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Ranking the worst episode from every Star Trek series (from best to worst)

Not every Star Trek episode is the best but some are certainly worst than others. We're looking at the worst of the worst today.

By Chad Porto

"Second Contact" -- Pictured (L-R) Eugene Cordero as Ensign Rutherford, Tawny Newsome as Ensign Beckett Mariner, Nol Wells as Ensign Tendi and Jack Quaid as Ensign Brad Boimler of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. Photo Cr: Best Possible Screen Grab CBS 2020 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Second Contact" -- Pictured (L-R) Eugene Cordero as Ensign Rutherford, Tawny Newsome as Ensign Beckett Mariner, Nol Wells as Ensign Tendi and Jack Quaid as Ensign Brad Boimler of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. Photo Cr: Best Possible Screen Grab CBS 2020 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved. /
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7. Deep Space Nine - "Let He Who Is Without Sin" (5.5)

It's rather shocking that Deep Space Nine's trip to Risa was met with so much resistance as, personally, I think this is one of the better comedy episodes that Star Trek has ever made. Basically, the whole crew heads to Risa for a vacation, Worf can't relax and then a bunch of terrorists try to destroy the planet. It's a solid episode but it seems that the audience who was watching DS9 at the time believed that the series should be much more stern at this point in its timeline and hey, that's a valid argument.

6. Picard - "Monsters" (5.4)

Picard as a whole is a rough show to watch. Watching the episode where they shoehorn a bunch of hallucinations into the episode, albeit some really creepy ones, wasn't going to help things. People were really only ever invested due to the hope that more legacy characters would appear and an episode like Monsters simply prolonged that want.

5. Enterprise - "These are the Voyages" (5.3)

The series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise deserves to be on this list and probably lower. While in theory, it wraps up the Enterprise story by showing how the events of the show would've gone, it does so through the lens of William Riker and Deanna Troi, two people who had never been seen on the show up til that point. It felt like a weak cop-out and a tired trope coming together for true levels of suck. Not to mention the unnecessary death of Charles "Trip" Tucker.

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