STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
SEASON 2, EPISODE 14
SEASON 2, EPISODE 14
Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II
Series: Star Trek: Discovery - (2017 - 2024)Season: 2
Episode #: 14
Original Airdate: April 18th, 2019
Writer(s): Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet, and Michelle Paradise
Director(s): Olatunde Osunsanmi
Guest Stars
Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou
Jayne Brook as Vice Admiral Katrina Cornwell
Mary Chieffo as L'Rell
Yadira Guevara-Prip as Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po
Mia Kirshner as Amanda Grayson
Tig Notaro as Jett Reno
Ethan Peck as Spock
Rebecca Romijn as "Number One"
Alan van Sprang as Leland
Rachael Ancheril as Nhan
Emily Coutts as Lt. Keyla Detmer
Patrick Kwok-Choon as Lt. Gen Rhys
Oyin Oladejo as Lt. Joann Owosekun
Ronnie Rowe Jr. as Lt. R.A. Bryce
Sara Mitich as Lt. Nilsson
Raven Dauda as Dr. Tracy Pollard
Julianne Grossman as Discovery Computer
Zarrin Darnell-Martin as Nurse
Glenn Hetrick as K'Vort
Thom Marriott as Council Member
Hannah Spear as Siranna
Samora Smallwood as Amin
Hanneke Talbot as Lt. Mann
Kyana Teresa as Doctor
Chai Valladares as Lt. Nicola
Nicole Dickinson as Yeoman Colt
Stardate: 1051.8 - 1201.7
Synopsis
The Discovery and Enterprise ready their fleet of armed shuttles and small craft for battle with Leland/Control and his Section 31 fleet. Captain Pike, commanding the fleet from the Enterprise, reminds all that they had one job: To get Burnham and the Discovery through the wormhole and into the future. Enterprise would maintain fire to distract the Section 31 fleet as a squadron of shuttles would cover Burnham, while other squadrons would hold the front line of defense. Saru, commanding the Discovery, informs Pike that the fabrication of the Daedalus suit is still ongoing while, in Discovery's engine room, the crew scrambles to synthesize and assemble the individual components of the suit. Both crews continue preparations and calculations for the simultaneous battle and operation, insuring their plan will avoid having any Section 31 ships follow Burnham and Discovery into the future.
A scan of the Section 31 fleet reveals a single life sign: Leland. The remaining ships appear to be controlled by drones. As subspace relays remain down, leaving the Enterprise and Discovery crew unable to contact Starfleet, Saru realizes that it was just the two ships and their fleet of small craft that would do battle this day. Suddenly there is an incoming transmission from Leland. Saru orders the channel opened and demands that, under authority granted him by the Articles of the Federation and the Starfleet Charter, Leland is to surrender his ships without terms. Leland relays his ultimatum: Transmit the Sphere data to him, or be destroyed. Georgiou points out that by her count, they had approximately two hundred ships to Leland's thirty. "Count again," is his chilling reply, as the Section 31 ships launch thousands of drones. The battle has begun.![]()
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Almost instantly the Enterprise and the Discovery are surrounded by a barrage of weapons fire that causes hull breaches on both ships. Pike orders all squadrons to attack the drones, as Saru orders to set all phasers to automatic targeting and maximum power. Just then, Reno emerges with the fully-charged time crystal and quickly heads to engineering with Tilly to deliver the crystal to Burnham. Suddenly, a group of drones cease their attack and take position off the Discovery's port bow. Realizing they intended to make a run on the Discovery and weaken her shields, Pike orders power diverted to the starboard shields, and to place the Enterprise between the drones and the Discovery.
The Enterprise takes a great deal of the incoming fire, but so too does the Discovery. Aboard Discovery, Burnham, Spock, Stamets, Nhan, Nilsson, Tilly and Reno rush the Daedalus suit to the shuttlebay. A hull breach damages the turbolift shafts and causes debris to smash through into the corridor, knocking them all off their feet and seriously injuring Stamets. Reno hands Burnham the crystal and remains behind to repair the damage, while Burnham, Spock and Nhan continue to the shuttlebay.
