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Star Trek: Discovery Recap: The Bye-Bye Crew

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You know how some people listen to audiobooks at twice the normal speed? Because productivity, or whatever? Either I need to be watching Star Trek: Discovery at half its intended tempo, or the show itself has been playing at double speed from the jump. I don’t know about you, but I’ve felt like I needed to watch these episodes twice just to fully absorb what is happening on a minute-to-minute basis, let alone grasp the details for a recap. For an episode that took its sweet time getting from “we’re about to blow up the ship” to “whoops, that didn’t work, how about flinging it into the future?” — the meat of which can essentially be summed up as “the crew says good-bye for a full 45 minutes” — this week’s installment may also have been Discovery ’s most exposition-heavy episode yet.

Yet like every bit of this accursed/beloved show, “Such Sweet Sorrow” does find a way to frustrate and delight me in equal measure. Because yes, my hopes and dreams from last week about sending this crew into the far future seem to suddenly be coming true, with the help of Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po (Yadira Guevara-Prip), the Teen Queen of the Most Politically Relevant Planet in the Galaxy Xahea. We met Po in Tilly’s Short Treks episode “Runaway” last fall, in which Tilly meets stowaway Po as she attempts to flee her coronation, on account of being a genius who figured out how to recrystallize dilithium, the material that in its plasma form powers warp drives — and which is found in abundance on Xahea (making it easier to trade …? I think?). But back to that in a moment.

We begin where we left off last week: evacuating the Discovery onto the Enterprise. (Mercifully, the show keeps its fan-service horniness to a minimum and doesn’t linger too much on the contours of the ship that started it all.) Now that everyone is evacuating, Burnham, who definitely came up with the idea to blow up the ship, is having second thoughts about blowing up the ship. Why did the signal bring us to Boreth if not to indicate we needed to use the time crystal in some way? She touches the crystal — as Jett Reno does later (man, is everyone just dying to be driven mad by their own future?) — and sees a future in which Control has launched an unexploded torpedo (?) into the hull of the Enterprise and Leland kills every single bridge crew member on Discovery. Still pretty unclear as to how these future visions work, if they’re controvertible or what, but let’s go.

They all evacuate and initiate auto destruct from the bridge of the Enterprise … but nothing happens. They fire torpedoes at the Discovery, but the ship raises its own shields : duh, the Sphere data has merged with its host system, thus making the entire ship virtually indestructible. (I don’t remember Starfleet shields being impenetrable , but I guess we don’t have a lot of time or resources to burn here.) Burnham also realizes that the Enterprise firing torpedoes on the Discovery was part of her crystal prophecy and not real life, so she manages to stop them before they actually fire on the ship, in hopes of averting the Control slaughter she envisioned.

Long story short: Since they can’t blow up the ship, they’re gonna have to use the time crystal, build another Daedalus suit (which has to be worn by Michael, whose mitochondrial DNA makes her the only one compatible with its DNA-customized design) and use its wormhole to drag the Discovery into the far future.

Suddenly, as if on cue, a fifth signal appears — over Queen Po’s planet, Xahea. Po’s supersecret dilithium incubator something something, she’s gonna tweak her thing so it can make a tiny supernova, which will power the time crystal.

Before Po showed up, it was assumed Michael could essentially slingshot the ship into the future and then zap backwards, but the only way the Xahean queen’s proprietary magic box can make the crystal go is by giving it so much power that it’ll burn out after just one use, so this will be a one-way trip.

(Call me a philistine, but I’m not getting why this whole dilithium incubator, “using a waterfall to get a drink of water” thing was necessary to explain why this is a one-way trip. Wasn’t Dr. Burnham assumed dead for 20 years, and is gone again now, literally because she couldn’t return to the present without being yo-yoed back to the future where she jumped in the first place? Quantum mechanics!!! At least Reno’s simile also doubles as a great way to describe me trying to keep up with this episode.)

Michael is fully ready to go by herself, and bids a tearful farewell to Sarek and Amanda, who show up after Sarek senses, through meditation, Michael’s plans to leave forever. (Control has been blocking all relays that would allow the two ships to call for backup, but Spock and Michael’s parents use this intel to pop in on a shuttle, say “we love you,” and peace out, instead of, you know, notifying Starfleet of the insane, apocalyptic-ass shit going down here .)

But of course, this crew is a bunch of geeks who couldn’t possibly stand to let Burnham be the only one to abandon everyone and everything she’s ever known to go off and explore the super-final frontier of the future. The Overachieving Bridge Gang™ announces they’re coming, too, on the Discovery; Po, Nhan, Reno, and Spock are among the volunteers (though the last will obviously be short-lived, given he’s got an original series to catch). An unnecessary montage ensues, consisting of like five of them leaving messages for the families they’re about to abandon forever.

Minus a couple notable figures:

Pike is staying with the Enterprise. Seems like hitching a ride to the future would be a great way to avoid getting turned into human goo, but nay, he has accepted his fate, and attempts to hand over command to Saru — who oddly equivocates by suggesting they decide this later. (Could Saru really be getting ready to decline , despite the fact that he’s the best candidate? Who does he think he is, Will Riker??)

Ash Tyler is going to stay in the present to prevent Control from figuring out how to follow them into the future. Apparently he’s the only one “in the gray area” who can do this — is he really the only decent person with Section 31 training/resources? Don’t get me wrong, Shazad Latif is ludicrously good at crying and I am grateful for every lip-quivering second of it, but did we have to have another tearful good-bye between these two? When will this couple be allowed to be happy? Quand?

We leave the crew this week as the two ships’ crews ready themselves to battle Control’s fleet, to give the time-traveling crew time to finish Michael’s suit and properly outfit the Discovery for the jump. We’ve got armed shuttles, courtesy of Number One’s uncanny foresight! (Random notebook dump: “Number One is Space Hermione.”) We’ve got a time-crystal massacre vision to fight against! Will Michael successfully tow the gang into the future? Will we have to watch Leland shoot all our friends (a scene that was surprisingly upsetting to watch, even though it hasn’t happened yet)? Praying the finale gives us a little bit of expositional breathing room, given all that was set up this week. I for one could use a solid, straightforward cry.

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• Oh, come on! “Discover your heart”?! The only way this line would have been acceptable would have been if it’d been delivered as an actual dad joke, in which everyone in hearing range audibly groaned at Pike’s all too on-the-nose good-bye speech to Burnham.

• Stamets officially closes the door on Culmets, to Culber’s visible dismay — Culber says he’s going to stay with the Enterprise, though I feel like this breakup might not stick yet, given (a) they both seem like they’re secretly dying for a reason to get back together, and (b) I expect Leonard “Bones” McCoy might have something to say about another doctor in his sick bay.

• I actually love Po as a character, but boy, did that line about outlawing snark in her presence feel like a personal attack! Even if it was aimed at Georgiou! I’m in this photo and I don’t like it!

• Questions that remain: Where does Tyler need to go that he can’t stay to help with the Disco-Jump fight? Why does Pike seem to already know Georgiou is Terran when she casually mentions it at the last possible second? Did Michael already tell him off camera? Is it … er, wise to allow Georgiou to come along to the future?

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Star Trek: Discovery - Episode Guide - Season 2

And season 2 is when it happens, with the return to Star Trek and/or Discovery mythos of EEEEevil Captain Philippa Georgiou; the menacing Section 31; Ensign Tilly’s BFF Queen Me Hani Ika Hali; and Saru’s sister Siranna, the latter two continuing their respective Short Treks stories.  

Returning to the show are the pre-TOS bridge crew of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701: Captain Christopher Pike, the enigmatic “Number One,” and some guy known as Science Officer Spock, among others. In the mold of Deep Space Nine , a massive ensemble of characters is sent on a seasonlong story arc -- and damn, this thing is epic. Planets throughout the quadrant are investigated, there’s pingponging through time, callbacks aplenty to ST mythology and some massive space battles. As Commander Data once said, “Yes!”

Star Trek: Discovery episode guide – Season 2

1. Brother . Picking up directly after the season 1-ending cliffhanger, the reason for the Enterprise’s emergency distress call is immediately revealed. The Enterprise had been investigating one of seven signals seemingly randomly disbursed throughout the quadrant when suddenly knocked out of commission. Commander Michael Burnham leads a hazardous away mission to rescue the survivors of the wrecked USS Hiawatha who are eking out survival on a nearby asteroid. While nearly dying, Burnham has a strange, vision-like experience, and she sees a red-colored humanoid figure. Pike takes command of Discovery, and Burnham discovers that her brother Spock had dreamt of the seven signals. ***

2. New Eden . Discovery follows a second signal to the planet Terralysium, where the descendants of humans taken from Earth in the 21st century live – shades of Voyager ’s “ The 37s ”. Among the dominant culture’s religion is a belief in the “Red Angel,” a being identical to that seen by Burnham on the asteroid in “Brother.” Pike soon discovers that the Red Angel literally existed – or exists. In the subplot, it’s a head trip for Tilly, as an old friend joins the crew – an old friend that’s been dead for years. Jonathan Frakes directs for even more of that 90s Trek feel. ****

3. Point of Light . Spock’s mother Amanda visits Burnham on Discovery, providing her with Spock’s medical records as well as proof that he, too, had visions of the Red Angel in his childhood. Meanwhile, on Qo’NoS, Georgiou of Section 31 helps keep L’Rell in her position as head of the Klingon Empire by faking the deaths of Ash Tyler/Voq and their baby. Tilly’s head trip is diagnosed as due to a parasite and she is, apparently, cured. ***

4. An Obol for Charon . In the TOS tradition, an episode title grounded in mythology! In its death throes, a living planetoid yanks the Discovery out of warp so as to transmit in data form its memories from thousands of years of travelling about the quadrant. Unfortunately, this biological phenomenon triggers a fatal but normal condition in Saru. Tilly deals with her own condition, as the parasite reattaches itself to her, threatens the Discovery which is destroying the being’s ecosystem and appears to consume Tilly completely. Though Saru asks Burnham to perform his death rites, she finds Saru can survive the process and in fact is made all the stronger for it. ***

5. Saints of Imperfection . Tilly has been pulled into the mycelial network and discover that the ecosystem destruction has been caused by Dr. Culber, who somehow exists in the pocket world despite his apparent death at Voq’s hands. ***

6. The Sound of Thunder . The next signal leads to Kaminar, Saru’s home world and the site of the Short Trek “The Brightest Star.” Much is revealed of Saru’s people the Kelpians and their predators, the technologically-advanced Ba’ul and a killer twist leads to Saru essentially born again as a total badass. ****

7. Light and Shadows . While still in orbit over Kaminar, Pike and the Discovery crew investigate a temporal anomaly, which turns out to be the result of future technology. This technology soon invades the cyborg Lt. Airiam. Plot B has Burnham traveling to Vulcan, where she finds Amada hiding the clearly psychologically shattered Spock. Though Sarek advises they turn Spock over to Section 31 and Starfleet, Burnham instead escapes with him via shuttlecraft. ***

8. If Memory Serves . Burnham brings Spock to Telos IV, previously seen in the TOS pilot episode and again in “ The Menagerie .” The Telosians – you know, the big brain dudes – heal Spock with their mental powers and contact Pike telepathically to notify of their location. A nice callback to TOS. ****

9. Project Daedalus . Admiral Cornwall boards the Discovery again to confront Spock, Pike, Burnham and the rest with footage showing Spock murdering three in the psychiatric hospital. Instead, they soon find that Starfleet’s new artificial intelligence program, called Control, has been manipulating Starfleet and Section 31 in order to prevent Spock from revealing his knowledge of a future in which Control conquers all carbon-based life. When Control attempts to steal information gleaned from the sphere, a Discovery crew member sacrifices her life. ***

10. The Red Angel . Tilly discovers a bio-scan of the Red Angel entity which reveals that the humanoid inside the suit is in fact Burnham. Burnham in turn deduces (incorrectly, as it turns out) that the Red Angel is drawn to moments of her personal peril. Using Burnham as bait on quite a nasty undeveloped planet, the Discovery gang indeed gets manage a manifestation of the being, shown to be Michael’s mother… ***

