Everything You Need to Remember Ahead ofStar Trek: Discovery‘s Return

It ’s ultimately here ! After almost a year of waiting , Star Trek : Discovery is boldly re - entering our aliveness for aSpocktacular soph seasonof quad chicanery . But considering it ’s been so long , we recollect we ’d remind you of where the good old U.S.S. Discovery found itself by the end of the first time of year .

Rest in Molecule-Sized Pieces, Captain Lorca

commemorate when Captain Lorcarevealed himselfas a works from the vicious Mirror Universe , who fly to the prime Star Trek reality to avoid death for being part of a coup that , and I quote , wanted to “ Make the Empire Glorious Again ? ” Because we certainly have n’t , ahahahahaha!Oh , god .

Anyway , one kickass fight with malefic Michelle Yeoh by and by — sorry , her most Imperial Majesty , Mother of the Fatherland , Overlord of Vulcan , Dominus of Kronos , Regina Andor , Emperor Philippa Georgiou Augustus Iaponius Centarius — Lorca find himself prod through the bureau and left to get onto into the overt warp thrust of the Terran Empire ’s flagship , so outside of some incredible asspulls , the Discovery needs a Modern captain rifle into its 2d season .

Saru is currently the ship ’s acting Captain , and by the very end of the season , the ship was on the path to pick up its new captain from Vulcan ( and drop off Ambassador Sarek ) . But before all that …

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That Time a Starfleet Admiral Nearly Did a Genocide

After Lorca ’s death and a rapid escape from the Mirror Universe with Emperor Georgiou in tow , the Discovery found its home a little worse for wearing equate to where it had leave it when it first “ accidentally ” ( another gift of Lorca ’s ) ventured to the Mirror Universe during themidseason finale . Mainly because , without its sorta - top - secret super - coolheaded teleport - atomic number 39 warship , the Federation ’s state of war with the Klingons was going south . The Klingon ’s armadas were much on the doorstep of obtrude upon Earth , having impinge deeply within Federation territory , wiping out starships and starbases aplenty .

All that had taken its price on poor Admiral Cornwell who , after nearly being broken by the sight of Starbase 1 place waste by a Klingon raiding political party , decides with Federation brass that they should use Mirror Georgiou to plant a dud in an fighting volcano organisation on Qo’noS , the Klingon homeworld , rendering it uninhabitable and cripple the Klingon warfare effort . in the main by kill a flock of Klingons !

clearly , Saru , Burnam , and the residuum of the Discovery crew are not at all proud of with being unwitting pawns in an act of genocide , and after basically give out to Cornwell and tell “ What ? No . ” They manage to convince her to avail them halt Georgiou from planting the bomb . One earnest confabulation with the assholish alt - universe similitude of her dead ex - Captain subsequently , and Burnham not only convinces Georgiou to not go through with the detonation but just … wander off , with no threat of Starfleet chasing her down .

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All Hail the Chancellor

Instead of using the already - planted bomb to do Some Genocide , Burnham ’s compromise is to alternatively hand over its explosion codes to L’Rell , T’Kuvma ’s former underling who had been hold confined on Discovery for a while . It allow her to end the state of war with the Federation and rise to the position of Chancellor of the High Council , strong - fortify the disparate Klingon firm into a unified order ( under the terror of thoroughgoing and full extermination , but hey , unity ! ) . The crew of the Discovery take off , but not before leaving one of their own behind : Ash Tyler ( who had been disclose asan elaborate Klingon Turduckenof Voq — and then run on to basically become Ash with a elan of Voq instead of Voq with a panache of Ash , god this show go some places ! ) . He decided to stay behind with L’Rell , imagine that Starfleet would n’t want an ex - Klingon in a human skinsack hanging around .

