Star Trek: Discovery (2017)

Action · Adventure · Drama

Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.

IMDb rating: 6.9 (147,261 votes)
Episode average: 6.8 -0.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 5
Streaming (US): Paramount+
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 5 seasons indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (2017)

7.51 avg 15 episodes 7.2 → 7.1 45 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Vulcan Hello	7.2	8,512
2	Battle at the Binary Stars	7.5	7,678
3	Context Is for Kings	7.7	7,157
4	The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry	7.2	6,138
5	Choose Your Pain	7.3	6,038
6	Lethe	7.3	5,633
7	Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad	7.5	6,094
8	Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum	6.8	5,069
9	Into the Forest I Go	7.9	5,477
10	Despite Yourself	7.8	5,334
11	The Wolf Inside	7.8	4,881
12	Vaulting Ambition	8.1	5,239
13	What's Past Is Prologue	8.1	5,045
14	The War Without, the War Within	7.4	4,307
15	Will You Take My Hand?	7.1	4,808

Season 2 (2019)

7.44 avg 14 episodes 7.4 → 8.2 51 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Brother	7.4	5,473
2	New Eden	7.8	5,027
3	Point of Light	6.6	4,534
4	An Obol for Charon	7.3	4,397
5	Saints of Imperfection	6.6	4,450
6	The Sound of Thunder	7.7	4,232
7	Light and Shadows	7.2	3,837
8	If Memory Serves	8.2	4,645
9	Project Daedalus	7.9	4,201
10	The Red Angel	7.2	3,955
11	Perpetual Infinity	7.2	3,729
12	Through the Valley of Shadows	7.6	3,644
13	Such Sweet Sorrow	7.3	4,124
14	Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2	8.2	5,394

Season 3 (2020)

6.66 avg 13 episodes 7.3 → 6.5 52 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	That Hope Is You, Part 1	7.3	5,431
2	Far from Home	7.2	4,269
3	People of Earth	7.2	4,046
4	Forget Me Not	6.4	4,797
5	Die Trying	7.3	3,854
6	Scavengers	6.6	3,678
7	Unification III	6.5	4,144
8	The Sanctuary	5.8	3,973
9	Terra Firma, Part 1	6.4	3,745
10	Terra Firma, Part 2	6.4	3,696
11	Su'Kal	6.2	3,604
12	There Is a Tide...	6.8	3,414
13	That Hope Is You, Part 2	6.5	4,172

Season 4 (2021)

5.82 avg 13 episodes 5.9 → 5.9 51 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Kobayashi Maru	5.9	4,211
2	Anomaly	5.5	3,575
3	Choose to Live	5.6	3,294
4	All Is Possible	5.3	3,520
5	The Examples	6.1	2,940
6	Stormy Weather	5.5	3,083
7	...But to Connect	5.9	2,787
8	All In	5.7	2,503
9	Rubicon	5.9	2,331
10	The Galactic Barrier	6.0	2,398
11	Rosetta	5.6	2,398
12	Species Ten-C	6.7	2,422
13	Coming Home	5.9	3,200

Season 5 (2024)

6.27 avg 10 episodes 6.3 → 6.1 56 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Red Directive	6.3	2,471
2	Under the Twin Moons	6.4	1,981
3	Jinaal	5.8	1,869
4	Face the Strange	7.0	1,823
5	Mirrors	6.4	1,663
6	Whistlespeak	5.7	1,727
7	Erigah	6.3	1,493
8	Labyrinths	6.3	1,547
9	Lagrange Point	6.4	1,502
10	Life, Itself	6.1	2,178

Star Trek: Discovery (2017)

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