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Previously on Star Trek: Discovery...

I do believe it would be only logical,

given this development, for us to...

codify our mutual commitment.

Are you asking me to marry you?

We've been calling them the Progenitors.

They created life as we know it.

Life as in...

Every humanoid species in the galaxy.

We have to get the Progenitors' power and keep it safe.

And now we're on this quest

to find the thing that created us.

I mean, it's all so big.

What do you know about Breen leadership?

Succession, specifically.

Another Primarch controlled our planet.

Tahal. Put up a hell of a fight,

but I'm the only one of my family that made it.

Our intelligence indicates that one of the five Primarchs,

Tahal, intends to take Ruhn's soldiers for herself

in order to strengthen her bid for the throne of the Imperium.

RILLAK: We need some way of stopping her fleet.

I would like to volunteer.

If the gesture is misunderstood,

it could be a suicide mission.

- [monitor droning] - [sobbing]

This isn't how our story ends.

The power we seek created life.

It can also renew life.

That is why we need to find it.

another obstacle inside of the structure,

and I got information on how to beat it.

- What information, exactly? - A phrase.

"Build the shape of the one between the many."

learning how to use it could take time.

This will preserve L'ak's body until then.

[whispering]: I will bring you back.

It has to be what leads to the Progenitors' tech.

- I have to go in there. - Wait.

You do not know what is inside.

Not yet. Moll! Wait!

[phasers blasting]

[screams]

Michael!

We're getting them both back.

Failure... not an option.

BURNHAM: Come with me.

[pants]

BOOK: Michael!

Discovery, do you read?

Do you read?

And I cannot explain what I'm looking at right now.

[exhales]

Readings don't make sense, either.

That has to be where the Progenitors' technology is.

Okay.

I'm on my way to secure it now.

I haven't seen any of the Breen that came in here.

Huh.

Discovery, if you're listening,

there's a series of...

I don't know what to call them, windows?

to test lifeforms in different environments.

Or maybe that's how the Progenitors

[wind whooshing]

- [buzz] - [gasps]

[exhales]

[shouts, grunts]

[yells]

- [wind whistling] - [thunder rumbling]

[panting]

[thunder cracks]

[groaning]

[electronic garble]

Wait, we can help each other!

[grunts]

[grunting]

[grunting]

- [alarm ringing] - SUIT COMPUTER: Warning.

Stop it!

Stop!

Computer, how much more of this?

SUIT COMPUTER: Windspeed dropping now.

- [groans] - [wind subsides]

Computer, tell me when the next gust is coming.

[thunder rumbling]

- [alarm beeping] - SUIT COMPUTER: Warning.

[grunts]

[groans]

[gasps]

[panting]

[panting]

[electronic garble]

BURNHAM: Come on.

- [gasps] - MOLL: Don't move.

Someone nicked your femoral vein.

Yeah, well, I bashed his helmet in,

so fair trade, I guess.

I'm gonna toss you my dermal regenerator.

I assume you know how to get through this place.

What makes you think that?

Must've learned something.

Maybe.

But I won't do it as your prisoner.

You're in no position to negotiate.

Neither are you,

if you want a chance to bring L'ak back.

Drop your weapon.

trying to get out of here.

Your choice.

It's as good a deal as you're gonna get.

Fine.

For now.

Let's go get what we came for.

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[original Star Trek theme plays]

TILLY: Still no sign of Captain Burnham from inside the portal.

RAYNER: Keep trying.

Commander Jemison, can you get a transport lock on the portal?

Tractor beam is the only way,

and for that we have to be in range.

That'll take time. A lot of debris to navigate.

Anybody have any good news?

I'm guessing not much. Where's Tahal?

Her fleet will be here in 60 minutes.

That's our clock.

at least 40 of them.

All auxiliary power to shields. Asha, stay on the portal.

Our mission does not change.

Discovery is running out of time.

Tahal will reach them in 60 minutes.

She cannot learn of the Progenitors' power.

I believe my strategy will convince her

to turn her fleet around.

