - 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
6.2/106,495 votes#8 - 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
8.2/104,604 votes#9 - 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
9.1/105,416 votes#10 - 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
The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1
Every episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1!
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+
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Strange New Worlds" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 6932 votes. Directed by Akiva Goldsman and written by N/A, it aired on 5/5/2022. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Children of the Comet".