Worst Star Trek Episodes -WIP
by barbaricavatar | created - 06 May 2020 | updated - 8 months ago | PublicMy scores of 5/10 and lower. Ranked only by release date.
See also: Best Star Trek Episodes
I am yet to score DS9, Enterp, Discov. LowDec.
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1.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Charlie X
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Captain Kirk must learn the limits to the power of a 17-year-old boy with the psionic ability to create anything and destroy anyone.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Walker Jr., DeForest Kelley
Votes: 5,467
3/10 - TOS S01E02
2.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Where No Man Has Gone Before
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The flight recorder of the 200-year-old U.S.S. Valiant relays a tale of terror--a magnetic storm at the edge of the galaxy.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Gary Lockwood, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 6,408
4/10 - TOS S01E03
3.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Shore Leave
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The past months have left the crew exhausted and in desperate need of a break, but does this explain McCoy's encounter with a human-sized white rabbit or Kirk crossing paths with the prankster who plagued his days at Starfleet Academy?
Director: Robert Sparr | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Emily Banks, Oliver McGowan
Votes: 4,423
4/10 - TOS S01E15
4.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Squire of Gothos
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A being that controls matter and creates planets wants to play with the Enterprise crew.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, William Campbell, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 4,146
4/10 - TOS S01E17
5.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
A Taste of Armageddon
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are all declared killed in action in a bizarre computer simulated war where the actual deaths must nevertheless occur.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, David Opatoshu, Gene Lyons
Votes: 4,187
5/10 - TOS S01E23 While the plot is intriguing, it's also chuffing stupid.
6.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Who Mourns for Adonais?
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Michael Forest
Votes: 4,006
5/10 - TOS S02E02
7.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
I, Mudd
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Harry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Roger C. Carmel
Votes: 3,732
5/10 - TOS S02E08 Just a rehash of S01E07 with added stupid.
8.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Friday's Child
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Federation clashes with the Klingon Empire over mining rights to Capella IV. A sudden coup between its warrior-minded inhabitants forces Kirk's party to flee with the now dead leader's pregnant wife.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Julie Newmar
Votes: 3,385
5/10 - TOS S02E11 "It's a trap - Let's stay a while longer and make absolutely sure that it is"
9.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
A Piece of the Action
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The crew of the Enterprise struggles to cope with a planet of imitative people who have modeled their society on 1920s gangsters.
Director: James Komack | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Anthony Caruso
Votes: 3,811
5/10 - TOS S02E17
10.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Return to Tomorrow
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise is guided to a distant, long-dead world where survivors of an extremely ancient race - existing only as disembodied energy - desiring the bodies of Kirk, Spock and astro-biologist Ann Mulhall so that they may live again.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Diana Muldaur
Votes: 3,300
5/10 - TOS S02E20
11.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Bread and Circuses
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Smithers
Votes: 3,271
5/10 - TOS S02E25 Nothing says "I've run out of ideas" more than visiting points in Earth's history in a show set supposedly in the future. No wonder it got axed.
12.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Way to Eden
(1969)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A group of idealistic hippies, led by an irrational leader, come aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Director: David Alexander | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Skip Homeier
Votes: 3,408
2/10 - TOS S03E20 - Worst TOS episode
13.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Turnabout Intruder
(1969)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Captain Kirk's insane ex-lover Dr. Janice Lester forcibly switches bodies with him in order to take command of the Enterprise.
Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Sandra Smith
Votes: 2,993
5/10 - TOS S03E24
14.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Encounter at Farpoint
(1987)
TV-PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
On the maiden mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), an omnipotent being known as Q challenges the crew to discover the secret of a mysterious base in an advanced and civilized fashion.
Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 7,318
4/10 - TNG S01E01 (Part 2 - 5/10)
15.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Naked Now
(1987)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The crew of the Enterprise is infected with a virus that causes them to behave as though they were intoxicated.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,697
5/10 - TNG S01E02
16.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Code of Honor
(1987)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the leader of an alien culture takes a romantic interest in Lt. Yar, he claims her for his own, to the dismay of his own wife, who, in turn, challenges Tasha in a fight to the death.