A strategy based on disabling your shuttle's photon torpedoes.

Diplomacy cannot succeed if both parties threaten violence.

You'll be defenseless.

I cannot in good conscience order my officer

to take you on this mission.

Doesn't have to be an order, sir.

I volunteer.

The crew of Discovery is family to us both, Admiral.

We must try,

and we have no other options.

NHAN: The pathway drive is calibrated. We're good to go.

The Federation is counting on you, Ambassador.

On both of you.

- How's that possible? - It's not.

Nothing in nature is truly infinite.

So, what happens after we find the tech? You shoot me?

Not if you let me have it.

If there's a way to bring L'ak back,

I don't trust the Federation,

or the Breen for that matter.

But at least they have a vested interest

in getting me what I want.

if we don't protect that power.

Only so much you or the Federation can control.

Maybe.

But there's no way I'm letting the Breen anywhere near it.

We'll see about that.

[grunting]

It doesn't have to be this way.

- Your choice, not mine. - [grunts]

[both grunting]

[shouts]

[grunts]

RAYNER: Find a way to get it back. Stay on target.

RHYS: The Breen fighters are gaining on us.

RHYS: Torpedo impact incoming.

[explosion]

Shields down to 60%.

We're heading right for it.

- Meaning what? - TILLY: If we create one spark too many,

the whole thing will blow.

RHYS: Fighters are following us.

Damage report.

- This is like the avalanche all over again. - Sir?

Q'Mau. Mission changed, Burnham saw it.

If we keep going, we'll never make it.

Change of plans.

We take out the fighters first, come back for the portal.

You wouldn't survive all of five seconds out there.

With Discovery distracting them, I can slip past.

Hey. Let me do this.

Sir, our shuttles are not designed to withstand

the level of radiation that's out there.

He'll need help.

Engineering, find a way for Booker

Okay, so, uh, you attach this to the deflector array

But the thing is, a-at a certain point,

you just won't survive.

Thanks for the tip.

subatomic particles for at least an hour, so there's that.

CULBER: Hypospray coming in.

Book, you'll need this to counteract

What? No, come on, it's too dangerous.

A pilot can always use an extra pair of hands.

Hugh, what are you talking about?

Paul, this isn't a debate.

There are black holes out there, Hugh.

I have to do this.

Hey. Ever since Jinaal, I've been trying

I'm not sure if this will give me the answers, but it might.

I know I can.

Okay.

I'll be okay, I promise.

Okay, let's do this.

[panting]

we're both gonna end up dying in here.

You got a better idea?

Stand down.

I know what it's like to lose somebody

who means everything to you.

But thankfully

I got him back.

So I promise you

I will do everything in my power to help you and L'ak.

But I need you to trust me.

And the Federation.

Me.

I give you my word.

How do we get through?

Weapons first.

Right boot.

[clatters]

And your pattern buffer.

If there were weapons in there,

Then why do you have it?

You have L'ak in there.

I needed to know he'd be safe.

Okay.

[sighs]

Follow me.

Mr. Booker's shuttle is on its way.

Good.

All right, then. Time to switch from defense

to offense.

Sir, I-I have a kind of crazy idea.

but I've been reviewing the data from that plasma region.

I think there's a way for us to use it against them.

Yes, it's genius.

and take them all out at once.

We'd have to get out of there before we lit it up.

The timing would need to be perfect.

[shudders]

Aye, Commander.

So, on every step of the trail, finding the clue

They went extinct four billion years ago.

But if you look around,

gravity and space function differently in here.

that we do, so we have to look beyond three dimensions...

and find what's beyond what we can see.

The negative space here at the edge of this light.

It's a shadow with nothing to create it.

I thought it was an optical illusion at first, but...

[gasps softly]

NHAN: I have Tahal's fleet on scans, Mr. Saru.

Disengaging pathway drive. Ready to intercept.

SARU: On your mark, Commander.

NHAN: Hang on.

Coming into position now.

- [alarm ringing] - They're arming weapons.

We pose no threat. I request an audience.

