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Oct 22, 2017 · Lethe: Directed by Douglas Aarniokoski. With Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp. The USS Discovery crew is intrigued by new addition, Lt. Ash Tyler.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Douglas Aarniokoski
- 2017-10-22
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Teaser
On Vulcan, Sarek boards a cruiser for a diplomatic mission to a supposed dissenting Klingon faction on Cancri IV. Sarek doesn't inform his pilot, V'Latak, of the mission. On the USS Discovery, Burnham and Tilly are running together and discussing goals in Starfleet. Elsewhere, Lorca and Tyler are running a tactical drill in the holodeckwhile Lorca asks Tyler about himself. Lorca tries to check his story, but has already done most of the work and offers him chief of security on the ship. On th...
Act One
Burnham and Tilly eat after their workout, and Burnham micromanages her food choices. Tilly sees Tyler and excitedly goes to sit with him to meet him. Burnham is suspicious of the rumors about him. When she shakes his hand, however, she feels Sarek's pain and finds herself in the memory of herself, Sarek and Amanda when she found out she didn't get in to the Vulcan Expeditionary Group. Suddenly, Sarek turns to her abruptly in the memory and pushes her out. She wakes up in sickbay, and explain...
Act Two
On the shuttle into the nebula, Tilly is trying to talk through being nervous, and tries to get Burnham to talk. Tyler cuts in to say they're in position, and Burnham lies down with the interface. She finds herself back in the memory, when her mother gave her a copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Burnham confronts Sarek and they fight. Tyler orders it stopped and heads back to the ship. Burnham protests and Tyler reluctantly lets her try again. Meanwhile, Cornwell and Lorca relive a mem...
"May I inquire as to the nature of our diplomatic mission?" "Allow me to be diplomatic and ask that you do not. In times of crisis, ignorance can be beneficial." 1. - V'Latak and Sarek, on Sarek's mission "Everyone applying to the Command Training Program will be smart. Personality doesn't count." "That's just something people with no personality s...
Title
1. In Greek mythology, Lethe was both a river in the underworld and the Greek goddess of forgetfulness and oblivion. There was also a character named Lethe in TOS: "Dagger of the Mind", and the Letheans were a race introduced in another episode that Joe Menosky was involved in, DS9: "Distant Voices".
Story and script
1. This was the first episode of Star Trek to be written by Joe Menosky since VOY: "Unimatrix Zero, Part II" in 2000. 2. The script of this episode called for a Vulcan ship to appear but wasn't very specific about it. "The script just said, 'Vulcan ship' and that was it," recalled Goran Delic, who took on the task of designing the vessel. "There was no description. I knew that it was to be used by the Vulcan ambassador and that it should look slick and powerful in a Vulcan way, but that was i...
Cast
1. With the addition of this episode, Mia Kirshner became the fifth actress to portray the character of Amanda Grayson. Jane Wyatt originated the role in TOS: "Journey to Babel", Majel Barrett voiced the character in TAS: "Yesteryear", Cynthia Blaise played a young Amanda in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and Winona Ryder portrayed her alternate reality counterpart in the 2009 film Star Trek (as well as, in a deleted scenefrom that movie, the prime-universe version of the character).
Starring
1. Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham 2. Doug Jones as Saru 3. Shazad Latif as Ash Tyler 4. Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets 5. Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly And 1. Jason Isaacs as Gabriel Lorca
Guest starring
1. Jayne Brook as Katrina Cornwell 2. Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber 3. James Frain as Sarek 4. Mia Kirshner as Amanda Grayson 5. Kenneth Mitchell as Kol
Co-starring
1. Conrad Coates as Terral 2. Emily Coutts as Keyla Detmer 3. Julianne Grossman as DiscoveryComputer 4. Luke Humphrey as V'Latak 5. Clare McConnell as Dennas 6. Sara Mitich as Airiam 7. Oyin Oladejo as Joann Owosekun 8. Damon Runyan as Ujilli 9. Jonathan Whittaker as Vulcan Director
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