In the shuttlebay, the suit is ready. Spock secures the crystal within it as Burnham then steps forward and becomes encased in the suit. Spock intends to pilot a shuttle to guide her in, then return to the Discovery as soon as the wormhole was open. Spock raises his right hand in the Vulcan salute, while Burnham raises her left, before they touch palms. Burnham activates the helmet of her suit and moves towards the shuttlebay forcefield. Spock informs the Discovery bridge that they were preparing to launch, and asks the shuttlebay forcefield and the aft shields to be lowered. As Spock's shuttle launches, Burnham takes off running before the suit propels her into the maelstrom of battle. The shuttles and attack flyers surround her at all angles, ensuring that she is not hit by enemy fire. Pike orders all ships to form a protective barrier, with the Enterprise and the Discovery taking the lead, to ensure Burnham reaches her target.
As Spock and Burnham continue on, Owosekun reports that something beamed aboard while the shields were down; just then, Leland enters the bridge, phaser rifle in hand, and begins firing. The bridge crew ducks for cover, while Georgiou draws her own phaser and fires at Leland. Several crew are blasted down, and Owosekun takes a hit at her station, before Leland locks himself in the science lab, going for the Sphere data. Georgiou tries to override the security codes, while Nhan tries to unlock the door manually. Spock and Burnham reach safe distance, landing on a large piece of debris nearby. However, the suit's navigation system appears to be stuck in the present, and Burnham frustratedly tries to figure out why. Just then, Burnham sees the Enterprise's saucer section getting breached by an undetonated photon torpedo; just as she saw when she touched the crystal - this was how it all began.
Pike orders blast shields activated in the sections near the torpedo, however Amin warns that only one of the blast doors in that section will activate; the other is jammed. Cornwell and Number One both leave to try and disarm the torpedo. Meanwhile the Discovery continues to get pummeled by Control’s drones as her shields begin to fail. Without shields, Discovery would not survive a trip in the wormhole. Burnham is having no luck with the temporal navigation, either, as she frantically tries to figure out how to send them forward.
Nhan and Georgiou are close to getting the door open, but the ship is being torn apart around them; life support is down on multiple decks, and the shields are about to fail completely. Owosekun suddenly detects a massive energy signature - as a Klingon cleave ship suddenly decloaks, tearing several Section 31 vessels apart. Rhys detects non-Klingon power signatures as well, and Saru is shocked to recognize Ba'ul fighters. A transmission comes in, and adding to Saru's shock, it's from his sister Siranna, piloting one of the fighters. Siranna explains that one of their crew called on them to join the fight. As if to answer Saru's question who, the Enterprise is hailed by the Klingons, and Pike is relieved to see Chancellor L'Rell with Tyler at her side. L'Rell orders her forces to destroy the enemy armada, declaring "today is a good day to die".
As he listens to Saru explaining about the Klingons and Kelpiens joining the fight, Spock realizes that this was what the signal on Kaminar was intended for: Not simply to liberate the Kelpiens from the Ba'ul, but to prepare them for the battle to come. The signals brought them to what they would need for the battle in the present: to the asteroid, for Reno; to Boreth, to obtain the time crystal; to Xahea, for Po, the one person who could power it; and to Terralysium, for safe harbor once they made it through the wormhole. Burnham and Spock then realize that in order for them to go forward, Burnham first had to go back - to send the five earlier signals, which she had not done yet. Burnham would start at the asteroid where they found Reno, and go from there. Burnham begins setting the coordinates accordingly.
Aboard the Discovery, Leland/Control is unable to access the Sphere data, just as Georgiou and Nhan force open the doors and fire on him. Georgiou holds up a quantum signal amplifier, which Leland had given to her to transmit the Sphere data - which was why he wouldn't be able to find it anywhere in the Discovery's databanks. The ship shudders from weapons fire, distracting Leland/Control long enough for Georgiou and Nhan to break off running. Meanwhile, on the Enterprise, Cornwell and Number One arrive at the sight of the torpedo, reporting to Pike that the blast door is jammed. Cornwell adds the situation is bad, explaining that the torpedo's secondary detonation has been triggered; in fifteen minutes, the torpedo would go off and destroy half the ship.