11. Perpetual Infinity . Dr. Burnham’s backstory: The Red Angel is an experiment in time travel that she hastily donned when Klingons attacked the Burnhams’ home. Dr. Burnham was flung nearly 1,000 years into the future, from where she attempted to change the Control-dominated future by returning to the past. After literally hundreds of attempts, she was ensnared by Discovery’s trap. Meanwhile, Control, now in control of Section 31 head Leland, again attempts to steal the sphere’s data as the Discovery crew is trying to download it into the Red Angel suit. Control/Leland manages to get just over half the data. ***

12. Through the Valley of Shadows . Otherwise known as Pike Leaps into the Pantheon of Great Captains. A signal brings Discovery to the planet Boreth, whereon a group of Klingon monks guard time crystals – and suffer the strange effects of essentially living within a temporal anomaly. Needing a crystal to power the Red Angel suit, Pike takes it despite a warning that he’ll be shown his inevitable destiny, i.e. the vegetative state in which he’s seen in “The Menagerie.” Soon, a whole fleet of Section 31 ships under the command of Leland/Control, and thus Pike makes the decision to destroy Discovery rather than let Control attain the sphere’s data. ****

13. Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I . How a streaming series of only 14 episodes can ever feel padded, but such is the case with part 1 of the season-ender. After the entire crew is evacuated from the Discovery onto the Enterprise, which is back in working order under the command of Number One, Pike et al find that Discovery, loaded with AI data, will not be destroyed. A signal draws the two ships to Xahea, home of Tilly's friend Queen Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po. Po helps the crews in working the Red Angel suit and a new plan is formulated: Burnham will wear the Red Angel suit and anchor the Discovery to it, bringing the sphere data 1,000 years or so into the future – and thus out of reach. ***

14. Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II . Space battle time! The Enterprise attempts to fend off Section 31 ships who would stop Burnham and the Enterprise. Klingon ships enter the fray, as does another unexpected and timely ally. Burnham experiences a half-dozen trips into the future and back to the past: Namely, to the times and spaces of the signals Discovery has traced thus far. Ultimately, the Discovery and a skeleton crew is sent into the far-flung future of the Short Treks episode “Calypso.” A satisfying, fast-paced, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink conclusion to one of the strongest seasons in all of Star Trek history – so far… ****

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 2, Episode 13: Saying Goodbye, Maybe.

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Season 2, Episode 13: ‘Such Sweet Sorrow’

In the penultimate episode of this “Star Trek: Discovery” season, we get fan service: a lot of it. There are gratuitous shots of the Enterprise, complete with the musical riff familiar to Trek fans of multiple generations. We spend much of the episode on what will eventually become Kirk’s ship (or will it?) instead of the Discovery. We see the colorful uniforms we grew to love in the original series (in contrast to the dark blue typical of the Discovery crew). We hear the whooshes of the sliding doors and the whistle when Pike walks on the bridge.

“She looks as good as I remember,” Pike says. Better, in fact, thanks to decades worth of production upgrades.

The Trek franchise has been in dire need of a fresher look, and this week’s episode was a distinct reminder of what a visual upgrade “Discovery” is.

I was into it, and not just because of how it looked. Previous Trek shows with tie-ins to earlier iterations sometimes struggle to keep the story their own — see the “Voyager” episode “Death Wish” involving Q. But the best ones (“Unification” in “The Next Generation”) keep the tone the show has already established while also properly integrating external elements from its forebears.

“Such Sweet Sorrow” has Burnham preparing to make a giant sacrifice. The sphere and the Discovery have merged, making it impossible to destroy, while Leland and Control are speeding to come get the data. As Spock says, “Discovery’s very existence is the problem.”

Burnham proposes using the crystal to “take the data out of this time,” meaning, “Discovery has to go to the future.” But of course, Burnham is the one who must go to the future without a certain path back to the present. Spock deduces that there is more than one Red Angel — one of them being Burnham.

A new signal appears that leads the Discovery to Xahea, to the delight of Tilly. Xahea, you might remember, was the focus of one of the “Short Trek” episodes from before the official second season of “Discovery.” The queen of Xahea, Po, is a 17-year-old who developed technology to recrystallize dilithium, which comes in handy in creating the supernova necessary to launch Burnham and the Discovery into the future.

Burnham’s crewmates, in a show of loyalty, commit to going with her into the future, suggesting that we might never see the Discovery crew again — unless the rest of the show takes place in the future. (Curiously, Pike offers to wear the suit in the first part of the episode but doesn’t offer to go later on. I was also surprised that Grayson and Sarek didn’t offer to go as well.)

The problem here is a self-created one by the “Discovery” writing team: Much of the episode features emotional goodbyes, but as we’ve seen, characters too often appear to get killed off only to return. And in this case, Spock is one of the crew who says he’ll go with Burnham to the future — and we know that this actually doesn’t happen, unless we are just wholly disregarding Trek canon.

My prediction is that Burnham doesn’t even get to make the trip because Control finds a way to disrupt the time crystal in the finale.

In terms of the Control-as-Original-Borg theory, I’m beginning to come around. I’ve said before that I don’t think this is a good idea for “Star Trek” as a whole, but let’s see if that actually happens in the season finale. Vulture’s Devon Maloney wrote a really smart piece arguing for how brilliant that idea would be, if true. I’m not sure I agree, but let’s see the execution first.

I enjoyed this week’s episode in part because of how much time we spent on the Enterprise. Some scenes made me laugh. At one point, Stamets snaps at his crew members to move quickly, emphasizing the urgency of the retrofit at hand. Seconds later, he pauses to have a personal conversation with Culber about the state of their relationship, which seems like a conversation that could’ve waited. But overall, it was a tightly focused episode, emphasizing the boldness of the writing staff.

Now, as Saru says to close the episode, “Prepare for battle.”

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Star Trek: Discovery Finale Recap: Let Us See What the Future Holds

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Star Trek: Discovery capped off its sophomore season with a breathlessly paced finale packed with eye-popping visual effects. But where did it leave Burnham and company when the dust settled?

Thursday’s finale picks up with the Enterprise and the Discovery staring down Leland’s fleet of Section 31 ships, with Burnham and Stamets in a frantic scramble to finish assembling her time suit. After Leland demands they turn over the Sphere data, Pike tries to distract him by sending out a bunch of cool little mini shuttles to draw fire, but Leland one-ups him by launching hundreds of tiny drones to swamp Pike’s shuttles. An intense firefight ensues, with a dizzying array of phaser blasts shooting through space and our heroes’ ships taking plenty of damage — and Burnham’s time suit still isn’t ready to launch.

To help out, Queen Po jumps in a shuttle and figures out a way to vaporize Leland’s drones, giving the Enterprise and the Discovery a fighting chance. As Pike wedges the Enterprise between Leland’s drones and the Discovery , acting as a protective shield, Burnham’s suit is finally ready — but an explosion knocks her to the ground, and badly injures Stamets. While Tilly rushes him to a chaotic sick bay, Burnham and Spock continue on with the time suit, with Spock giving her a brotherly pep talk (they exchange Vulcan salutes!) before she launches herself into space, dodging enemy drones and gunfire while Spock follows behind in a shuttle. (The effects here are just dazzling, by the way. Wouldn’t this look amazing in IMAX? I’d pay 20 bucks to see it.)

But things take a harsh turn: Leland beams aboard the Discovery while its shields are down and fires a few shots on the bridge before scurrying off to find the Sphere data, and an undetonated photon torpedo smashes into the Enterprise , lodging in the ship’s saucer. If this looks familiar, it should: It’s the horrible future Burnham saw when she touched the time crystal. “This is how it starts,” she realizes, and she can’t seem to get the time suit’s navigation system to launch her into the future, either. Dire straits, indeed.

Burnham fires up the time suit and hurtles through what looks like the Star Gate scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey , zipping back in time to the previous red flashes — her on the Hiawatha , Saru and his sister, Pike grasping the time crystal — while the action ratchets up to unbearable levels back in the current timeline. Georgiou and Leland engage in some brutal hand-to-hand combat (when the ship’s gravity system fails, they keep fighting on the walls and the ceiling), the Discovery ‘s shields drop to perilously low levels, Number One and Admiral Cornwell run out of ideas on the torpedo as the time ticks down to detonation… and Stamets reunites with Hugh in sick bay, with Hugh telling him, “You’re my home.” (Aw!)

Back in a futuristic San Francisco, Pike and the Enterprise crew are debriefed by Federation officials, and they all lie that they saw the Discovery explode. Control is defeated, Tyler is promoted to head up Section 31, and Spock gets a haircut and shaves his beard (!), sporting the classic Spock look in a crisp blue uniform as he narrates a message to his sister Michael. “I feel you’re with me, always,” he says, and he sees a seventh red flash in the sky — Burnham’s message that she’s OK — as Pike takes the newly repaired Enterprise out for a spin, with Spock adding: “Let us see what the future holds.”

Recapper’s Log, Supplemental:

* But wait, what actually happened to Burnham and the Discovery ? It was nice to see Pike, Spock and the Enterprise embark on a new mission, but what does Season 3 of this show even look like? I feel a little cheated that the finale didn’t give us at least a glimpse of where Burnham and her Discovery pals find themselves on the other side of that wormhole. I even scanned ahead to check for a post-credits scene. Nope. Nothing.

* We definitely want Tig Notaro to stick around as Reno for Season 3, right? Her deadpan one-liners are just perfection.

* Stamets didn’t look so good in those final sick bay shots, did he? Here’s hoping he’s back, too. Reno needs someone to bounce those one-liners off of.

* Not to second-guess Admiral Cornwell, but if you’re dealing with an undetonated photon torpedo and it could end with someone having to sacrifice their life to save the ship, maybe send someone a little lower down the chain of command than an admiral? (Where’s a good old-fashioned red shirt when you need ’em?)

* Will Burnham’s advice to Spock to connect to “the person who seems the furthest from you” be the seed that blooms when he crosses paths with a headstrong James T. Kirk in a few years? Just saying.

Alright, Trekkies, now it’s your turn: Give tonight’s Star Trek: Discovery finale a grade in our poll, then beam down to the comments to share your thoughts.

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Great episode

I feel like that finale was the end of an enterprise / pike series episode more than Star Trek discovery. I want to see way more episodes of a pike series and really couldn’t care less what happened to the discovery after they go to the future – which is sad. They are leaving most of the series best characters in the 23rd century

Totally agree. I actislly enjoyed season 1 for being a very different star trek show but when it comes to good old fashioned star trek as this season was trying to be, pike and spock stole the show. Not just because of them being recognizable characters but because the performances for those characters were so enjoyable.

I’m ready for a Captain Pike series more than anything! “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”. Hit it!

CBS! You listening? Anson Mount as Pike was wonderful. A little pre-TOS would be a winner.

What a performance by Mount this season as Pike! Too bad everything else about this show is pretty terrible. Lots of commotion, nonsensical storylines, and enough melodrama for an after school special hardly make for a series with the Trek name on it. Hopefully cbs is listening to the disappointed fans and they get a team together that respects the property for a Pike show!

I wouldn’t underestimate Ethan Peck’s performance this season, either! Fleshing out younger, pre-Kirk Spock was another blessing of this seasonal well.

Yes, it was so disappointing to fans that CBS renewed it early for a third season. Not perfect, but still quality.

Great episode.. it felt more like a series finale than a season one… not sure where the heck it goes next.. personally I’d rather follow Pike and Spock and the Enterprise than zoom into some far future world… unless they somehow wind up in the Next Generation time period maybe…

Another thought, i was sure they were gonna use Ash Tyler to somehow explain the original series era Klingons.. since he had that look.. but it doesn’t look like they went there.

The answered this, almost 15 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affliction_(Star_Trek:_Enterprise)

I’d rather see an Enterprise with Pike show instead of Season 3 of Discovery.

Continue with Pike. Just drop that gay arc. Pretty much all series has some gay agenda, and/or token gay person. It’s like some quota? …tryng to grow your viewer market?

Having one gay couple on the show doesn’t mean there is a “gay agenda”..

I stated “all series”(these days); not necessarily just ST. A good number (minimum 10?) of them incorporates one.

