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Michael Burnham.

Ash Tyler.

You got to give him

a sign that youre interested.

All my life

the conflict inside me hasbeen between logic and emotion.

You remind me of everything good.

You are my tether.

A Klingon took an interest in me.

Its you.

We modified Voq into a shell

that appears human.

We grafted his psyche into Tylers.

An activated Klingon spy.

When I look at you now, I see Voqs eyes.

Was there ever really an Ash Tyler? I loved him.

Theyve planted a bomb in the heart of your home world.

Use the fate of Kronos

to bend them to your will.

Im going with her.

Im gonna miss looking at you.

I see you, Ash.

In your eyes.

Stardate 1029.46.

Personal log, Commander Michael Burnham.

Any rational explanation for the seven signals

that have appeared across the galaxy continues to escape me.

And with it, perhaps any chance

of a relationship with my brother Spock.

What did he see in them that I cant?

My failure to understand feels like a failure to reach him

at a time when he might need me most.

Attention: trainee half-marathon approaching.

On your left!

Hi. Hello.

Hi. Its me! Hello.

Its me.

Its me!

Silly Stilly.

Youre not really there. Youre not.

Youre dead. Youre dead. Youre not really here.

Of course I am, Silly Stilly.

Where did you come from?

And how come they dont see you?

Only you can.

Why? Why me?

Dont you remember?

Im May from junior high.

Im May... from junior high. We were friends.

Youre the nicest person Ive ever met at this awful school.

I went to that school for six months.

And then my mother got another post,

and we moved away, and you and I have not spoken since then.

And another thing.

You died... years ago.

Is that why youre upset? Is that why youre upset?

Im upset because you are a symptom of an unfit mind,

and I cant have that right now. I just cant.

Oh, my...

The Command Training Programs half-marathon has a victor.

A lovely show

of endurance and fortitude, Tilly. All right.

You are dismissed, everyone, but we will reconvene

later in the day for Shadow Exercises.

We won!

There is no one else I would rather cheer on

and support and help.

Causing a nervous breakdown is not helping me.

Tilly.

...set a new course record.

She also achieved...

Saru says you not only won, you beat your personal best.

See? Thats how Im helping you.

What a team we are!

Its all that training you put me through.

Thank you, Michael.

Ive got to go, but congratulations.

Youre amazing.

Saru, wait up.

Yellow Alert.

Undeclared craft on an intercept course.

Bearing three-five-eight mark zero.

Range-- 9,000 kilometers and closing fast.

No other propulsion signatures in the sector.

Hailing on all frequencies, sir. So far they havent responded.

Tell them if they get any closer without telling us who they are,

we will activate tactical systems.

Aye, Captain.

Owo, got anything on scans?

Detecting a small ship. Two life-forms.

Captain, theyve opened up a channel.

Its a private vessel with a diplomatic registry number.

They arent required to tell us more than that.

The captains asking me to beam one aboard.

Theyre now in range for a visual, Captain.

On screen.

Aye, Captain.

That ship is Vulcan.

That ship is Sareks.

I recognize it.

He assembled a Federation

task force to study the seven signals.

He might have some news for us.

He may want to discuss something else.

I reported Spocks advance knowledge

of the signals to Command.

The information likely made its way back to the ambassador,

along with the news that his son admitted himself

into a psychiatric hospital.

You didnt betray your friend, Captain.

You followed protocol.

Its easy to say, harder to believe.

Have you heard from Spocks doctors on Starbase Five?

No, not yet.

Report to the Transporter Room, Commander.

Welcome the Vulcan ambassador aboard.

Yes, sir.

Deck four.

Boarding confirmed.

Transporter lock established.

Energize.

Aye, Commander.

Amanda?

: Please dont react.

Spock needs our help.

I could only turn to you.

(original

Star Trek

theme plays)

Will you make this human our new fleet captain, too, Chancellor?

Perhaps we should speak in their standard tongue, too?