In the Discovery's sickbay, Stamets has become delirious from the pain. Dr. Culber approaches and examines him; due to the severity of his injuries, Culber would have to induce a coma, but he promises Stamets he would be fine. He admits he thought he could make his home on the Enterprise, but realized that Stamets was his home, and so he came back, and that everything always came back around Stamets; he was just sorry it took him so long to see it. As Stamets fades into unconsciousness, Culber promises that wherever they went from there, they would go together.
Burnham has calculated all five of the jumps; Spock reminds her the future is still unwritten, and that the outcome could still change - just as a weapon impact smashes through the piece of debris, knocking Burnham aside and damaging the shuttle. Spock urges Burnham to go immediately, and Burnham activates the first jump. The wings of her suit extend, and the battle around her comes to a stop, frozen in time. The wormhole opens in front of her and pulls Burnham into it. The Red Angel has taken flight.
Appearing alone in a black void at first, Burnham is propelled through space and time, her terror at the journey becoming awe as she begins to approach the first signal: The USS Hiawatha. Burnham appears before her past, injured self in the wreckage of the Hiawatha, just as she had seen. She is then yanked back to the second signal on Terralysium - the red burst detected in orbit, and the Discovery arriving to save the planet from nuclear winter. From there, it was on to the third signal.
Back aboard the Discovery, Leland/Control demands access to the Sphere data and fights both Georgiou and Nhan as the ship is being torn apart around them. Elsewhere on the ship, the shields have failed which prompts Tilly to make the necessary repairs. Meanwhile, artificial gravity begins to fail in the area where Georgiou and Nhan fight with Leland/Control. Georgiou is able to momentarily distract him with a phaser blast to the face which distorts his features, allowing her to flee while he recovered. Meanwhile, Burnham arrives on Kaminar during the confrontation with the Ba'ul, flying down to the surface, where she is seen by Saru in the Ba'ul stronghold.
On the Enterprise, Cornwell and Number One continue to work on the torpedo, however their options were limited. The admiral was unable to disable the warhead while Number One failed to repair the blast door. Seeking an update, Number One reports to Pike that they had less than five minutes before the warhead would explode. Pike orders Number One back to the bridge, as he's turning the conn over to her, and would come down to join Cornwell. Aboard the Klingon ship, as the battle rages, L'Rell takes a glancing injury to her head. Tyler orders the weapons officer to return fire and destroy those who would harm their Chancellor.
Burnham arrives at the fourth and fifth signals, on Boreth and Xahea, and then returns to the present. She recalled that her mother's anchor point was on Terralysium, 950 years in the future from where she left on Doctari Alpha twenty years earlier. She hails Discovery and tells them to set coordinates for Terralysium, 930 years in the future. Saru warns that the quantum fluctuations within the wormhole made it difficult to track her with standard sensors, and asks how she planned to guide them through. Burnham replies that she would send a signal - a sixth signal, like the North Star, which would let them follow her to the other side. The fight between Georgiou and Leland/Control has now reached the engine room, where Georgiou locks him inside the reaction cube for the spore drive.
Pike and Cornwell continue to work feverishly on the torpedo, but nothing they have tried is working; the torpedo will detonate in ninety seconds. Cornwell volunteers to pull the emergency lever for the blast door, sacrificing herself to seal off the ship and contain the damage once the torpedo detonated. Pike refuses, but Cornwell points out they had no time - if they didn't contain the damage, the torpedo would go off and likely kill everyone on the ship. Reluctantly, Pike gives in, and returns to the turbolift. Cornwell tells him that whatever his path may be, he could handle it. She then triggers the blast door, sealing herself inside with the torpedo. Pike watches through the window of the blast door as Cornwell is vaporized by the torpedo detonation, which breaches the saucer. The Discovery sees the detonation, and Saru worriedly calls to the Enterprise. Pike grimly reports they were alright, but that they had lost the admiral.
