1 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:13,972 Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: 2 00:00:14,515 --> 00:00:16,516 With the Enterprise in Spacedock, 3 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:18,018 Captain Pike and Discovery's mission 4 00:00:18,101 --> 00:00:21,897 to find any rational explanation for the seven signals continues to escape me. 5 00:00:21,980 --> 00:00:25,025 And with it, perhaps any chance of a relationship with my brother, Spock. 6 00:00:25,859 --> 00:00:28,528 Computer, show me Starfleet's rendering of the seven signals. 7 00:00:28,612 --> 00:00:31,782 Spock drew these signals two months before they appeared to us. 8 00:00:31,865 --> 00:00:33,283 It's damn near identical. 9 00:00:35,536 --> 00:00:36,411 Amanda. 10 00:00:37,246 --> 00:00:39,122 I stole Spock's medical file. 11 00:00:39,206 --> 00:00:41,208 I've been waiting for an update on my officer Spock. 12 00:00:41,291 --> 00:00:43,085 Your guy is wanted for murder. 13 00:00:43,168 --> 00:00:45,212 Killed three of his doctors, then fled the starbase. 14 00:00:45,837 --> 00:00:49,258 I thought that he left it in the past, but it's back. 15 00:00:49,341 --> 00:00:52,261 - What is it? - Your brother called it the Red Angel. 16 00:00:52,344 --> 00:00:54,221 That vision changed him forever. 17 00:00:54,304 --> 00:00:55,806 It wasn't because of a vision. 18 00:00:56,556 --> 00:00:59,059 - It was because of me. - What did you do? 19 00:00:59,142 --> 00:01:01,311 - I will find him. - No. 20 00:01:02,813 --> 00:01:03,772 I will. 21 00:01:05,691 --> 00:01:07,150 Got it. 22 00:01:07,484 --> 00:01:09,236 - After the dark matter hit me... - It's me! 23 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,363 ...I started to see a ghost. 24 00:01:11,446 --> 00:01:13,407 - Her name was May, but she's dead. - Tilly! 25 00:01:13,490 --> 00:01:14,408 I'm losing it, Michael. 26 00:01:14,491 --> 00:01:16,535 You don't need sickbay. You need Stamets. 27 00:01:16,618 --> 00:01:18,245 We'll have results in one second. 28 00:01:18,328 --> 00:01:20,831 There he is. That's the captain. That's where he flies. 29 00:01:20,914 --> 00:01:24,376 Just as I suspected. You are hosting a eukaryotic organism. 30 00:01:24,459 --> 00:01:27,212 - A fungus? - This might hurt a bit. 31 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,763 Security breach by unknown alien species in Engineering. 32 00:01:36,847 --> 00:01:39,391 Engage quarantine protocol Alpha-Omega. 33 00:01:43,979 --> 00:01:46,606 - Energize. - Teleporter incoming. 34 00:01:59,995 --> 00:02:02,331 - Captain. - Welcome aboard Discovery, Number One. 35 00:02:03,123 --> 00:02:05,500 The failures cascaded through all our primaries, 36 00:02:05,584 --> 00:02:07,544 helm, nav, both impulse and warp drive. 37 00:02:07,628 --> 00:02:10,047 Chief Louvier has an engineering team working around the clock. 38 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:13,300 I don't think Enterprise will ever have a chief engineer more in love with a ship. 39 00:02:13,383 --> 00:02:16,511 Apparently, Enterprise is the only ship in the fleet that's had any problems. 40 00:02:16,595 --> 00:02:19,806 You know, he warned me. That damned holographic comms system. 41 00:02:19,890 --> 00:02:21,308 Tell Louvier to rip out the system. 42 00:02:21,391 --> 00:02:24,102 From now on, we'll communicate using good-old-fashioned viewscreens. 43 00:02:24,186 --> 00:02:26,938 Truth is, I never liked the holograms. They look too much like ghosts. 44 00:02:27,022 --> 00:02:27,856 Hmm. 45 00:02:28,565 --> 00:02:31,234 - He told you I'd say that. - No. I told him. 46 00:02:32,402 --> 00:02:36,156 - Cheeseburger, fries, habanero sauce. - Wanna order some lighter fluid with that? 47 00:02:36,239 --> 00:02:37,824 That goes with the shake. 48 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,745 - Sorry to keep you in Spacedock. - I've made use of the time, captain. 49 00:02:41,828 --> 00:02:44,539 You've been looking into the allegations against Spock. 50 00:02:44,623 --> 00:02:46,833 It's hard to comprehend, let alone believe, 51 00:02:46,917 --> 00:02:50,754 that he murdered three people at the psychiatric facility on Starbase 5. 52 00:02:50,837 --> 00:02:51,838 How's the crew taking it? 53 00:02:52,798 --> 00:02:54,966 They don't know the details, only that he's in trouble. 54 00:02:57,177 --> 00:02:58,345 There's something else. 55 00:02:59,971 --> 00:03:00,806 Tell me. 56 00:03:01,598 --> 00:03:05,227 Starfleet's classified his case Level 1. 57 00:03:05,310 --> 00:03:07,646 Line officers don't usually warrant that kind of scrutiny. 58 00:03:07,729 --> 00:03:10,273 It's unprecedented, which is why I've done a little digging. 59 00:03:10,899 --> 00:03:13,610 - Sanctioned? - Better you don't know the answer to that. 60 00:03:14,694 --> 00:03:17,406 Before I look at that, I need to know why you saw fit 61 00:03:17,489 --> 00:03:19,157 to detour Federation protocols. 62 00:03:19,741 --> 00:03:22,285 Something about this investigation isn't adding up. 63 00:03:23,703 --> 00:03:27,624 - I'm not letting him go without a fight. - As usual, we agree. 64 00:03:28,333 --> 00:03:30,293 Captain Pike to the ready room. 65 00:03:31,002 --> 00:03:34,756 I'm late for a briefing. Glad you came. I'm sorry you can't stay longer. 66 00:03:36,174 --> 00:03:40,053 - Next time. Be careful, captain. - You, too, Number One. 67 00:03:48,353 --> 00:03:51,231 We should give it a name other than May. 68 00:03:53,567 --> 00:03:55,527 I know it looks like a blob, 69 00:03:55,610 --> 00:03:59,239 but this is one of the most sophisticated life-forms I've ever encountered. 70 00:03:59,322 --> 00:04:02,325 It has sentience, intention. 71 00:04:02,409 --> 00:04:06,329 Tilly, the mycelial network doesn't just connect life. 72 00:04:06,413 --> 00:04:09,291 It contains it. It's an incubator. 73 00:04:09,374 --> 00:04:12,169 You mean like, um... Like a home? 74 00:04:17,716 --> 00:04:20,552 I've been wondering why it appeared to me as May, 75 00:04:20,635 --> 00:04:24,181 which got me thinking about the real May that I met when I was, um, 14. 76 00:04:25,724 --> 00:04:26,850 I was, um... 77 00:04:28,185 --> 00:04:31,980 I was a weird kid, you know, like not a lot of friends... 78 00:04:33,315 --> 00:04:38,236 and nobody who really believed in me, including me, but she did. 79 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:43,533 She wanted to connect to me, and she tried so hard. 80 00:04:44,576 --> 00:04:47,454 But I don't think I was the friend to her that she needed. 81 00:04:48,330 --> 00:04:51,750 I'm certain you were much kinder than you give yourself credit for. 82 00:04:52,626 --> 00:04:53,710 You always are. 83 00:04:54,419 --> 00:04:58,507 Thank you, but I didn't even know she died. 84 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,887 I feel like I took her for granted, that girl who thought I was special. 85 00:05:06,598 --> 00:05:07,432 Oh! 86 00:05:11,645 --> 00:05:13,939 I've cross-referenced what we're calling the Red Angel 87 00:05:14,022 --> 00:05:16,650 with all known winged and avian life-forms in the Federation. 88 00:05:16,733 --> 00:05:17,943 So far, I've found nothing. 