Star Trek: Discovery

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery...

Commander, I can't get contro!

All decks prepare for impact!

Lieutenant, get to sickbay.

Neurological tests are clear,

no concussion... You're good to go.

What?

I said you're good to go.

We made it through.

It was a pretty rough landing.

It's good to have you alive.

I'm experiencing some discomfort.

Yeah, you were impaled by a seven-inch shard

and put in a coma.

Michael?

Saru, I landed here a year ago.

Nobody knows if The Burn was an accident

or a natural disaster, but I did find part of

a transmission from an obsolete Starfleet channel.

This is Admiral Senna Tal.

The Federation lives on.

Is he at Starfleet headquarters?

We will find Admiral Tal.

Senna Tal, the Starfleet officer you've been looking for?

I know him.

Young Adira has been joined with a Trill

- symbiont. - Trill?

A sentient life-form.

Once they join with a host,

that host has the ability

to access the memories of all former hosts.

Including Admiral Tal's.

It seems Adira has difficulty

accessing those memories.

She may carry knowledge of what remains of Starfleet.

Medical officer's log, supplemental.

Our trip to Earth was eye-opening.

A reality check, such as reality is.

It's starting to hit everyone

just how little we have to hold on to.

The personal moments we use to define ourselves,

birthdays,

anniversaries, graduations,

funerals,

we've jumped past all of them.

They feel lost.

Disconnected.

I tell them I've been alone, I've been lost.

Both are survivable,

and surviving can become living again.

You know, if you ever needed to talk, I'm around.

I'm fine.

But first, they have to accept help.

For a crew of overachievers,

that kind of vulnerability can be hard to hold.

Five words keep everyone going:

"When we find the Federation."

It's become a mantra for the crew.

In some cases, it seems to help.

All right.

In others...

...not so much.

Adira, who joined us from Earth, may be able to guide s

to Federation headquarters one she regains her own memoris

and those of her symbiont's former host, Senna Tal.

This mission could be a gift,

a reminder that we are and always will be connected

to something greater than ourselves: the Federation.

Scan complete.

Well, the good news is, she's perfectly healthy,

as is the symbiont.

Uh, should we be concerned it is wrapped around her heart?

No, it's protecting me.

Every critical system in my body is connected to Tal.

Wake up with a squid in your abdominal cavity,

you'll do your homework, too.

So you still don't remember

how you got the symbiont?

What's the first thing you do remember?

I woke up in an escape pod a year ago

when that ship found me.

Before that, nothing.

Uh, Commander Stamets noted that you demonstrated

a surprising understanding of our ship's engineering grid,

a design about which you should have no knowledge.

Well, I can also speak seven languages

and cook a mean Bajoran hasperat.

I mean, have I always been a genius,

or do these skills belong to my squid's previous hosts?

Well, if it is your sym... Your squid...

Then we should be getting the full picture.

So something is blocking your memories.

Like what?

Oh, there's no way to know.

There's no precedent.

So, we have two choices:

I can start digging around your hippocampus,

- hoping to find an answer... - Bad.

Bad.

Or we take you to Trill.

If you and the captain agree.

Adira, we have to be clear.

No one's ever seen a human host.

There's no way of knowing if the Trill will be able or willing

to assist you.

So I could go, and it could be a bust,

and no one gets what they need.

I don't get my memories, you don't get Senna Tal's message

and you never find Federation headquarters.

Is there any way of knowing

if the Trill are as peaceful as they were

a millennia ago?

No. That is also a risk.

I can't keep living like this.

Not knowing who I am.

Let's go to Trill.

Scans confirm no weapon energy signatures.

Nothing to indicate hostile intent.

Well, let us hope that remains the case.

Keep us at yellow alert.

Lieutenant Bryce, open a channel, please.

Yes, sir.

Ring any bells?

Does that planet look familiar?

Wish I could say yes.

All right, Captain, Trill Commissioner Vos

is responding to our hail.

Put him through, Lieutenant.

Welcome, Commissioner Vos.

I am Captain Saru of the USS Discovery.

Greetings, Captain Saru.

It's been many years since we've seen a Federation starship.

I trust our arrival is welcome?

Most certainly.

We have a host and symbiont

on board, uh, in need of medical attention.

We were hoping for your assistance.

Our symbionts carry our history.

And t-then the... The Burn.

The population was decimated.

To have a symbiont return home is a blessing.

Uh, we will send them down immediately

accompanied by our ship's medical officer.

We'll make preparations.

Thank you, Discovery.

Cancel yellow alert, maintain standard orbit.

Dr. Stamets.

I would like to talk to you about your jumps.

Second jump with no problems.

Fully recovered. I'm fine.

You were impaled with a spike and placed in a coma.

Yeah, but other than that, he's fine.

I can jump anytime.

The scarcity of dilithium has made the spore drive

immeasurably valuable.

We will need the ability to operate it

without you, Commander.

I researched the nonhuman interface

for nearly a decade before we discovered the Tardigrade

on the Glenn.

Yes, and there has been 932 years

of technological advancement since then.

We cannot risk becoming as limited

as every other ship in the galaxy

should you be once again incapacitated.

Of course, Captain.

Now, you and Ensign Tilly

are two of the finest minds on this ship.

I have every confidence you will find a solution.

So, look, I-I know now may not be the best time...

Um, what if we made a new interface

using a dark matter system?

Dark matter is comprised of subatomic particles

and the mycelial network is a subspace domain.

The prefix "sub" being the only morpheme

that even remotely connects those two ideas.

Yeah.

I... Well, I've run some preliminary calculations

using dark matter energy to-to pierce the subspace domain,

but if... look... you're not ready to talk about it, it's...

Look, this isn't about "Isn't science cool?"

It's about the lives of everything and everyone.

I know you're trying,

but please, don't waste my time.

Come.

Do you have a minute?

Please.

- You've been busy. - Mm.

It's everything I've managed to find on The Burn

in the last year.

So many missing pieces.

Oh, I just, I meant, your space used to be so, uh...

Oh.

Empty?

Yeah.

Shouldn't you, uh, be headed to the shuttle now?

Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about.

I think you should be the one to take Adira to the surface.

Her memory loss isn't a medical problem.

She needs somebody to support her emotionally.