Context Is for Kings
- Episode aired Oct 1, 2017
- TV-MA
- 48m
Burnham finds herself aboard the U.S.S. Discovery, where she quickly realizes things are not as they seem, including the mysterious Captain Gabriel Lorca.Burnham finds herself aboard the U.S.S. Discovery, where she quickly realizes things are not as they seem, including the mysterious Captain Gabriel Lorca.Burnham finds herself aboard the U.S.S. Discovery, where she quickly realizes things are not as they seem, including the mysterious Captain Gabriel Lorca.
- Ash Tyler
- (credit only)
- Shuttle Pilot
- (as Ronnie Rowe Jr.)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA tribble can be seen and heard purring on Captain Lorca's desk in his first scene. The tribbles were introduced in The Trouble with Tribbles (1967) and later appeared in More Tribbles, More Troubles (1973), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Trials and Tribble-ations (1996), The Breach (2003) and Star Trek Beyond (2016).
- GoofsEveryone blames Burnham for starting the war, but, while she did commit mutiny, she was caught before she could enact her plan for dealing with the Klingons. Her actions did not extend beyond the bridge of her own ship and had no effect on the engagement with the Klingons.
- Quotes
Captain Gabriel Lorca: I did choose you, but not for the reasons you think. Your assumption that the Klingons were waiting in ambush at Binary Stars was predictive. You chose to do the right thing over what was sanctioned, even at great cost to yourself. And that is the kind of thinking that wins wars. The kind of thinking I need next to me. Universal law is for lackeys. Context... is for kings. Now, what's it to be, Michael? What's in your future?
[offering her a fortune cookie]
Captain Gabriel Lorca: What do you wish for? Atonement? Redemption? Maybe... the reassurance that the captain you lost didn't die in vain? You helped start a war. Don't you want to help me end it?
- ConnectionsFeatured in After Trek: O Discovery, Where for Art Thou? (2017)
Episode 3 is where we encounter the USS Discovery and the Machiavellian Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs) as we enter the new world of Star Trek, I was captivated.
The action moves on six months from the previous episode and Burnham is being transported along with other prisoners on a shuttle which suddenly finds itself under danger and they are transported into the USS Discovery. All eyes are on the mutineer Burnham, but to her surprise she finds several of her old crew mates including Saru now promoted to first officer.
Burnham soon finds herself being useful as she is picked to explore a stricken starship whose crew has perished but an entity seems to be stalking it.
Captain Lorca pushes all the right buttons telling Burnham that she is needed in the war with Klingons. Burnham knows that she has fallen down the rabbit hole.
The episode benefited with less focus on the Klingons but we are in a universe that is on a war footing. The special effects have been updated but look suitably Star Trek and some of the scenes were gory indicating that the show is not on normal television but Netflix.
- Prismark10
- Oct 1, 2017
Details
- Runtime48 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1