Best Star Trek Episodes
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1.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
In the Pale Moonlight
(1998)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
To save the Federation in a critical scheme, Sisko comes to realize that he must violate its fundamental principles to do so.
Director: Victor Lobl | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell
Votes: 4,330
2.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The City on the Edge of Forever
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a temporarily insane Dr. McCoy accidentally changes history and destroys his time, Kirk and Spock follow him to prevent the disaster, but the price to do so is high.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Joan Collins, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 6,582
3.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Ship in a Bottle
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lt. Barclay mistakenly awakes Moriarty in the forgotten holodeck program, who then makes his demands clear and unforgettable.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,657
4.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Someone To Watch Over Me
(1999)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As The Doctor guides Seven into the unfamiliar social realm of dating, Ambassador Neelix suffers an alien monk who overindulges.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 2,171
5.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
The Magnificent Ferengi
(1998)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
At the request of the Grand Nagus, Quark puts together a mission to rescue Quark's mother, who is in the hands of the Dominion.
Director: Chip Chalmers | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell
Votes: 2,378
6.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
Sacrifice of Angels
(1997)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Federation attacks DS9 in hopes of keeping the mine field at the wormhole intact, while the Dominion waits entrance to the Alpha Quadrant from the other side.
Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell
Votes: 2,506
7.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode:
If Memory Serves
(2019)
TV-PG | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Spock and Burnham head to Talos IV, where the process of healing Spock forces the siblings to confront their troubled past. Stamets desperately tries to reconnect with an increasingly ... See full summary »
Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman
Votes: 4,273
8.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
Trials and Tribble-ations
(1996)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Sisko tells two men from Temporal Investigations how he and his crew went back in time to when Captain James Kirk of the first Starship Enterprise exposed a Klingon spy with the help of Tribbles.
Director: Jonathan West | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell
Votes: 4,135
9.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Counterpoint
(1998)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Voyager passes through a sector of space controlled by a race that is deeply suspicious of telepathic lifeforms. The presence of Tuvok and other telepaths forces the Voyager crew to develop a novel approach in order to pass through safely.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 2,136
10.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Yesterday's Enterprise
(1990)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise C enters the Enterprise D's time and space continuum, where they find Picard and crew in a constant state of war with the Klingons, and only Guinan knows it.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 6,058
11.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
The Visitor
(1995)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Melanie, an aspiring writer, wants to know why Jake Sisko stopped writing at 40. Jake tells how his father died in an accident and then suddenly reappeared.
Director: David Livingston | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell
Votes: 4,308
12.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Responding to a distress call on one of the Federation's outer-most colonies, the Enterprise arrives...only to find a big hole in the ground where the town used to be, and discovers the Borg are behind the attack.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,798
13.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy
(1999)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An alien race, sizing up Voyager for a raid, taps into The Doctor's cognitive subroutines to make him their spy, unaware they're watching The Doctor's new daydreaming program.
Director: John Bruno | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 2,412
14.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode:
Context Is for Kings
(2017)
TV-MA | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Burnham finds herself aboard the U.S.S. Discovery, where she quickly realizes things are not as they seem, including the mysterious Captain Gabriel Lorca.
Director: Akiva Goldsman | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp
Votes: 6,765
15.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Life Line
(2000)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Doctor gets himself transmitted back to Federation space to treat his mortally ailing creator, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman. A clash of egos ensues.
Director: Terry Windell | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 1,975
16.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
Call to Arms
(1997)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
With Dominion warships continuing to enter the Alpha Quadrant, Deep Space Nine prepares for a confrontation with the Dominion and Cardassia.
Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell
Votes: 2,337
17.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Year of Hell
(1997)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Voyager comes across a Krenim timeship that's wiping whole species from existence to change the existing timeline.
Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 2,577
18.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode:
Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
(2017)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As the U.S.S. Discovery crew attempts to let loose at a party, an unwelcome visitor comes aboard bringing about a problematic and twisted sequence of events.
Director: David Barrett | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp
Votes: 5,737
19.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Year of Hell, Part II
(1997)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A year after Voyager encounters the Krenim time ship, a badly damaged Voyager with a skeleton crew leads an armada of interplanetary ships against them.
Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 2,431
20.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Message in a Bottle
(1998)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Using an alien communications net, Voyager sends their Doctor to the Federation ship USS Prometheus only to find that it has been taken over by Romulans.
Director: Nancy Malone | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 2,611
21.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Living Witness
(1998)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Doctor awakens in the museum of an alien culture seven hundred years in the future, where Voyager is thought to have been a passing warship full of cold-blooded killers.
Director: Tim Russ | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 2,607
22.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Death Wish
(1996)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As Voyager's captain, Janeway conducts a hearing for asylum tied to a suicidal Q's right to die.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 2,419
23.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode:
Into the Forest I Go
(2017)
TV-MA | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Bypassing Starfleet's orders, Lorca uses the USS Discovery crew's ultimate asset, the ship itself, in an effort to end the war with the Klingons once and for all.
Director: Christopher J. Byrne | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp
Votes: 5,129
24.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Balance of Terror
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard, Paul Comi
Votes: 5,701
25.
Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)
Episode:
Penance
(2022)
TV-MA | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard finds himself transported to an alternate timeline in the year 2400 where he must face one last trial orchestrated by his longtime nemesis Q.
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd
Votes: 4,222
26.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode:
The Sanctuary
(2020)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The U.S.S. Discovery crew travel to Book's home planet to help rescue it from Osyraa, the formidable leader of the Emerald Chain; Stamets and Adira continue their search for valuable information on the origin of the Burn.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman
Votes: 3,635
27.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Devil in the Dark
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise is sent to a mining colony that is being terrorized by a mysterious monster, only to find that the situation is not that simple.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Ken Lynch
Votes: 4,301
28.
Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)
Episode:
Nepenthe
(2020)
TV-MA | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard and Soji, who's struggling to make sense of her recently unlocked memories, travel to a planet that happens to be the home of Picard's old friends Will Riker and Deanna Troi; Elnor and Hugh are left on the Borg cube to face Narissa.
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Evan Evagora
Votes: 5,110
29.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Amok Time
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the throes of his Pon Farr mating period, Spock must return to Vulcan to meet his intended future wife, betrothed from childhood.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Celia Lovsky
Votes: 4,753
30.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode:
Vaulting Ambition
(2018)
TV-MA | 38 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Burnham heads to the ISS Charon with a special "gift" for the Emperor. With the help of an unexpected source, Stamets gains clarity while trapped inside the mycelial network. Saru asks for L'Rell's help.
Director: Hanelle M. Culpepper | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp
Votes: 4,896
31.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode:
There Is a Tide...
(2020)
TV-MA | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After capturing the U.S.S. Discovery, Osyraa seeks a meeting with Admiral Vance while Burnham and the crew must overcome unimaginable odds as they attempt to regain command of their ship.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman
Votes: 3,081
32.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Mirror, Mirror
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A transporter accident places Captain Kirk's landing party in an alternate universe, where the Enterprise is in the service of a barbarically brutal empire.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, BarBara Luna
Votes: 5,146
33.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Journey to Babel
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise hosts a number of quarrelling diplomats, including Spock's father, but someone on board has murder in mind.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Jane Wyatt
Votes: 4,032
34.
Star Trek: Short Treks (2018–2020)
Episode:
Calypso
(2018)
TV-PG | 18 min | Short, Action, Adventure
After waking up in an unfamiliar sickbay, Craft finds himself on board a deserted ship, and his only companion and hope for survival is an A.I. computer interface.
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi | Stars: Aldis Hodge, Annabelle Wallis, Sash Striga, Fred Astaire
Votes: 1,125
35.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Trouble with Tribbles
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
To protect a space station with a vital grain shipment, Kirk must deal with Federation bureaucrats, a Klingon battle cruiser and a peddler who sells furry, purring, hungry little creatures as pets.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Schallert
Votes: 4,935
36.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
In a Mirror, Darkly
(2005)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Set in the dark and oppressive Mirror Universe, Commander Archer leads a mutiny in a bold attempt to seize control of an advanced starship - a vessel from the future that may be the key to saving the Terran Empire.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 2,016
37.
Star Trek: Short Treks (2018–2020)
Episode:
The Escape Artist
(2019)
TV-MA | 16 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Harry Mudd, back to his old tricks of stealing and double-dealing, finds himself in a precarious position aboard a hostile ship - just in time to try out his latest con.
Director: Rainn Wilson | Stars: Rainn Wilson, Dan Abramovici, Harry Judge, Barbara Mamabolo
Votes: 849
38.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II
(2005)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Mirror Universe saga concludes as Archer declares himself captain of a formidable starship from the future, while his alien crew launch a rebellion in a desperate bid to keep him from achieving ultimate power.
Director: Marvin V. Rush | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 1,898
39.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
Terra Prime
(2005)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Paxton threatens to destroy Starfleet Headquarters if all aliens don't leave Earth. Enterprise must shut down the verteron array on Mars, but it is extremely well defended.
Director: Marvin V. Rush | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 1,632
40.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
All Good Things...
(1994)
TV-PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Capt. Picard finds himself shifting continually into the past, future and present and must use that to discover a threat to humanity's existence.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 9,259
41.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Tapestry
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When Captain Picard's artificial heart fails, he is offered the rare opportunity to go back in time and set right the mistake that led to his demise.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,298
42.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Inner Light
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard awakes to find himself living in a small village where he is a well-known member of the community who is suffering from a delusion of being a starship captain.
Director: Peter Lauritson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 8,261
43.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Q Who
(1989)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Q tries to prove that Picard needs him as part of their crew by hurling the Enterprise 7,000 light years away where they encounter the Borg for the first time.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,074
44.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
I Borg
(1992)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise finds a lone Borg drone, separated from the collective, and brings him aboard. The drone begins to reassert his individuality, but his presence causes differing levels of fear and sympathy from various crew members.
Director: Robert Lederman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,325
45.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode:
Forget Me Not
(2020)
TV-MA | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Burnham and Adira visit the Trill homeworld while Saru's efforts on the Discovery to help the crew reconnect yield surprises.
Director: Hanelle M. Culpepper | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman
Votes: 4,430
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