STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
SEASON 2, EPISODE 3
SEASON 2, EPISODE 3
Point of Light
Series: Star Trek: Discovery - (2017 - 2024)Season: 2
Episode #: 3
Original Airdate: January 31st, 2019
Writer(s): Andrew Colville
Director(s): Olatunde Osunsanmi
Guest Stars
Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou
Mia Kirshner as Amanda Grayson
Alan van Sprang as Leland
Mary Chieffo as L'Rell
Kenneth Mitchell as Kol-Sha
Bahia Watson as May Ahearn
Hannah Cheesman as Lt. Cmdr. Airiam
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
Julianne Grossman as Discovery Computer
Xavier Sotelo as Captain Diego Vela
David Benjamin Tomlinson as Linus
Pay Chen as Starfleet Psychiatrist (Recording)
Damon Runyan as Ujilli
Stardate: 1029.46
Synopsis
As Michael Burnham struggles with her inability to understand the Red Signals and her failure to reconnect with her brother, Spock, her thoughts are interrupted by the ship’s half-marathon. Among the competitors is Sylvia Tilly, who continues to be haunted, literally, by visions of her dead schoolmate May. On the Discovery bridge, the ship is contacted by a diplomatic vessel – Sarek’s ship. But it isn’t the Ambassador who beams aboard – Burnham and Spock’s mother Amanda has come for help.
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Amanda went to Starbase-5 to meet Spock, but when she wasn’t provided any information about him, she did the only logical thing – she stole his medical file. Amanda gives the encrypted file to Burnham, who takes it to Captain Christopher Pike. Pike instead reaches out to the Starbase to enquire about Spock’s progress and receives shocking news - Spock is wanted for murder after he presumably killed three of his doctors on the Starbase! In disbelief about the news, Pike orders Burnham to break into the medical file. According to Spock’s files, he was diagnosed with having ‘extreme empathy deficits’, which may have led him to attack his doctors Amanda, however, believes he was diagnosed with psychopathy, fueled by the lack of love from his parents . As Amanda wasn’t permitted to show affection towards Spock, she instead showered Burnham with all of her affection. Brother and sister, thus, had very different upbringings.
The files also show Spock’s drawings of the Red Angel. According to Amanda, he started drawing them as a boy. Spock first saw the red angel the day that Burnham ran away from home. He was adamant the angel had told him where to find Burnham. Amanda believes the vision changed him forever, but Burnham tells her mother about seeing the red angel herself, and how she felt no malicious intent from it. The reason Spock changed wasn’t because of the red angel – it was because of Burnham. Something was after her, and since Spock was her shadow, she hurt him to protect him. Years later, their relationship is practically irreparable. Furious, Amanda leaves to find her son.
On the Klingon world, Chancellor L’Rell and her Torchbearer Ash Tyler/ Voq are proposing the creation of a formidable ship – one that will bear a unified Klingon symbol. But there are dissidents among the Klingons who take umbrage to Tyler’s high position among their people. But Tyler’s loyalty to L’Rell gives him strength; when KOL-Sha, father of Kol, the Klingon leader who perished months earlier, opposes L’Rell, Tyler follows L’Rell’s command and wipes the war paint off KOL-Sha.
Yet Tyler’s struggle with his place in the Klingon kingdom goes beyond strength. His Voq personality wants to be accepted as a Klingon, and L’Rell sees this as an opportunity to rekindle their past romance. That is not what Tyler meant, however. His only association with L’Rell’s brand of intimacy feels like a violation to him. Tyler later contacts Burnham, informing her that there could be an insurgency on the horizon from the Klingons. Burnham agrees to tell Starfleet before they struggle to say goodbye; their feelings for each other still bubbling at the surface.
Following the call, Tyler finds someone snooping in his chamber – L’Rell’s uncle. He demands the truth and finds out L’Rell had a son with Voq. L’Rell explains that she found out about the child just as Voq was being transformed. He was placed in a stasis chamber, which is why he isn’t even a toddler yet. She doesn’t seem to have much of a connection with her son, but Tyler does. He saw the pale skin on the infant and recalled Voq’s life as an outcast due to his skin tone – it’s how Tyler feels now because of his human form. Following this outpouring of love, Tyler vows to devote himself to his son, and to L’Rell.
But their new union is interrupted by KOL-Sha. As it turns out, the warpaint that Tyler had rubbed off was a tracker and a bug. Now, KOL-Sha has killed L’Rell’s uncle and kidnapped her son. To get him back, and to ensure the rest of the Klingons don’t find out that Tyler was communicating with Starfleet, KOL-Sha wants L’Rell to abdicate her position as chancellor for him. L’Rell and Tyler are not willing to give up without a fight. They battle KOL-Sha’s people and easily defeat them. Yet this Klingon villain is not so easily defeated – KOL-Sha paralyzes the two of them and signs the transfer with L’Rell’s thumbprint. Just as he is about to kill L’Rell and Tyler, a mysterious figure appears and frees them - Philippa Georgiou. L’Rell seizes the opportunity to kill KOL-Sha.
Georgiou speaks to L’Rell in private about how to best avoid future civil war among the Klingons. For L’Rell to be taken seriously in the misogynistic Klingon society she has to get rid of Tyler, and her son. L’Rell does exactly that – she presents to the Klingon council the severed heads of her partner and her child, declaring Tyler as the traitor who killed her son and KOL-Sha. She relinquishes the mantle of Chancellor, now taking on the more ‘powerful’ title of Mother.
The real Voq and his son are on a Section 31 ship alongside Georgiou on the way to Boreth, where the still nameless boy will be raised as a monk. Georgiou plans to recruit Voq for Section 31 just as she herself was recruited by the secret organization. A heart-broken Tyler leaves his son at a monastery as per L’Rell’s wish, and gets ready to embrace a new life with Section 31.
Back on Discovery, May interrogates Tilly during a training exercise about their Captain. She was expecting someone shorter, whiter and blonde – that’s not Pike. With May’s constant badgering, Tilly is no longer able to hold it together. She unleashes a barrage of insults at May, but it looks like she’s yelling at Pike instead. Distraught, Tilly announces her resignation from the command program, and leaves the Bridge. Tilly turns to the only person she can – Burnham. May continues to harangue her, but Tilly powers through it to tell Burnham that ever since she was hit with the Dark Matter energy, May has appeared. After some speculation, it becomes obvious that if May is not a figment of Tilly’s imagination, she must be a creation of the Dark Matter asteroid reacting with the spores.
It turns out that May’s ‘Captain’ is Paul Stamets. She is actually a parasite from the Spores that infected Discovery in the Mirror Universe. While Stamets is able to remove her from Tilly, it’s a painful procedure that causes Tilly to collapse. The entity floats away before being trapped in a bubble. Is this the end of May, or the start of something worse?
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