Michael convinces Chris to make an exchange with Jacob: the truth (and a battery) for a camera that recorded the moment the Terralisan’s ancestors were rescued from Earth. ![]() That is until Pike and Burnham have a heart-to-heart. The away team returns to Discovery to help an injured Pike, no closer to discovering the truth of the red signal. Jacob begs for them to tell him the truth, but they do not… Not even Burnham. ![]() Even though these people are humans, they left Earth before warp was invented, which means they are technically pre-warp. Michael wants to tell Jacob the truth, but Pike refuses. She sympathizes with Jacob, a man on Terralisia who immediately suspects the away party is from Earth, which would mean that Earth wasn’t destroyed in World War III, as this planet suspects. Here, we see Michael on the opposite side from Pike. It often pits different characters against one another, and asks semi-explored questions about the Federation as a colonial force. General Order One is a non-interference directive that states members of the Federation cannot interfere with the normal development of any pre-warp civilization and, throughout the history of Star Trek canon, has been used by the plot in various ways. The away mission to Terralisia is an opportunity for Discovery to explore one of its richest thematic dilemmas: The Prime Directive, known here as General Order One. (Sure, Spock has apparently seen visions of the red bursts since he was a kid, but that’s nothing compared to centuries…)įurther reading: Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Premiere Review This happened more than 200 years ago, which broadens the mystery of the red signals not only across massive amounts of space, but across centuries of time. ![]() The mysterious signal transported the human ancestors of the people who now live on Terralisia from the ashes of Earth’s World War III to the other side of the galaxy. It’s the first time that I’ve really cared about the mystery of the red bursts.
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