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Episode Guide Episodes 001–041 Last episode aired Thursday January 07, 2021 www.cbs.com © © 2021 www.imdb.com © 2021 www.cbs.com © 2021 www.netflix.com © 2021 memory-alpha.org The summaries and recaps of all the Star Trek: Discovery episodes were downloaded from http://www.tv.com and http://www.cbs.com and http://www.netflix.com and http://memory-alpha.org and processed through a perl program to transform them in a LATEX file, for pretty printing. So, do not blame me for errors in the text ! This booklet was LATEXed on January 9, 2021 by footstep11 with create_eps_guide v0.65 Contents Season 1 1 1 The Vulcan Hello . .3 2 Battle at the Binary Stars . .7 3 Context Is for Kings . .9 4 The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry . 15 5 Choose Your Pain . 19 6 Lethe............................................... 25 7 Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad . 27 8 Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum . 31 9 Into the Forest I Go . 33 10 Despite Yourself . 35 11 The Wolf Inside . 37 12 Vaulting Ambition . 39 13 What’s Past Is Prologue . 43 14 The War Without, The War Within . 45 15 Will You Take My Hand? . 49 Season 2 53 1 Brother . 55 2 New Eden . 59 3 Point of Light . 63 4 An Obol for Charon . 69 5 Saints of Imperfection . 75 6 The Sound of Thunder . 79 7 Light and Shadows . 85 8 If Memory Serves . 91 9 Project Daedalus . 99 10 The Red Angel . 107 11 Perpetual Infinity . 115 12 Through the Valley of Shadows . 123 13 Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 1 . 129 14 Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 . 137 Season 3 145 1 That Hope Is You, Part 1 . 147 2 Far From Home . 151 3 People of Earth . 155 4 Forget Me Not . 159 5 Die Trying . 163 6 Scavengers . 169 7 Unification III . 173 8 The Sanctuary . 177 9 Terra Firma, Part 1 . 181 10 Terra Firma, Part 2 . 185 Star Trek: Discovery Episode Guide 11 Su’Kal . 189 12 That Hope Is You, Part 2 . 195 Actor Appearances 201 II Season One Star Trek: Discovery Episode Guide The Vulcan Hello Season 1 Episode Number: 1 Season Episode: 1 Originally aired: Sunday September 24, 2017 Writer: Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman Director: David Semel Show Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green (Michael Burnham), Doug Jones (Lieutenant Saru), Shazad Latif (Lieutenant Ash Tyler), Anthony Rapp (Lieutenant Paul Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Cadet Sylvia Tilly), Jason Isaacs (Cap- tain Gabriel Lorca) Guest Stars: Michelle Yeoh (Captain Philippa Georgiou), Mary Chieffo (L’Rell), James Frain (Sarek), Chris Obi (T’Kuvma), Maulik Pancholy (Dr. Anton Nambue), Terry Serpico (Brett Anderson), Sam Vartholomeos (Danby Connor), Arista Arhin (Young Michael Burnham), Emily Coutts (Keyla Detmer), Justin Howell (Torchbearer / Rejac), Ali Momen (Kamran Gant), Bonnie Morgan (Crepuscula), Dave Tomlinson (Or’eq), Tasia Valenza (Shenzhou Computer (voice)), Chris Violette (Britch Weeton), Romaine Waite (Troy Januzzi), Nicole Dickinson (Klingon), Julie Ma- hendran (Klingon), Adam Winlove-Smith (Sentinel Klingon) Summary: While patrolling Federation space, the U.S.S. Shenzhou encounters an object of unknown origin, putting First Officer Michael Burnham to her greatest test yet. A Klingon is speaking in a large chamber full of other Klingons. He says that the Klingons have lost their way, and forgot- ten the Unforgettable: Kahless, and the traditions of honor and glory he set down for them to follow. He mentions the light- ing of a beacon, and the need to reunite the Houses and save themselves from an impending threat: an enemy that says "We come in peace" (the Federation, as he says this last phrase in English for em- phasis). Captain Philippa Georgiou and Com- mander Michael Burnham are on a desert planet attempting to locate a well that has run dry due to radiation from a meteor mining accident. A large storm is brewing overhead. Burnham predicts that an 89-year drought is imminent, and the (presumably pre-warp) non- humanoid species who inhabit the world — the Crepusculans — are facing extinction if they lose their water supply. Their goal is to repair the well and have the USS Shenzhou pick them up undetected, thereby avoiding a violation of Starfleet General Order 1. After walking past a group of egg sacs and eventually locating their objective, Captain Georgiou discharges a type 3 phaser into the well, shifting the water table and allowing water to reemerge from the well in a large geyser. At this point, two natives are visible watching from atop a plateau, and a third is shown crawling along the ground with octopus-like tendrils, seemingly unseen by the two Humans. The pair realize the gathering storm is