Directors: Russ Mayberry, Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,599
5/10 - TNG S01E03
17.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Last Outpost
(1987)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise makes a confrontational first contact with the piratical Ferengi race as their two ships are ensnared by a presumed dead planet ready to judge them.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,157
5/10 - TNG S01E04
18.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Lonely Among Us
(1987)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While distracted by two antithetical races applying for Federation membership, the Enterprise picks up a sentient entity that can alternately possess either man or machinery.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 3,783
5/10 - TNG S01E06
19.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Justice
(1987)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
On an alien planet, young Wesley Crusher commits a transgression - small by our standards but mandatorily punishable by death in theirs.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,126
4/10 - TNG S01E07
20.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Hide and Q
(1987)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise encounters Q again, and he tempts Riker by endowing him with the powers of the Q.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,001
4/10 - TNG S01E09
21.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Haven
(1987)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While on a mission to a planet called Haven, Counselor Troi meets her husband to be, a marriage arranged by her father years before, as the Enterprise encounters a ship far deadlier than any combat could provide.
Director: Richard Compton | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 3,714
4/10 - TNG S01E10
22.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
When the Bough Breaks
(1988)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A planet that was able to cloak itself for thousands of years suddenly reveals itself, with its inhabitants proposing peace. But, after initial negotiations, children of the Enterprise are kidnapped due to the infertility of the inhabitants.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 3,535
5/10 - TNG S01E16
23.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Skin of Evil
(1988)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Counselor Troi is held captive on a deserted planet by a slick, black, oily, sentient and immortal puddle of evil.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,050
4/10 - TNG S01E22
24.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
We'll Always Have Paris
(1988)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A scientist's experiment in time goes awry, reuniting Picard with an old flame, now married to the scientist.
Director: Robert Becker | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 3,470
5/10 - TNG S01E23
25.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Dauphin
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Wesley falls for the young future leader of Daled IV, unaware just how dangerous the girl's protective and overly restrictive guardian can be.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,575
5/10 - TNG S02E10
26.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Shades of Gray
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When Commander Riker comes down with a dangerous alien infection after an away mission, the only way to treat it may be through reliving his memories.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,002
4/10 - TNG S02E22 - Worst TNG Episode.
27.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Evolution
(1989)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Wesley's latest science project escapes the lab, threatening the Enterprise and an eminent scientist's life-long project.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,457
5/10 - TNG S03E01
28.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Loss
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As an unknown force drags the Enterprise, Deanna Troi struggles with the loss of her empathic abilities.
Director: Chip Chalmers | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,126
5/10 - TNG S04E10
29.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Half a Life
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Counselor Troi's mother visits the Enterprise and becomes infatuated with a man whose culture forces him into a suicidal ritual called "The Resolution."
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,291
5/10 - TNG S04E22 Go away Troi's mom!
30.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Hero Worship
(1992)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Data rescues an orphaned boy named Timothy from a damaged ship. As a way to repress his own pain, Timothy begins to mimic Data's personality.
Director: Patrick Stewart | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 2,981
5/10 - TNG S05E11
31.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Cost of Living
(1992)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As undetectable parasites devour the ship, Deanna's mother arrives, taking young Alexander under her wing en route to meeting a man she's blindly agreed to marry.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 2,864
4/10 - TNG S05E20 Troi's mom is back in an even worse episode than last time!
32.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Imaginary Friend
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A powerful, potentially dangerous energy life form, intent on scouting out the Enterprise, steps into the role of a girl's imaginary friend.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 2,863
4/10 - TNG S05E22
33.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Man of the People
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the Enterprise comes to the rescue of an ambassador and his "mother", Deanna finds herself attracted to him, and seeks to comfort him upon her death.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 2,869
4/10 - TNG S06E03
34.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Interface
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Geordi is distracted by the news of the possible loss of his mother while he uses a new remote probe technology to search for a downed spacecraft.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 2,642
5/10 - TNG S07E03
35.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Dark Page
(1993)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While establishing diplomatic relations with an alien race called the Cairn, Deanna's mother experiences a mental breakdown and falls into a coma, and it seems like Deanna is the only one ... See full summary »
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 2,896
4/10 - TNG S07E07
36.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Inheritance
(1993)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
On Federation planet Atrea IV, Data encounters the former wife of his creator Noonian Soong who claims to be his "mother".