89 00:05:20,695 --> 00:05:24,950 Sorry, the universal translator sometimes has trouble reconfiguring 90 00:05:25,033 --> 00:05:26,451 my lingual clicks and pops. 91 00:05:26,535 --> 00:05:29,788 My answer to you was, nothing in the known universe. 92 00:05:29,871 --> 00:05:33,542 Which might suggest it's not a species, maybe one of a kind. 93 00:05:33,625 --> 00:05:34,668 A mutation? 94 00:05:34,751 --> 00:05:37,921 Whatever it is, figuring out how it's connected to these signals 95 00:05:38,004 --> 00:05:40,882 - will help us identify it. - If only we knew what it needs. 96 00:05:43,593 --> 00:05:46,096 Commander Nhan, U.S.S. Enterprise. Glad to be here. 97 00:05:46,555 --> 00:05:49,099 - Welcome back aboard. - Could you pass the salt? 98 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:52,727 Commander Saru, can you shed any light? 99 00:05:53,937 --> 00:05:58,358 My apologies. I woke up this morning fighting an acute rhinovirus. 100 00:05:58,441 --> 00:06:01,820 - So, you have a cold. - I had a cold last week, which sucked. 101 00:06:04,990 --> 00:06:07,200 Saurian, six nasal canals. 102 00:06:07,284 --> 00:06:10,203 - It happens to the best of us. - Everyone to your stations. 103 00:06:10,287 --> 00:06:13,957 Detmer, set a course for 108 mark 4, maximum warp. 104 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:14,874 Aye, sir. 105 00:06:14,958 --> 00:06:17,085 Mr. Saru, you look like hell. 106 00:06:17,168 --> 00:06:19,671 You've been burning the candle at both ends lately. Get some rest. 107 00:06:19,754 --> 00:06:21,506 As you wish, sir. 108 00:06:22,340 --> 00:06:23,550 Burnham, a word. 109 00:06:26,136 --> 00:06:30,140 I understand your first officer is on her way to Spacedock. 110 00:06:30,807 --> 00:06:33,893 - Was her visit informative? - Number One is very resourceful. 111 00:06:34,352 --> 00:06:36,980 People have a tendency to end up owing her favors. 112 00:06:37,063 --> 00:06:41,860 She uncovered some classified information on Starbase 5. 113 00:06:42,527 --> 00:06:45,405 That is the warp signature of the shuttle that Spock stole 114 00:06:45,488 --> 00:06:49,034 from the psychiatric facility. I've put us on an intercept course. 115 00:06:49,659 --> 00:06:51,745 We should reach his position in the next few hours. 116 00:06:57,083 --> 00:07:00,920 Sir... after everything that's happened, 117 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,716 I need to excuse myself from seeing Spock. 118 00:07:05,342 --> 00:07:06,593 I'm not sure I follow. 119 00:07:06,676 --> 00:07:08,678 I don't wanna make things worse for him. 120 00:07:09,888 --> 00:07:13,099 He's a fugitive, whatever the circumstances. 121 00:07:14,559 --> 00:07:16,144 And as Amanda suggested... 122 00:07:18,897 --> 00:07:22,651 I'm probably the last person who should insert themselves into this problem. 123 00:07:23,526 --> 00:07:26,071 - I disagree. - He is lost, captain. 124 00:07:27,656 --> 00:07:29,366 You are better suited to help him. 125 00:07:31,743 --> 00:07:33,078 I've thought this through. 126 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,707 Please... trust me. 127 00:07:39,668 --> 00:07:42,963 My abiding trust in you doesn't eclipse the mission at hand. 128 00:07:44,255 --> 00:07:48,176 Facing whatever happened to Spock, it's not gonna be easy for any of us. 129 00:07:48,259 --> 00:07:51,304 Reaching him has to be the priority. 130 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,271 - Detmer, status? - Something has grabbed us out of warp. 131 00:08:00,355 --> 00:08:02,983 Speed dropping to sub-light, helm going unresponsive. 132 00:08:03,066 --> 00:08:05,443 Shields up, red alert. Owosekun, are we talking tractor beam? 133 00:08:05,527 --> 00:08:08,405 More powerful than that, sir. I'm unable to raise shields. 134 00:08:08,488 --> 00:08:11,658 Preliminary analysis indicates a multiphasic stasis field. 135 00:08:11,741 --> 00:08:14,911 - It's disrupting our shield harmonics. - We're at a full stop, sir. 136 00:08:14,995 --> 00:08:17,205 Whatever has us, we're locked into place. 137 00:08:17,288 --> 00:08:18,873 Like a damn fly in a web. 138 00:08:20,208 --> 00:08:21,960 And there is the spider. 139 00:10:05,647 --> 00:10:10,110 Starfleet has never encountered anything like it. 565 kilometers in diameter 140 00:10:10,193 --> 00:10:14,072 with a mass of 6.39 times ten to the 20th power kilograms. 141 00:10:14,614 --> 00:10:17,408 It melds organic and non-living matter. 142 00:10:17,492 --> 00:10:19,077 It's also ancient. 143 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,664 Initial scans put it at 100,000 years old. 144 00:10:22,747 --> 00:10:26,209 Organic? Are you saying it's some kind of a life-form? 145 00:10:26,751 --> 00:10:28,753 Maybe it is a spider. I hate spiders. 146 00:10:28,837 --> 00:10:32,674 It is premature to assign any anthropomorphic distinction or intent. 147 00:10:33,216 --> 00:10:35,385 As of yet, it hasn't responded to any hails. 148 00:10:35,468 --> 00:10:36,469 But there is this. 149 00:10:38,555 --> 00:10:40,431 The sphere is vibrating. 150 00:10:40,515 --> 00:10:42,976 The computer extrapolated what it might sound like 151 00:10:43,059 --> 00:10:45,186 based on the surrounding ambient radiation. 152 00:10:48,022 --> 00:10:50,108 Well, it has my ship, and I don't know what it wants. 153 00:10:50,191 --> 00:10:53,027 Communicate with it or disable it, and quickly, please. 154 00:10:53,111 --> 00:10:54,988 I understand the stakes. 155 00:10:56,656 --> 00:11:00,618 - We're working as fast as we can. - Why are you speaking Klingon? 156 00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:10,420 I can't read my console. Is this Arabic? 157 00:11:10,503 --> 00:11:13,423 My controls have gone crazy. I can't read anything. 158 00:11:13,506 --> 00:11:15,633 Kill those alarms. What happened? 159 00:11:15,717 --> 00:11:18,511 Universal translators must be malfunctioning. 160 00:11:18,595 --> 00:11:21,598 Captain Pike, the sphere answered our hail. 161 00:11:22,140 --> 00:11:24,392 And then this happened: 162 00:11:24,475 --> 00:11:26,311 Anyone got any ideas? 163 00:11:26,394 --> 00:11:27,520 Saru? 164 00:11:28,938 --> 00:11:30,607 Welcome to the Tower of Babel. 165 00:11:31,149 --> 00:11:34,068 You know more languages than anyone on this ship. 166 00:11:34,611 --> 00:11:36,279 Yes, 94. 167 00:11:36,988 --> 00:11:39,991 The universal translator's been invaded by a virus. 168 00:11:40,658 --> 00:11:43,161 It's translating everything into a different language. 169 00:11:43,494 --> 00:11:45,622 I have eyes and ears, Burnham. 170 00:11:49,918 --> 00:11:53,463 Computer, maintain helm stability 171 00:11:53,546 --> 00:11:57,675 at 148 off axis. 172 00:11:57,759 --> 00:11:59,677 Confirmed. 173 00:12:15,735 --> 00:12:16,819 Confirmed. 174 00:12:18,112 --> 00:12:20,406 - Did it work? - Yes. I can understand you. 175 00:12:20,490 --> 00:12:24,077 I still can't read my controls. I think this is Tau Cetian. 176 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,205 Am I the only one who bothered to learn a foreign language? 177 00:12:27,622 --> 00:12:31,250 I have localized the backup bridge translator. 178 00:12:31,334 --> 00:12:35,046 For the time being, everyone who speaks Earth English can communicate. 179 00:12:35,129 --> 00:12:37,632 The rest of the crew and Discovery's computer are another matter. 