DSC · SEASON 55×08

Labyrinths

NOMADIC PICK · THOUGHTFUL PICKBurnham faces her fears in a vast library.
FIRST SHOWN (US)
16 May 2024
ON
Paramount+
STARDATE
None given
DIRECTED BY
Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour

WRITTEN BYWritten by Lauren Wilkinson & Eric J. Robbins

IN BRIEF

SPOILER-FREE

Discovery braves the Badlands to reach a vast archive of galactic knowledge, where the final clue is locked inside a test of Burnham's own mind.

SYNOPSIS

SPOILERS
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Aboard the Breen dreadnought, Moll persuades Ruhn that the Progenitors' technology could bring L'ak back, and that she can help him get it. Discovery crosses the Badlands to the Eternal Gallery and Archive, where the Efrosian archivist Hy'Rell lets the crew in and Book finds a relic of Kwejian, his lost homeworld. Burnham finds a manuscript left by Betazoid scientist Marina Derex, and touching it plunges her into a mindscape. Guided by a version of Book drawn from her subconscious, she must face her own fears and doubts to prove she can be trusted. As the Breen try to break into the Archive, Book and Rayner hold off boarding parties. Burnham passes the test and recovers the final clue, then trades the completed map to Ruhn in return for a sacred oath to spare the Archive. Ruhn breaks his word, and Discovery escapes only by faking its own destruction. On the dreadnought, Moll kills Ruhn and takes command.

DID YOU KNOW?

  1. 01The Archive scenes were filmed at the University of Toronto's rare book library, with digital extensions.
  2. 02The mindscape is delivered by a nucleonic beam, the same technology that gave Picard a lifetime on Kataan in The Next Generation's “The Inner Light”.
  3. 03Hy'Rell is an Efrosian, a species previously seen in Star Trek IV and as the Federation President in Star Trek VI.
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