Two schoolgirls on Earth develop a fierce rivalry, but are drawn together by a tragedy when they see news of Mars and its orbital facilities (where both girls have family working) attacked by rogue synthetics. During the news footage an image of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard appears, with the network reporting that Picard called the attack “devastating”.
Cast :
Ilamaria Ebrahim as Kima
Sadie Munroe as Lil
Young Michael Burnham’s father eases her fear of the dark by telling her a story about a young African girl. In the story, the girl’s people fear the dark because of a predatory Night Beast, but she braves the night and discovers an alien that gifts her new light. The girl uses this to create the stars, and grows up to be a warrior queen.
Cast :
Kenric Green as Mike Burnham
Kyrie McAlpin as Michael Burnham
A tardigrade looking for a place to lay her eggs crosses paths with the USS Enterprise and is attacked by a repair drone named Dot. When the Enterprise self-destructs, Dot helps save Ephraim’s eggs. When the eggs hatch, the pair travel with the baby tardigrades together.
Cast :
Narrated by Kirk Thatcher, with archival recordings of William Shatner as James T. Kirk, Ricardo Montalbán as Khan Noonien Singh, and George Takei as Hikaru Sulu
When Starbase 28 is attacked, Cadet Thira Sidhu is given care of a mutinous prisoner: Captain Christopher Pike of the Enterprise. Pike attempts to pressure Sidhu into releasing him, but she refuses. Pike reveals that this is a simulated test, and by passing it Sidhu is accepted as a part of the Enterprise crew.
Cast :
Anson Mount as Christopher Pike
Ethan Peck as Spock
Rebecca Romijn as Number One
Amrit Kaur as Thira Sidhu
On the USS Cabot, science officer Edward Larkin tries to solve a planet’s food shortage by adding human DNA to tribbles against his Captain’s orders, creating a species that is born pregnant and reproduces at an exponential rate. The Cabot is overrun, and Larkin dies when he chooses to remain behind while the rest of the crew escapes.
Cast :
Anson Mount as Christopher Pike
Rosa Salazar as Lynne Lucero
H. Jon Benjamin as Edward Larkin
On his first day aboard the USS Enterprise, Ensign Spock and his new superior officer Number One get trapped in a turbolift. While waiting for the turbolift to be repaired, Spock asks Number One numerous questions, and the pair bond over their similarities.
Cast :
Rebecca Romijn as Number One
Ethan Peck as Spock
Anson Mount as Christopher Pike
Harry Mudd is captured by a bounty hunter and taken to a Federation ship, but there the hunter finds multiple other versions of Mudd already detained. Elsewhere, the real Mudd continues to create android copies of himself so he can continue to evade the authorities.
Cast :
Rainn Wilson as Harry Mudd
On the planet Kaminar, Saru wants to learn about life outside the pre-warp society of his village, where his people are harvested as food by the predatory Ba’ul. Saru is able to send a distress signal into space that is answered by Lieutenant Philippa Georgiou, who takes Saru to join Starfleet.
Cast :
Doug Jones as Saru
Hannah Spear as Siranna
Robert Verlaque as Aradar
Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou
The USS Discovery has held position in space for a thousand years, and its computer system “Zora” has become sentient. She retrieves a passing escape pod carrying a man named Craft. Zora keeps Craft aboard the ship and begins to fall in love with him, but eventually lets him take Discovery’s last shuttle to return to his family on Alcor IV.
Cast :
Aldis Hodge as Craft
Annabelle Wallis as the voice of Zora
Sash Striga as the hologram of Zora
Following a discussion with her mother, Sylvia Tilly encounters a young Xahean stowaway named Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po. Tilly, who is accustomed to taking orders from others, decides to make decisions by herself, to help Po return home in time for her coronation.
Cast :
Mary Wiseman as Silvia Tilly
Yadira Guevara-Prip as Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po
Mimi Kuzyk as Siobhan Tilly
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