180 00:12:37,715 --> 00:12:40,802 The bridge may be temporarily fixed, but the virus will continue spreading 181 00:12:40,885 --> 00:12:43,972 through our comms system. I can try purging it from the main interface. 182 00:12:44,055 --> 00:12:46,891 We have to be able to talk to the computer and the crew to have any chance 183 00:12:46,975 --> 00:12:48,643 of breaking free from that sphere. Do it. 184 00:12:48,726 --> 00:12:49,644 Yes, sir. 185 00:12:51,062 --> 00:12:53,606 I'll go. You should stay and monitor bridge stations. 186 00:12:53,690 --> 00:12:56,526 I have placed all systems on automatic. 187 00:12:56,609 --> 00:12:59,988 And given our current circumstances, you will need a translator 188 00:13:00,071 --> 00:13:01,823 just to operate the turbolift. 189 00:13:01,906 --> 00:13:04,492 - Are you sure you can do this? - We are wasting time. 190 00:13:05,827 --> 00:13:10,039 We've run a full diagnostic, captain, and this section remains unaffected. 191 00:13:10,123 --> 00:13:13,001 - We'll update you if anything changes. - Thank you, ensign. 192 00:13:13,084 --> 00:13:17,171 If we can't fly this thing, commander, we may have to jump away. 193 00:13:17,255 --> 00:13:19,007 The spore drive will be ready, sir. 194 00:13:19,882 --> 00:13:23,011 Bring the drive online, and then we'll couple the shunts to me, 195 00:13:23,094 --> 00:13:24,595 in case we've gotta skedaddle. 196 00:13:33,479 --> 00:13:36,774 The universal translator for this section is no más. 197 00:13:36,858 --> 00:13:38,234 Can I help you? 198 00:13:38,317 --> 00:13:41,070 Uh, unless you can re-route the plasma regulator 199 00:13:41,154 --> 00:13:44,907 to silo off the relay junction, then, uh... no. 200 00:13:45,533 --> 00:13:48,536 - You're, um...? - Jett Reno, from the Hiawatha. 201 00:13:48,619 --> 00:13:50,371 I hitched a ride off that asteroid. 202 00:13:50,455 --> 00:13:54,625 Chief engineer sent me to firewall off the critical propulsion systems. 203 00:13:55,168 --> 00:13:58,254 I didn't realize a greenhouse could be critical or propulsive, 204 00:13:58,337 --> 00:14:01,174 but what do I know? I'm just a gearhead, not a farmer. 205 00:14:01,716 --> 00:14:03,176 A farmer? 206 00:14:03,259 --> 00:14:06,637 Oh, please let us know what you think, because we care. 207 00:14:06,721 --> 00:14:09,974 You should. Anti-matter and dilithium might be old-school, 208 00:14:10,058 --> 00:14:11,476 but they don't let you down. 209 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,770 Why soar when you can crawl? 210 00:14:13,853 --> 00:14:16,856 You don't know me, doc. I'm uninsultable. 211 00:14:16,939 --> 00:14:19,942 Especially by a guy who thinks he can run a ship on mushrooms 212 00:14:20,026 --> 00:14:21,402 that I pick off my pizza. 213 00:14:21,486 --> 00:14:24,655 - Spores are clean, renewable. - Do they come with house dressing? 214 00:14:27,742 --> 00:14:31,454 Do you have any idea how many planets have been ruined by dilithium mining? 215 00:14:31,537 --> 00:14:34,624 How many battles were fought to corner its supply? You don't. 216 00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:37,126 You're one of those who never even consider it. 217 00:14:37,210 --> 00:14:40,338 And you're one of those people that does a ha-ha jokey thing, 218 00:14:40,421 --> 00:14:43,841 then gets all huffy and in high dudgeon when you can't think of a comeback. 219 00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:47,053 - Do you have gum? - Grape. I... 220 00:14:47,136 --> 00:14:50,431 It was centuries ago that the Earth nearly choked to death on pollution. 221 00:14:50,515 --> 00:14:53,226 Then we all woke up, and within a generation, 222 00:14:53,309 --> 00:14:56,562 - everything from a truck to a toaster... - Do you want...? Sorry. 223 00:14:56,646 --> 00:14:58,231 Was covered in solar panels. 224 00:14:58,648 --> 00:15:01,025 Yesterday's solar panels are today's fungi. 225 00:15:01,567 --> 00:15:04,028 Huh. I can fix stuff with duct tape, if you want. 226 00:15:05,530 --> 00:15:07,865 Do you think May had anything to do with the sphere? 227 00:15:07,949 --> 00:15:12,328 What, a giant entity from our universe and a mycelial species from the network? 228 00:15:12,954 --> 00:15:15,373 They have as much in common as me and that grease monkey. 229 00:15:15,456 --> 00:15:17,417 I could fix that analogy with duct tape, too. 230 00:15:23,089 --> 00:15:25,133 I've isolated the communications system. 231 00:15:25,967 --> 00:15:28,052 Ready to reinitialize? 232 00:15:28,136 --> 00:15:30,054 Entering the reinitialization sequence. 233 00:15:30,888 --> 00:15:31,722 Now. 234 00:15:36,477 --> 00:15:38,020 Burnham to Bridge. 235 00:15:38,104 --> 00:15:40,898 The universal translator is back up and running ship-wide on all systems. 236 00:15:42,316 --> 00:15:45,486 Saru, what is going on? 237 00:15:45,987 --> 00:15:47,405 This is not just a cold. 238 00:15:49,782 --> 00:15:51,868 No. It is not. 239 00:15:59,083 --> 00:16:00,084 What's that hum? 240 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:01,836 Get down! 241 00:16:10,511 --> 00:16:14,015 There's more where that came from. We got a hundred giga-electron volts 242 00:16:14,098 --> 00:16:15,558 surging through the local relays. 243 00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:19,604 Computer's isolated the compartment in order to contain the damage. 244 00:16:19,687 --> 00:16:23,191 - We've still got our life support. - Yeah, but it could kill us. 245 00:16:23,274 --> 00:16:26,486 If our oxygen ignites, we'll cook like french fries. 246 00:16:26,569 --> 00:16:30,031 Well, we could divert the power to act like a lightning arrestor. 247 00:16:30,114 --> 00:16:32,408 We could use the door as a ground. 248 00:16:32,492 --> 00:16:35,703 And then the surge would dissipate through the frame of the ship. 249 00:16:36,245 --> 00:16:40,374 The question is, how do we conduct the surge from there to there? 250 00:16:40,458 --> 00:16:42,919 You know, a gas could once it ionizes. 251 00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:46,214 I infuse the spores with an argon-xenon mixture to slow decay. 252 00:16:46,631 --> 00:16:49,258 We could link up the canisters to contain the gas. 253 00:16:49,342 --> 00:16:52,887 - Our version of a lightning rod. - That's actually not a stupid idea. 254 00:16:52,970 --> 00:16:56,057 It's my version of the house dressing, but it saves your life. 255 00:16:57,391 --> 00:16:59,894 Bridge, what happened? Did the sphere fire on us? 256 00:16:59,977 --> 00:17:04,023 Negative. EPS conduits are overloading. Systems are going haywire. 257 00:17:04,106 --> 00:17:06,317 - The virus is spreading. - What is happening to the ship? 258 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,029 - We have to get to the bridge. - No, no, no. We gotta get you to sickbay. 259 00:17:12,615 --> 00:17:13,699 Gas her up! 260 00:17:18,788 --> 00:17:21,916 - Gas transference at 100 percent. - You're gonna do that manually? 261 00:17:21,999 --> 00:17:24,210 Yeah, 'cause obviously, you're not. 262 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:25,628 Flick the switch! 