Burnham takes Spock’s message to Pike, who tells her that Spock was committed to a psychiatric ward. Burnham almost tells Pike about the winged figure she saw, but then stops herself, though really obviously. Discovery detects a new signal, but it’s 151 years away. Pike decides to use the spore drive again, even though everyone had decided to not use it after the War. I’m also sure Staments was super against ever doing it again, but he goes along with it with comparatively little fuss.
They jump to the coordinates, but the signal isn’t anywhere to be seen. A message from the surface reveals humans on the planet were under attack. However a visual check seems to show them peacefully living. The transmission has been broadcasting for 200 years, before Cochrane even invented warp. making it unclear as to how the colonists even got to the planet.
The colonists arrived during WW3, but appear to be a pre-warp civilisations. Pike quotes Clarke’s Third Law to explain how they got there, interpreting the law to refer to God, which is one of my core beliefs as a person so I’m nerding over that!
The church the away team land in represents a variety of Earth religions. One of the windows appears to show an angelic figure, when a colonists comes in. After they explain they’re not from the region, they go to a ceremony, where the history is explained. Before bombing in WW3 destroyed the people, an angel transported them to the planet. Unclear as to which god to thank, the colonists combined all religions.
Tilly, who was knocked out dissecting the asteroid, wakes up in sick bay. Saru rebukes her for her recklessness, but also gives her encouraging advice. Radiation from the planet is about to cause an extinction level event. Saru speculates that if there was a motivation behind the signal, perhaps it was to save the inhabitants.
Burnham wants to rescue the inhabitants, while Pike argues that they’re a pre-warp civilisations. However it is revealed one of the colonists rigged the signal to bring them here, as he believed that Earth survived and evolved. When the away team tries to leave, Jacob stuns them with a grenade. They manage to break out of the basement when they wake up, and Pike orders them to continue to following General Order 1.
Tilly is rambling in sick bay to problem solve, helped with someone called May who … seems very excited while not really changing her face and speaking fast and is flirting with Tilly??? She’s like Tilly but less endearing …
Acting as a bouncing board allows Tilly to figure out a solution, namely using the dense asteroid to attract the radioactive debris.
Jacob wants to return back to Earth, but Mother insists that Jacob is in his real home. Unfortunately one of the kids is messing around with a phaser, and sets it to go off (man those things are unsafe), prompting Pike to grab it and lie on top of it as it explodes, fatally wounding him. Jacob insists they use their tech to save him, but the away team take him to the church instead.
Discovery jumps in front of the debris, and uses the asteroid to slingshot the debris away, saving the planet as the away team beams back. May congratulates ‘Stilly’, prompting Tilly to realise that May Ahern was her old classmate. She asks the computer to identify where Ahern is, however the computer states she is dead.
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Burnham finally tells Pike about the angel, and the correlation to the signal. Burnham convinces Pike to tell the truth to Jacob, which to be honest I don’t think is a breach of General Order 1 considering he already kinds knows. At peace, Jacob deactivates the signal. Pike exchanges a power cell for the broken camera that filmed the day the Church was transported.
Jacob reactivates the light in the Church, to the amazement of the colonists. Pike watches back the tape, which reveals the red angel.
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