Star Trek: Discovery - Season 2 Recap

Full recap of the second season of Star Trek: Discovery.

Premise: Star Trek: Discovery is set roughly a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series, and follows the crew of the USS Discovery during the Federation–Klingon war of 2256.

Music: The Whole Other - Familiar Things

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01 – Brother
En route to the planet Vulcan to pick up its new captain following the betrayal of Captain Lorca during the Federation–Klingon war, the USS Discovery receives a distress call from the USS Enterprise. Captain Christopher Pike takes emergency command of the Discovery and explains that the Enterprise was investigating seven mysterious red signals when it was catastrophically damaged. All but one of the signals have disappeared, but it too, is gone when Discovery arrives at its location. They discover the wreckage of the USS Hiawatha on an asteroid made of non-baryonic matter and inside find engineer Jet Reno nursing the last survivors of the crew. They are all transported back to the Discovery. Commander Burnham then has a vision of a Red Angel while on the asteroid, and later visits the damaged Enterprise to investigate the quarters of her foster brother Spock, who had previously taken leave for a personal investigation. She discovers that he had been having nightmares of the seven red signals.

02 – New Eden
Burnham confronts Pike about Spock's nightmares and his personal leave and learns that Spock had committed himself to a psychiatric unit and requested that Starfleet not inform his family. Discovery detects another of the signals and uses its spore drive to instantly travel to the planet, Terralysium, with a previously unknown human population. A looped transmission suggests the population departed Earth during World War III. Pike and Burnham lead an away team to the planet's surface and find a primitive society with a religion combining multiple human faiths. During the team's investigation, an anomaly produces an extinction-level radiation shower. Ensign Silvia Tilly, after receiving advice from a medical staffer, uses a fragment of the non-baryonic asteroid to avert the catastrophe, later recognizing the staffer as classmate May Ahearn, who died five years earlier. Returning to Discovery, Pike reviews footage from a helmet camera recovered on the planet to see that the population had been taken from Earth by the Red Angel from Burnham's vision.

03 – Point of Light
Spock's mother Amanda Grayson learns that he has escaped the psychiatric unit and is wanted for murdering three doctors. She steals his medical records and takes them to Discovery for decryption. Grayson recognizes a drawing in the records from Spock's childhood art: the Red Angel. Burnham admits to emotionally hurting Spock when they were young, to protect him from Vulcan's logic extremists. On Qo'noS, Klingon house leader Kol-Sha threatens to kill Starfleet Officer Ash Tyler and the Klingon Empire's leader L'Rell for having a secret child. Instead, they kill Kol-Sha with the help of Philippa Georgiou, the Empress of the Mirror Universe's Terran Empire and now a Starfleet Section 31 agent. In a ruse to consolidate power, L'Rell convinces the Klingon High Council that Tyler and the baby are dead, while in fact Georgiou delivers the baby to a monastery and recruits Tyler to Section 31. On the Discovery, Burnham and Stamets use dark matter to remove a parasite from Tilly that was causing her hallucination of May.

04 – An Obol for Charon
A living, intelligent, planetoid-sized sphere pulls Discovery out of warp and immobilizes it. The crew surmises the Sphere is well-intentioned and has gathered gargantuan amounts of data from all over the galaxy that it does not want to be lost before it dies. However, the Sphere's hold on Discovery triggers the Vahar'ai in Commander Saru, a fatal condition to his species, the Kelpiens. The Sphere transmits its information to the crew and dies, releasing Discovery so as not to be caught in the ensuing explosion. Saru asks Burnham to help prepare for his death by removing his threat ganglia, which senses danger. However, the ganglia fall out on their own and leave Saru healthy and living without overwhelming fear. Meanwhile, the parasite attaches itself to Tilly again, once again accessing her memories to communicate as a hallucination of May. The parasite claims Discovery has nearly destroyed its ecosystem by using its species' mycelial network to jump through space with the spore drive. It then consumes Tilly, leaving no trace of her




Most of the text summaries originate from Wikipedia. I may have adjusted some parts to provide a more cohesive story. I have added a voice-over and matching screenshots to provide you with an audiovisual recap.