I rest my case. The gay agenda quota met and confirmed

100% of shows have straight characters. Straight agenda confirmed.

I don’t mind if you’re straight, but why you gotta shove it down my throat?

@Wombatkidd You mean 100% of shows have normal relationships, I have nor problem with gay people or relationships my only problem is it goes against normalcy, naturalism, Darwinism etc.. live your lives enjoy them be happy but stop trying to force it into normalcy because it’s not and never will be homosexuality can be accepted but it’s not normal it’s not natural although on second thought it could be natures way of trying to limit the human population unfortunately humanity is too advanced and so homosexual breeding is possible a theory that needs study

@Wombatkidd: That’s what she said.

Watching this episode I realized I don’t know a single crew name on the discovery… They’re showing me these faces that I know but not one single name stuck. What I loved the most about the other ST shows was the team, the crew. You knew them all. They all had stories but here freaking Leland had more story than asian guy or the black guy or the black girl or even Tilly…the discovery had, what 5 captains? And what is with all the mush…I rolled my eyes so many times watching the last scene between MB and Spock. Too many emotions. I really hope it will change in S3. I wanna see more of the crew then some new side characters.

It’s not “all series” and what’s your issue with it? Gay people exist and should be represented.

There’s a demographic that wants to see gays and another % that does not care for the superfluous bs that has nothing to do with the main plot. It’s that simple.

superflous bs? How does it detract from the main plot? Relationship storylines happen between straight characters too.. do you want all those relationships gone as well? You can watch one of the multitude of NCIS shows… i dont think any of them have gay characters..

Yes; superfluous. NCIS is a great show. Thanks. for the acknowledging.

What makes it superflous?

If you watched all of the Star Trek series, they cover what’s going on in a particular era. In the Star Trek Discovery series, homosexuality is more prevalent to this time, and while some may not like it, there it is, and for the record, NCIS New Orleans has a gay character but I digress. Even though Hugh and Staments (sp?) Have intimate scenes, far too intimate for my taste, it is the sign of the times. Now, as far as season two of Discovery, it exceeded my expectations and answered a lot of questions about it’s history never being mentioned.

In all honesty; scifi can do without relationships. Action, aliens, space ships. Spock: Emotions are illogical. Shoot..even Batman’s okay being alone in his Batcave. His alter ego’s needs are well taken care of. A Starship is business first. It’s no different whether it’s a naval vessel, military branch, etc. Its science fiction. Not Dynasty.

Relationships happen in life.. and telling well rounded stories about these peoples lives requires touching on that sort of thing.

It’s almost like nearly as many people are gay as left handed or something. *Eyeroll*

It is what it is. You may not like Trump; but he’s shoved down yout throat.

Bigots who like star trek missed the entire message of star Trek.

Just saying.

Last i checked bigotry isn’t illegal. I simply made a statement…and a PC person like yourself got all emotional. ..just saying ( love these cute millennial terms) Trump 2020 k’buh bye

Yes. Trump will be in prison by 2020. Thanks for admitting you’re a bigot.

Enjoy contributing to be salty that gay people exist.

Everyone has an opinion. I simply stated mone. If you’re not okay with mine it’s fine. Attacking me won’t change my statement. But go right ahead and speak to the empty box. It is what it is. That is all.

Being a bigot Winny stop gay people from existing and writing tv. But keep being triggered by it.

Being a bigot won’t stop gay people from existing, but feel free to continue your temper tantrum.

It made my day that Star Trek has been ruined for a bigot. I know we can’t change your mind, but ruining stuff for you is a PLEASURE.

I’m a heterosexual male who agrees that there are a lot of gay characters on TV. It’s not an agenda, though. It’s life. I live in a mid-sized city (fewer than one million people), but I know so many gay people, it barely registers with me. It’s the same with TV shows. I’m interested in seeing characters portrayed. If a character turns out to be straight or gay or whatever, it’s another element of who they are. That’s it. It doesn’t make me think any more or less of them. It’s interesting that you are calling other people emotional for their comments here. You’re the one who seems to be getting emotional…and really, your original post here seems fairly emotional. Why does it bother you so much?

Sci-fi is not real life. Star Trek is supposed to be set in an utopian future where deviancies such as homosexuality has been eradicated.

Having entirely heterosexual couples is a completely unrealistic display of any society. Why is it an ‘agenda’ to be displaying what is normal in current and future societies? Sounds like you are the one who is homophobic. Get used to it. The nuclear family is in the minority and is ever shrinking.

How are you even in the Star Trek fandom?

With Control defeated, why was it still necessary for Discovery to go into the future? Was it simply because Burnham was already en route with no way to pull her back and the showrunners, writers and producers want her and the ship in the same timeline?

get rid of the data i believe

Control isn’t defeated unless Discovery goes to the future to stop it from ever existing. “Leland’s” death was just a momentary setback. It will try again and again and again and again because it needs to get the data to exist. It’s a time loop and Discovery physically removing the data from the loop is the only way to break the loop. I know, I know. Time travel is such a headache.

A beautiful segway into explaining how we never knew of spore drives on any previous ST show. As someone else said, it would be nice for them to cross with another time line. Any chance they might cross with the upcoming future Picard show?

Eh, how does it explain why Starfleet never experiments with it on another ship? Because that would somehow lead to knowledge of Discovery leaking out? No, I don’t buy it. The upside is just too great to never try. To go anywhere in the galaxy instantly? For an organization that exists to explore? No, no way. And what about literally every other sentient race in the universe? Nope, if this existed, it would be used. The only thing that makes any sense is that the various mycellial network species don’t let it be used and can stop it from being used. Even if it was just a case of “oh but traveling this way is harmful to the network and will eventually destroy it” well that might stop Starfleet, but it wouldn’t stop anyone else. So I’m going with my theory. The spore creatures don’t let the network be used this way anymore, and maybe Discovery has special dispensation because they like Tilly.

Isn’t one of the keys to the spore drive the illegal gene splicing that Stamets did upon himself, which I would have to assume was kept out of the official records for that reason? Also, the spore drive was perfected to that usability level ON Discovery, and I’d assume most of that data was taken to the future with the ship, leaving Starfleet with no one capable of running the drive, or being able to put it together. Plus the story from the Enterprise crew and Tyler seemed to be heavily leaning towards insinuating that the spore drive activation is what caused the explosion, therby making Starfleet wary of going down that path of study again.

It may be that certain segments of the Federation DID study the spore drive again, but without the data from Discovery were unable to figure out how to make it work properly, much like the Phoenix cloak in Next Generation.

I’m having bad premonitions of the Federation no longer existing in the year Discovery went to and everything being dark and bleak and depressing. And, no thanks, I just don’t want to see that. That’s just not my Star Trek. It’s cool to let Star Trek try and be new things, but that’s just not what it should be. I want a Pike’s Enterprise show SO much more than that. Hell, I want a Pike’s Enterprise show so damn bad it just about physically hurts, haha.

Based on the dates of the series, they should be landing in the late 32nd/early 33rd Century. If they keep with the established timeline from Enterprise, then Daniels ‘Temporal Cold War’ was in the 31st Century. I’d much rather see them expand upon that already established future, than another retread of Andromeda or Voyager with them being the lone Starfleet ship cut off from everyone and everything. Maybe Daniels’ temporal division was an outreach from Section 31, and has been waiting for Discovery to show up for 930years?

I’m surprised, I was really expecting that torpedo to be Pike’s accident and it looked like he was too.

So….in a way….Discovery just became Voyager….One starship separated from the federation by a great distance wanting to find its way back….I’m actually ok with that.

Pike was a Fleet Captain on board a class J training vessel when the accident happened, and it was due to radiation, not an explosion. There are still many years with him as Captain of the Enterprise, which he turned over to Kirk directly before he gets to be Wheels to Spock’s Legman.

“Will Burnham’s advice to Spock to connect to “the person who seems the furthest from you” be the seed that blooms when he crosses paths with a headstrong James T. Kirk in a few years?” – well, duh, obviously.

Loved the episode! I don’t mind not getting a glimpse of where Discovery landed, these end-of-the-season half-scenes in various shows usually get retconned anyway once TPTB spend the summer figuring out what to do with the brand new setting. And it made me laugh how they used the ending to patch the plot hole of Spock’s sister and the spore drive never being mentioned in the chronologically later series. A bit on the nose, but clever.

Brava for the special effects, weren’t they just gorgeous?

Can’t wait for season 3.

It was about as big, loud and dumb as the rest of the show. Good thing this has nothing to do with Star Trek. (Anson Mount is awesome though)

I am very grateful to TvLine and commenters regarding this show. It helped me understand that the new version of Star Trek wasn’t something that I would enjoy. I’m not being sarcastic. I know that people look for different things in tv shows and Discovery is just not for me.

I found it quite interesting that they aired a promo for a Star Trek convention to be held this summer, and that Anson Mount would be making an appearance there. My wishful thinking is that this portends we have not seen the last of Pike and company. I sincerely hope that is the case, as that final scene left me with a major lump in my throat, and a burning desire for more. The early voyages of the Enterprise would be a series worthy of the CBS prime time schedule and not just an All-Access slot.

This seemed more like a pilot episode for an new Enterprise based series featuring Pike…I think that would be great/ I also enjoyed Number One and Younger Spock. I also liked the Admiral….too bad she’s gone. As for Discovery, the producers really chose well with Burnham. What a phenomenal character and Actress. I also hope that Tig Notaro will be back but Tilly, Staments and Culber can go. Bring back Airiam and give Detmer and Owosekun more to do

Give us a Pike/Spock/Number One spinoff

The negativity in the comments is os much, that I feel the need to say my opinion too. I love the show. I think it’s super-fresh, stunning and is my favorite sci-fi show at the moment – I look forward to seeing each new episode!

This finale was fantastic and I can’t wait to see what Season 3 brings.

As for Pike, I do also think he’s been amazing and just… perfect. So a Pike-led spinoff would be cool – might be more interesting if it would take place away from Enterprise and somewhere new, but stil, hopefully he’ll get a spinoff.

Thank you so much for your comment! I was so saddened by all the negative things people are saying about this show: I think that both seasons so far have been exciting and new…and I especially liked the way they made Discovery’s existance top secret so that’s why we never heard of it in any of the previous shows! Come on, Trekkies, a bit of open mind is good! It is not easy to renew a cult show and they did it brilliantly! Only one thing bothered me though; too many tears and corny scenes we could do without….

Discovery’s season finale answered a lot of questions for me, except one. Now that the Discovery jumped into the future 900 years what happened to the crew 100 years from that point to make them abandon ship. (I guess that maybe I am that guy that reads too far ahead of the story) Sorry, not sorry!

It was good.. Only one glaring stupid mistake. They spend what seems like forever to “disarm” the torpedo knowing they could manually close the blast doors. Why on earth couldn’t they just manually shut the door immediately and teleport the admiral or whomever out of there?

Or use a drone, or have a handle on both sides of the door?!

This episode was so good and so reminiscent of the original that I cried a little bit.

I really wish we’d get a Capt Pike show with Anson.

i love the finale! it feels a little bit like GoT in the sense that it feels like watching a movie. i love all things star trek even he rebooted movies, but heck these season 2 finale episodes feels grander than the last 2 movies. Congrats to all the people in front and behind the camera.

I love almost the entire cast, they did a terrific job. I was reacting frantically hoping Michelle Yeoh wont die, i just love her in this. and Mr Mount – what a wonderful Pike, good Spock, and even a good Number 1.

im glad they did this show, and here’s hoping more success for the entire franchise.

I enjoyed the 2nd season for the most part but I am wondering how the 3rd season is going to play out. I also would love to see Anson Mount’s Pike again and a spinoff series would be great. In this finale, just like with the previous episode there was a little too much time spent in farwell monologues. I guess we’ll see how things turn out with the 3rd season. I guess its an unpopular opinion but I’m not fond of Tig Notaro’s character. I’d be perfectly happy if we lost her somewhere along the way.

I’m happy to see Anson Mount get some positive reviews in the comments. After The Inhumans got so unfairly slammed for being…The Inhumans, I hope he’s reading some of these more glowing reactions.

