STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
SEASON 1, EPISODE 3

Context is for Kings

Series: Star Trek: Discovery - (2017 - 2024)
Season: 1
Episode #: 3
Original Airdate: October 1st, 2017

Writer(s): Bryan Fuller, Gretchen J. Berg, and Aaron Harberts
Director(s): Akiva Goldsman

Guest Stars
Rekha Sharma as Commander Ellen Landry
Emily Coutts as Keyla Detmer
Julianna Grossman as Discovery Computer
Grace Lynn Kung as Psyco
Devon MacDonald as Engineering Officer
Sara Mitich as Airiam
Oyin Oladejo as Joann Owosekun
Conrad Pla as Stone
Ronnie Rowe Jr. as Shuttle Pilot
Christopher Russell as Milton Richter
Saad Siddiqui as Straal
Elias Toufexis as Cold
Tasia Valenza as Shenzhou Computer
John MacDonald as Kowski (uncredited)

Stardate: Six Months After Stardate: 1207.3

Synopsis

Six months into her sentence, Burnham is on an unexpected prison transfer when an emergency forces her shuttle to be rescued by the USS Discovery. Spending several days on the ship, Burnham is ordered by its captain, the mysterious Gabriel Lorca, to assist with a scientific assignment. Burnham overhears Lieutenant Paul Stamets, an astromycologist who is leading the assignment, discuss an upcoming experiment with a colleague serving on another starship; Lorca is soon informed of an incident on the Discovery's sister ship, the USS Glenn, that has killed the entire crew.

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Stamets leads a boarding party to investigate and finds the dead crew hideously twisted and malformed, as well as a group of Klingons that has been killed by an unknown creature. Lorca later asks Burnham to work for him, despite her sentence, explaining that he organized the circumstances that led her to him so she could help develop a new way to fly that could win the war she started. He also secretly has the creature transported aboard the Discovery.

  

Posters courtesy of Laz Marquez and J.J. Lendl

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