We established last week that the dark matter anomaly was actually mining boronite from each region of space it visited. Related: 'Star Trek: Discovery' Episode 5 pulls a handbrake turn at warp speed However, this is deemed the last resort, and then Burnham hits upon a genuinely brilliant idea. Nhan reveals that Book's ship has a vulnerability: If they fire a photon torpedo at the impulse manifold, the detonation will cause a chain reaction, destroying the ship. A connection of sorts has been established, so some progress has been made. Then it goes into an auto-defense mode and begins to envelop it in smart matter.īook has to fire at the shuttle in order for it to break free before it breaks up, and then he spore jumps away and out of the debris field. Turns out Tarka has been indulging in some adjustments to Book's ship (which still doesn't have a name) and they catch the away team red-handed - or rather Book's ship does. However, they don't even make it that far. And all it would take in this situation is for them to make one false move and the game is up. There's a reason why police and security forces around the world are trained to disable a potential aggressor as quickly as possible in case they have a concealed explosive device. Decker (Rod Steiger) from "Mars Attacks" is not a person you'd usually listen to, but in this case… (Image credit: Warner Bros.) And for the first time ever, in this particular instance, I honestly think I'd come down on the side of the Aviator-wearing, gum-chewing, five-star, jingoistic, war-junkie General, when he bangs his fists on the table and insists that they should go in by force. Culber (Wilson Cruz) has the unenviable task of trying to talk Tarka and Book down. (A multi-phasic signal discriminator will be used to override external proximity sensors.) Once they're aboard, Dr. Related: 'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 4, Episode 6 keeps the tempo upĪ plan is hatched to board Book's ship with a cloaked shuttlecraft. ![]() The pre-credit sequence is all buildup to embarking on this problematic mission, with the exception of a tender moment between Captain Saru (Doug Jones) and President T'Rina of Ni'var (Tara Rosling), and hopefully this will develop further - and with care - rather than simply being a modular piece of sub-plot that's been written, recorded and edited into sections that can be inserted at any point in the main story. So it makes sense that after the incident on the USS Tikhov, Nhan did indeed return home and ultimately ended up in Federation Security, not to be confused with Starfleet Intelligence of which Section 31 is just one part. We learn that duty plays a very important part of Barzan culture, and apparently this is why so many of them end up in the security divisions of governments, corporations and even Starfleet. Let's hope it's not just limited to one episode. In this episode we see the welcome return of Cmdr. And that was the last we saw of her, until now. She elects to stay on the Tikhov, which she assumes is heading to her homeworld of Barzan. We learn more of Nhan's backstory as this story unfolds, so it's obvious that she either stays behind or dies. ![]() ![]() Upon arriving at the Tikhov's location, it's discovered that a Barzan family were the last custodians of the ship, so Nhan joins Burnham and Culber for the away team. Related: 'Star Trek: Discovery' Episode 7 sets up a mid-season cliffhanger However, a non-contaminated sample must be found and by an incalculable coincidence, a seed ship from the 23rd century called the USS Tikhov is still floating about in space somewhere. An alien race called the Kili was suffering from a mass extinction from eating contaminated food from a planet called Urna. You may recall that in the third season episode, "Die Trying" (Season 3, Episode 5) a handy humanitarian crisis presented itself just as Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery were trying to make new friends at Federation HQ. It's obvious that the Discovery must give chase, but in order to ensure that Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) can make the critical decision if it should come to that, Admiral Vance (Oded Fehr) has assigned a "neutral representative" to ensure orders are followed, and that representative turns out to be Cmdr. Given what we've seen of 32nd century transporter technology, surely he could've just beamed it in.? (Image credit: Paramount+)
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