263 00:17:35,513 --> 00:17:36,347 Are you okay? 264 00:17:36,430 --> 00:17:39,642 I feel like I've been hit by lightning for the second time this week. 265 00:17:40,768 --> 00:17:41,602 Reno? 266 00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:44,939 Reno? Reno, are you all right? 267 00:17:45,356 --> 00:17:48,818 Weird dream. I was playing drums for Prince, 268 00:17:48,901 --> 00:17:51,112 and there were doves and a beret. 269 00:17:51,195 --> 00:17:52,738 Okey-doke. 270 00:17:54,991 --> 00:17:55,825 Wait. 271 00:17:56,409 --> 00:17:57,410 It's gone. 272 00:18:04,250 --> 00:18:05,167 Tilly! 273 00:18:06,127 --> 00:18:08,296 She won't let... She won't let go! 274 00:18:09,130 --> 00:18:10,256 She won't let go! 275 00:18:20,766 --> 00:18:21,767 What's happening to him? 276 00:18:23,394 --> 00:18:26,814 - I'm hoping Dr. Pollard can tell us. - Well, comms is down, 277 00:18:26,897 --> 00:18:29,358 so, I need to see what the situation is in sickbay anyway. 278 00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:33,070 Triage plasma burns on Level 1. Send non-critical to Sickbay 2. 279 00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:34,905 - Doctor? - Bring him here. 280 00:18:37,992 --> 00:18:40,328 Elevated heart rate, spiking adrenal levels, 281 00:18:40,411 --> 00:18:42,038 increased neural activity. 282 00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:44,790 The pain would render the average humanoid unconscious. 283 00:18:47,043 --> 00:18:49,170 - What do we do about those? - Nothing. 284 00:18:49,587 --> 00:18:52,465 It is an effect of my condition. 285 00:18:56,677 --> 00:18:58,262 Ocular discomfort? 286 00:18:58,346 --> 00:19:02,516 No. Kelpiens can see far deeper into the light spectrum than humans. 287 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,186 I keep seeing flashes of ultraviolet light. 288 00:19:05,269 --> 00:19:07,772 Invisible to you, but quite the opposite for me. 289 00:19:07,855 --> 00:19:10,441 - Are these symptoms common among Kelpiens? - This is pointless! 290 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:13,861 And the ship is being further immobilized as we waste time. 291 00:19:13,944 --> 00:19:16,614 There's no reason to believe the sphere is benevolent. 292 00:19:16,697 --> 00:19:17,698 Now, please... 293 00:19:17,782 --> 00:19:20,409 Commander, Dr. Pollard is trying to help you. 294 00:19:24,830 --> 00:19:28,292 Yes. It is unique to my people. 295 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:30,628 And it is terminal. 296 00:19:35,758 --> 00:19:36,801 Are you certain? 297 00:19:37,677 --> 00:19:40,054 I've never been more certain of anything in my life. 298 00:19:41,597 --> 00:19:43,432 When I awoke in discomfort this morning... 299 00:19:45,351 --> 00:19:48,521 I hoped it was just a passing cold. 300 00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:51,607 But now I have to face the truth. 301 00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:53,818 I do not understand why, 302 00:19:54,777 --> 00:19:58,239 but I am beginning to think the sphere is triggering 303 00:19:58,322 --> 00:20:01,867 the Kelpien biological process known as Vahar'ai. 304 00:20:03,619 --> 00:20:08,249 It is the event that signals when Kelpiens are ready 305 00:20:08,332 --> 00:20:13,003 to be culled for slaughter by the Ba'ul, 306 00:20:13,504 --> 00:20:16,799 the predator species on my homeworld of Kaminar. 307 00:20:16,882 --> 00:20:18,718 But there are no Ba'ul here. 308 00:20:18,801 --> 00:20:19,885 It does not matter. 309 00:20:21,345 --> 00:20:26,892 Kelpien ganglia only enflame in this manner as we near our end. 310 00:20:28,185 --> 00:20:31,564 I am a slave to my biology. 311 00:20:31,647 --> 00:20:33,399 We are not gonna let you die. 312 00:20:35,609 --> 00:20:38,904 There has to be something that we can do. 313 00:20:38,988 --> 00:20:40,239 There is not. 314 00:20:40,823 --> 00:20:45,202 Kelpiens undergoing Vahar'ai either die in the culling, 315 00:20:45,953 --> 00:20:50,750 or are driven to madness by the effects of Vahar'ai. 316 00:20:50,833 --> 00:20:54,545 Either way, death is inevitable. 317 00:20:57,131 --> 00:20:59,675 The mycelial entity has attached itself to Tilly. 318 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:02,136 We're trying to free her. Engineering to Bridge. 319 00:21:03,053 --> 00:21:04,430 Engineering to Bridge, come in. 320 00:21:05,347 --> 00:21:07,266 - The comms are down. - Along with most of the ship. 321 00:21:11,604 --> 00:21:14,565 Don't feel bad. I know you have to keep me in quarantine. 322 00:21:16,484 --> 00:21:17,568 Or us. 323 00:21:18,611 --> 00:21:19,987 I feel a little weird. 324 00:21:21,322 --> 00:21:24,617 I should... I should be terrified, but I'm not. 325 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:27,745 May means me no harm. 326 00:21:28,496 --> 00:21:32,291 Are you able to see May again? How do you know this is benign? 327 00:21:32,374 --> 00:21:37,171 May was scary, and she was clingy, and she, like, never shut up, 328 00:21:37,963 --> 00:21:39,381 but she never hurt me. 329 00:21:40,508 --> 00:21:44,220 She said she had a plan for me. She said that I was her only chance. 330 00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:46,388 Did you ever think she was manipulating you? 331 00:21:46,472 --> 00:21:47,932 That's what she said you were doing. 332 00:21:48,015 --> 00:21:50,726 She said that you were trying to poison me against her. 333 00:21:50,810 --> 00:21:53,103 If that thing wasn't freaking me out, she is. 334 00:21:53,187 --> 00:21:56,273 The blob seems to be secreting a psilocybin hallucinogen 335 00:21:56,357 --> 00:21:59,401 - to influence her emotions. - So, you're saying she's on a bad trip? 336 00:21:59,819 --> 00:22:03,072 Or maybe it's trying to calm her down, so she won't be scared. 337 00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:04,824 Or so that she won't fight back. 338 00:22:10,663 --> 00:22:16,252 If Saru thinks that somehow the sphere triggered Vahar'ai, 339 00:22:16,335 --> 00:22:18,546 escaping its grip would stop what's happening to him. 340 00:22:19,129 --> 00:22:21,465 The problem is freeing ourselves before it destroys the ship. 341 00:22:21,549 --> 00:22:23,592 If it wanted to destroy us, why the slow attack? 342 00:22:24,134 --> 00:22:27,054 It's inefficient, right? It must need something. 343 00:22:27,137 --> 00:22:28,639 It's taking what it needs. 344 00:22:29,223 --> 00:22:32,184 Without the computer, all our primary systems begin to fail, 345 00:22:32,268 --> 00:22:33,352 including the warp core. 346 00:22:33,435 --> 00:22:36,146 The EPS grid's unstable, and it's cutting off entire sections, 347 00:22:36,230 --> 00:22:37,648 including Engineering. 348 00:22:37,731 --> 00:22:39,817 Life support's down to 60 percent, but who's counting? 349 00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:42,987 It is not logical for a virus to kill its host. 350 00:22:43,070 --> 00:22:45,948 You're attaching a known medical diagnosis to an unknown entity. 351 00:22:46,031 --> 00:22:48,784 There may be a way to slow the virus. 352 00:22:49,326 --> 00:22:51,203 If we can analyze its properties, 353 00:22:51,829 --> 00:22:54,957 we may be able to develop digital antibodies. 