Whatever language you prefer, the truth remains

the same: the Torchbearer was anointed by TKuvma himself.

You mean Voq was.

If you want whatever

this is as your plaything, he belongs in your bed,

not here. He belongs

wherever I am.

Just like the allied Klingon houses,

our union is what makes us strong.

Your old way of thinking kept us at each others throats.

Remove the paint from your face, Kol-Sha.

culture now.

We are

one

Your

union

is an insult to my son Kol,

and all our sons who died by human treachery.

This is no coincidence,

those seven red lights appeared from the sky

so soon after she took power.

They are an omen!

Seven drops of blood ready to rain down on us.

Remove the paint.

Your chancellor doesnt get her hands dirty.

Thats the Torchbearers job,

whether he be human, Klingon or both.

You know about the seven signals?

Yes. Sarek informed me.

People are anxious to know what they are.

Attention all cadets.

Duty log has been updated...

Spocks connected to them.

How?

He left a log claiming

that he saw them long before they appeared to the Federation.

But until we can speak to him, we have no answers,

and I dont know what else to do.

I have no new angles to investigate.

Except... the one Im giving you.

I just came from Starbase Five.

I went to the psychiatric unit.

They wouldnt tell me where he was.

They wouldnt let me see him.

They wouldnt say what was wrong with him.

Thy wouldnt even give me his personal effects.

Youre his next of kin, and youre a diplomats wife.

So I did the only logical thing.

I stole his medical file.

Its encrypted.

Can you please open it?

Mother.

Please.

How was your walk?

I have dedicated everything to your cause.

The least your uncle could do is acknowledge me.

He and the rest of House MoKai believe in you.

We have enemies enough.

There is no need to dream up imaginary ones.

Kol-Sha is telling council members

that you are advising me

to eliminate the great houses entirely.

My uncle is disseminating the truth to counteract his lies.

He looks at me and sees a human. They all do.

You should not care what anyone sees when they look at you.

On that subject, only my opinion matters.

Why do you insist on speaking English to me?

Im not a human, LRell.

Im a Klingon whose body was changed to resemble one.

If we expect others to acknowledge my Klingon side--

accept me as the Torchbearer-- you must treat me like Voq.

If you are Voq, then want me back.

Want me.

You touch me...

and that intimacy,

to me, Tyler, feels like...

...violation.

Spock speaks highly of you, Captain Pike.

Now my daughter does, too,

so I know Ive come to the right people.

Well, maam, that makes it all the harder for me to tell you...

I cant open this file.

If I did, Id be in violation of the rules,

and my mother wouldnt like that.

There is precedent in Starfleet case law

for a captain to invoke...

Was she this bossy as a kid?

On Vulcan, we call it "persistent." And yes, she was.

She learned that from me.

Hmm.

Bryce, get me Captain Vela on Starbase Five.

Tell him its high priority.

Yes, sir.

Ah. Chris.

You and my

Bisabuela Nena are the only two people

in this quadrant still communicating on screens.

Well, your grandma sounds like a smart lady.

You should introduce us.

Sorry I havent returned your call.

"Calls," Diego.

Ive been waiting for an update on my officer, Spock.

Im sorry, I cant give you one.

His case is classified.

Im well within my rights as his captain to get a prognosis.

Even if that werent the case, Spock has information

on the signals I was assigned to investigate.

Starfleet declared my mission priority one.

The signals have nothing to do with it, Chris.

Your guy is wanted for murder.

He killed three of his doctors, then fled the starbase.

Why isnt word out about his escape

so that every starship can be on the hunt?

Elements of the case just got complicated.

Some of Spocks files are missing.

We have no idea how.

Rest assured theyve got people on it.

Thanks, Vela.

Pike out.

Its not true.

My son is gentle and kind;

he wouldnt do that.

I agree, Captain.

Well, that makes three of us.

But I dont think the "people" handling his case would concur.

Our boys in trouble.

Whatever happened, he needs a fair shake.

