With Spock seen as the key to unlocking the mystery of the Red Angel, Burnham heads to Vulcan to meet with her parents in hopes of unlocking the clues to her brother’s location. Meanwhile, the Discovery crew remain in orbit around Kaminar where they begin to analyze tachyon radiation emanating from a spatial anomaly that was left behind by the red burst that brought the crew to Saru’s home world. As Discovery approaches the anomaly, its systems and displays begin to go haywire due to the relative proximity of the temporal distortions emitting from the anomaly.
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Realizing the importance of gathering additional details, but not wanting to risk the Discovery, Captain Pike plans to fly a shuttle towards the anomaly in order to launch a probe directly into it. Despite not fully trusting him yet, Pike begrudgingly agrees to allow Tyler to accompany him in the shuttle. Unfortunately the shuttle inevitably gets trapped inside the anomaly. Saru takes command of Discovery and begins to formulate a rescue plan; a plan that ultimately lies with Lt. Commander Stamets unique tardigrade-temporal abilities.
On Vulcan, Burnham returns to the Sarek household where she recalls her childhood and upbringing alongside her brother Spock. While Sarek is engaged deeply in the tokmar , the Vulcan meditation that might allow him to locate Spock, Burnham suspects that Amanda may be hiding something—or someone. While Spock’s mom has no intention of letting anyone get their hands on her boy to try him for murder, she ultimately relents to Michael’s assurances that she is here to help Spock. Amanda warns her, however, that Spock is not how she may remember him.
Situated in a Vulcan shrine located deep within a cave, Spock is seen carving symbols and patterned numbers into the cavern wall while muttering the first doctrines of logic in an attempt to ground himself. After seeing his brother in this state, Burnham pleads with Amanda to get Spock the professional help he so desperately needs. Suddenly when Sarek shows up at the shrine quite unexpectedly, tension fills the air as Amanda and her husband debate Spock’s upbringing and the disadvantages he had, given that he was suffering as a child from a learning disability called “L’tak Terai”, a form of dyslexia. Burnham breaks the tension between her two foster parents by revealing Spock’s childhood connection to the Red Angel to Sarek. It is decided that Spock must be brought to Section 31, as they are the ones most capable and motivated to help to distraught and confused Vulcan.
Back on shuttle, Pike and Tyler continue to argue over a strategy on how to escape the time anomaly. Despite Tyler’s temerity at questioning Pike’s motivation for taking on such a risky mission, he finally accepts Pike’s authority and follows his order. They ignite the shuttle’s plasma fuel in hopes of attracting attention. Their differences are quickly set aside when a new threat commands their attention. The probe they launched earlier into the anomaly returns as a highly modified, tentacle wielding robot that appears to have come from 500 years in the future.
On the Discovery, Stamets uses his tardigrade power to map out the shuttle’s time-bending position as the hours until the shuttle is lost forever tick away. After Lieutenant Rhys locates the shuttle via the plasma-fuel burn trail, Stamets puts his faith in Tilly’s power of math and asks her to beam him over to the shuttle in the middle of the time distortion. Unfortunately the situation on the shuttle has moved from bad to worse as the probe has worked its way inside and, after attacking Tyler, is attempting to breach the computer to obtain data. After Stamets navigates the shuttle clear of the anomaly, the crew beam back after setting the shuttle to auto-destruct.
Before the shuttle is destroyed however, the data breach from the probe reaches Discovery’s system and instead of stopping it, Lt. Cmdr. Airiam appears to have been surreptitiously infected by it.
Burnham and Spock arrive on Captain Leland’s Section 31 ship, where they are led into a chamber where Spock is strapped into an apparatus that is purported to scan and repair his mind. While Leland acts sympathetic towards Burnham and assures her that he has Spock’s best interests in mind, Georgiou pulls Burnham aside, She reveals that the plan is to extract Spock’s memory will destroy his mind in the process. The former Terran Emperor has a deceptive plan to get Burnham and Spock off the ship, one that relies on the two entering into an all-too-real battle.
After Burnham and Spock escape in their shuttle, Leland confronts Georgiou, claiming he doesn’t fully accept that she was overpowered by Burnham. Pushing back on his accusations, it is at this point that Georgiou reveals that Leland was responsible for the death of Burnham’s parents.
Leland’s ship joins a squadron of other Section 31 ships as they are now hunting for Burnham and Spock’s shuttle. Hiding within an asteroid field, the shuttle goes undetected by the ships … for now. Inside the shuttle, Spock continues to mumble patterned numbers, which are decoded by Burnham to actually be spoken backwards by her troubled brother.
After instructing the shuttle’s computer to do a search on the reversed pattern of numbers, it’s revealed that the numbers are actually coordinates for the location of the planet Talos IV. Without pause, Burnham instructs the computer to set course for the forbidden planet at maximum warp.
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