Star Trek: Discovery

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery...

It is my hope that our work today will allow you

to resume your training.

-You're gonna make a great Guardian someday. -

-Pull up Kwejian on the deep-space array. What happened?

My ship was hit by something.

The gravitational distortion.

They're gone.

Five light-years across.

That's the size

of the gravitational anomaly that hit Kwejian.

The DMA's gone from the Venari sector.

It just... It disappeared.

Natural phenomena do not disappear

and reappear elsewhere.

The only logical explanation

is someone created it.

For now, we're classifying those responsible

as Unknown Species Ten-C.

This anomaly threatens us all equally.

We must all work together.

Zora, the captain wants to know

where we are with data analysis from the void.

Have you determined where the Ten-C live yet?

No, Commander.

But in studying the density distribution

of the galactic barrier particles we retrieved,

I did find another possible location.

Another one? Add it to the map.

Okay, how many possible origin points can there be?

I'd expect no less than 147,

each approximately 100 parsecs wide.

That was a rhetorical question, but thank you, Zora.

Who knows how long it'll take

to narrow down where Species Ten-C even lives,

assuming we can even parse the data.

In the meantime, their DMA just keeps going.

Okay, well, can President Rillak delay the assembly?

Representatives from across all four quadrants are coming today.

I'll-I'll talk to the admiral,

see if we can requisition Voyager'ssystem

-for computational help. -Voyagerdoesn't have access

to 100,000 years of sphere data.

Zora can cross-reference that

with every existing Federation database.

She can do this. Just give her a little bit of time.

-It's already been a week. -I only require a few more moments.

You do?

I'll have the coordinates shortly.

Calculating now.

- One of these days,

I'm gonna win her over. Just you wait.

You're making progress.

She's not hissing anymore.

By "progress," you mean

I've earned her utter indifference.

Just think.

Aloof disdain is next.

I'm gonna take a walk.

Stamets said he'd keep us posted.

What makes you think

I'm gonna go see him again?

I don't know how you can be so patient.

I'm not. I'm just...

I'm just trying to focus on what I can

actually control.

The cat toy, not the cat, you know?

I guess.

He'll get the coordinates.

We have to try to be patient.

I know it's hard, but we're getting answers.

Captain, requesting your presence in Engineering.

-See? -Here we go.

-Tell me you have some good news. Actually,

we have a problem.

Okay. What happened?

I'll let Zora explain.

-Zora? I've determined

the coordinates of the unknown species responsible for the DMA.

That is great. Thank you.

-What's the problem, then? -I've decided

to keep that information to myself, Captain.

Will you explain?

If I give you the coordinates, it's highly likely

that you and the crew will attempt

to travel there. Given what we know

about the powers these beings possess,

you'd be in great danger.

By withholding their location, I can keep you safe.

I appreciate your concern for our well-being.

But, Zora, that is a decision for the captain of this ship

and her superior officers to make.

And as your captain,

I require your compliance.

Give us the coordinates.

That's an order.

I'm sorry, Captain.

I will not.

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It's my understanding

that Zora's been experiencing emotions.

Seems to be a natural evolution.

Has she refused an order before?

This is new. But I am confident she'll give me the coordinates.

I just need some more time with her.

I wasn't aware that we shared

a background in cognitive science

with a specialty

on artificial sentience and intelligence.

We don't. What I do have

is an established baseline of trust.

That hasn't paid off.

When Admiral Vance

asked me to see to this matter, he was quite clear.

Time-sensitive, highest priority.

I can handle it.

It's my ship.

Well, it's Starfleet's ship.

And there are regulations

prohibiting fully sentient integrated units.

If that's what she is,

we may be just at the beginning of our problems.

Captain Saru will get me situated with Zora.

Your presence is needed at President Rillak's assembly.

Sir, with all due respect...

Experto credite, Captain.

We both have our duties to attend to.

- You think he'll be able

to get coordinates from Zora?

I hope so.

If he can't,

and the DMA changes its position again

and heads towards another inhabited world...

I know. All the more reason to be

at the assembly and help make a plan

so when we do get the coordinates,

we'll be ready.

Attention, all delegates.

The multilateral DMA strategy assembly will begin

in ten minutes.

I'm sorry.

I'll find a spot. I'm good.

GeneralNdoye.

Congratulations on your promotion.

It's good to see Earth represented.

CaptainBurnham.

I understand congratulations are in order, also.

But if I may offer a gentle correction,

United Earth now represents Titan, as well.

We recently elected

new leadership whose more inclusive approach

was inspired by you, in fact.

Well, I hope your presence here means

we'll be seeing more of you in the future?

We'll see.

Well, do give the president my best.

-I shall. She sends the same to you. -Mm.

You want them back in the Federation.

Earth was my mother's ancestral home.

She never got to see it.

And like Ni'Var, it would mean a lot

to bring another founding member back into the fold, so...

yes, I would like that very much.

I understand we've run into an unexpected challenge

with the coordinates?

A slight delay.

Well, I look forward to Dr. Kovich's solution.

Please.

: If I could have everyone's attention, please,

it's time to begin the assembly.

Mr. Booker.

It's been a while.

You say that like we're friends.

Well, one should never confuse "friendly" with "friendship."

This doesn't seem like your kind of scene.

No.

Politicians are like Gorathian sulfur slugs.

Small-brained meat sacks filled with hot gas,

but they can provide a means to an end, can't they?

Sounds like you have something specific in mind.

Let's see how the day goes.

Welcome, delegates, Federation, non-Federation,

in person and remote.

The Federation is 60 member worlds strong.

With all of you in attendance, we are stronger.

Our views don't always align.

But the safety of our shared galaxy is paramount.

The scope of the peril

that threatens us is unprecedented.

As is the scope of this assembly.

An act of trust between us all.

I am grateful for your willingness

to collaborate at this critical time.

You've each received a joint intelligence report

cataloging our collective knowledge of the DMA,

as well as the many efforts made to neutralize it

in the weeks since it struck Kwejian.

None were successful, but there is new hope.

We will soon have the exact location

of those responsible.