[comm buzzes]

She will respond.

[comm chirps]

Okay, then.

Here we go.

Ambassador Saru, are you insane?

Not to the best of my knowledge,

efforts at diplomacy.

The Federation has no role to play

in a conflict between Primarchs.

with a Breen dreadnaught.

Your arrival risks escalating that conflict

The most prudent choice would be to return

your attention to the Imperium throne.

I am curious, why would you engage with dreadnaughts

do the same in the vicinity of black holes, no less?

Something there must be of great interest to the Federation.

You speak of maybes and mights.

I offer certainty.

If you reverse course,

Your sole access to this route

would bolster your claim to the throne.

Your offer is of no interest.

Sir, is that... is that it?

Not at all. She gave me the information we need,

Where are we now?

Is the technology here?

The technology, it's this entire place.

Strange place for a pile of rocks.

One of the scientists was killed here.

Trying to use the power.

That center disc up there, that's where we need to go.

It must sense our presence.

Wait.

- They move. - No, stop, stop, stop, stop.

When I found the last clue, I was given a phrase:

"Build the shape of the one between the many."

I think these triangles are the many.

Nine. That's the number you need

The many building the one.

No, the message was "between the many," not-not "with."

No.

The scientists...

they left messages with every clue.

They had cultural context.

They were honoring difference and self-reflection.

It was all about meaning. Deeper meaning.

Looking beneath the surface. I...

We need to get this back to the Federation

before we try to use it.

BOOK: Michael, do you read?

- Book? - Do you read?

almost at the portal.

We're coming to get you.

- Book? - Do you read?

[transmission continues indistinctly]

[gasps]

Sorry.

I don't know how this thing works.

And I will bring you back.

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[whirring]

[screaming]

The Breen are still in pursuit!

Entering the plasma region now.

Are all the fighters behind us yet?

but something is happening to it.

[explosion]

If one black hole loses mass,

it'll throw the entire area into gravitational chaos.

- [grunting] - BOOK: Understood.

Last of the fighters entering the plasma behind us.

Did we get them?

[console chirping]

Tilly, get a team on repairs.

Asha, get us to the portal now.

It's heading directly for Book and the portal.

They're gonna beat us there.

Can we jump ahead of them?

Negative, there's still

too much debris for us to land safely.

Asha, set a course to intercept the dreadnaught.

Aye, Commander.

RAYNER: Book, Culber, we handled the fighters,

Grab on to the portal, we'll get to you as soon as we can.

Whatever process just started,

it's pulling the portal towards the black hole.

We're in range. Engaging the tractor beam now.

Tractor beam lock failure.

The portal's repelling the beam.

I don't understand.

SHUTTLE COMPUTER: Tractor beam lock failure.

Synchronize to the portal's subspace resonance frequency.

What?

5.1732.

I know, I'm a doctor, not a physicist, but...

this will work.

I can't explain it, I just feel it.

Synchronizing now.

SHUTTLE COMPUTER: Tractor beam lock successful.

Whoo! [laughs]

SHUTTLE COMPUTER: Warning, proximity alert.

[crashing]

Well, we won't survive much more of that.

So, what, we just... hold on?

Michael's in there, we can't let go.

or they'll destroy us.

you would have the courage

to take a step toward a future with the Federation,

but you are just as cowardly as our admirals believed you to be.

No, Ambassador, you will not leave.

you will never claim the throne of the Imperium.

I may have arrived as an emissary of the Federation,

My species are predators,

and I've studied you like prey.

Your bases in the L'Tar Nebula

to secure a trade route.

Clever, yet I fail to see why that should intrigue me.

Even now, many are preparing to attack your bases without mercy

unless I order them to stand down.

And you will be weakened,

allowing the other Primarchs to strike.

That will cost you the throne.

The only way to avoid such an outcome

You are bluffing.

You do not have this kind of power.

Don't I?

even the slightest glimmer of doubt.

[sighs]

They're changing course.

[sighs]

Do you really think that's it?

