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The Best Episodes of 'Star Trek: Picard'

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Updated January 15, 2025 20 items
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Vote up your favorite episodes of Star Trek: Picard to air.

There may not be that many yet but even so, there are so many good episodes of Star Trek: Picard, but which have really stood out? Do you like "The End Is the Beginning" the best, or is the first episode, "Remembrance" your favorite episode of Picard? To determine once and for all what the best episodes of Star Trek: Picard are, let's rank every Picard episode from best to worst.

Star Trek: Picard the eighth series in the Star Trek franchise and is centered on the character Jean-Luc Picard, with Patrick Stewart reprising his role as a retired Star Fleet captain twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis. Star Trek: Picard premiered on CBS All Access on January 23, 2020. Before a single episode aired, CBS All Access renewed Picard for a second season. Multiple actors from previous Star Trek series also reprised their roles, including Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, Marina Sirtis, and Jonathan Frakes – who also returned behind the camera to direct episodes as well.

Vote up your favorite episodes of Star Trek: Picard, and vote down any episodes that you really didn't enjoy, despite how much you love the series (and Jean-Luc) as a whole. It can be painful to put one Picard episode over the other when there are so many good ones, which is why you can vote on however many episodes you like.

  • Nepenthe
    1

    Nepenthe

    • Original Airing: March 5, 2020
    • Season: 1
    • Episode Number: 7
    • Episode Description: Picard and Soji travel to the planet Nepenthe, home to some old and trusted friends; Picard helps Soji make sense of her recently unlocked memories; Hugh and Elnor are left on the Borg cube and must face an angered Narissa.
    10 votes
    Great episode?
  • Remembrance
    2

    Remembrance

    • Original Airing: January 23, 2020
    • Season: 1
    • Episode Number: 1
    • Episode Description: At the end of the 24th Century, and 14 years after his retirement from Starfleet, Jean-Luc Picard is sought out by a mysterious young woman in need of his help.
    16 votes
    Great episode?
  • The End Is the Beginning
    3

    The End Is the Beginning

    • Original Airing: February 6, 2020
    • Season: 1
    • Episode Number: 3
    • Episode Description: Completely unaware of her special nature, Soji continues her work and captures the attention of the Borg cube research project's executive director; Picard seeks others willing to join his search for Bruce Maddox.
    38 votes
    Great episode?
  • Two of One
    4

    Two of One

    • Original Airing: April 07, 2022
    • Season: 2
    • Episode Number: 6
    • Episode Description: With Tallinn's help, Picard and the crew infiltrate a gala on the eve of a joint space mission, to protect an astronaut they believe to be integral to the restoration of the timeline; Kore makes a startling discovery about her father's work.
    6 votes
    Great episode?
  • Penance
    5

    Penance

    • Original Airing: March 10, 2022
    • Season: 2
    • Episode Number: 2
    • Episode Description: Picard finds himself transported to an alternate timeline in the year 2400 where his longtime nemesis, Q, has orchestrated one final trial; Picard searches for his trusted crew as he attempts to find the cause of this dystopian future.
    6 votes
    Great episode?
  • Stardust City Rag
    6

    Stardust City Rag

    • Original Airing: February 20, 2020
    • Season: 1
    • Episode Number: 5
    • Episode Description: The La Sirena crew begins an unpredictable and lively expedition on Freecloud to search for Bruce Maddox.
    8 votes
    Great episode?