History Recap / StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E1TheBrokenCircle

Later, Admiral April is very upset that Spock broke direct orders, despite saving the peace. However, he realizes Spock is nursing a wicked hangover and lets that be his punishment and next time - and there better not be - it's his commission. Spock visits Chapel in sickbay, confused by his emotions despite M'Benga reassuring him. In Starbase One, Commodore Tafune tells April that he treated Spock lightly. He agrees, but points out Spock prevented a potential war on two fronts and they need good men like him as a war with the Gorn Hegemony is very likely...

* CatchPhrase: The bridge crew needle Spock about a "go to warp" phrase. His initial offering is ... less than impressive.

* FalseFlagOperation: The Broken Circle have managed to gather enough Federation tech to build their own Federation ship -- a ''[[Series/StarTrekDiscovery Crossfield]]''-class-like starship, to be precise -- from the ground up, which they plan to use to attack the Klingons to reignite the war.

* HangoverSensitivity: After drinking too much bloodwine, Spock is visibly hung over, asking April to dress him down more quietly.

* DoWrongRight: Commander Pelia's only criticism of the attempt to steal the ''Enterprise'' is that it's too transparent, so she tells them how to make it look more convincing so that Spacedock will release them for the safety of everyone else.

* TastesLikeFriendship: To prove his good intentions with the Klingon commander skeptical of his claims, Spock joins him for blood wine on the planet. It works but he is suffering one hell of a handover later on.

* OutOfFocus: Despite ostensibly being the lead actor of the show, Pike (Anson Mount) barely appears. Same with Number One (Creator/RebeccaRomijn) and her "AndStarring" credit.

* FrankenVehicle: {{Implied}}. The ship used in the [[spoiler:FalseFlagOperation against the Klingon battlecruiser]] is identified based on its transponder as a ''Crossfield''-class starship (e.g. USS ''Discovery'') and has a ''Crossfield''-style dual-ring saucer section, but also a ventrally mounted bridge like a ''Walker''-class (USS ''Shenzhou'') and a twin-boom after section and nacelles resembling an inverted [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise NX-class]], suggesting that the conspirators built it from several different salvaged wrecks. An {{enforced}} example, as the ship originally ''was'' going to be an NX-class, but budget constraints forced the reuse of sets from ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery''.

** An interesting variant as, discounting Worf in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' season 3, this is the first time we see the Klingons in live action since the end of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' season 2, though they resemble the Klingons seen since ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' and not the more alien-esque ones from ''Discovery'' and not yet the flat-browed ones from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
** The Broken Circle's self-built Starfleet vessel is mentioned to be a ''Crossfield''-class like ''[[Series/StarTrekDiscovery Discovery]]'', but though it has the same type of double-ringed saucer section, it looks more like the ''Miranda'' class than ''Discovery'' or her ill-fated sister ship the ''Glenn'', as it lacks a noticeable secondary hull. This can be handwaved by the fact that it's a mongrel assembled from pieces of other ships scavenged by the Broken Circle; the transponder may simply have come from a ''Crossfield''-class rather than the ship itself actually being one.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When doing CPR to revive Chapel, Spock inevitably ends up hurting her and it's implied that he broke or at least cracked some of her ribs; this can easily happen in real life with a normal human performing the technique, let alone if someone with enhanced strength did so.

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Spock is forced to do this to revive Chapel when she and M'Benga return from being ThrownOutTheAirlock. In a subversion, Spock doesn't do mouth-to-mouth, when she comes to, she complains about how strong he was and she's put into Sickbay soon after with wraps around her chest implying that he damaged her ribs in the process.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Pelia is a Lanthanite, a species of long-lived HumanAliens who apparently lived on Earth among humans until the 22nd century.

* SuperSerum: M'Benga carries vials of something that lets him and Chapel fight an entire shipworth of Klingons, unarmed.

As the doctors try to figure out how to escape, La’an still can’t find them… until the ship busts out of the ground and rockets towards space. At the same time, a Klingon D-7 arrives over the planet as the ''Enterprise'' hides in the planet’s ice crystal rings. Then, they detect the new ship. Navigator Mitchell tentatively notes it’s a ''Crossfield''-class… as well as a coded message: "''Enterprise'', destroy this ship". As the ''Enterprise'' chases the other ship, the doctors finds pieces of EV suits and plan to launch out with hopes their friends can pick them up. As they are ThrownOutTheAirlock, Spock reluctantly orders the ship destroyed. Fearing his friends dead at his hands, he’s relieved they are found and orders them beamed up.

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Commander Pelia lampshades this when she points out that while anyone who lives long enough and has normal human empathy will experience grief when people they love die, her immortality makes it easy for her to get "bored", and this is the real worst part of being effectively immortal.