We're approaching the middle of the season. So far it looks like they've been building up to what the season will be in the second half.
Basic Premise: The Federation discovered seven unidentified and simultaneous red bursts spread across 30,000 light years that could only be caused either by black holes or temporal anomalies. All the bursts disappeared except for one. Scanning it caused the Enterprise to suffer systems-wide failure, necessitating Pike to transfer to Discovery to continue the investigation and use its spore drive.
"Brother"
Burnham/Spock Storyline:
In a nutshell: Starfleet wants to know what's going on with these Signals. The Red Angels might be time-travelers. Section 31 thinks they could be dangerous. Pike insists they might not be, since they saved the Terralysians from WWIII Earth and the Kelpians from genocide. And Spock, who's at large, has communicated with the Red Angels in the past and had a mental breakdown due to that contact.
Burnham goes on leave to find Spock, rescue Spock, and figures out to bring him to the planet Talos IV.
Meanwhile, when a Discovery shuttle sends a probe into an anomaly created by the Signal near Kaminar, said probe returns from 500 years in the future and tries to attack them, while accessing Discovery's systems -- and Ariam -- in the process, before it's destroyed. The attack from the Probe reinforces the suggestion that the Red Angel's intent might be hostile, if it's also from the future, but they can't be sure if the Red Angel wants to start something or stop something.
Basic Premise: The Federation discovered seven unidentified and simultaneous red bursts spread across 30,000 light years that could only be caused either by black holes or temporal anomalies. All the bursts disappeared except for one. Scanning it caused the Enterprise to suffer systems-wide failure, necessitating Pike to transfer to Discovery to continue the investigation and use its spore drive.
"Brother"
- Pike takes command of the Discovery, and they set course for the remaining signal.
- Discovery encounters the wreckage of the Haiwatha, caught in a gravity well. Reno and the survivors of the Haiwatha are rescued.
- During the rescue, Burnham sees a Red Angel.
- Of other note: Tilly acts weird(er), Saru is coming into his own as an XO, and we see Spock as a child via flashbacks, who would illustrate dragons.
- A new signal appears 30,000 light years away, on Terralysium, known as New Earth to the inhabitants: a population from Earth who were somehow relocated during WWIII (possibly by the Red Angels), meaning they're Pre-Warp.
- Different faiths are represented on New Eden. Pike talks about how his father was religious and a scientist, and that he went to Church while growing up.
- Pike tells Burnham that Spock had himself checked into a Psychiatric Ward on Starbase 5.
- Klingon loose ends from S1 are tied up, and Tyler is freed up for use by the writers in other stories by getting him off Qo'noS and away from the Empire.
- Section 31 is established on DSC terms and so is Georgiou's place in it.
- On Discovery, Tilly's strange behavior comes to a head and her hallucinations of May become impossible to ignore. It's discovered that the spore that made contact with Tilly last season evolved into a parasite.
- Amanda visits Burnham on Discovery. Earlier, Amanda had tried to visit Spock on Starbase 5 but they wouldn't let her see him.
- Pike and Burnham find out that Spock escaped from Starbase 5 and supposedly killed three people.
- While going through Spock's medical files that Amanda stole from Starbase 5, they see a drawing of what looks like a Red Angel. Amanda confirms that Spock used to draw them when he was a kid.
- Amanda goes searching for Spock.
- Saru loses his threat ganglia and reaches a developmental stage no other Kelpian has been known to reach in over 2,000 years.
- The mutated spore is extracted from Tilly and "May" uses a mycellial transporter to encase Tilly and send her into the Mycellial Network.
- A living Sphere transfers all the information its ever accumulated over the course of its life to Discovery before it dies. The information the sphere provided is the informational equivalent of The Dead Sea of Scrolls and will take the Federation centuries to mine through.
- "May" tells Tilly that they have to get something outside of the Mycellial Network that's disrupting life there and it turns out to be Culber, who Discovery manages to rescue, while doing a partial spore jump.
- Admiral Cornwell tells Pike and Section 31's Leland that one of the seven signals the Federation scanned left behind tachyon radiation, which means time travel might be involved. She also wants Pike and Leland to work together.
- Tyler is assigned to Discovery as a liaison for Section 31.
- Spikes are growing in where Saru's threat ganglia used to be. (Speculation on my part: as if his physiology is shifting from flight to fight).
- Culber is still somewhat disoriented after having returned from the Mycellial Network.
- Tyler tells Pike and Burnham that Section 31 believes all seven signals might have been generated by the Red Angel who may be capable of time travel and could be a threat. Pike counters that the Red Angels saved the people of New Eden from war-torn Earth.
- Burnham remembers when Spock said the Red Angels told him where Burnham was when she tried to run away once. Section 31 wants to find Spock, because of his possible connection to the Red Angels.
- Saru reports another signal has appeared, and this time it's at Kaminar. Saru's home world.
- The Ba'ul, who harvest over the Kelpians, want Pike to hand Saru over to them. Pike refuses.
- The Ba'ul want to destroy Saru's former village.
- Saru decides to use the Ba'ul's technology against them, and creates a transmission (a signal that it's time for death) to send to all the Kelpians, making them all lose their threat ganglia.
- Upon finding out the Kelpians have lost their threat ganglia and are about to evolve like Saru, the Ba'ul want to destroy all the Kelpians. Pike threatens that if the Ba'ul commit genocide, they'll make an enemy out of the Federation.
