Choose Your Pain Line-by-Line

[May 20]

SARU: Do you have an issue with that plan?

 

[CaptVader]

BURNHAM: I just don't know how feasible it's going to be.

 

[Athena28]

[Ready room]

^BURNHAM: I'm concerned that we are negatively impacting the Tardigrade with each jump we make.

SARU: I was told it's virtually indestructible.

 

[CaptVader]

BURNHAM: I disagree with that assessment.

 

[May 20]

SARU: Do you have proof that we are harming it?

 

[CaptVader]

BURNHAM: Not as of yet.

 

[May 20]

SARU: I am not finding this information to be helpful in any way. We are about to embark on a rescue mission to save the life our Captain. Are you suggesting we forgo that?

 

[CaptVader]

BURNHAM: No, of course not. I'm just worried. I don't know how much more the Tardigrade can sustain. The more you hurt someone, the less helpful they become.

 

[Orac]

Saru: Focus on the task at hand. There will be no more discussion of the Tardigrade until the Captain's back safe. Understood?

 

[May 20]

BURNHAM: Yes, sir.

 

[CaptVader]

SARU: You may go.

(Burnham leaves.)

SARU: Computer, list Starfleet's most decorated captains, living and deceased.

 

[May 20]

COMPUTER: Working.

(April, Robert. Archer, Jonathan. Decker, Matthew. Georgiou, Philippa. Pike, Christopher.)

 

[Orac]

Saru: Based on their service records, is it possible to identify the qualities most essential to their success?

 

[CaptVader]

COMPUTER: Characteristics most often cited include bravery, self-sacrifice, intelligence, tactical brilliance, compassion.

 

[Athena28]

SARU: Computer, initiate new protocol. Please record all data related to my performance as Acting Captain of Discovery, and cross-reference with success parameters. Note where deviations occur.

 

[May 20]

COMPUTER: State the purpose of the new protocol.

 

[Orac]

Saru: There is an element aboard this ship that causes me to second-guess myself. That cannot continue. I must remain clearheaded in pursuit of today's mission.

 

[CaptVader]

COMPUTER: Alternative solution. Eliminate destructive element.

 

[May 20]

SARU: Not an option.

 

[CaptVader]

[Prison cell]

(Someone is fiddling with Lorca's uniform. He grabs him by the throat.)

LORCA: Who are you?