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A Short Treks character is making the jump to this week's Star Trek: Discovery episode

Credit: Ben Mark Holzberg/CBS

We only have two more treks to take with Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery , and it looks like they're really pulling out all of the stops. Section 31 (under the control of ... Control) needs to be stopped, and Captain Pike is calling in the Enterprise as he possibly gets ready to set the Discovery to self-destruct.

Add in the continuing Red Angel story, the truth of the seven signals, and for all we know, a stealth Borg origin , and we're in for an explosive treat. One unexpected addition to all of this drama will be the return of a character from the first episode of the Star Trek: Short Treks series of shorts, which aired before this season began. New promo photos released today reveal the character's return.

That's right — Po, played by Yadira Guevara-Prip, is making the spore jump from the short series to the big show. Po was the focus of the first of the Short Treks,  called " Runaway ," where she mostly dealt with Ensign Sylvia Tilly ( Mary Wiseman ).

In that short, we first met Po (full name: Me Hani Ika Hali Po) appearing as a spiky, cloaked organism. As Tilly connected with the Xahian creature, Po started to appear more human, and demonstrated quite a knack for engineering. Why was Po the titular runaway? She came up with some ingenious dilithium-based designs that Starfleet wanted to get its hands on. Tilly convinced her to trust Starfleet, which Po did — before leaving, Po revealed that she was actually a queen on her home planet of Xahia, and she gifts Tilly with a glowing dilithium crystal.

Po arrives (Credit: John Medland/CBS)

Not only is it exciting to have this very interesting (and new to the main show) character back, but it marks a further connection between Discovery and Short Treks . It's not the first time this has happened — Saru's ( Doug Jones ) backstory from the short " The Brightest Star " was pivotal to this season's visit to his home planet of Kaminar, and Saru's sister Siranna (Hannah Spear) also made the full-show jump. Harry Mudd ( Rainn Wilson ) got his own short (" The Escape Artist "), though that was after he had already menaced the crew of Discovery in Season 1.

What can we expect to see from the Queen of Xahia? We can't possibly know yet, but we do know that the Discovery crew needs all the help it can get right now. If this brilliant queen who Tilly befriended ends up helping to save the day, then that's another huge win for Ensign Sylvia Tilly and the power of her endless empathy.

Star Trek: Discovery airs this Thursday night on CBS All Access. Black Alert, shields up, and prepare for anything and everything — the crew is in for a rough ride.

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Such Sweet Sorrow (episode)

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• 1.2 Act One
• 1.3 Act Two
• 1.4 Act Three
• 1.5 Act Four
• 2 Log entries
• 3 Memorable quotes
• 4.2 Cast and characters
• 4.3 Music and sound
• 4.4 Continuity
• 4.5 Reception
• 4.6 Production history
• 5.1 Starring
• 5.2 Special guest star
• 5.3 Guest starring
• 5.4 Co-starring
• 5.5 Uncredited co-stars
• 5.6 Stunt doubles
• 5.7 Stand-in
• 5.8.1 Other references
• 5.9 External links

Summary [ ]

On a shoreline on Vulcan , Sarek sits in meditation while his wife Amanda brings a smoking bowl of incense and sets it in front of him. As the sounds of a beating heart and heavy breathing drown out the crashing of the waves, Sarek's eyes open, his expression stricken. " Michael ! " he gasps.

Discovery deploys its evacuation corridors

Meanwhile, aboard the USS Discovery , Nhan and Ash Tyler guide the crew to the evacuation points. Sylvia Tilly packs her keepsakes, including a photograph of herself with Burnham and a snow globe , while Saru takes the Kelpien knife that had belonged to his sister Siranna . On the bridge, Detmer brings the ship up close alongside the USS Enterprise and deploys the evacuation corridors , connecting to the Enterprise 's secondary hull. As the bridge crew moves to the turbolifts , Captain Pike remains grimly seated in the command chair , as Saru stands at his side. Spock looks out at the Enterprise for a thoughtful moment before he joins the rest of the crew. Dr. Culber looks around sickbay one last time, while Stamets shuts down the spore drive in the engine room .

As the crew crosses through the evacuation corridors, Burnham stands alone in the science lab , staring at the time crystal , when Pike enters, telling her the ship is almost clear and it was time to move to the Enterprise . Burnham asks why the signal brought them to Boreth for the crystal, since her mother is gone, her suit destroyed, and now the Discovery will be destroyed as well to keep the Sphere 's data from being taken by Control . " It can't just be about endings, can it? " she asks. Pike tells her they could figure it out, but only if they were walking. Burnham, however, is adamant that her mother did not sacrifice everything to have it all be for nothing. Pike replies that sometimes people knew the role they were meant to play, and sometimes they didn't, and he was not sure which was better; Burnham adds that they didn't know if they had the strength or not, until the moment came. Just then, Saru calls over the intercom that the last of the crew is departing the ship. Pike acknowledges, and makes sure Burnham understands that before he leaves. As she reaches to take the crystal and place it in a containment case, she experiences flashes of the future, seeing the Enterprise under attack, and hears Leland 's voice speak a single word: " Goodbye. "

Meanwhile, on the bridge , Pike and Saru have their hands scanned to activate the remote detonation for the auto-destruct , and the lights turn out as the ship begins to power down. Crossing the evacuation corridor to the Enterprise , Saru reports that life support , environmental control , and artificial gravity generators would deactivate within five minutes, and that the entire crew was accounted for. The field generators and shields are also offline, and the warp core is prepared for overload. " There will be no half-measures, sir, " Saru assures Pike; " she will go with the dignity she deserves. " As the Enterprise and the Discovery crews mingle, Pike and Saru are joined by Burnham in the turbolift, which they take to the bridge. Burnham notes that Saru has Siranna's knife, to which Saru comments that she would not appreciate it if he left it behind, and it gave him hope that they would endure.

As they enter the Enterprise 's bridge, Admiral Cornwell vacates the center chair, returning command back to the captain, who remarks that " she looks as good as I remember ". Una Chin-Riley welcomes Pike back, reporting that all major systems are back online, and they would have no more holographic communications – ever. Pike asks for a status update from Lieutenant Amin , who reports that Leland/Control and his Section 31 armada have increased speed. Lieutenant Nicola at communications reports that Captain Philippa Georgiou has arrived and requests permission to come aboard, which Pike grants before ordering Number One to take them to a safe distance. Georgiou enters a moment later, commenting unfavorably on the orange coloration of the bridge, before speaking to Burnham about Specialist Gant and the nanobots that had taken over his body. When Burnham tells her it was not the time to speak of it, Georgiou remarks that it was good for Burnham to distance herself from something she loved (referring to the Discovery ), but on the other hand she looked forward to hunting Leland down. Burnham believes that Leland didn't deserve what happened to him, but Georgiou is pragmatic, believing it was better him than her – or Burnham, as very nearly happened . Number One reports that they were at safe distance from the Discovery , and Pike orders the auto-destruct. As the computer counts down, the crew watches… and then the computer indicates the auto-destruct has failed, something that should not be possible. Pike orders photon torpedos fired, but the Discovery raises her shields, absorbing the impact. Another torpedo volley produces the same result. Spock and Burnham deduce that the remaining intelligence of the Sphere is the cause: it would not allow the data to be deleted. If the Sphere data has merged with the Discovery , Saru adds, it could take over the ship's systems to protect itself, thus preventing them from destroying the Discovery .

As Number One reports Leland's ships have entered range, Burnham begins seeing the bridge flashing, and suddenly finds herself back aboard the Discovery , the bridge on fire. Owosekun reports an undetonated photon torpedo is embedded in the Enterprise 's primary hull, just as the shields fail. Burnham, Tilly, and others are thrown to the deck by an explosion, just as Nhan reports they were being boarded. A moment later, Leland enters, holding a phaser rifle , and shoots first Georgiou, then Nhan, proceeding to gun down the bridge crew. Burnham painfully reaches for Georgiou's phaser, but Leland steps down on it and kicks it away from her, before drawing his own pistol. Leland lifts her off the ground with one hand and puts the phaser to her head with the other. " Goodbye, " he says again, as he pulls the trigger, bringing Burnham back to the Enterprise bridge – just after the failed attempt to activate the Discovery 's auto-destruct. As Pike orders photon torpedoes, Burnham all but shouts for him to stop, as she knows it won't work because the Sphere has merged with the Discovery and would use her systems to protect the data. Spock notes that she sounds certain, and Burnham confirms that she is. Leland's fleet will arrive in an hour, so Pike asks for options. Burnham and Saru both note that the Sphere will protect the Discovery , and Cornwell adds that they couldn't run, as Leland/Control would hunt them down. Spock notes that the Discovery 's very existence is the problem. Burnham realizes he is right: so long as the Discovery exists "here and now", it would never be over, which meant they would have to remove it from the "galactic equation" entirely. When asks how to do it, Burnham replies that they would have to use the time crystal, certain that this was the reason why they had it in the first place. To ensure Control would never get the Sphere data, the Discovery herself will have to travel to the future.

Act One [ ]

In the Enterprise 's conference room , Pike asks the crew how they could send the Discovery to the future before Leland caught up to them. Cornwell points out that Gabrielle Burnham's suit was destroyed on Essof IV , and that was the only method they knew of. Saru remarks that Section 31 gave them the data on the suit, and they could attempt to rebuild it. Pike orders him to do so, and set it to his physical specifications. Stamets reminds Pike that the suit was tailored to Gabrielle's DNA , and Burnham adds that as her daughter, she has the closest mitochondrial DNA match, so she volunteers. Even if they could adapt the code to Burnham's biology, Stamets continues, the exoskeleton was made of a composite alloy they could not synthesize. Burnham recalls that the alloy was tritanium based, which could be found by melting down a bulkhead from a cargo bay . Number One asks Burnham if she even knows how to operate the suit. Burnham replies she's learned the basics from her mother's logs, and admits there would be some trial and error in opening a wormhole , but if the Discovery were on autopilot, it would follow her through. Cornwell then asks for the one detail not yet discussed: How will Burnham find her way back? Burnham is silent, unable to answer. Pike comments that everything they know about the red burst signals indicates it's part of a design, and he is willing to trust that. Georgiou is skeptical, asking if Pike believes a signal will reveal itself because they needed it to. Spock points out that the signals could only have been sent by someone wearing a time suit with knowledge of their specific circumstances. They had been running on the assumption that Burnham's mother was the only Red Angel , but the bioneural signature of the suit identified another: Burnham herself. Gabrielle's focus was entirely on the Sphere data, and she stated she did not know of the signals, which meant that it was Michael Burnham, not Gabrielle, who was the source of the red bursts. If so, Burnham wonders, then what was she leading them to? Spock admits that remained to be seen, but he agrees with Pike, that there is intention to her design. Stamets prepares to have the engineering teams begin work on fabricating a new suit, but Saru reminds them that they also need to find a way to activate the time crystal. Burnham recalls her parents used a stellar-lensing array , but they would need to locate an unstable red giant star. Number One comments that the odds of finding one in any given sector are fairly high, but one close to supernova , Stamets adds, is far less common; it could take hundreds of years to find one. Georgiou bluntly suggests firing an antimatter missile into a star's core to induce a supernova themselves; both Saru and Burnham are aghast at the idea, as it would destroy all life within several light years of the star. When Georgiou comments that she thought there were no bad ideas, both Pike and Cornwell are vocal in saying that was a bad one. At that moment, Nicola calls Cornwell and Pike to the bridge.