She would like us to believe as much.

We should cloak and watch carefully.

Discovery may yet need our assistance.

Something happened.

Something the portal started doing

is causing gravitational chaos.

We've taken some damage,

Moll.

Moll!

[crackling]

[Moll gasping]

Gonna try to help all of you.

I just got to stop whatever this portal is doing.

All right, okay.

"The shape of the one between the many."

[sighs]

and all they knew is what they saw.

Here, in this place.

Every clue has prepared us for this.

[sighs] One last test.

"The one between the many."

"The one between the many."

The shadow.

It's the negative space.

One between many.

In the negative space between them.

[laughs]

[gasping]

[sighs]

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You're one of the Progenitors.

I've been waiting for you.

[soft exhale]

BURNHAM: How is this possible?

My species went extinct billions of years ago.

But our minds-- yours and mine-- are here,

in this liminal space-time adjacent to my own.

Why did you bring me here?

It is my duty to share instructions

on how to operate this technology.

It's going to take you some time to learn.

- We should begin. - Wait.

I'm sorry, uh...

We'll definitely get to that, but...

whatever's happening,

whatever this place is doing to my space-time,

can it be stopped?

Stopped?

Yes, Moll, the person that I came here with,

she used the interface,

she activated something, it's altering gravity

in my space-time.

My crew, my friends, they're all in danger.

You engaged the safety protocol,

but your friend Moll did not.

But she'll likely survive.

They all have time.

Wait, I...

I don't know if you understand.

Time functions differently in here.

In your present moment,

the technology is merely gathering the power

it requires to perform its function:

designing and creating life.

Can it be used to restore life?

A new being can replace a lost one.

But though the new replacement would be genetically identical,

it would share none of its memories,

none of its fundamental essence.

Still, the speed of creation is adjustable,

as is scale, if you wish to try.

Wait, if speed and scale can be controlled,

somebody can use this to engineer an army.

A brick is just a brick.

It can create a home

or destroy a body.

That's why we chose only to seed life.

You may have seen evidence of it

in the tunnel that brought you here.

Those were all worlds you created?

No.

We found them here.

You found them?

You didn't build this?

We theorize that whoever created this

created us.

But perhaps it goes even further back.

A cycle of creators and creations,

countless times over,

this place predates them all.

Come.

I have something to show you.

SHUTTLE COMPUTER: Warning. Shields at five percent.

Radiation levels now--

- You should let me beam you out. - Book...

You have a family, Hugh.

I'll go if I have to.

But I'm staying as long as I can.

How'd you know how to grab it? The portal?

A memory of Jinaal's.

The scientists ran into the same problem

when they started to build the Structure around it.

I thought you didn't have access to his memories.

I don't.

This is the first time it's ever happened, and I'm...

I'm sitting here, wondering: Why that one?

- Why now? - BOOK: Right.

How did I know that I had to come with you?

I was hoping for an answer, but...

[laughs]

...there isn't one.

Not long ago that would've driven me crazy.

[chuckles] Yeah.

I remember.

It's still a process, but...

...maybe there's something...

...kind of beautiful about the mystery.

Right.

I don't know. I just...

I'm glad I could help.

Commander, I have a call incoming.

It's Mr. Saru.

- Put him through. - Aye, Commander.

Primarch Tahal and her fleet have reversed course, Commander.

However, she did leave a scout vessel to continue on.

It is cloaked, presumably intent on learning

if that scout catches wind of the Progenitors' tech,

Tahal's coming back here with an army.

I know.

SARU: If you must jump to safety,

Can't destroy the dreadnaught.

Can't let the scout report back either.

Only move-- take 'em both off the field of battle.

Say we disable all the safeguards,

all of 'em, on the spore drive,

could we jump something that's not Discovery?

Maybe.

Uh, no.

No way. It's impossible.

if we quantum-entangled the spores...

And they were separated by distance--

a-a-any distance, really--

- By jumping whatever was between them. - Yeah.

Is that a yes?

We'd need, uh, two poles

to extend the entanglement field between.