- An electromagnetic pulse disables all of the Ba'ul's weaponry. This is far beyond the Federation's technology and was the work of the Red Angels.
- Pike shows Tyler a report that Saru was able to get a good look of a Red Angel and it looked humanoid.
Burnham/Spock Storyline:
- Burnham's log recaps the Red Angel that Saru saw was humanoid with an exosuit that has futuristic technology.
- Burnham tells Pike that Spock drew the seven signals two months before they appeared. And according to cognitive tests run on Spock two months ago, he had a mental breakdown.
- Pike wonders if the information the Red Angel revealed to Spock broke him or if the Red Angel approached Spock because he was broken. Burnham doesn't like either possibility. Then Pike wonders if a future the Red Angel revealed to Spock was too much for him to process.
- Burnham replies with, "We know that he ran from the Psychiatrist Unit on Starbase 5 and we know the shuttle that he stole disappeared somewhere in the Mutara Sector." A shuttle that Section 31 had found.
- Starfleet and Section 31 are looking for Spock. Sarek, who's part of the Federation Task Force investigating the signals, also hasn't heard anything about Spock. But Burnham tells Pike that Amanda hasn't always seen eye-to-eye when it comes to Spock and that Amanda might know something Sarek doesn't, which is why she wants to go to Vulcan to find out.
- Once on Vulcan, Amanda isn't forthcoming about where Spock is until Burnham press her. Amanda had hidden Spock in a Sacred Crypt which contains Katra Stones so Spock's presence can't be sensed.
- Sarek finds out where Spock was hidden and tells Burnham that she has to bring Spock to Section 31 so they can help him and find out what he knows. If Spock didn't commit the murders on Starbase 5 (referenced in "Point of Light"), then he won't be arrested, Sarek assures Burnham. Sarek also tells Burnham that not doing so will jeopardize her Starfleet Career once again.
- Burnham brings Spock to Leland’s ship. Leland tries to make Burnham feel at ease, but Georgiou tells Burnham it’s all a deception on Leland’s part. Leland hooked Spock up to memory extractor to find out what he knows, that will also destroy his mind. Georgiou wants Burnham to rescue Spock as a power play to make Leland look bad.
- Georgiou and Burnham stage a fight, Burnham grabs her phaser, rescues Spock, and then escapes from the Section 31 ship with them.
- Leland blames Georgiou for letting Burnham escape, even though Georgiou claims that she was just overpowered, and then blackmails Leland by letting him know she knows he’s responsible for Burnham’s parent’s deaths.
- Burnham hides her shuttle in an asteroid field until the Section 31 ships looking for her are out of range, then she figures out the numbers that Spock keeps repeating to himself are the coordinates to somewhere. Those coordinates turn out to be the location of Talos IV.
- Discovery stays around Kaminar. The signal the Red Angel left behind has a residual tachyon particles. Pike hopes Discovery can find out when the Red Angel comes from.
- A rift opens up due to the anomaly where the signal around Kaminar was. Discovery can only get so close to the event horizon, so Pike and Tyler take a shuttle to investigate it. Radiation from the rift will become lethal within five hours.
- Time doesn’t move in a linear fashion in the anomaly. Tilly says “It jumbles it all up like a blender.” So Pike’s shuttle can be anywhere, anywhen while inside the anomaly, so it would be impossible for Discovery to find the shuttle.
- Stamets, with the Tartigrade DNA he has, can use the Mycelial Network to track Pike’s trajectory; but once Pike’s shuttle moves beyond the event horizon of the anomaly, time would exist all at once and being able to find Pike would be like “catching a grain of sand in a hurricane using a pair of tweezers.”
- As Pike’s shuttle gets closer to the horizon, they launch a probe into it, only to find out the probe comes back, retrofitted, after what looked like 500 years, and attacks the shuttle. The probe is also accessing the shuttle’s data core.
- Stamets finds the shuttle’s time/space coordinates in the anomaly and has Tilly transport him there. Then Pike sets the shuttle to auto-destruct and Discovery beam him, Stamets, and Tyler out of there.
- Meanwhile, Ariam detects a data breach from the probe on Discovery that somehow accesses her right before it and the shuttle are destroyed.
- Once back on Discovery, Pike asks Saru for an analysis of what the probe was trying to access. If the probe is from the future and the Red Angel is from the future, then they both might have had the same hostile intent.
In a nutshell: Starfleet wants to know what's going on with these Signals. The Red Angels might be time-travelers. Section 31 thinks they could be dangerous. Pike insists they might not be, since they saved the Terralysians from WWIII Earth and the Kelpians from genocide. And Spock, who's at large, has communicated with the Red Angels in the past and had a mental breakdown due to that contact.
Burnham goes on leave to find Spock, rescue Spock, and figures out to bring him to the planet Talos IV.
Meanwhile, when a Discovery shuttle sends a probe into an anomaly created by the Signal near Kaminar, said probe returns from 500 years in the future and tries to attack them, while accessing Discovery's systems -- and Ariam -- in the process, before it's destroyed. The attack from the Probe reinforces the suggestion that the Red Angel's intent might be hostile, if it's also from the future, but they can't be sure if the Red Angel wants to start something or stop something.
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