354 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,251 That could give us enough control to break the ship free. 355 00:22:57,334 --> 00:23:02,423 In theory. But it will be a slow process, like army ants eating a water buffalo. 356 00:23:02,506 --> 00:23:05,676 - I'm on it. Going to the science lab. - You will need my help. 357 00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:08,012 Saru, Burnham can handle this. 358 00:23:08,095 --> 00:23:10,431 There's no reason to risk your health any further. 359 00:23:10,514 --> 00:23:13,142 I am dying, captain. 360 00:23:14,226 --> 00:23:17,313 But I am most certainly not dead. 361 00:23:25,154 --> 00:23:28,282 The antibodies are slowing the virus' progress. 362 00:23:28,657 --> 00:23:31,744 Life support at 47 percent. 363 00:23:35,247 --> 00:23:37,583 You are wondering why I kept this from you. 364 00:23:42,713 --> 00:23:44,381 You don't have to bear it alone. 365 00:23:47,092 --> 00:23:50,179 How do I explain 366 00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:56,935 to the woman who has fought over and over for the right to take her next breath, 367 00:23:58,228 --> 00:24:01,857 that I come from a race that submits? 368 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:03,233 I'm your friend. 369 00:24:06,362 --> 00:24:08,822 There will never be judgment between us. 370 00:24:08,906 --> 00:24:10,449 Well, to my shame... 371 00:24:11,742 --> 00:24:13,285 hiding is my nature. 372 00:24:17,414 --> 00:24:22,002 I have learned multiple languages, yet never shared my own, 373 00:24:22,670 --> 00:24:27,633 fearful of revealing my own alienness. 374 00:24:30,636 --> 00:24:33,514 May I request a favor? 375 00:24:33,597 --> 00:24:35,182 Of course. 376 00:24:36,517 --> 00:24:37,518 Anything. 377 00:24:37,601 --> 00:24:43,732 I have kept detailed personal logs since joining Starfleet. 378 00:24:43,816 --> 00:24:48,487 I would ask you to officially catalog them 379 00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:52,866 so that when the General Order 1 no longer applies to the Kelpiens... 380 00:24:54,660 --> 00:24:58,414 they will know a journey like mine is possible. 381 00:24:58,956 --> 00:25:00,708 It would be my privilege. 382 00:25:04,294 --> 00:25:06,630 Did you record your life before Starfleet? 383 00:25:07,297 --> 00:25:08,841 You might say my life began... 384 00:25:10,342 --> 00:25:13,345 when I was granted refugee status by the Federation. 385 00:25:14,179 --> 00:25:16,890 While being processed at Starbase 7... 386 00:25:19,143 --> 00:25:25,399 I saw for the first time life-forms from across the universe. 387 00:25:26,984 --> 00:25:28,485 Some with less than I had, 388 00:25:29,403 --> 00:25:34,283 yet with a dream of something better. 389 00:25:37,202 --> 00:25:38,287 I listened. 390 00:25:41,123 --> 00:25:42,958 Every story I heard... 391 00:25:44,668 --> 00:25:50,424 created a space inside me to feel more... 392 00:25:52,050 --> 00:25:54,136 to love more. 393 00:25:56,346 --> 00:26:01,185 I joined Starfleet to help those in need... 394 00:26:02,853 --> 00:26:04,271 the way I was helped. 395 00:26:04,354 --> 00:26:05,481 You are... 396 00:26:06,482 --> 00:26:10,527 the most empathic soul I know. 397 00:26:14,198 --> 00:26:18,994 There was just one painful caveat to my signing up. 398 00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:26,627 - I could never return home. - Why? 399 00:26:30,214 --> 00:26:32,132 More flashes of ultraviolet light. 400 00:26:32,216 --> 00:26:36,512 They are growing in strength and frequency. 401 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:38,680 - I'll get something from sickbay. - No, no. 402 00:26:40,307 --> 00:26:41,350 I will be fine. 403 00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:45,813 The captain asked you to return to the bridge as soon as possible. 404 00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:48,816 I can continue the work here. 405 00:26:49,650 --> 00:26:51,652 Spock is at maximum warp. 406 00:26:51,735 --> 00:26:53,529 If we're stuck here longer, we'll lose him. 407 00:26:53,612 --> 00:26:57,282 Reallocate power to long-range sensors. Don't lose contact with his shuttle. 408 00:26:57,366 --> 00:26:59,993 Even with sensors at max, we won't be able to track him for long. 409 00:27:00,452 --> 00:27:03,413 Contact Engineering. See if they can re-route impulse power to the deflector. 410 00:27:03,497 --> 00:27:07,042 If we can raise shields, we might be able to disrupt the stasis field to break free. 411 00:27:07,125 --> 00:27:09,795 - If so, can we jump away? - Negative, sir. 412 00:27:09,878 --> 00:27:12,422 We don't have enough power to create the necessary hull cavitation. 413 00:27:12,506 --> 00:27:13,924 Comms are still down in Engineering. 414 00:27:14,007 --> 00:27:16,927 Security protocols also malfunctioning, locking off parts of the ship. 415 00:27:17,010 --> 00:27:18,387 How we doing, commander? 416 00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:21,181 Digital antibodies are doing their job, but progress is sluggish. 417 00:27:21,265 --> 00:27:22,641 I'm running out of options. 418 00:27:23,392 --> 00:27:26,353 If we lose Spock, we lose any chance of protecting him. 419 00:27:26,436 --> 00:27:28,146 Permission to go to Engineering. 420 00:27:28,230 --> 00:27:31,108 We can't talk to them here, but I can help them get power to shields. 421 00:27:31,191 --> 00:27:32,025 Permission granted. 422 00:27:42,536 --> 00:27:44,663 - What's wrong? - The doors won't open, 423 00:27:44,746 --> 00:27:46,582 and that thing reattached itself to Tilly. 424 00:27:46,665 --> 00:27:47,624 Can you detach it? 425 00:27:47,708 --> 00:27:50,002 I could cut it off. She wouldn't even lose a freckle. 426 00:27:50,085 --> 00:27:51,503 Bad idea. 427 00:27:51,587 --> 00:27:54,423 If it's a symbiote, removing it might kill her. 428 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:56,049 Well, thanks for stopping by. 429 00:27:56,133 --> 00:27:58,468 I came to see if we can find a way to boost power to shields. 430 00:27:58,552 --> 00:28:01,638 With the systems fluctuating, this section is partitioned off. 431 00:28:01,722 --> 00:28:03,432 - We can't get to the warp core. - Michael! 432 00:28:10,272 --> 00:28:11,523 I'm really tired. 433 00:28:11,607 --> 00:28:12,566 What's happening? 434 00:28:12,649 --> 00:28:15,152 That blob is sending her in and out of consciousness. 435 00:28:15,235 --> 00:28:18,155 - Why is it doing that to her? - It's not like we can ask it. 436 00:28:20,657 --> 00:28:21,825 Actually, we can. 437 00:28:23,076 --> 00:28:24,786 This is a harmonic interface. 438 00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:27,831 It links my neurons to the mycelial network. 439 00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:31,460 With modification, it could link me to Tilly's central nervous system. 440 00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:33,921 Let May speak using Tilly's mouth. 441 00:28:35,297 --> 00:28:37,424 - Wait, what did you say? - We're gonna talk to it. 442 00:28:37,507 --> 00:28:39,468 We need it to tell us what it wants. 443 00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:40,636 So do we. 444 00:28:41,845 --> 00:28:43,680 The sphere has been trying to tell us something, 445 00:28:43,764 --> 00:28:45,474 and we haven't been listening. 