preventing a transporter lock at their current location, so they begin to walk across the desert, discussing Burnham’s future career. Soon the Shenzhou is shown breaking through the storm clouds, and transports them up to the ship. A bird’s-eye-view 3 Star Trek: Discovery Episode Guide glimpse of the desert reveals that the captain used their footprints to create a Starfleet insignia visible from overhead, allowing them to be located. "First officer’s log, stardate 1207.3. On Earth, it’s May 11, 2256, a Sunday. The crew of the USS Shenzhou has been called to the edge of Federation space to investigate damage done to one of our interstellar relays. Blast burns around the hole are inconclusive. Were they caused by an asteroid, or was it deliberately destroyed to limit Starfleet communi- cations? And if so, by whom? Despite the risks of our mission, I remain optimistic. It’s hard not to be in the face of such beauty — in this case, a binary star system. Around these two suns, ice, dust, and gasses collide to form planets future generations will call home. A humbling reminder that all life is born from chaos and destruction." The stardate is 1207.3, or May 11, 2256 in Earth terminology. The Shenzhou has responded to a signal from a damaged relay and arrives in order to make repairs. The relay is located in a region of space in close proximity to a binary star system in a state of stellar collision, and the collision has created a large debris field. Science Officer Saru believes that the relay was intentionally damaged. He picks up a signal from an anomaly in the debris field, but the object is somehow creating a scattering field, and deflecting their attempts to scan it. First Officer Burn- ham convinces Captain Georgiou to allow her to approach the object with a thruster pack, since the debris is too dense for a transporter lock or a shuttlepod. The large quantity of radiation in the area limits her space walk to twenty minutes. The debris field also has the potential to dis- rupt communications from the ship. Commander Burnham uses the thruster pack to travel the two thousand kilometers to the anomaly without incident, but communication to the Shenzhou is disrupted. Burnham floats over to the source of the scattering field, and realizes it is not a normal part of the debris field, but an a intricately-designed, sculpture-like object. As Burnham explores the object, she comes across a platform-like area with ten minutes left on her mis- sion clock. The proximity sensor on her environmental suit is abruptly activated, and she finds herself standing across from a Klingon. As she attempts to make contact, the Klingon swings a bat’leth at her. She manages to activate her thrusters at a crucial moment, driving one side of the bat’leth through the Klingon’s suit and body, impaling the Klingon and pushing it away from the platform. While this is happening, the Shenzhou is still unable to establish contact with Burnham. In the Klingons’ chamber, the body of the warrior killed by Burnham lies in a sarcophagus in the center. It is revealed that the anomaly investigated by Shenzhou is the "sacred beacon" placed by these Klingons. The body of the dead Klingon floats out of the chamber and into space. It comes to rest at a mausoleum-like area, which is open to space and already populated with many sarcophagi. Unconscious, Burnham recalls her childhood at the Vulcan Learning Center. There, a com- puter system quizzes her rapidly on various Klingon and Starfleet-related facts. She becomes overwhelmed by video of a particular Klingon attack and pauses the computer program. Her mentor, a Vulcan named Sarek, arrives and lectures her on the importance of logic over emotion. Commander Burnham wakes up in a medical pod covered in wounds. She is told that three hours have elapsed since she was rescued from the object, and she terminates the medical pod’s anti-radiation procedure prematurely and climbs out. She makes her way to the bridge and notifies her crewmembers about the Klingon she encountered, but they are skeptical. She recounts what happened earlier to Captain Georgiou, and Saru suggests that she is confused due to suffering a concussion and tells her to return to sickbay. Georgiou believes her and locks on to what turns out to be a cloaked Klingon vessel. As soon as the weapons lock is initiated, the Klingon ship appears, seemingly from nowhere. The Shenzhou attempts to hail the Klingon vessel, but the Klingons ignore them and discuss a prophecy and reiterate the need to "light the beacon," now referred to as the "Light of Kahless." A light-skinned Klingon volunteers to light the beacon, but he is rebuffed by the assumed leader and told that since he doesn’t belong to a Great House, he is unworthy for such a task.