We need to find him before they do.

Burnham, break into Mr. Spocks medical file.

Thats an order.

Lieutenant Spocks intellectual abilities

and capacity for reason are intact.

Instead, his dissociation appears acutely emotional.

E.Q. tests and his current disaffected state

suggest extreme empathy deficits.

Ill transfer the rest of the files, and then...

we can decide the best place to start.

Your wheels are already turning.

Logic dictates a few theories:

Spock didnt do it and hes wrongfully accused;

or he did murder those doctors in a mentally compromised state,

or in what he thought was self-defense.

Or...

He did it because hes emotionally compromised.

"Extreme empathy deficit"

is code for psychopathy.

I cant deny that possibility.

He didnt have a normal childhood.

Sarek wanted Spock raised in the Vulcan manner.

And any display of emotion was strongly discouraged.

And in order not to confuse my son,

I began to hide my own.

I was not a real mother...

I wasnt what he needed.

You gave us love every second.

It was different with you, Michael.

I gave you all my joy...

and my affection

that I was not permitted to give to him.

But Spock is half human.

If he had been permitted to embrace the feelings

that I know he has inside of him,

it wouldve saved him from all the trouble that hes in now.

Stop.

Stop.

Those images.

Spock drew them.

Im sure of it.

He mustve...

done them when he was in treatment.

I thought that he left it in the past.

But its back.

What is it?

Your brother called it the Red Angel.

He started seeing it when he was a little boy.

It changed him.

Im sorry.

I have to answer this.

Michael.

Thanks for answering.

Of course.

Are you all right? Is LRell?

For now. Shes still in power

but her opponents continue to challenge and discredit her.

Its volatile.

How can I help?

The Federation needs to be aware of the situation.

If LRell falls, peace falls with her.

Ill pass it up the chain of command immediately.

Thanks.

I should go.

Wait.

What?

I...

I dont know.

I like the beard.

I heard, postwar, the Klingons are growing their hair again.

The rumors are true.

How are you?

Ive been dealing with some things

regarding my foster brother.

I thought I hit a dead end

but Amanda came and got me back on track.

Can you ship her over here when youre done with her?

Im feeling a little stuck, myself.

Youve got me, right now.

I understood my role here, to aid LRell.

But Im afraid Im hurting her.

Im an easy target for the old guard.

What does LRell think?

That their opposition is part of the fight,

and their ignorance will be their downfall.

You admire her.

I do.

It sounds like she feels the same way about you,

and values having you there.

Try to take her at her word.

Its, uh, its late here, so...

Take care of yourself, Michael.

You, too, Ash.

Yeah.

Greetings, everyone,

and welcome to Shadow Exercises.

As Starfleets future chiefs and captains,

this is your opportunity

to build rapport with a senior officer,

and see firsthand what their duties entail.

So let us begin.

Look sharp, people.

This is our future competition.

Is that your captain?

Um, Ensign Sylvia Tilly, sir.

Fully present and utterly focused

on this very important exercise

for which I am all ears, Captain.

Your dedication is noted, Ensign.

So, what should we do?

How bout we marry some folks,

even if theyre not that into each other, hmm?

: Oh, very good, sir.

Captain. I need your authorization for this.

I dont understand. That was funny.

The captain of this ship isnt funny, hes terrifying.

You may be thinking of an old captain, Captain Lorca.

Was he shorter? And blonder?

And much, much whiter? Because thats who Im looking for.

: Cause thats who Im looking for.

Im ready if you are.

Hes not the man I need to talk to.

Hop in the chair, Ensign.

Yes, sir.

Lets run a systems test.

Where is the other captain?

Uh, a systems test. Uh, where?

Where? In the chair.

Oh. S-Sorry.

Run checklist protocol.

Acknowledged. Uh, step one.

Tilly, this is not right. My plan is falling apart.

: Calm down.

Im hearing considerably fewer syllables

out of you than normal.