As they enter, they find a fifth signal has been detected, and Amin is still getting a lock on its location. Lieutenant Mann reports that Leland/Control is five minutes out. Pike orders red alert , and tells Saru that they will return to the Discovery with all essential personnel; they would have Stamets use the spore drive to jump them to the signal's location, while Cornwell takes command of the Enterprise to join them as quickly as possible. Anyone who was not working on the time suit, Pike adds, would be put to work modifying the Discovery 's shuttlecraft and landing pods for combat, as they would need any advantage against Leland/Control's fleet, and advises Cornwell to do the same for the Enterprise . Number One reports she has already outfitted the shuttles and landing pods with enhanced phasers, and also commandeered the new experimental tactical flyers " assuming the shit would hit the fan ". Pike and Cornwell wish one another Godspeed, and they would rendezvous at the fifth signal. The Enterprise goes to warp while the Discovery jumps ahead with the spore drive. Arriving first, Burnham reports that the signal has brought them to the planet Xahea , which gets Tilly's attention: She had met the Xahean queen, Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po , and remarked that they shared a love of engineering. Tilly also remembers that Xahea had a vast natural supply of dilithium , and that Po had developed a method to recrystalize it, but wouldn't tell anyone how she did it, as she didn't trust anyone with that information. Pike comments that this makes her prudent as well as brilliant, and orders Bryce to open a channel to see if Tilly could convince Po to explain why the signal brought them there. Tilly believes she would be intrigued, as well as glad she wouldn't need to stuff herself into a cargo pallet .

In engineering, as Stamets instructs his team, he is approached by Culber; they both nervously begin speaking, before Culber lets him speak first. Stamets remarks that after Burnham sends the Discovery where it needs to go, he might take a break from starships for a time; he remarks he passed up a job at the Vulcan Science Academy some months before. " Forward motion, " Culber says, understanding what he meant. Stamets admits Culber was right, that they both needed that "forward motion" to get on with their lives, and he hopes that however Culber lives his life from then on, and with whoever, that he was happy. Culber hopes for the same for Stamets, and that he planned to join the Enterprise when they caught up. Stamets goes to check on the team fabricating the suit, leaving Culber seemingly with something left unsaid.

In the transporter room , Tilly waits with a bowl of spumoni ice cream in her hand, commenting on Po's love of sugar, just as she beams aboard. Just as Pike begins to greet "Her Serene Highness" formally, Po enthusiastically embraces Tilly, noticing the bowl of ice cream, and commenting that her calculations for "small-particle dispersion in hydrogenated carbohydrates" were on point, but she ends up with "goo". Tilly first introduces Burnham, who Po believes looks taller in her pictures (wrongfooting Burnham somewhat), and then Captain Pike, who asks if she could "eat and walk", as they had work to do. In the science lab, Po notices the time crystal and a time suit, asking "which genius" built the latter; Burnham remarks that it had been built by her mother, to which Po remarks she had a "special mom" too. She clarifies that Burnham intends to use the suit to travel to the future and take the Discovery with her, then come back alone. Georgiou sarcastically comments that the whole endeavor would be pointless if Burnham had planned on coming back with the ship, to which Po smugly replies that since becoming queen, she has made "snark" illegal on her world, before handing a disgusted Georgiou her ice cream bowl. She begins drawing in the air with her spoon, leaving the others confused; Jett Reno recognizes it as calculating nuclear particle physics . Po believes she can modify her dilithium incubator to trigger a cascade of energy in the time crystal by combining it with dark energy , which would replicate the power of a supernova. The power required is more than the Discovery 's EPS grid could handle, so Burnham suggests using the spore drive. Tilly points out that the spore drive would require at least twelve hours to recover, which would leave the Discovery unable to use it when Leland/Control's fleet caught up to them. Pike decides that if that was what was needed to power the suit, they would have to make it work. Po and Reno bring up another problem: using this method of charging the crystal would be (as Reno puts it) like using a waterfall to get a drink of water – " it'll work, but then you drown "; Spock explains that the continuous regeneration of energy would compromise the crystal's structural integrity, causing it to burn out. Burnham would thus be able to take the Discovery to the future… but she would not be able to come back.

Act Two [ ]

On the Discovery 's bridge, Tyler is horrified when Burnham and Spock reveal that it would be a one-way trip: to ensure Leland did not get the Sphere's data, Burnham would have to remain in the future – permanently. When Detmer asks where in the future, Burnham explains that, provided she did not get lost in the wormhole, in theory her mother would have returned to her anchor point on Terralysium , and so Burnham hopes she will end up there as well, and as there was no technology on Terralysium, they would be safe. Tyler points out the phrases like "in theory" and "hopefully"; Burnham could end up anywhere, a fact that Georgiou bluntly remarks they were aware of. This is apparently what Burnham was meant to do, and tells her comrades to "trust the mystery". Detmer asks if they were sure there was no other way; Pike grimly replies that if there were, they would have found it. Burnham would open a wormhole with the suit, and the Discovery would follow on autopilot. Their job was to clear a path; anything in the vicinity would either be destroyed or pulled into the future with Burnham, and Pike is emphatic they cannot risk that. Tyler condemns the plan as "crazy", and reminds them they had a spore drive. Stamets tells him they need the spore drive's power to charge the crystal, and by the time it was operational, Burnham would be long gone. Saru reports that the Enterprise is 57 minutes out, and Control's fleet is ten minutes behind them. Pike reminds the crew that this is what they had trained for, and orders "eyes up" for Burnham. As the crew comes to attention, Burnham fights back tears as she expresses her love for her shipmates, and thanks them for the "greatest moments" of her life. Pike adds his thanks to the crew, and orders them to get the crystal charged.

In engineering , working on the incubator, Po notes that Tilly is afraid, and assures her that it will all be fine. Tilly feels that she gives her too much credit; Po disagrees, saying that Tilly taught her how to "walk tall and into the heart of it", just like Tilly herself would when she commanded her own ship one day. When Tilly thanks her for helping save the galaxy, noting that she could have stayed out of it, Po reminds her that her people and her world were at risk, too. Tilly remarks on how "beautiful" hearing her say that sounds, and even the "bizarre and super weird" incubator seemed so to her as well. Po finishes her work preparing the incubator, and Tilly comments she would miss her – only to be surprised when Po says she is staying on board. Tilly protests, as she is the queen of Xahea. Po calls her world her "sister", and that she would die to protect her; that was the only queen she knew how to be. " Besides, " she adds, " what am I supposed to do, wave a hanky from my throne? " She reminds Tilly they were a team now, cheerfully adding that they were stuck with her before she carries the incubator away.

In the corridors, Georgiou condemns as "stupid" Burnham's plan to send herself into the future " like some galactic rubber band with a martyr complex ", and that it did not need to be like this. Burnham is emphatic that it does, for reasons Georgiou did not understand; Georgiou counters that she understood too well that Burnham had a reputation for being selfless, and that she was not the only person who would exploit that. Burnham dismisses her concerns: She was using the suit and doing what needed to be done, and if they were both alive afterward, then she would listen to Georgiou criticize her "gaping character flaws". Georgiou stares in stunned silence as Burnham walks away.

As she walks through the corridors, she is astonished to see Sarek and Amanda approaching her. She asks how they knew; Sarek explains that their katras guided them, as they had not been able to reach her through Starfleet ; Control had disabled Starfleet's subspace relays , leaving the Discovery with ship-to-ship communications only. Sarek realizes that Burnham was truly leaving; she believes it is the only way to keep Control from getting the Sphere data. A tearful Amanda tells her she does not need to go through with it, but Burnham is certain that she does. She had lost everything when the Klingons attacked Doctari Alpha , leaving her broken and alone. Sarek and Amanda had helped put her back together, "piece by piece"; even though they had a son, they took her in as their daughter, and even as she tried to push them away, they never let her go. No matter what happened, she promises them that she would carry what they gave her everywhere she went, and that she would not let them down. Amanda expresses pride in her, and in her courage, for what she was about to do. Sarek remarks that every parent's secret wish was that their children would make right the parents' own mistakes and admits he had not been an ideal father – or husband. Amanda calls him "impossible", to which Sarek half-seriously replies he would accept "improbable", earning a laugh from Burnham, before he asks for forgiveness from them both for his failings. Burnham gladly agrees, and asks that Spock be taken care of. Sarek replies that he would always be there for his son, even as he kept his distance as Spock had wished. Burnham reminds them that Spock loved his father deeply, and she did as well. Amanda expresses their love for her as well, before departing aboard Sarek's ship to return to Vulcan.

Act Three [ ]

As the time for her departure approaches, Burnham watches one of her mother's mission logs in her quarters, in which Gabrielle remarks that time travel was not for the faint of heart, and that she says a silent thank you to whoever invented polyphobic metamaterial before each jump; without it, she would be dead from radiation, temperature fluctuations, or painful blood clots. She believes Humans were not meant for it, but that it was the easy part; navigation was trickier, expressing her wish that whoever was watching was not crazy enough to try a jump themselves, but if they were "half as stubborn" as she was, she would explain how to do it the right way. As she begins to explain, Pike's voice sounds on the intercom that the Enterprise was twenty minutes out, calling Georgiou to his ready room and Burnham to the bridge. As she leaves, she runs into Tilly, who remarks on Burnham's announcement that she was leaving forever and that she hadn't been there " to sob and wail and throw myself at your feet "; Burnham points out that she had been busy, and begins to explain what their goodbye needed to be. Tilly remarks that it needed to be "nonexistent", as that's not who they were, or who "any of us" were either. Taking her by the hand, she leads her into the corridor, where much of the senior staff are waiting: Spock, Saru, Stamets, Reno, Owosekun, Detmer, Bryce, Rhys , Nilsson , and Tyler. Speaking for them all, Tilly tells Burnham they planned to stay with her. Burnham protests, saying that she couldn't allow them to do this; Reno replies that they were not asking permission. Burnham insists they have lives and families, people who love them, and that they would never see them again. Saru reminds her that their families accepted the possibility of losing them when they joined Starfleet, and that committing to a life among the stars was "a resolution to leave some things behind". When Burnham reminds them she doesn't know what the future holds, Stamets replies no one does – they only had now. Spock makes clear that they were going with her, and that any further argument would be futile. Burnham is trying to find words, but Saru points out that they were out of time – which was a problem, Tilly adds, as the crystal wasn't charging as fast as they had hoped. Reno volunteers to help, and the crew heads to the turbolift. Tyler takes Burnham aside to speak with her in private.

Burnham realizes immediately that Tyler is not going along with her. Tyler believes he needs to remain behind with Section 31, operating in the "gray areas", so that nothing like Control could ever rise up again; otherwise, they could end up with the same timeline, no matter where Burnham ended up. Pike calls on the intercom again, reminding her that the Enterprise was eleven minutes out; Burnham acknowledges she was on her way. As she makes to head for the bridge, Burnham turns back and tearfully embraces Tyler one last time, before making her way out.

The crew begin preparing farewell messages for their loved ones. Saru records a message for Siranna, explaining there was a battle coming and that he did not know if the signal would reach her in time, and admits the odds were not in their favor; if they never saw one another again, Saru wanted his sister to know how much he loved her. Tilly's message is for her mother, Siobhan , in which she expressed the hope she had made her proud, but even if she hadn't, she had made herself proud, and she knows her mother could feel it. Owosekun records a message for her family, in which she admits she scared them by making her own path, hoping they would see the message one day and that they would forgive her for it, and that she would carry them all with her. Detmer records a message to her friend Tazzy , who helped her with all the tests she failed, as well as adjusting to her implant after her injury. Stamets' message is for a sibling, who he calls his "best friend" who could translate their parents to them, even though he still did not understand their father at times; he remarks that he knew his sibling felt he was the favorite, but he admits he was just "louder".

Burnham enters the bridge to find Pike, now back in the gold tunic of the "newer" Starfleet uniform; it was now time. He orders Detmer to put distance between them and Xahea, so not to bring them into the fight; Saru reports there is no indication Po has left the ship, to which Pike remarks that it was a "diplomatic meltdown" they'd have to deal with another day. He does not need to ask if the entire crew is committed to joining Burnham, so he remarks there is one last bit of "housecleaning" before he returns to the Enterprise : the Discovery is going to need a new captain – and without a word, he turns to Saru.