Then do it. We've got three minutes.

Two and a half, sir.

But who's counting? Get a move on.

Um, sir, uh, where do we jump them to?

[exhales sharply]

Galactic barrier.

Take 'em a couple decades to get back, but they'll live.

Attention.

This is Commander Rayner.

Good crew.

I appreciate the trust.

in the vicinity of the dreadnaught.

Understood, Commander.

Black alert.

PROGENITOR: I'm so honored to share this with you.

You're only the second being to make it to me.

Yes.

She believed that civilization wasn't ready

for this technology yet.

I agreed to wait if she would build a path

to better prepare the next visitor for the responsibility.

And that visitor is you.

You will become its steward.

[sighs]

No single being should control this kind of power.

Dr. Derex and I discussed the path.

And you have traveled it.

You've learned its lessons,

and you've faced your darkest sides.

Yes, and I'm far from perfect.

I'm afraid.

Lost sometimes.

Every sentient being,

myself included,

is all of those things.

Yet some strive to be the best of themselves.

I see that in you.

It's not just about me.

Right now

a battle is waging out there.

My crew is risking their lives to protect this portal.

To protect us, to protect this technology.

know the right way to use it?

To bring peace and not more conflict?

That's a question only a steward can answer.

You must ask yourself what is most meaningful to you.

There are, of course, many possible answers.

Some find meaning in the advancement of science.

Some through connection

and love.

Others in the beauty of the unknowable.

Some in family

and community.

[distorted]: Now!

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I found my meaning in embracing difference.

You see,

we were alone in the cosmos,

a single sentient culture.

Our wish was to create a diversity of beings

in the galaxy,

a richness of variation.

Now it is your turn to consider

what is most meaningful to you.

I have been struggling with that.

I trust that the answer will become clear to you.

I need time...

to think about this.

I, uh...

[sighs]

I can't do that while my friends are in danger.

Then I shall return you to your present moment.

You may stop the technology

by removing your hands from the interface.

It's that simple?

Important things often are.

We will finish your training when,

or if, you next join me.

So it's truly my choice to decide

whatever I think is right with this?

I have faith that you will choose wisely.

[gasps]

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[sucks air through teeth]

[laughs]

[breathing heavily]

Can you hear me? I need to get you out of here.

[panting] What happened? Can we save him?

[shuddering]

I'm so sorry.

[shuddering]

Okay. Come on. Come on.

RAYNER: Booker.

- Are you okay? - Yeah. Look,

what-whatever was happening, it stopped.

And we're picking up two life signs inside the portal.

Locking on now.

[console chirping]

[gasps] We got them!

She needs medical. [panting]

BOOK: Beaten up but okay.

BURNHAM: [sighs] Good.

[sighs]

And you?

Yeah.

I heard you in there.

Thank you for holding on.

Always.

RAYNER: Captain, we're coming to get you.

Commander Stamets is ready to receive the portal

Have him meet me in my ready room.

You, too.

There's something I need to share with all of you.

I found this guy wandering around.

Hello, Captain.

BURNHAM: Hello, Saru.

Oh.

Why do I get the feeling Action Saru came out today?

He may have.

STAMETS: Captain,

it is not hyperbole to say that this is...

the greatest scientific discovery of our lifetime.

I met one of the Progenitors.

I saw the last four billion years.

And all the incredibly complex events

that had to happen for me to be alive.

For any one of us, each one of us

to be alive

right here, right now.

It was...

...powerful.

And I realized...

...we already have infinite diversity

and infinite combinations.

There's no need for this technology anymore.

Wait a minute, y-you...

you're not saying...

we should leave it here?

Oh, no.

It's too powerful for one person

or one culture to access or control.

I think

we need to let it go.

Captain, we have orders.

We need to study it.

W-We need to understand it. I-It...

This is not about your legacy, Commander.

- I didn't say mine. - I'd give anything to see the look on Vance's face

- when you tell him that. - We have a duty... - I understand.

Stop.

The Progenitor trusted me to make this decision.

