Star Trek: EVERY Season Ranked Worst To Best

34. Short Treks - Season 2

Jumping right in, Star Trek Short Treks, Season Two comes in as our first entry. While there are strong moments in this set of episodes, not least the wonderful acting between Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck, the short season doesn't have much of a chance here.

That is not to say that it's bad at all. Q&A is the strongest of the bunch, with Children of Mars coming in second. While this final episode is a beautiful and elegiac tribute the disaster that would kick the action of Star Trek Picard into gear, the fact that it spends its runtime dialogue free, concentrating on characters we don't know stands against it.

The other entries in the season vary from soft entertainment to outright odd. Ask Not is a fine addition, mostly due to the presence of Anson Mount's Pike. Ephraim and Dot is cute, featuring various voice cameos from the original series. The Girl Who Made The Stars feels like a beautiful, but hollow few minutes.

The real issue of the season is The Trouble With Edward. Clearly the aim was attempt slapstick comedy in some way, but Edward is so thoroughly unlikable that we end up rooting for his creations to devour him. The laughs are thin on the ground here.

Short Treks Season Two: Glad to have them, not amazing.