Act Four [ ]

Enterprise and Discovery

As the Enterprise arrives, Pike addresses the Discovery crew for the last time, telling them that it has been one of the greatest honors of his career to serve as their captain, calling them both exceptional officers and exceptional individuals. He thanks Detmer and Owosekun for saving him during the mission to the first signal on the interstellar asteroid ; he applauds Nilsson for stepping up for Airiam in a way that honored her; he commends Bryce and Rhys for remaining cool under pressure; and he admits he will "miss the hell" out of Saru. To Spock, he confesses "there aren't words", and also remarks that Nhan has volunteered to stay as well, which Saru gladly accepts. Lastly, he turns to Burnham, commenting that most people never got a chance to learn what was in their own hearts, and even figuring it out, it's not they would have expected or chosen, thinking to his vision from the time crystal . He expresses his gratitude to Burnham for being there to watch her discover her own heart. He expresses to them all his belief that they would face their destinies with bravery and honor, even those moments that would test the strongest among them. He leaves Saru the conn as Burnham leads them through the wormhole; as he begins to explain what would happen after that, Saru replies that he thought it best to focus on their tasks, and that they would discuss the captaincy later. Number One hails from the Enterprise , informing Pike that Leland/Control's fleet was less than five minutes out. Pike asks Bryce to ensure everyone who planned to leave the Discovery had done so, and instructs the remainder of them to go back to work. Burnham calls the crew to attention as Pike leaves.

While both the Discovery and the Enterprise launch their compliments of small craft, Tilly, Stamets, and Reno continue to work on charging the crystal; at the rate they were going, Stamets warns, the crystal would not be charged before Leland/Control arrived. Tilly replies that was why she asked for their help. Reno realizes the cage containing the crystal was interfering with the charge, but without the cage, " everyone will see visions of the future, and their heads will explode ". Stamets asks for ideas; Reno suggests moving the charging unit inside the cage, while Tilly suggests widening the diameter of the cage opening. Stamets rejects both – with the former, it would redistribute the charge to the point of instability, and with the latter, making it wider would cause the crystal's effects to seep out, which was what the cage was meant to avoid. Bryce's voice sounds on the intercom for the final shuttles to begin boarding, as transporter power would be diverted to defense systems in three minutes. Reno orders both Tilly and Stamets outside and not to let anyone else in, and assures them she would be fine. As they leave, Reno deactivates the crystal cage, and begins to experience flashes of the future.

On the bridge, Saru asks Bryce to open a ship-wide channel, calling all crew to stations, and ordering red alert. He informs Pike that they were ready to proceed. Pike arrives in the transporter room with Georgiou and Tyler; he remarks that he has not been sure what to make of Georgiou lately, but is glad to have had her on the same side. Georgiou cheerfully remarks on "more fun to come" if they survived. Pike wishes her luck, and remarks to Tyler that he was glad to have him on the same side, too. Tyler asks if that meant Pike trusted him; when Pike wonders why he asked, Tyler replies that there was something he had to do, and that he would have to leave before the battle began. Georgiou activates the transporter, and then confesses to Pike that she was Terran from the mirror universe . " What mirror universe? " Pike replies, with a conspiratorial wink, as the transporter effect takes him.

Detmer communicates to all ships that Leland/Control's fleet has arrived. As Pike steps onto his bridge, Number One reports nine more ships arriving; Burnham can see that the fleet has surrounded them. Aboard the Enterprise , Pike orders shields up; on the Discovery , Saru tells the crew to prepare for battle.

TO BE CONTINUED …

Log entries [ ]

• " Personal log , Stardate 1051.8. We're in the process of abandoning our ship in order to destroy it. This is actually happening, yet somehow I still can't believe it. Long-range sensors show Control is on the move and gaining quickly. Its infiltrated our subspace radio relays, so we can't reach Starfleet for backup. Ship-to-ship communication is all we've got. Discovery contains the one thing in all the galaxy that Control needs, the data to become fully conscious. My mother sacrificed everything to stop Control from getting that data, and now she's counting on us to finish the job. But is this really the only solution? I look in the mirror and can hardly recognize myself anymore. All these questions without answers. There are seven signals, but we've only seen four. We have a time crystal that we don't know how to use. Captain Pike has always had faith that they play a part in some grand design. Now… more than ever… I wish I had his certainty. "

Memorable quotes [ ]

" Welcome home, captain. " " Good to be back. Wish it were under better circumstances. " " Don't we all. " " All major systems are back online, and we'll have no more holographic communications… ever. " " Probably for the best."

" Orange. Really? Ugh. "

" Actually, our odds might be a little better than that. I took the liberty of retrofitting our shuttle and landing pod complement with enhanced phasers, and I commandeered the new experimental tactical flyers, assuming the shit would hit the fan. " " Well done, Number One. "

" One of the fun things about becoming queen of the most politically relevant planet in the galaxy is that I don't have to listen to any snark. I made it an actual law. "

" I wish there was more time. There isn't. I love you… all of you. Thank you for the greatest moments of my life. "

" It is the secret wish of every parent that our children make right the mistakes we ourselves have made. I know I have not always been the ideal father. Or husband, Amanda. I am… " " Impossible. " " I will accept 'improbable'. " " Well, that's big of you, father. "

" Commander, our families accepted the possibility of this moment when we joined Starfleet. Committing to a life amongst the stars is, in itself, a resolution to leave some things behind. "

" Serving as your captain has been one of the greatest honors of my career. You are exceptional officers. Exceptional individuals, every single one of you. Lieutenants Detmer and Owosekun, I wouldn't be here if you hadn't saved my life on the way to that asteroid. Lieutenant Nilsson, You've stepped up for Airiam in way that honors her. Lieutenants Bryce and Rhys, you're calm under pressure. And Commander Saru, I'm gonna miss the hell outta you. Lieutenant Spock… there aren't words. Commander Nhan has requested to stay aboard Discovery . " " If I can be of help, that is. " " Well – it would be our privilege to have you, commander. " " As for you… most people will never get a chance to learn what's in their own hearts. If we figure it out, it's often not what we not expected, or even what we would have chosen for ourselves. I am very grateful, commander, to have been here to watch you discover your heart. Thank you. I know that you… I know that all of you will face your destinies with bravery and honor. Even those moments to come that will test the strongest among us. " " Thank you… sir. "

" I'm Terran, by the way. From your 'mirror universe.'" " What mirror universe?" (Pike winks at Georgiou as he is beamed off Discovery )

Background information [ ]

• This episode is part one of a two-part season finale. [1]
• The title comes from William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet : " Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. "

Cast and characters [ ]

• Yadira Guevara-Prip ( Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po ) first appeared in the Star Trek: Short Treks episode " Runaway ".

Music and sound [ ]

• A few musical cues from this episode were released in the soundtrack collection Star Trek: Discovery - Season 2 . The first, "Failure", plays in the episode's teaser , from the moment when the joint Enterprise - Discovery crew realize that their attempt to destroy the Discovery is unsuccessful, and continuing during Burnham's vision of the future; the second, "Essential Personnel", is audible while Pike plans to return to Discovery with all essential personnel, the ship journeys to Xahea, and while Tilly then explains her familiarity with the planet's queen; the third, "Goodbyes", is audible when members of the Discovery crew bid their farewells to their loved ones, starting with Burnham and Tyler saying their goodbyes to each other; and the fourth, "Pike On The Bridge", accompanies Pike's farewell speech to the Discovery bridge crew.

Continuity [ ]

• This episode picks up where DIS : " Through the Valley of Shadows " left off.
• An additional stardate for this episode (specifically, when the red burst occurs) is given in " Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 ".

Reception [ ]

• TRR : " Such Sweet Sorrow " discusses the making of, and events in, this episode.
• Alex Kurtzman described Olatunde Osunsanmi 's work on this episode as "an unbelievable job in a crazy-short period of time." [2]

Production history [ ]

• 5 April 2019 : Title publicly revealed [3]
• 11 April 2019 : Premiere airdate on CBS All Access
• 12 April 2019 : International release date (outside Canada and the USA)

Links and references [ ]

Starring [ ].

• Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham
• Doug Jones as Saru
• Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets
• Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly
• Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber
• Shazad Latif as Ash Tyler
• Anson Mount as Christopher Pike

Special guest star [ ]

• Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou

Guest starring [ ]

• Jayne Brook as Katrina Cornwell
• James Frain as Sarek
• Yadira Guevara-Prip as Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po
• Mia Kirshner as Amanda Grayson
• Tig Notaro as Jett Reno
• Ethan Peck as Spock
• Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley
• Sonja Sohn as Gabrielle Burnham
• Alan van Sprang as Leland ( Control )
• Rachael Ancheril as Nhan

Co-starring [ ]

• Emily Coutts as Lt. Keyla Detmer
• Patrick Kwok-Choon as Lt. Gen Rhys
• Oyin Oladejo as Lt. Joann Owosekun
• Ronnie Rowe Jr. as Lt. R.A. Bryce
• Sara Mitich as Lt. Nilsson
• Julianne Grossman as Discovery Computer
• Samora Smallwood as Lt. Amin
• Hanneke Talbot as Lt. Mann
• Chai Valladares as Lt. Nicola
• Nicole Dickinson as Yeoman Colt

Uncredited co-stars [ ]

• Avaah Blackwell as Osnullus bridge officer
• Ante Dekovic as Kroad
• Kevin Lee as Enterprise operations crewmember
• Pamela Mars as Discovery bridge crewmember
• Enterprise sciences officers 2
• Enterprise sciences officers 3

Stunt doubles [ ]

• Christine Ebadi as stunt double for Rachael Ancheril
• Shara Kim as stunt double for Michelle Yeoh
• Daryl Patchett as stunt double for Alan van Sprang
• Melanie Phan as stunt double for Michelle Yeoh
• E. Nova Zatzman as stunt double for Mary Wiseman

Stand-in [ ]

• Stacy-Ann Buchanan as stand-in for Sonequa Martin-Green

References [ ]

antimatter missile ; auto-destruct ; autopilot ; Barzan ; blood clot ; boatswain's whistle ; bowl ; cargo pallet ; class M ; composite alloy ; Control ; dark energy ; dilithium ; dilithium incubator ; DNA ; Enterprise , USS ; EPS relay ; evacuation corridor ; Gateway Arch ; goop ; ice cream ; landing pod ; katra ; Kelpien knife ; mirror universe ; Missouri ; mRNA ; nova ; nuclear particle physics ; pair production ; phaser ; photon torpedo ; polyphobic metamaterial ; radiation ; reaction rate ; red burst ; red giant ; rubber band ; Section 31 ; sector ; shields ; shuttlecraft ; siege weapon ; Siranna ; snow globe ; Sphere ; spore drive ; spumoni ; St. Louis ; Stamets' sibling ; Starship class ; Starfleet Charter ; stellar-lensing array ; sugar ; supernova ; T'Khut ; tactical flyer ; Tazzy ; Terralysium ; Terran ; throne ; thruster ; time crystal ; time suit ; time travel ; tritanium ; Vulcan cruiser ; Vulcan Science Academy ; Xahea ; Xahean ; wormhole

Other references [ ]

• Xahea: catalog number ; Celsius ; day ; diameter ; galactic coordinates ; gravity ; Grid 07, Quad 09, block 3, sector 1 ; hour ; kilogram per cubic meter ; kilometer ; mean temperature ; moon ; orbital period ; rotation period
• Enterprise dedication plaque: Aarniokoski, D. ; Audrey, C. ; Augustyn, N. ; Baiers, A. ; Barrett, D. ; Beattie, J. ; Beyer, K. ; Budge, W. ; Callaghan, D. ; chief of staff ; Chris, S. ; Clement, J. ; Cochran, S. ; Colville, A. ; Collyer, C. ; CNC ; Culpepper, H. ; Cunningham, M. ; Daning, R. ; Daprato, B. ; Davis, R. ; de Cartier, J. ; Dekovic, A. ; Deverell, T. ; Douglas, G. ; Duff, J. ; Dworkin, D. ; Eaves, J. ; Edmund, M. ; Fleet Ops ; Flook, T. ; Frakes, J. ; Gray, F. ; Harris, M. ; Herbst, K. ; Hetrick, G. ; Hindmarch, D. ; Isaacs, H. ; Jarvis, J. ; Johnson, R. ; Jozwiak, J. ; Kadin, H. ; Kao, E. ; Kim, B.Y. ; Kim, J. ; Kirk, J. ; Kochoska, A. ; Kuitenbrouwer, M. ; Kurtzman, A. ; Lai, R. ; Lanyon, P. ; Lewandowski, M. ; Lippoldt, E. ; Little, C. ; Llewellyn, S. ; Loo, A. ; Lumet, J. ; Maranville, A. ; McCallum, R. ; McDonald, L. ; McElroy, A. ; McGuire, C. ; Melvin, A. ; Middleton, M. ; Moreira, M. ; Morgan, M. ; Navarrette, M. ; Nicolakakos, P. ; Nocifora, A. ; Osunsanmi, O. ; Owen, T. ; Page, N. ; Paradise, M. ; Peel, T. ; Penna, C. ; Petrovic, T. ; Phillips, G. ; Poulakakis, T. ; Poulin, E. ; Pretak, T. ; Rashid, S. ; Research and Development ; Roddenberry, R. ; Roddenberry, Gene ; Rook-Slawski, K. ; Ross, L. ; Roth, T. ; Russo, J. ; Sampson, E. ; Schneider, S. : Scott, T.J. ; Schultz, B. ; Science Ops ; Sidarous, W. ; Silvestri, C. ; Siracusa, F. ; Sokolowski, S. ; Stanek, M. ; Starfleet Command ; Sullivan, T. ; Tactical Ops ; Tata, F. ; Tidy, P. ; Tsang, A. ; Turnbull, B. ; Voshart, D. ; Vrvilo, M. ; Warry-Smith, M. ; Watkins, C. ; Weber, J. ; Wilmott, V. ; Wood, A. ; yard engineer ; Young, T. ; Zimmerman, J.