I'll talk to the admiral and the president.

I know they'll agree.

It's the right thing to do.

I get it... mostly.

BURNHAM: I'll keep you all posted.

Hey, um...

so this mission

has been really amazing,

and...

I mean, you learned a lot, right?

Maybe that's enough.

I mean, that's really all you can control,

anyway, right?

When did you get so wise?

[chuckles]

BURNHAM: This is Captain Burnham.

In safeguarding this technology,

placing it beyond the event horizon,

is enough, and we trust

that those who came before, who developed this power,

must have the ability to recreate it

should they still exist

and should they wish to do so.

- May I? - Sure.

Not in the mood for a speech.

I just came to see how you were doing.

Well, I hear my brig has a window.

What's there not to be excited about?

You know, after I lost everything...

...I didn't know how I'd find my way again.

But I did.

I hope you will, too.

Still not in the mood.

If ever you need me, I'll be here.

And who knows?

You know, maybe someday you might even stop hating

the name Cleveland Booker.

Don't count on it.

How long will she be locked up?

Not sure,

but I have standing orders to bring her

to Dr. Kovich after.

Apparently, he has plans for her.

Dr. Kovich, you asked to see me?

KOVICH: I did.

I thought you should know, the Red Directive

has been officially closed.

All records will be classified.

No one will know the technology existed.

I'm familiar with how those things work now.

I heard you're gonna be seeing Moll one of these days.

She's a capable individual.

I-I think she could prove useful.

She'll be given the choice, of course.

To take one of these, you mean?

I figured you'd want mine back, so...

I've lived many years, Captain, and many lives.

I've met few who have impressed me

but also aggravated me as much as you.

Keep it, just in case.

[chuckles]

If I may, sir.

Kovich is a code name, isn't it?

Who are you, really?

My real name is a bit of a Red Directive

in and of itself.

Well, I'm familiar with those now, too.

Captain Michael Burnham,

USS Discovery.

[sighs]

Agent Daniels,

USS Enterprise

and other places.

Nice to meet you.

?

May I present: the newlyweds.

[cheering and applause]

Please enjoy.

[sighs]

It was a beautiful, beautiful ceremony.

Thank you, Captain.

and I cannot help but think of the Progenitors,

our shared ancestor.

A reminder that we are all, in the most fundamental ways,

We are. That we are.

Admiral, Madam President, congratulations.

T'RINA: Thank you.

RAYNER: Captain, Lieutenant Tilly was just saying

we've inspired her.

and I was just saying that your relationship

reminds me of me and Adira but, well, with ages reversed

But the dynamics themselves, that one-on-one connection,

it made me realize, that is what we're missing

at Starfleet Academy: a mentorship program.

- That's a wonderful idea. - RAYNER: I think so, too.

But...

Did you just call me crabby?

Excuse me.

[chuckles quietly]

RAYNER: Cheers. To crabby.

- BOOK: Hey. - You are late.

I know. Had a run-in with some Talaxian pirates

- Me, too. - [both laugh]

I think this is the most dressed up I have ever seen you.

- You like it? - Oh, very dapper.

Hey, that World Root from the Archive,

did you find somewhere to plant it?

Sanctuary Four. Same place we took Molly. Remember?

Yeah, she almost ate me, so, hard to forget.

- [laughing]: What? Really? - Yeah.

- Well, that's great. - Yeah.

Shall we?

Alone, if you don't mind.

Sure.

[waves lapping]

Well, um,

I just want to say thank you.

I feel hope again.

And, as of yesterday,

my sentence is commuted.

I heard.

What's next?

You know, Grudge and I are still figuring it out.

"Future" is still a bit of a scary word.

"Future" is a scary word for me, too.

But you're here.

You're alive.

That's more than a lot of people have.

I'm lucky... and I'm grateful.

I was going to wait until after the reception,

but we're here now,

and you should know...

...I never stopped.

You love me.

I love you.

I love you, too.

Possibly since the moment we met.

You were annoying as hell back then.

And you still loved me.

