"The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry" (S1:E4) Star Trek: Discovery Episode Guide

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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
SEASON 1, EPISODE 4

The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry

Series: Star Trek: Discovery - (2017 - 2024)
Season: 1
Episode #: 4
Original Airdate: October 8th, 2017

Writer(s): Jesse Alexander and Aron Eli Coleite
Director(s): Olatunde Osunsanmi

Guest Stars
Michelle Yeoh as Captain Philippa Georgiou
Jayne Brook as Vice Admiral Katrina Cornwell
Mary Chieffo as L’Rell
Wilson Cruz as Dr. Hugh Culber
Kenneth Mitchell as Kol
Rekha Sharma as Commander Ellen Landry
Dennis Andres as Engineer Rance
Emily Coutts as Keyla Detmer
Jordana Blake as Betarian Girl
Julianne Grossman as Discovery Computer
Shazad Latif (credited as Javid Iqbal) as Voq
Sara Mitich as Airiam
Oyin Oladejo as Joann Owosekun
Christopher Russell as Milton Richter
Tasia Valenza as Shenzhou Computer
Emma Shannon as ADR voice (uncredited)

Stardate: Unknown

Synopsis

Lorca assigns Burnham to study the creature from the Glenn to find a way to use its biology as a weapon. Starfleet orders Discovery to relieve the dilithium mining colony of Corvan II which has come under Klingon attack. Stamets is reluctant to make such a long jump using the spores, and when the drive is activated the ship nearly collides with a star. Commander Landry is sent to keep the research on track, and attempts to sedate the creature to cut off its claw, but it escapes and kills her. Burnham approaches the creature with a spore cannister and it remains calm. Noticing the creature's reaction to the jump and its symbiotic relationship to the spores, Stamets and Burnham transport the creature to Engineering, where it connects to the drive and calculates the navigation coordinates, allowing the ship to jump to Corvan and save the colony.

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On T'Kuvma's flagship, Voq and L'Rell scavenge the dilithium processor from the Shenzhou. On their return, Klingon commander Kol has convinced Voq's crew to mutiny and exiles him to the Shenzhou to die. L'Rell transports aboard and tells him they can win the war themselves.