446 00:28:45,557 --> 00:28:47,226 - Well, damn, woman, go! - We got her. 447 00:28:49,811 --> 00:28:52,648 Saru, could the sphere be trying to talk to us 448 00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:55,692 using the virus as a way to make first contact? 449 00:29:06,036 --> 00:29:08,080 Yes, of course. I've been so blind. 450 00:29:11,375 --> 00:29:17,089 The ultraviolet wavelengths are repeating like letters would in a sentence. 451 00:29:17,506 --> 00:29:20,759 - Everywhere! - Saru, stop. You're hurting yourself. 452 00:29:20,842 --> 00:29:22,219 No, no. No. 453 00:29:22,803 --> 00:29:25,847 You called me an empathic soul, and it is true. 454 00:29:25,931 --> 00:29:28,892 My ganglia respond to shifts in my environment 455 00:29:28,976 --> 00:29:30,435 like an early warning system. 456 00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:34,189 So, it is no coincidence that I started feeling sick 457 00:29:34,273 --> 00:29:37,943 just before the sphere engaged us. 458 00:29:38,026 --> 00:29:40,028 - Why would...? - I know what it is trying to say. 459 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:42,531 Not first contact, Burnham. 460 00:29:42,614 --> 00:29:44,658 Last contact. 461 00:29:45,534 --> 00:29:47,953 I think it came to us to die. 462 00:29:56,837 --> 00:29:59,381 - May? - Still me. 463 00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:02,092 Signal's piss poor. We need to amplify it. 464 00:30:02,175 --> 00:30:03,218 Cortical implant. 465 00:30:04,094 --> 00:30:08,515 - What, you're talking about trepanation? - Drilling a hole in her skull, yeah. 466 00:30:08,598 --> 00:30:10,600 Are you gonna fix her up with duct tape after? 467 00:30:10,684 --> 00:30:13,979 - Maybe. - Commander, I think she's right. 468 00:30:16,315 --> 00:30:17,941 And I think you think that, too. 469 00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:20,944 Then we do this together. 470 00:30:22,154 --> 00:30:25,699 This is all I had laying around. Please tell me you have a laser scalpel. 471 00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:29,202 No. We're gonna do this old school. We need to sterilize that drill bit. 472 00:30:29,286 --> 00:30:30,704 First aid kit's over there. 473 00:30:38,712 --> 00:30:40,922 I was able to raise shields. We've gained some ground, 474 00:30:41,006 --> 00:30:42,883 but we're still being held by the stasis field. 475 00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:44,468 Power levels coming and going, captain. 476 00:30:44,551 --> 00:30:48,263 Security reports two dozen crew trapped below deck. Life support failing. 477 00:30:48,347 --> 00:30:51,183 I'm reading an energy buildup from inside the sphere. 478 00:30:51,266 --> 00:30:53,393 Spiking 10,000 degrees Kelvin and rising. 479 00:30:53,477 --> 00:30:56,521 - Is it powering up weapons? - Reading no identifiable weapons. 480 00:30:56,938 --> 00:30:59,775 But its internal temperature's now 20,000 degrees Kelvin. 481 00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:01,485 Divert all non-essential power to weapons. 482 00:31:01,568 --> 00:31:05,030 Lock on that thing's radial axis, prepare to fire photon torpedoes. 483 00:31:05,113 --> 00:31:08,533 - Aye, sir. Arming torpedoes. - Captain, hold your fire! 484 00:31:08,617 --> 00:31:10,827 I do not believe the sphere means us any harm. 485 00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:13,330 All evidence to the contrary. That thing's about to destroy us. 486 00:31:13,413 --> 00:31:16,500 It's not destroying us. It's trying to send us a message. 487 00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:18,543 We received it. I'm about to send our reply. 488 00:31:18,627 --> 00:31:22,798 Captain, what if Vahar'ai, my death process, 489 00:31:22,881 --> 00:31:25,967 was triggered because the sphere is also dying? 490 00:31:29,304 --> 00:31:31,056 You wanna run that by me again? 491 00:31:31,139 --> 00:31:36,103 We Kelpiens have a defining trait hardwired into our DNA. Empathy. 492 00:31:36,186 --> 00:31:38,939 I can feel the sphere reaching out. 493 00:31:39,022 --> 00:31:41,233 Trying to share something before it expires. 494 00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:46,154 Sir, I trust Saru's feelings implicitly. That sphere didn't come to attack us. 495 00:31:46,238 --> 00:31:49,991 Captain, I believe I have discerned its means of communication. 496 00:31:50,951 --> 00:31:55,330 - Detmer, status on Spock's shuttle? - Exits our sensor range in six minutes. 497 00:31:55,789 --> 00:31:58,333 Once we lose his warp signature, we won't be able to reacquire it. 498 00:31:58,417 --> 00:32:01,211 Set an intercept course. I want us hauling ass when we break free. 499 00:32:01,294 --> 00:32:02,129 Aye, sir. 500 00:32:02,212 --> 00:32:03,922 Keep talking and make it fast. 501 00:32:04,005 --> 00:32:07,801 What if the sphere was not attacking our universal translator, 502 00:32:07,884 --> 00:32:10,762 but attempting to teach us its language? 503 00:32:11,179 --> 00:32:12,889 Because it wants to be remembered, 504 00:32:12,973 --> 00:32:16,560 and to preserve its history using Discovery. 505 00:32:16,643 --> 00:32:19,729 But it cannot unless we power down and let it in. 506 00:32:19,813 --> 00:32:23,024 That thing snatched us out of warp and almost gutted this ship. 507 00:32:23,108 --> 00:32:25,986 What if we lower shields, and that's what it needs to end us? 508 00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:32,492 Computer, adjust viewscreen display to ultraviolet. 509 00:32:34,077 --> 00:32:37,539 That is the light pattern I have been seeing everywhere, 510 00:32:37,622 --> 00:32:39,583 repeating again and again, 511 00:32:39,666 --> 00:32:42,210 generated by the sphere's virus. 512 00:32:42,836 --> 00:32:46,631 Computer, run the light pattern through the universal translator. 513 00:32:48,091 --> 00:32:50,760 Captain, I believe we are looking at a multitude of languages 514 00:32:50,844 --> 00:32:56,600 so advanced and knowledge so vast, that it simply overloaded our system. 515 00:32:56,683 --> 00:32:59,102 The sphere is 100,000 years old. 516 00:32:59,561 --> 00:33:02,355 Imagine what it knows, what it's seen. 517 00:33:02,772 --> 00:33:05,233 Captain, this falls under Discovery's original mission statement 518 00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:06,693 as a science vessel. 519 00:33:20,665 --> 00:33:23,585 Well, I'll be, an amplified cortical implant. 520 00:33:31,593 --> 00:33:32,427 Hey, kiddo. 521 00:33:34,554 --> 00:33:37,682 - What's your favorite song? - What? 522 00:33:38,099 --> 00:33:40,894 Your favorite song. Sing it for me. 523 00:34:29,901 --> 00:34:31,069 May? 524 00:34:33,697 --> 00:34:37,284 You wanted to talk to me? Here I am. 525 00:34:37,784 --> 00:34:39,953 What do you want? Who are you? 526 00:34:40,787 --> 00:34:43,081 I'm from a species known as the JahSepp. 527 00:34:43,164 --> 00:34:46,251 We lived harmoniously until an alien intruder 528 00:34:46,334 --> 00:34:48,461 began to arrive at random intervals, 529 00:34:49,671 --> 00:34:52,132 ravaging our ecosystem irreparably. 530 00:34:52,215 --> 00:34:56,678 So, you came for help to rid your species of a destructive alien presence? 