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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 6468 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".

  • The Elysian Kingdom
    6.2/106,468 votes
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    #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

  • Subspace Rhapsody
    6.8/1012,620 votes
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    #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

  • The Serene Squall
    7.2/105,058 votes
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    #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

  • Among the Lotus Eaters
    7.3/104,082 votes
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    #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

  • Lost in Translation
    7.3/103,787 votes
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    #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

  • The Broken Circle
    7.6/105,076 votes
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    #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

  • Ghosts of Illyria
    7.7/105,076 votes
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    #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

  • Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
    7.7/104,634 votes
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    #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

  • Children of the Comet
    8.0/105,592 votes
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    #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

  • Spock Amok
    8.0/105,146 votes
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    #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

  • Strange New Worlds
    8.1/106,914 votes
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    #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

  • All Those Who Wander
    8.2/104,580 votes
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    #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

  • Charades
    8.2/104,722 votes
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    #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

  • Under the Cloak of War
    8.2/104,541 votes
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    #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

  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
    8.3/105,362 votes
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    #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

  • Memento Mori
    8.4/105,152 votes
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    #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

  • Ad Astra per Aspera
    8.5/105,996 votes
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    #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

  • Hegemony
    8.6/103,358 votes
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    #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

  • Those Old Scientists
    8.9/108,357 votes
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    #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

  • A Quality of Mercy
    9.1/105,391 votes
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    #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