Saru calls to Burnham, telling her they had run out of time. Burnham is prepared, and tells Spock to return to the Discovery. Spock, however, cannot leave; the shuttle's engines were disabled by the weapon impact, and the Discovery was too damaged to risk lowering her shields to bring him aboard. Burnham is shaken; she had just gotten Spock back in her life, and didn't want to lose him again. Spock admits he felt the same, but that she had never lost him: She had taught him that he could walk in the worlds of both his father and his mother. After some sage advice to her little brother, Burnham assures him that she will send the last signal to confirm their safe arrival to the future.
As Leland/Control continues to try breaking out of the reaction cube, Georgiou magnetizes it, just as Burnham had done to Gant on the abandoned Section 31 ship. Pike returns to the bridge of the Enterprise, as Spock reports that his shuttle is disabled, indicating he could not return to the Discovery. Pike orders him to hold position, as Saru reports that Discovery's shields were up to 40% - more than enough to see them through the wormhole. Spock is beamed back to the Enterprise, and Burnham activates the suit for the jump.
As the battle continues to rage, the Red Angel takes flight once again, and Saru orders Detmer to follow her signal. Pike orders all ships to clear a path, and bids farewell to his friend Saru, to his family aboard the Discovery. In sickbay, Culber tells the unconscious Stamets that they were on their way; in engineering, Leland/Control tells Georgiou that it did not end there. Georgiou smugly corrects him, and also tells him that the magnetization would be painful... and that she would like to hear him start screaming. As the nanotechnology in Leland's body is pulled to the floor, Control obliges her. With Leland/Control disabled, the Section 31 fleet is dead in the water, and Pike orders his fleet to open fire. Georgiou reports to the bridge that Leland is dead, and Control is neutralized.
All around, those who were brought together for the battle watch the Red Angel guide the Discovery into the wormhole - Po, from her shuttle; Siranna, from her Ba'ul fighter; L'Rell and Tyler, from the Klingon ship; Pike and Spock, from the Enterprise. The Discovery crew begins to feel the wormhole effects as they follow Burnham in. As the Discovery enters, the wormhole closes. The Enterprise - a portion of her saucer destroyed - flies past, joining the rest of the fleet.
At Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco, Pike, Number One, Spock and Tyler are debriefed by Starfleet Command, where they report that the Discovery was destroyed during the battle. The Starfleet interviewers tell them that just before the Discovery disappeared, they detected high energy gamma radiation and gravitational waves consistent with a quantum singularity. All four of them have no answer for that, all saying they saw the Discovery explode. When asked about Burnham, Pike replies that she went "above and beyond" before her death, and blames Section 31 for the whole catastrophe. Starfleet Command agrees, and decides to make Tyler the new head of Section 31. Spock warns that the destruction of the Discovery does not entirely eliminate the problem, and suggests that to ensure nothing of this type can happen again, all participants in the event will be barred from ever speaking of the Discovery, her crew, or the spore drive again, under penalty of treason.
Some four months later, Spock opens up a personal log addressed to his sister. He indicates that it has been difficult, but that they have all managed not to reveal the truth of Discovery's fate to Starfleet. He speaks about how his mother and father were diplomatically immune from interrogation, and that they fully understood their silence as a means of keeping Burnham and the rest of the Discovery crew safe. Spock admits to searching the stars every night for the seventh and final signal; the signal confirming Burnham and Discovery’s safe passage to the future.
In Earth orbit, the Enterprise is in drydock, having been repaired from the battle. Spock - now clean-shaven and back in uniform - arrives on the bridge, remarking that Number One had detected an anomaly. Pike confirms they have located the seventh and final signal in the Beta Quadrant, 51,000 light years away. Spock goes to run the analytics, while Pike remarks a new moon has been found at Edren II. Pike suggests they take the Enterprise out for a spin. Number One reports they were ready for warp, and Pike gives the order. The Enterprise sets out to continue its mission, as a red burst of light flashes in the stars.
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