531 00:34:56,761 --> 00:34:58,805 You are the destructive alien presence. 532 00:34:59,889 --> 00:35:02,392 The jumps? 533 00:35:05,145 --> 00:35:06,730 Discovery's jumps? 534 00:35:07,647 --> 00:35:11,276 I broke through the confines of the network to reach you at great risk. 535 00:35:11,359 --> 00:35:15,280 Risk? You infected my friend. You don't belong inside of her. 536 00:35:15,363 --> 00:35:17,324 You fly from within the cube. I couldn't reach you. 537 00:35:17,407 --> 00:35:19,534 In Tilly, I found the memory of May Ahearn, 538 00:35:19,618 --> 00:35:22,579 someone I knew she'd be sympathetic to if given a second chance. 539 00:35:22,662 --> 00:35:24,998 Once she trusted May, I planned to persuade her 540 00:35:25,081 --> 00:35:26,625 to deliver my message to you. 541 00:35:26,708 --> 00:35:29,419 Well, I can only ask for your forgiveness. 542 00:35:30,420 --> 00:35:31,421 I knew better. 543 00:35:32,255 --> 00:35:33,089 I know better. 544 00:35:33,757 --> 00:35:36,051 I'll do whatever it takes to fix this. 545 00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:38,928 - All I ask is that you let Tilly go. - I can't. 546 00:35:39,346 --> 00:35:40,972 I have other plans for her. 547 00:35:43,391 --> 00:35:44,434 Wrong. 548 00:35:46,436 --> 00:35:48,438 - No! - No! 549 00:35:48,521 --> 00:35:49,648 Tilly! 550 00:35:51,149 --> 00:35:54,611 The sphere's temperature is approaching ten to the 6th power Kelvin and rising. 551 00:35:54,694 --> 00:35:56,613 Our weapons will just disintegrate in that heat. 552 00:35:56,696 --> 00:35:59,866 - Solar temperatures. - A sign of core collapse. 553 00:35:59,949 --> 00:36:03,995 Captain, if we are correct, once the transmission is complete, 554 00:36:04,079 --> 00:36:07,624 the sphere can die knowing that it will live on after it is gone. 555 00:36:07,707 --> 00:36:12,170 We can choose to fulfill our part in its destiny, 556 00:36:12,253 --> 00:36:15,507 or simply let it fade away unremembered. 557 00:36:16,758 --> 00:36:19,010 Spock's shuttle is almost out of sensor range, sir. 558 00:36:21,721 --> 00:36:22,972 Prepare to lower shields. 559 00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:29,229 If this goes south, overload the warp core and eject it at the sphere on my command. 560 00:36:29,312 --> 00:36:31,398 Even at half the distance, the blast will decimate it. 561 00:36:31,481 --> 00:36:33,817 When it lets go, we divert all power to shields 562 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:35,610 and ride the shockwave to a safe distance. 563 00:36:35,694 --> 00:36:37,987 Assuming it doesn't vaporize us first. 564 00:36:38,071 --> 00:36:40,281 If there's even half a chance you're correct, 565 00:36:40,365 --> 00:36:44,536 I'm bound by my oath and conscience not to let it vanish forever. 566 00:36:44,619 --> 00:36:47,288 Commanders, take your stations. I'll follow your lead. 567 00:36:48,998 --> 00:36:51,626 Lieutenant Detmer, lower shields. 568 00:36:52,252 --> 00:36:54,212 Aye, sir. Shields down. 569 00:37:01,469 --> 00:37:03,138 Bryce, all channels open. 570 00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:07,100 Owosekun, divert all computing resources to Communications. 571 00:37:07,183 --> 00:37:09,561 Yes, commander. Here goes nothing. 572 00:37:22,073 --> 00:37:23,408 Transmission is downloading. 573 00:37:24,159 --> 00:37:27,036 Our library computers are processing at 20 percent above maximum. 574 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,956 - Whatever it says, we're getting it all. - How long until it blows? 575 00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:32,792 Seconds. Power and energy levels are off the chart. 576 00:37:32,876 --> 00:37:34,544 Detmer, can you put enough distance in time? 577 00:37:34,627 --> 00:37:36,880 Negative. We're still being locked by the stasis field. 578 00:37:36,963 --> 00:37:39,048 - Transmission complete. - Detmer, eject the warp core. 579 00:37:39,132 --> 00:37:41,801 - Computer controls not responding, sir. - Ignition confirmed. 580 00:37:41,885 --> 00:37:43,344 Hard astern, full impulse now! 581 00:37:53,897 --> 00:37:55,648 It is so beautiful. 582 00:37:55,732 --> 00:37:58,902 The light is almost like music. 583 00:37:58,985 --> 00:38:01,654 Yes. It is. 584 00:38:02,197 --> 00:38:04,866 I'm at a loss as to how we're still alive to see it. 585 00:38:07,243 --> 00:38:09,996 The sphere's stasis field reversed polarity a nanosecond 586 00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:13,500 before detonation... and pushed us clear. 587 00:38:15,835 --> 00:38:17,545 Its final act was to save us... 588 00:38:18,797 --> 00:38:20,173 so we could tell its story. 589 00:38:26,763 --> 00:38:27,972 Hand me the damn torch. 590 00:38:41,903 --> 00:38:44,572 Tilly, breathe. Breathe, Tilly, breathe. 591 00:38:44,656 --> 00:38:46,658 Breathe, breathe. Slow it down. 592 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,285 Come here. Come on. You're okay. 593 00:38:49,369 --> 00:38:50,453 You're still you. 594 00:38:52,747 --> 00:38:53,706 Slow. 595 00:38:56,125 --> 00:38:58,753 Stamets to Burnham, we got Tilly. She's okay. 596 00:39:16,521 --> 00:39:17,897 Now it is my turn. 597 00:39:18,523 --> 00:39:20,483 Take me to my quarters, please. 598 00:39:56,728 --> 00:39:58,980 I left home with a handful of seeds. 599 00:40:02,025 --> 00:40:03,443 Is this from your homeworld? 600 00:40:04,736 --> 00:40:09,449 It is the blossom that marks the passing of seasons on Kaminar. 601 00:40:12,660 --> 00:40:15,955 Somewhere along the way, I lost who I was. 602 00:40:16,623 --> 00:40:22,086 So focused on being the best Kelpien in Starfleet, 603 00:40:22,670 --> 00:40:27,383 defined by my rank and uniform. 604 00:40:30,136 --> 00:40:31,721 Until that is all I became. 605 00:40:37,143 --> 00:40:40,688 You are wrong. Look at what you've achieved. 606 00:40:41,356 --> 00:40:44,192 You found yourself among the stars. 607 00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:46,194 You found your bravery. 608 00:40:48,279 --> 00:40:49,697 Your strength. 609 00:40:50,490 --> 00:40:52,325 You saved so many lives, Saru. 610 00:40:54,410 --> 00:40:55,453 Including mine. 611 00:41:08,091 --> 00:41:08,925 It is time. 612 00:41:14,180 --> 00:41:17,934 In that first drawer, you will find a Kelpien knife. 613 00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:22,313 A keepsake I use to prune my flowers. 614 00:41:36,786 --> 00:41:38,121 I need you... 615 00:41:40,289 --> 00:41:43,668 to sever my ganglia and end my suffering. 616 00:41:44,585 --> 00:41:50,299 I need your help, so that I can die now peacefully... 617 00:41:51,551 --> 00:41:54,971 before the pain and madness overtakes me. 618 00:42:04,731 --> 00:42:06,941 Thank you, Michael. 619 00:42:21,539 --> 00:42:23,249 Do we have to do this? 620 00:42:24,959 --> 00:42:26,961 Is it truly inevitable? 621 00:42:27,712 --> 00:42:29,422 I am sorry. 622 00:42:33,509 --> 00:42:35,428 I know how hard this is for you. 623 00:42:37,638 --> 00:42:39,849 How many people you've already lost. 624 00:42:44,062 --> 00:42:45,605 I would do it myself... 625 00:42:48,191 --> 00:42:49,233 But I am too weak. 626 00:42:58,493 --> 00:42:59,660 After all this time... 627 00:43:02,789 --> 00:43:06,459 after everything that we have been through together... 