Light and Shadows 

Burnham goes to Vulcan in search of Spock, where she unearths surprising family secrets. In researching what is left of the Red Angel's signal over Kaminar, Pike and Tyler end up in battle ... See full summary »

Director:

Marta Cunningham

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (based upon "Star Trek" created by), Bryan Fuller (created by)

Stars:

Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Sonequa Martin-Green	...	Michael Burnham
Doug Jones	...	Saru
Anthony Rapp	...	Paul Stamets
Mary Wiseman	...	Sylvia Tilly
Shazad Latif	...	Ash Tyler
Anson Mount	...	Captain Christopher Pike
Michelle Yeoh	...	Philippa Georgiou
James Frain	...	Sarek
Mia Kirshner	...	Amanda Grayson
Ethan Peck	...	Spock
Alan Van Sprang	...	Leland
Hannah Cheesman	...	Lt. Cmdr. Airiam
Emily Coutts	...	Lt. Keyla Detmer
Patrick Kwok-Choon	...	Lt. Gen Rhys
Oyin Oladejo	...	Lt. Joann Owosekun

Storyline

Burnham goes to Vulcan in search of Spock, where she unearths surprising family secrets. In researching what is left of the Red Angel's signal over Kaminar, Pike and Tyler end up in battle with time itself. Georgiou has a few tricks up her sleeve for Leland and Section 31.

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Plot Keywords:

sarek character | spock character | spacetime rift | vulcan the planet | temporal distortion | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the opening credits, the image of the Red Angel has changed from the drawing created by Spock to a technical image of the space suit Saru identified the Red Angel was wearing in the previous episode.

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Goofs

According to the captions, Leland refers to L'tak Terai as a "spatial and order dysphagia, similar to dyslexia". Dysphagia is a disorder of swallowing, while dysphasia is a disorder of speech. Dysphasia is the correct term.

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Quotes

Sylvia Tilly: Calculating transporter coordinates from here onto a moving shuttle, inside of a temporal distortion?
Paul Stamets: It doesn't look distorted to me, Tilly. It's just anomalous.
Sylvia Tilly: But if your calculations are off by even a fraction, you will end up...
Paul Stamets: ...very dead, which is why you'll be running the transporter on my mark.
Sylvia Tilly: Oh, man, I knew you were gonna say that.

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Connections

References Star Trek: Discovery: Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad (2017)

User Reviews

A Short Episode!

This episode felt like a dream. Mostly because I could not believe that the characters would do what they did in real life. We have a temporal rift opening up for no reason, But Its not interesting enough to keep Michael around, so she leaves for Vulcan...and suddenly, she is there. about 10 seconds pass for the Ship and she is now on Vulcan. I understand editing techniques, but this gives the episode a dream like quality. I have to ask myself was anything really real in this episode?...

First it was just a few nano particles..then it was some tachyon particles, next it was a rift and then it was a full blown wormhole. Its like each person was seeing it as something different. Until everyone agreed that it was a wormhole..Then Michael wanted spock to be on Vulcan and viola...he was!

Not to mention this episode was a FULL 20 minutes shorter than any other episode this season..Overall it was an interesting episode. But I still insist that it all felt like a dream.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 February 2019 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

40 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1