6.2/106,495 votesLoading...#1 - 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
6.8/1012,711 votesLoading...#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.
Director: Dermott Downs
Writer: Bill Wolkoff, Dana Horgan
7.2/105,079 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.3/104,105 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.3/103,814 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.6/105,103 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.7/105,094 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.7/104,656 votesLoading...#8 - 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
8.0/105,610 votesLoading...#9 - 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
8.0/105,166 votesLoading...#10 - 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
8.1/106,932 votesLoading...#11 - 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
8.2/104,604 votesLoading...#12 - 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
8.2/104,751 votesLoading...#13 - 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
8.2/104,569 votesLoading...#14 - 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
8.3/105,392 votesLoading...#15 - 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
8.4/105,170 votesLoading...#16 - 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
8.5/106,028 votesLoading...#17 - 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
8.6/103,384 votesLoading...#18 - 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
8.9/108,414 votesLoading...#19 - 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
9.1/105,416 votesLoading...#20 - 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 Worst Episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Every episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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+
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Elysian Kingdom" is the worst rated episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds". It scored 6.2/10 based on 6495 votes. Directed by Amanda Row and written by Akela Cooper, Onitra Johnson, it aired on 6/23/2022. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Subspace Rhapsody".