I-I know the chair can be intimidating,

but are you okay?

No. We are not okay. I want the captain.

I want the captain.

This is the captain.

Ensign, what is going on?

Tilly, answer Captain Pike.

Tilly... No.

Im not listening to you anymore.

You tricked me and you lied to me.

I didnt lie. Hes lying.

Hes an imposter.

Shut up!

Ensign Sylvia Tilly!

No. I didnt. Im sor-- I w--

She drove me to it. I...

That doesnt make any sense. Im s...

Im not...

Im not...

Im not.

I quit.

You were spying on me.

Your mind plays tricks.

What do you have against me?

Why do you stop speaking when I enter a room?

Youll speak now or Ill slit your throat.

If you feel aggrieved,

take it up with my niece.

It is not House MoKai that is keeping secrets from you.

What secrets?

LRell will be angry

I broke her trust,

but I cannot keep this from you any longer.

Behold,

the son of LRell and Voq.

I learned I was pregnant right as Voq

was being transformed into a human.

I could not activate him on

Discovery

while carrying a child.

The gestation occurred ex-utero.

That is why it is so small.

"It"?

Does he even have a name?

No.

I have never met the child.

The baby is a vulnerability.

Hes just a vulnerability to you?

All these secrets and lies

to protect a failed wartime mission.

What did you gain, LRell?

You think your discovery, made moments ago,

is somehow greater

than the pain I have lived with all this time?

Would you have ever told me?

I wanted you to be able to return

to a human life without obligation.

You will not be here forever, Tyler.

Why do say that? With such certainty,

like you know who I am better than I do?

I chose to be here.

Im committed to that decision.

Why did you call Michael Burnham?

I trusted her to notify the Federation that an insurrection

of the High Council might be brewing.

So she is the only one you trust.

That is the only reason it was that

particular human woman?

Yes.

That is the reason.

On my way home, I looked into one of Voqs memories.

You and he walked across the ancestral cliffs of the MoKai.

The sun set.

The sky dripped amethysts.

Our love was greater than that of Kahless and Lukaras.

Voq thought so, too.

When I stared down at that baby...

his skin, the same as Voqs,

the distinction that made him feel like an outsider,

that made his life so hard,

I felt like I was looking at myself.

For the first time, the two sides of me felt whole.

I cant be Voq.

I cant give you back those memories of long ago.

But I can promise you a new love story.

I am his father,

and I am devoted to you.

Lets bring our son home.

The rest will come.

When did it first appear to him?

It appeared to Spock

the night you ran away from home.

The Logic Extremists had bombed the Learning Center

and almost killed you. I dont blame you

for wanting to escape from Vulcan to Earth.

I didnt make it past the outskirts of ShiKahr.

I still dont know how Sarek found me.

He didnt.

That was Spock.

We were about to alert the High Command

to begin a search effort,

and Spock walked into the room.

He was still in his pajamas.

His eyes were wide, and he said

that the Red Angel had visited him

and told him where you were.

Thats where Sarek looked,

and there you were.

Sarek and I always believed

that Spock used logic

to pinpoint your direction.

He might have known what time you left,

how fast you were walking, what direction you were going in.

And we just wrote the vision off as a figment of his imagination.

But Spock never wavered.

He said that the Red Angel was real.

Ive seen this angel, too.

It appeared to me on our mission to the first signal.

Were you the only one?

Yes.

And I wrote it off as a trick of the mind.

And I didnt get the sense that it was nefarious.

I cannot believe Im talking like this.

Im not even sure it was real.

It is.

What saved you

hurt your brother.

That vision changed him forever.

I...

I watched him withdraw.

I saw him lose trust in other people.

I watched his openness vanish.

It wasnt because of a vision.

It was because of me.

My presence was a danger to the family.

If the Logic Extremists couldnt get to me,

they would try to get to him.

And he was my little shadow.

So I had to wound him deep enough to keep him away from me.

What did you do?