[laughs]

I did.

- Can we just do this? - [laughs]

You and me, no matter what?

And Grudge?

Unless you want your leg clawed to bits in your sleep.

[both laugh]

Kovich?

Impeccable timing.

Would you want to?

- Could be fun. - It might.

I'm sure Saru would understand.

Yeah, you got all dressed up, though.

But, never hurts to look good wherever you go.

Let's see what the future holds.

[birds singing]

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- Good morning. - Good morning.

- And foam. - Mm-hmm.

Huh.

Oh.

Ta-da.

I wanted to surprise you.

Okay.

[chuckles]

Hang on.

BURNHAM: Oh.

Are you sad?

Could be.

- Mmm, it's not, but thank you. - [laughs]

[laughs]

[sighs]

BOOK: Big day.

I can always come with you.

That's okay.

Kind of feels like I should go alone.

It's because I put wax in your coffee.

Yeah, you're not allowed to go anywhere with me

- ever again. - [laughter]

[birds singing]

- [device chimes] - COMPUTER: Sorry to interrupt, Admiral.

Your shuttle is arriving momentarily.

Thank you.

[animal yelps, chitters]

Hills for days, and all you want is what you can't have.

It's fenced for a reason, Alice.

[grunts]

[bleats]

[bleats]

I tried to tell you.

[Burnham chuckles]

I thought you'd be on your way to Crepuscula by now.

You didn't have to do that.

Yes, you did. Come here.

I missed you, too.

BOOK: Hold up.

No hugging without me.

[Burnham sighs]

- BURNHAM: Oh, Captain. - BOOK: Mm.

I'm trying to up my swagger a bit.

[laughs]

- How am I doing? - Mm-hmm.

I'll take it.

Go get that swagger on in outer space, young man.

All right, I'll see you in a couple of days.

Aye, aye, Admiral.

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LETO: Tilly says hi, by the way.

BURNHAM: Oh!

Did she tell you that, as of last week,

she is officially the longest tenured Academy instructor ever?

Yeah, time flies.

It's okay to feel nervous.

I've been thinking about what I'm gonna say.

That-that first speech to my crew.

BURNHAM: Mm.

A long time ago, someone asked me

what was most meaningful to me.

I had always looked for it in whatever mission I was on.

Of course you have no idea what I'm talking about.

None whatsoever.

But they're supposed to.

has to find their own sense of meaning.

Yeah, just being here.

Sometimes life, itself, is meaning enough.

Who we spend it with.

You.

Book.

And the family I found in Starfleet.

On Discovery.

In time,

So you're saying I got this?

COMPUTER: Approaching Starfleet Headquarters.

[chuckles]

?

Hmm?

Nothing.

I'm just glad I'm the one leading her final mission.

And that I'll have a chance to say goodbye.

[soft footsteps]

ZORA: Welcome back, Admiral Burnham.

It's been a while.

It's been too long, Zora.

[chuckles]

Wow.

So happy to hear your voice.

I'm happy to hear yours, too.

what exactly is our mission?

I'm gonna bring you to a set of coordinates in deep space.

After that, you wait.

For what?

This is a Red Directive.

We both know how transparent those are.

I did hear a word in passing.

"Craft."

Well, I'll find out eventually.

Mm-hmm.

I won't see you again after this,

will I?

I'm guessing your wait will be longer than my lifetime.

Everything ends someday.

But there will be a new beginning when you come back.

You can find our descendants.

Meet the next generation of your family.

I would love that.

It has been a hell of a journey.

The Federation has so many wonderful possibilities ahead

because of you and your crew.

Because of all of us.

I'm told we're nearly ready for departure.

Perhaps you'd like to sit.

[chuckles softly]

Feels like home.

[indistinct, echoing voices]

TILLY: Captain on the bridge.

SARU [muffled]: Captain.

Captain?

?

[laughing]

[sighs]

[indistinct chatter]

[laughing]

So many memories.

For us both.

All right.

Are you ready, Zora?

I am.

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Let's fly.

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