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The Best Episodes of 'Strange New Worlds'

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Updated December 10, 2024 10 items
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Vote up your favorite episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to air.

Every Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode offers a unique mix of nostalgia and wonder, but which episodes really stand out? Do you like "Momento Mori" the best, or was the first episode of Strange New Worlds a perfect entry into this Star Trek spin-off? It may not be boldly going where no one has gone before but it's still very satisfying to figure out the best episodes, so let's rank every Strange New Worlds episode from best to worst.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a spin-off of Star Trek: Discovery, with cast and characters who first appeared in its second season. Even though it may be a spin-off, Strange New Worlds is actually a prequel - following the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise. Strange New Worlds premiered on Paramount+ May 6, 2022, as one of the most anticipated series of the year, quickly becoming a new sci-fi favorite, thanks to a retro look that extends all the way to more old-school episodic stories.

Vote up your favorite episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and vote down any bad episodes that didn't live up to the rest. It can be galactically difficult to put one Strange New Worlds episode over the other when there are so many good ones, which is why you can vote on however many episodes you like.

  • All Those Who Wander
    1
    33 votes

    All Those Who Wander

    • Original Airing: June 30, 2022
    • Season: 1
    • Episode Number: 9
    • Episode Description: 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.
  • A Quality of Mercy
    2
    36 votes

    A Quality of Mercy

    • Original Airing: July 07, 2022
    • Season: 1
    • Episode Number: 10
    • Episode Description: 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.
  • Children of the Comet
    3
    29 votes

    Children of the Comet

    • Original Airing: May 12, 2022
    • Season: 1
    • Episode Number: 2
    • Episode Description: While on a survey mission, the U.S.S. Enterprise discovers a comet is going to strike an inhabited planet; while trying to unlock the comet's secrets, Pike and Number One deal with a group of zealots who want to prevent any interference.
  • Ghosts of Illyria
    4
    21 votes

    Ghosts of Illyria

    • Original Airing: May 19, 2022
    • Season: 1
    • Episode Number: 3
    • Episode Description: 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.
  • Memento Mori
    5
    43 votes

    Memento Mori

    • Original Airing: May 26, 2022
    • Season: 1
    • Episode Number: 4
    • Episode Description: While on a routine supply mission to a colony planet, the U.S.S. Enterprise comes under attack from an unknown malevolent force; Pike learns that the enemy cannot be dealt with by conventional Starfleet means.
  • Strange New Worlds
    6
    29 votes

    Strange New Worlds

    • Original Airing: May 05, 2022
    • Season: 1
    • Episode Number: 1
    • Episode Description: 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.