The fact that youre not saying anything means

that you must have hurt him irreparably.

Which is why the four of us can never get together,

which is why youre always too busy to see each other.

Im sorry.

I am sorry for what I did.

What I thought I had to do.

Ive reached out

so many times

to make amends.

Hes not interested.

But I wont give up on him.

I will find him.

No.

I will.

He will not know me.

He didnt know me either.

Uncle.

No, no!

Ive been awaiting your arrival.

Your son is handsome.

But I thought he could use...

a little color.

I will hunt you down and rip out your entrails

with my bare hands.

Doubtful.

The paint I begged you to wipe from my face

was swimming with sensor implants.

They are a listening device.

I was only hoping to eavesdrop on your political strategies.

But I never imagined

Id learn of this.

The High Council will not tolerate

this dishonor.

Well, I think

they are more likely to condone kidnapping

than harboring a spy.

Your pet betrayed the council to Commander Burnham.

Did he not?

What do you want?

Im willing to part with him and let you flee

in exchange for control of the empire.

You will agree to my terms and meet me

at your residence.

Saru called down looking for you.

You all right?

Whats wrong? Have you been crying?

I asked first.

Talk to me.

I need a problem I can solve.

More than you know.

Talk to me. Havent I been punished enough?

What happened up there was upsetting to me.

I panicked.

Tilly?

Tilly.

Dont ruin what we have.

Were not defeated yet.

Were not defeated yet.

After the dark matter hit me,

I s...

I started to see a...

ghost.

Shes a girl that I knew when I was a teenager.

Her name was May. But shes dead.

And the May that I knew was really meek and, uh...

kind of goofy when you got to know her.

But this May is different.

Shes, um... shes insistent.

Shes grooming me for something.

For what?

She hasnt said.

Because youre ignoring me.

And Im getting scared.

And we need a new plan.

I am losing it, Michael.

Shes wearing me down.

Ive been avoiding sickbay.

But, at this point, I dont know what to do.

Im desperate.

And after today, Im never gonna make captain.

Your eyes are dripping.

Cause Im crying.

She doesnt know what crying is.

Ive got to think.

Ill be back to talk some sense into you later.

She left.

How can she not know what tears are?

Thats impossible.

Show me a teenage girl whos never cried.

You cant.

I know. Im a xenoanthropologist.

And if May were a hallucination pulled from your subconscious,

then shed know that emotion, because you know that emotion.

So May is something, Tilly.

But I dont think shes a ghost.

Or a delusion.

You said she appeared to you after the asteroid shocked you.

But why did it shock

you?

I held a piece in my hand,

and I wasnt zapped.

The dark matter component of the asteroid,

it reacts when its in proximity to one thing.

Spores.

You dont need sickbay.

You need Stamets.

Sign.

I am still your chancellor.

You are the Federations puppet.

Why is she such a threat to you, Kol-Sha?

The female?

Shes nothing but a...

that lies with a human.

If that is the gravest insult you can hurl,

you are even less than I imagined.

I know

I am nothing to you once I have signed,

so be sure to kill us both, Kol-Sha.

The one left standing will be the one who returns for you.

Enough.

Yes. Feel it.

Paralysis...

is spreading to your organs.

But I will not let you suffocate

until youve signed.

Thank you for my ink.

Now pass me that

pretty little finger.

Now...

for my first act as chancellor:

an execution.

Now...

you can watch

your Voq die...

for good.

What is that?

Why have you been spying on me?

Dont be cranky about it. We have to ensure

that she stays in the chancellors seat.

Whos "we"?

Emperor...

: You have me confused with someone else.

Im Philippa Georgiou,

retired captain of the U.S.S.

Shenzhou,

now Starfleet security consultant.

: Oh, children are parasites.

Ungrateful. Inconvenient.

I had to find someone else

to feed mine, or I would have gotten nothing done.

I will consider that advice.

Thank you for your help.

