This is such a well-written episode with equal parts humor, adventure, and heart. The long form story telling of Discovery allows this season to slowly unfurl revealing glimpses only of the greater mystery the mysterious lights hold.
This episode shows that a greater force is pulling the strings of Discovery, Bourman and stilly while revealing a more ecumenical side of Capt Pike.
Discovery has discovered a second light and tracks it to a planet in the beta quadrant using the spore drive (you didn't think it was gone did you?). Stamits tells Tilly of his trepidation about going into the mycelium network and getting lost with his lover Hugh. Tilly, concerned for her friend, is determined to find a way to use the dark matter asteroid to replace Stamits. However, in taking a tiny piece weighing tons, Tilly is injured.
The Discovery jumps to the location to find a lost human colony that apparently was transported to the planet over two hundred years earlier. The away team learns that they are a faith based community that believes an angel brought them there.
Back in Discovery, it is learned that the radioactive rings are falling towards the planet and will destroy it with the hour.
In sickbay, Tilly is awakened by a long friend who inspires her to figure out a way to use the asteroid to save the planet. She goes to the bridge San uniform to directvthis plan.
Back in the planet, the caretaker of the church who was responsible for transmitting a distress call believes he knows that the away team is from Earth. Pike, however, has ordered that secret to stay secret.
Discovery saves the planet with cool special effects and Tilky searches the computer database for her friend... only to learn that she died when she was 16. The helper was no whom she appeared to be.
After the away team equipment was stolen, and a phased was subsequently played with by a young girl, Pike saved the girl by grabbing the phaser and hurting himself in the process. The away team took Pike into the church where they beamed back to the Discovery- but not before being seen doing so by the church elder and caretaker. The elder believed the angel had returned. The caretaker knew better.
After Pike recovered, Burnam revealed to him her own vision of the angel from the previous episode on the asteroid. After a heart-to-heart with Burns, Pike decided to reveal himself to the caretaker. This answered his questions. Pike gave him a power elk to light the church and the caretaker gave Pike a Helmut camera with video of what happened two hundred years earlier.
Back in Discovery Pike viewer the video of soldiers and others inside the church on Earth, bright lights appearing, and then the angel at the door briefly before the video stopped.
This episode shows that a greater force is pulling the strings of Discovery, Bourman and stilly while revealing a more ecumenical side of Capt Pike.
Discovery has discovered a second light and tracks it to a planet in the beta quadrant using the spore drive (you didn't think it was gone did you?). Stamits tells Tilly of his trepidation about going into the mycelium network and getting lost with his lover Hugh. Tilly, concerned for her friend, is determined to find a way to use the dark matter asteroid to replace Stamits. However, in taking a tiny piece weighing tons, Tilly is injured.
The Discovery jumps to the location to find a lost human colony that apparently was transported to the planet over two hundred years earlier. The away team learns that they are a faith based community that believes an angel brought them there.
Back in Discovery, it is learned that the radioactive rings are falling towards the planet and will destroy it with the hour.
In sickbay, Tilly is awakened by a long friend who inspires her to figure out a way to use the asteroid to save the planet. She goes to the bridge San uniform to directvthis plan.
Back in the planet, the caretaker of the church who was responsible for transmitting a distress call believes he knows that the away team is from Earth. Pike, however, has ordered that secret to stay secret.
Discovery saves the planet with cool special effects and Tilky searches the computer database for her friend... only to learn that she died when she was 16. The helper was no whom she appeared to be.
After the away team equipment was stolen, and a phased was subsequently played with by a young girl, Pike saved the girl by grabbing the phaser and hurting himself in the process. The away team took Pike into the church where they beamed back to the Discovery- but not before being seen doing so by the church elder and caretaker. The elder believed the angel had returned. The caretaker knew better.
After Pike recovered, Burnam revealed to him her own vision of the angel from the previous episode on the asteroid. After a heart-to-heart with Burns, Pike decided to reveal himself to the caretaker. This answered his questions. Pike gave him a power elk to light the church and the caretaker gave Pike a Helmut camera with video of what happened two hundred years earlier.
Back in Discovery Pike viewer the video of soldiers and others inside the church on Earth, bright lights appearing, and then the angel at the door briefly before the video stopped.