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Discovery ventures to the Verubin Nebula, where Burnham, Saru, and Culber make a shocking realization about the origin of The Burn as the rest of the crew faces an unexpected threat. “Su’Kal” moves the season closer to an end point by providing some context for the event that has driven the narrative: the destruction of much of the galaxy’s dilithium.
Discovery voyages to the Verubin Nebula and finds a planet made of dilithium. The Kelpian ship that crashed there over a hundred years ago now serves a different purpose. A small Kelpian child was born there but now lives within a holographic world that was designed to educate and prepare him. Unfortunately, the child (named “Su’Kal”) is a bit frightened of everything and has an unfortunate tendency to scream whenever he gets scared.
Unfortunately for the galaxy, Su’Kal’s screaming has a nasty side effect. Because Su’Kal grew up and was born in a dilithium heavy universe, his screaming has the exact cadence necessary to shatter dilithium (?)! After a close call with Su’Kal screaming and Discovery protecting its dilithium, Burnham and co decide that they’ll need to do something with this frightened child.
Meanwhile, in space, Tilly is in command! And everyone is very excited about it. Unfortunately, a starship is apporoaching and while it has a Federation signal, it’s being extremely unfriendly by not responding.
Then, the truth: the ship is Ossyra! She and Tilly have a tet-a-tet and eventually Discovery is boarded and Stamets captured. The ship jumps away with the Viridian as Burnham and Book look on. We’re not sure what is going on with everyone else.
In this episode of the podcast, Wes and Clay discuss “Su’Kal” and the failure of Star Trek: Discovery to merge the personal with the epic. Plus! The guys chat about fantastical holodecks, cloaking but remaining stationary, and Snapchat level conflict.