L’Rell was n’t the only someone toend the seasonwith a furtherance . For ending the war ( and Not Doing a Genocide ) , the bridge work party of the Discovery were all awarded laurel wreath of honour — and Burnham had her “ so you start up an interstellar warfare ” record expunge in the process , regaining her Commander rank and place in Starfleet as Discovery ’s science officer . Even Mirror Georgiou engender in on the fun in what eventually becamea erase scenereleased at WonderCon last yr — draw close by Section 31 , the mysterious , morally grey Starfleetcovert - ops spy group , she was offered a position that she mirthfully take . Expect that to be a problem in time of year 2 and boom on inher own new announced CBS All Accessseries .

Enter Enterprise

So after that not - so - brief interlude , we ’re back to Saru captain the Discovery on the direction to Vulcan at the very destruction of the time of year . Well , that is before they were interrupted by a antecedency one distress sign that saw them come face to face with a Starfleet image … the Constitution - Class spaceship NCC-1701 . Better sleep with to you and I asthe U.S.S. Enterprise .

It was there that Discovery ’s entry season conclude , but we now know that the Enterprise and her crowd will form a major part of the second time of year — because before it gets its replacement captain , the Discovery is going to swap chairs with another familiar Star Trek side , who we ’ll discuss in a moment .

A Few More Things to Remember…

While all that above fairly much covers where we ’re at coming into Discovery ’s return , there are a few more thing to be aware of derive into the season :

We ’re meeting some famous look from the original Star Trek pilot program . The Enterprise ’s arrival entail we ’re brushing up against the earliest bits of literal - world Trek history — and with it , faces from the actual original pilot for Star Trek . Before James Kirk ever ride in a Captain ’s chair , there was Captain Christopher Pike , played by Jeffrey Hunter in “ The coop ” and now play byAnson Mount . He ’ll be connect by the mysterious Number One , play by Majel Barrett in the pilot ( who went on to provide the iconic voice of Star Trek ’s computing machine systems throughout the franchise ) , and now dally byRebecca Romijn .

Oh , and Spock too ! Yes , Spock was around in the sidereal day before Kirk , so it ’s entirely fine in canyon that we ’ll be meeting a younger version of the far-famed Vulcan — who is , commemorate , actually Burnham ’s adoptive crony — now played byEthan Peck . Spock will playa crucial rolein the season , having gone on leave-taking from the Enterprise to enquire a series of mysterious beacon that have lead to a crisis situation that warrants Pike pounce in and commandeering the Discovery .

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Discovery ’s traveling the sometime - fashioned way again . In season one , the Discovery locomote by the mean value of a fantastic “ spore drive”—a top - secret piece of innovative biotechnology technical school ( part by powered by a genetically modify Stamets ) that allow the ship to leap from point to taper almost in a flash . Damage to the mycelial electronic connection it traveled along because of the events of Discovery ’s journey into the Mirror Universe — and , err , the fact that genetically augmented humans who undergo processes like Stamets did are highly illegal in the Federation — has now lead to the Spore Drive presently being mothball while the Federation research a safe way to utilise it that rather does n’t require genetically altering someone to be a live battery . So now , like every other Starfleet vessel , the Discovery just go along at warp speed .

Klingons are gon na have hair again . Remember everyonegot madat the bald Klingons in time of year 1 ? Well , proficient news program : They ’re drive hairier again . The ground ? Apparently , to honor the legendary Klingon warrior who founded the Empire in the first place , Kahless , Klingons ceremonially shave in times of war . Now that state of war with the Federation is over , they ’re letting their recollective , glorious locks regaining . Q’apla !

In the meantime , you should really see those Short Treks minisodes . Okay so that one ’s not really a thing to recollect so much as a reminder that — if you ’re in the U.S. and Canada , at least — in the rill - up to time of year two ’s launching , CBS free four 10 - 15 minute of arc unretentive episodes under the bannerStar Trek : Short Treks , featuring Saru , Tilly , Harry Mudd , and a secret newfangled increase to the Discovery universe . They were all actuallyreallygoodlittleslicesof Trek , so if you ’ve not been watch over them , get in the modality before season 2 begins on January 17 and give them a spotter !

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