DECEMBER 12, 2022 - Star Trek fans have yet one more victory to close out 2022 with. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has made the top 20 list of best TV shows for the year.  

Specifically, it comes in at # 11. Now, as fans of the franchise, we rightly question its placement, perhaps feeling that it’s too low in the ranking and should be higher on the list. Now, a journalist’s job is to dig deep and research their stories, and in looking at this particular article, I was shocked to find out that over 500 new shows premiered in 2022 on television and various streaming services. Suddenly, # 11 is very remarkable! 

According to Rolling Stone, which listed the ranked shows, SNW was listed as follows:

Where the next show on our list succeeded by taking an old sci-fi franchise in a new direction, Strange New Worlds was a triumph in returning to what had worked. After previous modern spinoffs like Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard got bogged down in uninteresting season-long arcs, Strange New Worlds remembered that the franchise tends to work best with a Mission of the Week approach. It was fun to again see a starship traveling from planet to planet and to see it crewed by such an appealing cast of characters, first and foremost led by Anson Mount’s impossibly charming and empathetic Captain Pike. Sometimes, the boldest move is to go where many shows have gone before.

It’s likely most agree that SNW has been a return to the familiar for longtime Trek fans.  Familiar characters realized in new ways, along with new characters and an amazing new (old) Enterprise has made fans smile as week after week, we boldly go where we’ve comfortable gone before. For more details and the others shown on the top 20 list, redirect to Rolling Stone  and check it out.