Project Daedalus

Admiral Cornwell comes aboard the renegade Discovery and shows Pike proof that the footage framing Spock for murder was faked. She suspects Control, the artificial intelligence Section 31 uses to assess threats, has gone rogue. Spock, still hostile to Burnham, challenges her habit of blaming herself for everything. Discovery travels to Section 31's headquarters through a deadly minefield. Airiam, secretly controlled by the infection from the probe, joins Burnham and Nhan on the station, where they find that the admirals who oversee Section 31 are long dead and have been replaced by holograms. Airiam's true task is to hand Control the sphere's data. In a final moment of clarity she begs Burnham to eject her into space. Burnham cannot bring herself to do it, and Nhan opens the airlock. As Airiam dies, the crew see the memories she treasured of the human woman she once was.