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 2,867
5/10 - TNG S07E10
37.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Sub Rosa
(1994)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Dr. Crusher meets the man in her dead grandmother's life when she tries to put her affairs in order, whom one of the local people warn her to stay away from by not lighting a candle that has been lit for generations.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,266
4/10 - TNG S07E14 Ghosts don't belong in Trek. They claimed it was an alien at the end but they're not fooling anyone.
38.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Masks
(1994)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Investigating a rogue comet that's been traveling throughout the universe for over 87 million years, Picard discovers alien beings within the comet, which infest the computer systems on the Enterprise, as well as Data.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,018
5/10 - TNG S07E17 Spirituality doesn't belong in Trek.
39.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Journey's End
(1994)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the Federation grants access by the Cardassians to a planet already inhabited by Native Americans, Picard has the daunting task of relocating them.
Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 2,864
5/10 - TNG S07E20 Religion doesn't belong in Trek.
40.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Elogium
(1995)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Voyager encounters a swarm of mysterious life forms that has a strange effect on the ship's key operating system and whose presence accelerates Kes' reproductive cycle.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 1,981
5/10 - VOY S02E04
41.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Parturition
(1995)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After a disagreement over Kes, Neelix and Tom Paris are trapped together on an alien planet and must work together so that they and their alien baby ward can survive.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 1,889
5/10 - VOY S02E07
42.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Tattoo
(1995)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Finding a familiar cultural symbol on an away mission, Chakotay connects with an experience he had as a child and tries to contact his spirit people.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 1,971
5/10 - VOY S02E09
43.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Threshold
(1996)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Tom's attempt to cross the time warp threshold and make a name for himself results in rapid physical mutation.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 2,376
5/10 - VOY S02E15
44.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
The Thaw
(1996)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Voyager finds a group of people in connected stasis chambers where something has gone terribly wrong.
Director: Marvin V. Rush | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 2,315
5/10 - VOY S02E23
45.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Darkling
(1997)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As Kes develops a relationship with a Mikhal Traveler, a member of Voyager's crew develops a dangerously ruthless split personality with a fixation on Kes.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 1,736
5/10 - VOY S03E18
46.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Before and After
(1997)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
On her deathbed, Kes relives her life, jumping backwards in spurts of time towards birth, gaining knowledge as to why as she goes.
Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 1,998
5/10 - VOY S03E21
47.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Mortal Coil
(1997)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Thanks to Seven of Nine, Neelix returns from the dead, but his lack of a glimpse of the afterlife brings about a severe crisis of faith.
Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 1,864
5/10 - VOY S04E12
48.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Fair Haven
(2000)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Capt. Janeway falls for an Irish barman character she modifies within Tom's holodeck Irish village recreational getaway for the crew called Fair Haven.
Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 1,898
5/10 - VOY S06E11 - Worst Voyager Episode
49.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
Spirit Folk
(2000)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
For the holographic inhabitants of Fair Haven, unworldly actions from Voyager personnel fit only one explanation - they're faerie folk.
Director: David Livingston | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 1,813
5/10 - VOY S06E17
50.
Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)
Episode:
Maps and Legends
(2020)
TV-MA | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Without the support of Starfleet, Picard turns to Dr. Agnes Jurati and his estranged colleague Raffi Musiker for help in finding the truth about Dahj, unaware that hidden enemies are also interested in what he'll find.
Director: Hanelle M. Culpepper | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Michelle Hurd
Votes: 6,021
5/10 - PIC S01E02
51.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode:
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
(2017)
TV-MA | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The U.S.S. Discovery is tasked with a high priority mission to the planet Pahvo and learn the science behind the Klingons' cloaking technology.
Director: John Scott | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp
Votes: 4,709
5/10 - DIS S01E08
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