628 00:43:09,003 --> 00:43:13,716 I realize now that you are my family, Saru. 629 00:43:16,594 --> 00:43:17,887 I feel the same... 630 00:43:20,556 --> 00:43:21,390 about you. 631 00:43:22,725 --> 00:43:24,811 You are the only one who knows me. 632 00:43:26,938 --> 00:43:29,315 You replaced the sister I had on Kaminar. 633 00:43:31,901 --> 00:43:32,777 Siranna. 634 00:43:35,822 --> 00:43:38,032 That knife was hers. 635 00:43:40,535 --> 00:43:44,747 I left her without so much as a goodbye. 636 00:43:46,457 --> 00:43:49,127 You promise me 637 00:43:49,585 --> 00:43:55,049 no matter how frightening or painful it may be, promise me... 638 00:43:56,634 --> 00:44:01,180 you will mend your relationship with Spock. 639 00:44:02,598 --> 00:44:06,185 If you and I could build this type of bond, 640 00:44:06,269 --> 00:44:07,979 I am certain you can do the same with him. 641 00:44:09,772 --> 00:44:10,606 Please? 642 00:44:12,733 --> 00:44:13,985 I promise. 643 00:44:19,824 --> 00:44:21,701 Goodbye, Michael. 644 00:44:27,165 --> 00:44:28,749 I love you, Saru. 645 00:44:37,425 --> 00:44:40,094 Michael, what is wrong? 646 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:43,222 I barely touched it. 647 00:44:44,015 --> 00:44:45,516 They fell out on their own. 648 00:44:55,401 --> 00:44:58,279 I... I don't understand. 649 00:44:59,155 --> 00:45:00,156 I should be... 650 00:45:05,202 --> 00:45:08,289 Your vital signs have returned to normal. How are you feeling? 651 00:45:08,789 --> 00:45:11,584 I have never felt this way before. 652 00:45:11,667 --> 00:45:15,546 Fear has always been the governing principle of my life. 653 00:45:16,589 --> 00:45:17,506 But now... 654 00:45:19,008 --> 00:45:20,676 it is gone. 655 00:45:21,427 --> 00:45:26,349 More than that, I feel... power. 656 00:45:27,224 --> 00:45:29,644 My own power. 657 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,857 Well, consider yourself certified for duty, commander. 658 00:45:40,112 --> 00:45:42,907 Despite speaking 94 languages... 659 00:45:45,117 --> 00:45:48,579 there are times when words are not enough. 660 00:45:56,504 --> 00:45:58,965 Initial reports are coming in from the science teams. 661 00:46:01,884 --> 00:46:04,470 The sphere didn't just give us its language. 662 00:46:04,553 --> 00:46:10,142 We have recorded everything it has seen and experienced the last 100,000 years. 663 00:46:10,226 --> 00:46:11,394 Its legacy. 664 00:46:12,395 --> 00:46:15,481 And your legacy has a new chapter. 665 00:46:17,066 --> 00:46:20,236 A new and deeply troubling one. 666 00:46:23,698 --> 00:46:27,827 The Kelpien way of life has always been oriented toward death, 667 00:46:28,244 --> 00:46:29,954 and the role the Ba'ul play in it. 668 00:46:30,621 --> 00:46:33,624 My people call it the Great Balance. 669 00:46:34,667 --> 00:46:37,795 It is our central organizing truth. 670 00:46:37,878 --> 00:46:40,631 - But you proved it wrong. - Precisely. 671 00:46:41,132 --> 00:46:44,593 And you asked me before why I could not go home. 672 00:46:45,344 --> 00:46:49,849 It is because I made a promise to Captain Georgiou 673 00:46:50,516 --> 00:46:52,184 to uphold General Order 1, 674 00:46:52,893 --> 00:46:55,730 not to interfere with the destiny of my species. 675 00:46:57,898 --> 00:47:03,821 But now... knowing that what my people have accepted as the truth 676 00:47:04,780 --> 00:47:06,407 is a lie... 677 00:47:09,452 --> 00:47:10,828 what does this mean for us? 678 00:47:12,496 --> 00:47:16,083 For my species? My planet? 679 00:47:22,256 --> 00:47:24,925 The war between the quaternary star systems 680 00:47:25,009 --> 00:47:27,887 and the Roquar'ri Imperium lasted a solar... 681 00:47:30,306 --> 00:47:33,142 - From the sphere? - The computer's translation. 682 00:47:33,225 --> 00:47:35,436 It's like we found our galaxy's Dead Sea Scrolls. 683 00:47:35,519 --> 00:47:38,314 Federation scientists will be studying this for centuries. 684 00:47:38,397 --> 00:47:39,732 Thanks to you and Saru. 685 00:47:42,359 --> 00:47:43,569 I hope it was worth the cost. 686 00:47:44,945 --> 00:47:46,405 Cost us nothing, sir. 687 00:47:47,114 --> 00:47:49,283 I combed through the sphere's sensor records 688 00:47:49,366 --> 00:47:52,119 and found the last thing that it saw. Spock's shuttle. 689 00:47:52,703 --> 00:47:54,663 I was able to track it beyond our sensor range. 690 00:47:57,291 --> 00:48:00,544 Conn, Commander Burnham is sending you the coordinates of Spock's shuttle. 691 00:48:00,628 --> 00:48:03,130 - Plot a course and don't spare the horses. - Aye, sir. 692 00:48:07,384 --> 00:48:08,344 From now on... 693 00:48:10,346 --> 00:48:14,767 I'll work to keep you clear about whatever happens with your brother. 694 00:48:14,850 --> 00:48:17,311 Thank you, captain, but I have had a change of heart. 695 00:48:19,021 --> 00:48:20,272 I can't abandon him. 696 00:48:21,524 --> 00:48:23,109 No matter the mistakes that I've made, 697 00:48:23,192 --> 00:48:25,569 I need my brother to know that I will always be there for him. 698 00:48:26,821 --> 00:48:27,655 No matter what. 699 00:48:33,786 --> 00:48:37,039 We need to close the door to the network forever. 700 00:48:37,665 --> 00:48:40,584 Just making final calculations. 701 00:48:41,001 --> 00:48:43,796 Hi. Hello? Hi. Hello? It's me! 702 00:48:46,006 --> 00:48:47,174 Did you see that? 703 00:48:47,258 --> 00:48:48,759 - See what? - May. 704 00:48:49,552 --> 00:48:51,470 She was there, and then she was gone. 705 00:48:51,554 --> 00:48:52,680 Oh... 706 00:48:54,098 --> 00:48:57,601 You might still be coming down off your hallucinogen. 707 00:48:57,685 --> 00:48:58,894 No, I swear. I swear. 708 00:48:58,978 --> 00:49:02,148 Yeah. Well, it's natural to be paranoid in your condition. 709 00:49:02,231 --> 00:49:03,941 Something's not right. Something's not right. 710 00:49:04,358 --> 00:49:05,484 Hello? 711 00:49:05,568 --> 00:49:07,653 Tilly! Tilly! Hello? 712 00:49:09,738 --> 00:49:13,534 Wow, have you always been a superior being? 713 00:49:14,034 --> 00:49:15,452 Hello? 714 00:49:15,536 --> 00:49:17,037 Because... 715 00:49:18,372 --> 00:49:19,790 the harmonics in your aura... 716 00:49:19,874 --> 00:49:24,753 You know, I was thinking the exact same thing about your aura. 717 00:49:24,837 --> 00:49:27,631 What's that dust on your face? 718 00:49:27,715 --> 00:49:29,133 It's on yours, too. 719 00:49:30,801 --> 00:49:32,720 - That tastes like... - Psilocybin? 720 00:49:32,803 --> 00:49:34,096 Psilocybin. 721 00:49:34,180 --> 00:49:36,140 It dosed us. Dosed us. 722 00:49:36,223 --> 00:49:38,142 Slap me really hard. 723 00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:41,187 Why did I do that? 724 00:49:41,270 --> 00:49:43,355 To get me focused enough to find the med kit. 725 00:49:43,439 --> 00:49:47,026 I need to hit us both with a shot of impedrizine, so we can come down. 726 00:49:50,154 --> 00:49:51,488 Now I need to give one to Tilly. 727 00:49:52,489 --> 00:49:54,200 Wait a minute, where is she? 728 00:49:55,117 --> 00:49:55,951 Tilly? 729 00:49:58,329 --> 00:49:59,413 Wait. 730 00:50:00,122 --> 00:50:03,083 Oh, my God, it took her. No, no, no! 731 00:50:06,003 --> 00:50:07,087 Tilly? 732 00:50:08,964 --> 00:50:10,174 No!