External links [ ]

• " Such Sweet Sorrow " at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• " Such Sweet Sorrow " at the Internet Movie Database
• " Discovering Such Sweet Sorrow, Part I " at MissionLogPodcast.com , a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast
• 2 ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

'Such Sweet Sorrow' Is a Befuddled Buildup to the 'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 2 Finale

The real star of this week's episode is the USS Enterprise.

Code zero zero zero. Spoilers. Zero.

Last week, "Star Trek: Discovery" showed signs of returning to form in " Through the Valley of Shadows ." Sadly, however, this week — like a giant, planet-size pendulum and an all-too-frequent occurrence on this show — it swings all the way back and gives us an episode that misses the mark, failing to live up to its potential it had.

"Such Sweet Sorrow" starts with a voiceover from Cmdr. Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) explaining how the Discovery must be set to self-destruct because it contains the one thing in the galaxy that Control needs: the data to become fully conscious.

Related: Anson Mount & Rebecca Romijn Disembarking from Star Trek: Discovery

The Discovery rendezvous with the Enterprise and a ghastly-looking, wholly impractical, 500-meter, new-for-"Discovery" extending bridge is used to connect the two ships: that probably cost the visual-effects team twice as much as a few teleportation effects would have. No explanation is given as to why the transporters aren't used — whoever came up with this ridiculous idea should be fired from the writer's room immediately.

On the plus side, we get our first proper look at the bridge of the Enterprise , and it's gorgeous . Capt. Pike (Anson Mount) makes yet another throw-away explanation as to why holographic communications will no longer be used; we can only assume that he's referring to the Enterprise, 'cause you can almost certainly guarantee that we'll see them again on Discovery.

While packing up everything from Discovery, Burnham prepares to stow the time crystal away safely and handles it directly; consequently, she gets a flash of what's to come. We see what looks like a giant space battle. Injured people are everywhere, and an undetonated photon torpedo is wedged into the hull of the Enterprise. 

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Much to everyone's surprise, the self-destruct command to Discovery doesn't work, so the Enterprise unloads a volley of torpedoes at the ship — but somehow Discovery's shields have been raised. Pike et al deduce that the data from the sphere has merged with the Discovery's computer systems, to the extent that it's now capable of taking more drastic measures to defend itself. 

Burnham keeps getting flashes of the future, but with more detail this time. We see Leland (Alan Van Sprang) walking onto the bridge of the Discovery and blasting everyone in sight before throttling her. 

To all intents and purposes, the actions of the crew of the Discovery, and Burnham in particular, are being guided by both the red signals, which the crew has been following over the course of the season, and the flash-forwards provided by the time crystal. 

The penny drops and Burnham realizes the very reason that the crew was guided to getting a time crystal by the appearance of the fifth signal in last week's episode was so that they could take the USS Discovery into the future and out of the reach of Control. 

Thus, as most fans have more or less guessed by now, that plot point will eventually tie in with the last remaining "Short Trek" that hasn't been referenced yet, " Calypso ," which follows Discovery, deserted, in the far future.

A discussion in the officers' briefing room results in a plan to construct another time suit, and naturally only Burnham can use it, because the original was tailored to her mother's DNA. The reason why a new suit cannot be tailored to new DNA is not explained. Other incredibly significant challenges such as actually flying it are explained away by the fact that apparently her mother left instructions in her video log. We assume that Burnham has to mention this the next time she sees her mother, so that Burnham will know how to do it. Such are the perils of time travel. 

The officers also theorize during this meeting that Burnham is indeed responsible for the red signals, travelling through time to orchestrate their precise appearances and guide the Discovery crew to the relevant pieces of the puzzle.

A red signal appears, the sixth of seven, and it's over a planet called Xahea. If this sounds familiar, it's because it featured in the very first "Short Trek," entitled " Runaway ," that aired back in October of last year. So, one more episode, one more red signal, and one more "Short Trek" reference still left to go.

With Leland (Alan Van Sprang) and an armada of 30 Section 31 ships under his control fast approaching, a deadly confrontation is imminent. Thankfully, though, Number One (Rebecca Romijn) took the liberty of retrofitting the Enterprise's shuttle and landing pod complement with enhanced phasers, and she commandeered the new experimental tactical fliers, so that's good. 

Lt. Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Dr. Culber (Wilson Cruz) have a genuinely touching moment, and share the details of what each of them plans to do after all of this is over. Stamets says he might take a sabbatical from Starfleet and enroll at the Vulcan Science Academy, and Culber says he's taking a post on the USS Enterprise.

Discovery uses its spore drive to reach Xahea instantly, while Enterprise must follow behind at warp speed , and arrives a little later. Upon reaching the class-M planet, Tilly (Mary Wiseman) gets giddy at the chance of seeing Queen Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po, which becomes shortened to just Po (played by Yadira Guevara-Prip) once again — a character those who watched the "Short Trek" will be familiar with.

While it's nice to see her again, Po brings little to this episode aside from her technical knowledge and some comedic relief. 

We learned in "Runaway" that she had developed a way to … er, recrystallize dilithium, something that Capt. Scott specifically said in " Star Trek: The Voyage Home " was impossible, even in the 23rd century. That is, until Capt. Spock theorized that injecting high-energy photons from a 20th century nuclear reactor into a dilithium chamber might cause crystalline restructure. Perhaps, then, this technology remains on Xahea and never makes its way to the United Federation of Planets. 

Po plans to modify her dilithium incubator to trigger an ongoing cascade of energy within the crystal by combining it with dark energy. Apparently, that will replicate the power of a supernova … and charge the time crystal. Easy.

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The only downside is that this process, which is seemingly the only option available, will ultimately destroy the time crystal. Burnham will be able to guide Discovery into the future in her new time suit, but not return to her present. It's a one-way trip.

And what follows from this point onwards is half an episode of tearful farewells, sentimental speeches, emotional embraces, and everyone going through their own acts of closure. 

You can see what the writers were trying to do, but the problem is that it hasn't been done very well — and that's being kind. Watching Burnham go through one tearful farewell after another is too much, and we find ourselves drowning in her emotional blubbering.

The command crew gathers on the bridge to bid farewell to Burnham, and even Amanda Grayson (Mia Kirshner) and Sarek (James Frain) suddenly pop up — just in the nick of time, all the way from Vulcan — to gush some over-sentimental "we could've been better parents" speech. The excuse given for their awareness of Burnham's impending doom despite being many light-years away makes this even worse. It's the old Vulcan-katra-can-do-whatever-the-script-requires thing again.

While walking in the corridor Burnham is greeted by the bridge crew, along with  Spock (Ethan Peck), Saru (Doug Jones), Tyler (Shazad Latif) and Reno (Tig Notaro), who all insist that they accompany Burnham on this hazardous journey. Naturally, this results in even more top lip-quivering from Burnham, her eyes refilling like a cistern yet again.

What follows is a montage of both many of the lesser-known characters — and some of the main ones — in their quarters, recording very personal messages to their families as each prepares privately for what could be a mission that requires the ultimate sacrifice. 

This is a powerful and moving sequence. What lessens the impact, and effectively ruins it before it's even finished, is that we've already had our fill of this dewy-eyed dialogue. If the scene with Burnham's adoptive parents had been left on the editing room floor, this would've worked a thousand times more effectively. (Maybe if they had cut one or two other scenes as well.)

The Enterprise catches up with Discovery, and only eight minutes remain before the Section 31 fleet arrives. Pike prepares to beam over to the Enterprise and appoint Saru as the new captain of the Discovery. Then, in a scene that, despite the unnecessary emotional overload we've already been subjected to will still put a lump in your throat (so imagine how much more effective this could've been), Pike gives a short but stirring speech worthy of the exceptional character he has been. And then the crew stands out of respect to face him, eyes front. The "Star Trek" fanfare should really have played softly in the background here, but never mind. 

Down in engineering, there seems to be a last-minute technical hitch, as the time crystal isn't charging fast enough. Reno sends Tilly and Stamets away to their respective posts before touching the crystal herself to fix the issue; she gets the same flash-forward as Burnham did. 

Pike beams over to the Enterprise, and as Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) operates the transporter controls, she picks an odd moment to tell Pike that she's from the Terran Empire in the Mirror Universe , to which Pike replies, "What Mirror Universe?" And winks. Perhaps she still thinks that he thinks she's Capt. Philippa Georgiou. Regardless, it's a peculiar moment to do this. Tyler also announces that there is something he has to do before the spectacular space battle starts — we suspect it might be to call on L'Rell (Mary Chieffo) to ask for assistance from the Klingon Empire. We'll see.

There are a few more of those nausea-inducing, 360-degree pans of nervous-looking crewmembers, and the arriving enemy fleet dropping out of warp, surrounding the Discovery and the Enterprise. Pike issues the command, "Raise shields," and that's it until the season finale next week.

The second season of "Discovery" spans 14 episodes, which is plenty of time to show a solid, high-quality story arc. Previous incarnations of "Star Trek" averaged much longer seasons, typically 25 or 26 episodes, but these didn't run season-long stories. " The Expanse " currently averages about 12 episodes and " Battlestar Galactica " averaged 18 episodes per season, so "Discovery" sits roughly in the middle.

But both "The Expanse" and "Battlestar Galactica" demonstrate that high-quality, addictive sci-fi drama is possible within these timeframes. However, the erratic pacing and uneven story distribution of "Discovery" has been a major issue since it's premiere, back in September 2017.

If the finale was a 2-hour long special, then a penultimate episode of this nature could work, but it isn't. What needs to follow an episode involving this much procrastination would be a space battle even bigger and even better than what we saw in "The Orville" episode " Identity Part II ." but that's probably not going to happen either, because so many other plot points have to be tied together in the space of just 60 minutes. Unless, of course … there's an end-of-season cliffhanger that sends us spiraling into Season 3. That might happen.

Regardless, as this season draws to a close, we can look at the journey "Discovery" has taken us on and it's been nothing short of … mediocre. The Section 31/AI/Control/Leland antagonist hasn't been particularly engaging and feels fragmented at best. Add to that Burnham's non-stop emotional outpouring, Tilly's inappropriate child-like behavior, ridiculous plots, excessive exposition and the over-reliance on technobabble, the impression this season leaves is memorable for all the wrong reasons. 

We can only assume that if the spin-off series focusing on Agent Georgiou goes forward,the plan is to create a character that you love to hate , because the vast majority of her lines and interaction in recent episodes have made her out to be a bit of a jerk. And this episode is no exception. 

The first season of "Star Trek: Discovery" is available to stream in its entirety on CBS All Access in the U.S. and Netflix in the U.K. "Star Trek: Discovery" Season 1 is available now on Blu-ray. The second season of Star Trek: Discovery consists of 14 episodes with no midseason break. It airs on Thursdays on CBS All Access in the U.S. and on the Space TV channel in Canada; the rest of the world can see it on Netflix on Fridays.