Gratitude is premature,

as long as the disemboweled leader of House Kor

is splattered on your floor.

He took our child, tried to force her to abdicate.

We were defending ourselves.

Kol-Sha killed your uncle-- its an eye for an eye.

I need a word with the chancellor.

Every minute you remain here, your councilors must reorganize

their tiny male brains

to rationalize why it isnt them standing on the dais.

They will assume that all your decisions are Tylers.

He is a liability.

Can you kill him?

I had to ask.

He is a liability, too.

You cant show weakness

when it comes to either one of them.

I will not choose between the chancellorship

and my son and his father.

I told you what I am here to protect.

I am not giving you a choice.

Im sorry I didnt tell you.

I am sorry, too.

But thanks to Burnhams insights,

we are closer to finding a solution.

And... getting you back into the Command Training Program.

What about Captain Pike?

I am not familiar enough with the captain to anticipate his reaction,

but I do know that he has

a sense of humor... and that he is fond of you.

We should have results

in one second.

I told you

he was shorter, blonder,

whiter... There he is.

Thats the captain.

No, hes not.

Yes, he is. Thats where he flies.

Whats going on?

Shes back and shes pissed.

Maybe at you.

Please hurry.

Stop talking

to him until I tell you what to say.

Just as I suspected.

You are hosting a eukaryotic organism.

A fungus?

Obviously

multicellular, since it has

opinions.

Fungus.

Dont you dare diminish...

dont you dare diminish me.

Anyone who works around the spore drive

is inoculated-- how did she contract it?

Its possible that a spore evolved

a resistance, like bacteria.

And dont you call me bacteria.

Or its a different spore altogether than the ones we harvest here.

When

Discovery

escaped the Terran universe, their spores

rained down on Engineering.

If one attached itself to you...

Hey, May.

Is that her?

Hes the villain. Dont let him poison you against me.

Theres our hitchhiker.

A multidimensional, fungal parasite.

Why does it appear to be someone I knew when I was a teenager?

Brain manipulation, perhaps?

These people are lying.

I am not a manipulator.

Youre special, Tilly. Youre my only chance.

I need you.

How do we get rid of it?

We use the attraction between the fungal spores

and the dark matter asteroid to suck her out of you.

This might hurt a bit.

If you think you can destroy me, Captain,

youre in for a fight!

Security breach by unknown alien species in Engineering.

Engage quarantine protocol Alpha-Omega.

Such was the dishonor he brought.

Secretly, he communicated with the Federation.

He told them we are disunited and therefore weak.

He betrayed us.

Lest anyone think my arrangement with the human

outweighs my loyalty to the empire,

think again.

The traitor slaughtered a Klingon infant.

My son.

He would have assassinated your chancellor

had Kol-Sha not intervened.

The leader of House Kor gave his life to defend mine.

One house defending another.

His sacrifice is a lesson to us all.

I, too, have sacrificed.

I will bear a child but once.

Now...

you are my children,

as I raise this family to greatness!

Do not refer to me

as Chancellor,

for I deserve a fiercer title.

From this point forth,

you may call me...

Mother.

You synthesized our heads

down to their neural mapping and genetic codes.

This isnt your everyday Federation espionage.

What kind of organization could pull that off?

This kind.

Section 31.

Ive heard of black badges; never seen one.

Weve settled into orbit around Boreth.

Are you sure you want your boy to become a monk?

Its what LRell wants.

And you?

To know where I belong, and to whom,

and who belongs to me.

My son will be raised

by the most devout followers of Kahless.

No one leaves the monastery,

and no one who doesnt belong ever gets in.

Not even his parents?

Hell never know me.

Never know LRell, either.

But hell be safe.

You should consider staying around.

Our command believes misfits have merit,

so we keep busy.

Im surprised you call yourself a misfit, Emperor.

The freaks are more fun.

Take us to warp.

CONTROL values his skill set.

We would like you to work on your recruitment speech.

Dont give me notes.

Hes in.

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