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Star Trek: Discovery season 5 episode 7: Release date and time, where to watch, and more

I n the last episode of Star Trek: Discovery season 5, titled Whistlespeak , the episode explored themes of cultural interaction and ethical dilemmas through the lens of the Prime Directive. It examined the impact of advanced technology on less developed societies and the moral complexities of intervention.

Moreover, the narrative questioned the balance between non-interference and the obligation to prevent harm, highlighting the crew's internal struggle. Now, the next episode, which will enhance these developments, is slated to release on May 9, 2024.

When will Star Trek: Discovery season 5 episode 7 be released?

Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 7, titled Erigah , will be released on Thursday, May 9, 2024, at 12 a.m. PT . Below is the release schedule for the episode across all time zones:

Where to watch Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Episode 7?

Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 7 will be released on Paramount Plus for streaming. In Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, the second and third seasons are available on the Star Trek channel on Pluto TV. In Canada, the series airs on Bell Media's CTV Sci-Fi Channel and can be streamed on SkyShowtime.

What can fans expect from Star Trek: Discovery season 5 episode 7?

In episode 7 of Star Trek: Discovery season 5, fans can anticipate an intense episode filled with action and suspense. The episode will feature the return of Commander Nan, the former security chief of the Discovery, who plays a significant role in interrogating characters Moll and L'ak.

These two are under a "blood bounty" by the Breen, having betrayed them. The episode unfolds as the Federation finally catches up with Moll and L'ak following their escape in a warp pod, leading to an interrogation that promises to shed more light on their situation.

With Moll and L'ak finally in custody, the Federation is pulled into a diplomatic and ethical firestorm when the Breen arrives and demands they be handed over.

Additionally, fans will see tensions rise as Book tries to leverage his past connections to reach out to Moll despite being warned against interfering. With the stakes higher than ever, the episode is set to deliver dramatic confrontations and a deeper dive into the complex relationships and politics within Starflee.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5 episode 6 recap

In Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 6 , titled Whistlespeak , Captain Michael Burnham and Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly go on an undercover assignment on a pre-warp planet to find evidence of the Progenitors' technology and, at the same time, observe the Prime Directive.

The mission gives Tilly a reflective adventure, where she undertakes the difficult ritual of the Mother Compeer's Journey and aces her ability to bond powerfully with others, especially Ravah, a local child. This connection is crucial since they find out that the ritual ends with a sacrificial practice, which Burnham intervenes to prevent.

The crew on USS Discovery has to grapple with personal and group challenges in the search for meaning as characters like Adira and Tilly question their role and effectiveness. The episode delves into the implications of the Prime Directive, which is an interesting collusion of non-interference with a need for interference.

Ultimately, Whistlespeak reinforces the thematic pillars of Star Trek about exploration, ethical dilemmas, and personal growth.

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• Saru has been conspicuously absent from several episodes of Star Trek: Discovery season 5.
• The missed opportunity to focus on Saru's wedding with T'Rina as a subplot in season 5 is a mistake.
• The absence of Saru, a main character, is a sad development for Discovery's final season.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5 has completely sidelined Saru (Doug Jones) which is disappointing for the show's final season. Discovery season 5, episode 6 , "Whistlespeak," which was written by Kenneth Lin and Brandon Schultz and directed by Chris Byrne, saw the USS Discovery and her crew continue their search for the Progenitor's technology on the planet Halem'no, where Captain Michael Burnham (Soneqa Martin-Green) and Lieutenant Slyvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman) were forced to break the Prime Directive to save the planet's inhabitants. However, for yet another episode, one important character was noticeably absent from the show's ensemble.

Saru has been a fixture on Discovery 's cast of characters since season 1 and is as representative of the show as Captain Burnham. Played to perfection by Doug Jones, Saru introduced the Kelpian race to Star Trek canon and has become one of Discovery 's most beloved characters. He has also enjoyed one of the most interesting character arcs of the entire series and continues to have great potential in Discovery season 5, which is why it's so surprising that the show's final season has utilized him so little compared to other characters.

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Saru Has Been Sidelined In Star Trek: Discovery Season 5

The kelpian has been absent for multiple episodes.

Discovery season 5, episode 6, is the third straight installment where Saru has not appeared . Barring some appearances in the season's first three episodes, and a brief glimpse of his unconscious past self in episode 4, Saru's acceptance of a Federation Ambassador position in order to focus on his relationship with President T'Rina (Tara Rosling) has kept him out of Discovery 's search for the Progenitor's technology . Given his main character status in seasons 1-4, however, Saru's omission from Discovery season 5 is both noticeable and disappointing.

Losing out on the opportunity to wrap up Saru's storyline properly is a sad turn of events for Discovery 's final season.

Saru's season 5 exclusion isn't the first time that Discovery has sidelined a main character. In season 4, Tilly bowed out of several episodes in the middle of the season. However, the character returned in the season 4 finale and has taken up a bigger presence in season 5, especially in episode 6. Unfortunately, a larger role in the following season isn't possible for Saru , given that season 5 will be Discovery 's last. Losing out on the opportunity to wrap up Saru's storyline properly is a sad turn of events for Discovery 's final season.

Why Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Not Focusing On Saru & T’Rina’s Wedding Is A Mistake

Saru and t'rina's wedding would be a great counterpart to season 5's main storyline.

Saru's absence in Discovery season 5 is all the more disheartening because the show already set up the perfect storyline for him apart from Discovery 's crew. The glimpse of Saru's life as an ambassador and marriage preparations with T'Rina that episode 3 provided showed that using Saru's new path as a B-story to Discovery 's main plot is completely feasible . Not only that, but a deeper exploration of Saru and T'Rina's relationship and the challenges of planning their wedding could act as a wonderfully lighthearted and romantic counterpart to Discovery season 5's more serious A-story.

Saru has already been through so much change and growth during his time on Star Trek: Discovery . Being able to see this final phase of his development, especially knowing that the show only has a limited number of episodes to wrap up his story, is crucial to making season 5 well-rounded . Hopefully, Saru can return to his main character status in season 5's final four episodes, or at the very least, the coda that was retroactively shot and added to the show's series finale will feature him and T'Rina more heavily.

New episodes of Star Trek: Discovery season 5 stream Thursdays on Paramount+.

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In Star Trek: Discovery Season 5's sixth episode, " Whistlespeak ," while undercover in a pre-warp society, Captain Burnham is forced to consider breaking the Prime Directive when a local tradition threatens Tilly’s life. Meanwhile, Culber tries to connect with Stamets, and Adira steps up when Rayner assigns them a position on the bridge.

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The Breen have really taken over Star Trek: Discovery at this point, which is why it might be time to revisit Deep Space Nine.

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers.

Since its inception in 2017, Star Trek: Discovery has been compared to various aspects of the Star Trek franchise. But, perhaps the show it most closely resembles, at least tonally, is Deep Space Nine , the gritty ‘90s spin-off of The Next Generation . And, with its fifth and final season, it feels like Discovery knows it’s the Deep Space Nine of modern Trek , and has leaned into that feeling more than ever.

The series has also taken on the mantle of being the new DS9 by simply making a ton of references to that series, as well as continuing huge storylines from that series. In the 7th episode of season 5, “Erigah,” Discovery makes a ton of references to the breadth of the Trek canon, with a specific focus on DS9 . Here’s all the best easter eggs and shout-outs you might have missed.

The Return of Nhan 

At the top of the episode, we get the first appearance of Rachael Ancheril as Nhan since season 4 episode “Rubicon.” Nhan’s journey is unique within Star Trek , and Discovery specifically. Originally a part of the crew of the USS Enterprise under Pike, Nhan joined the Discovery in season 2 during the search for the Red Angel. She stayed with the crew when they jumped to the future in season 3, making her seemingly the only Enterprise crew member from the 23rd century who now lives in the 32nd century . Nhan is from Barzan II, a planet established in the TNG episode “The Price.”

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Dominion War Medical Research 

Culber says he’s doing a deep-dive into Dominion War medical research, in order to learn more about the Breen, noting, “We don’t know much about Breen physiology.” This is accurate since, although the Breen appeared for the first time in DS9 , they never took their helmets off in that series. Culber’s deep dive into Dominion War research is also interesting in light of Star Trek: Picard season 3. It was in that season that we learned Starfleet was secretly experimenting on Changelings. Did Culber stumble on any of that research?

“Never Turn Your Back on a Breen”

Reynar reminds President T’Rina of the Romulan saying, “Never turn your back on a Breen.” This comes from the DS9 episode “By Inferno’s Light,” and was uttered by an unnamed Romulan prisoner. Although T’Rina is seemingly Vulcan, the Vulcans and Romulans are essentially the same people in the time of Discovery . As revealed in season 3’s “Unification III,” all Vulcans and Romulans live together on the planet Ni’var, previously known as the planet Vulcan.

Breen Attack on the Federation 

In this episode, we’re reminded that “the last time the Breen paid a visit to the Federation, they destroyed an entire city.” This references the Deep Space Nine episode, “The Changing Face of Evil,” in which the Breen attack Starfleet Headquarters on Earth, directly, and nearly destroy all of San Francisco. Most of the city was rebuilt by the time of the Picard flashbacks in season 1 of that series, and certainly, is fully rebuilt by seasons 2 and 3 of Picard . But, it seems like the Federation has not had a direct battle with the Breen in Federation space since the DS9 era.

Tilly Is Worried About Her Cadets

In another reference to DS9 and “The Changing Face of Evil,” Tilly expresses concern about her cadets safety if the Breen attack Federation HQ. In the DS9 era, Starfleet Academy was still located in San Francisco, though now it’s at Fed HQ. That said, the upcoming show, Starfleet Academy , set in the Discovery timeline, will move the Academy back to Earth, and San Francisco.

We learn in this episode that the next piece of the Progenitor puzzle is a book called Labyrinths of the Mind , a Betazoid manuscript written by Dr. Marina Derex. “Marina” is almost certainly a reference to Marina Sirtis, the beloved actress who has played the half-Betazoid character Deanna Troi in all of The Next Generation and Picard , a few cameos on Voyager , and the Enterprise finale.

The book was also written in 2371, which is the same year that the USS Voyager left space station Deep Space 9 for the Badlands. It’s also the same year that Thomas Riker stole the USS Defiant from the same station. It’s also the year that the USS Enterprise-D crash-landed its saucer section on Veridian III in Star Trek Generations , which also means it’s the same year that a time-displaced Captain James T. Kirk was killed. Big year!

Seven of Limes 

Reno mentions a cocktail called “Seven of Limes.” This can only be a reference to Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), the former Borg drone turned Fenris Ranger and Starfleet Captain. Because Discovery is set several centuries beyond Picard Season 3, we can only assume that Reno and the crew now have knowledge of events well beyond the early 2400s.

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“A Holodeck Adventure for the Littles”

Reno jokes that the entire premise of the current clue—connected to a library card—makes everything sound like “something out of a holodeck adventure for the littles.” The most prominent holodeck adventure for children that we’re aware of in Trek canon is The Adventures of Flotter , which first appeared in the Voyager episode “Once Upon a Time.” In Picard season 1, Soji had a Flotter lunchbox.

The Badlands 

By the end of the episode, the Eternal Gallery’s location—and thus the location of the book  Labyrinths of the Mind —is revealed to be in the Badlands. This is an unstable area of space that was first mentioned in…you guessed it… Deep Space Nine ! Although the Badlands is most famous as the area where the USS Voyager went missing in its 1995 debut episode, “Caretaker,” the concept of the Badlands was introduced about a year earlier in 1994, during DS9’s second season, specifically in the episode “The Maquis Part 1.”

The Badlands is located near what used to be Cardassian space, so in its next episode, Discovery will literally be traveling directly to the neighborhood of Deep Space Nine . We have no idea if the wormhole is still there in this time period, or if that old station is still kicking. But, as Discovery continues to drop surprises in its final season, we can all keep our fingers crossed for a glimpse of a very special space station.

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