History Recap / StarTrekDiscoveryS1E09IntoTheForestIGo

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Even two jumps takes its toll on Stamets, so requiring him to [[UpToEleven do 133 (albeit short distances) in rapid succession]] as part of their plan to expose the Klingon cloak is considered life-threatening. Fortunately, it doesn't kill him, although attempting one more jump to get them home does leave him in a HeroicRROD.

** Kol's followers perform the fist-on-heart salute toward ''Discovery'' while being torpedoed into oblivion.

''Discovery'' is ordered to abandon Pahvo even though it means the inevitable demise of the Pahvans, but Lorca and the crew come up with a plan to save the planet and overcome the Klingons' cloaking advantage. In the process they rescue Admiral Cornwell, destroy the Klingon Ship of the Dead, kill Kol, and capture L'Rell, but before they can provide Starfleet with the way to overcome the cloaking a failed jump puts them somewhere unknown.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Even two jumps takes its toll on Stamets, so requiring him to [[UpToEleven do 133 in rapid succession]] as part of their plan to expose the Klingon cloak is considered life-threatening. Fortunately, it doesn't kill him, although attempting one more jump to get them home does leave him in a HeroicRROD.

'''Stamets:''' Now that you mention it, um, it has been a little...itchy.\\

* HandicappedBadass: Admiral Cornwell drops the first Klingon warrior that comes into the room after them, while lying wounded on the floor. She needs Tyler's help to deal with the second warrior though.

* HopeSpot: For the war effort -- ''Discovery'' destroys the ''Sarcophagus'' while gaining the information they need to penetrate the Klingon InvisibilityCloak. They go for one more jump to the nearest Starbase -- but [[TeleportationMisfire end up Gene-knows-where]], unable to deliver their intel.
* ICantFeelMyLegs: Cornwell loses the use of her legs thanks to the injuries she suffered last episode.
* IdiotBall: Kol accurately deduces the ''Discovery'' is up to something when it continues its rapid jumping even after his ship cloaks, and that the proper course of action is to temporarily withdraw to figure out what's going on, as Lorca himself notes. He promptly forgets all that when Burnham shows up and challenges him, although there's absolutely no reason why he can't follow his original plan of breaking away ''and'' deal with Burnham at the same time.
* IncrediblyObviousBug: The two transmitters Burnham places on the Klingon's ship are not only large, they glow, blink, and helpfully announce out loud that they're functioning. This isn't so bad for the one they stuff in a closet, but the second is sitting on the bridge behind some barrels and should be obvious to anyone that glances in that direction.

* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Although ''Discovery'' successfully develops a way of defeating the Klingon cloaking technology, they're still processing it to create a general program other ships can use when they get detoured to somewhere due to the jump failure. As a result, Starfleet doesn't have the technology even though they know it exists.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Burnham refuses to leave the ''Sarcophagus'' without the human prisoner she'd located, which turns out to be Cornwell.

* OhCrap: Stamets panics when Lorca orders him to undergo a full physical, as he fears it will reveal something wrong with him. He's right.

* PlotHole: Early in the season, it was established that the computer could make short-range jumps successfully, though the viewer never sees it. As such, having Stamets attached to the drive in this instance would seem unnecessary, unless these prior tests were less accurate than we were led to believe.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: It was only hinted at by Tyler when he was first introduced, but this episode confirms L'Rell wasn't just his jailer and torturer, she also raped him repeatedly. It is so deeply entwined with his time being tortured that his daily nightmares include her, and the mere sight of her is enough to render him nearly catatonic.

* TeleportSpam: Knowing he can't go toe-to-toe with Kol's ship, Lorca initially [[https://giant.gfycat.com/FaintSeparateJavalina.webm dances around it]], firing volleys whenever ''Discovery'' rematerializes. Once it cloaks, Lorca has Stamets execute ''133'' micro-jumps in order to obtain the 3D data model needed to see through the Klingon cloak.
* TemptingFate: Stamets volunteers for [[{{Retirony}} one last jump]] to get ''Discovery'' to safety and then doesn't plan to jump again until Starfleet Medical finds out what's wrong with him. This ends up being the straw that broke the camel's back and things [[GoneHorriblyWrong go very wrong]].

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Burnham emerges from hiding on the Klingons' bridge and one crewman continues tapping away on his console as if a human suddenly appearing, shooting the place up, and confessing to be the killer of a Klingon messiah-figure is just the sort of thing that happens all the time.

* WhamLine: L'Rell telling Tyler she would never let anything happen to him, even though she's the one locked up, suggests he underwent something more sinister than torture at her hands.

** Kol, as any good Klingon would, appreciates Burnham's challenge to duel him, and fights "fair". There's also the fact that he is trying to avoid losing face in front of his crew, especially after Burnham tells him that T'Kuvma killed Georgiou in honorable single combat, whereas Kol simply stole the ship after Burnham killed T'Kuvma.

* PlausibleDeniability: Lorca orders Stamets to get a medical exam so that he'll have a "data trail" to support his cover story of why the Discovery was using the warp drive instead of the spore drive to return to Starbase 46.

* HopeSpot: For the war effort -- ''Discovery'' destroys the ''Sarcophagus'' while gaining the information they need to penetrate the Klingon InvisibilityCloak. They go for one more jump to the nearest Starbase -- but end up Gene-knows-where, unable to deliver their intel.

%%* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Tyler's flashbacks certainly do their best to subvert the trope.

%%* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Essentially the attitude of the entire crew when it comes to Starfleet's order to withdraw.

%%* ShellShockedVeteran: Tyler freezes and goes catatonic when he sees L'Rell.

%%* SeeTheInvisible: The whole point of placing sensors on the ''Sarcophagus''.

* PlotHole: Did everyone just... ''forget'' that the spore drive is capable of making computer-controlled micro-jumps without requiring an organic component?

* AnyoneCanDie: The BigBad Kol gets a face full of photon torpedoes when ''Discovery'' destroys the ''Sarcophagus''.
* BigDamnKiss: Culber and Stamets share one just before the last jump.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Tyler's flashbacks certainly do their best to subvert the trope.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: ''Discovery'' pulls a form of this against the ''Sarcophagus'', using standard evasive maneuvers before unleashing a torrent of TeleportSpam.
* ICantFeelMyLegs: Cornwell, thanks to the injuries she suffered last episode.

* NotQuiteDead: Cornwell turns out to have survived her electrocution in the last episode, albeit just barely and with considerable injuries that have left her half-paralysed. She still manages to [[HandicappedBadass put up a fight from the floor]] using the phaser that Burnham left her.

* PreMortemOneLiner:
** Lorca gets a [[TranquilFury wordless one]] when he uses eyedrops so that he can have the [[InUniverseCatharsis satisfaction]] of watching the Klingons get blown to hell even with his light sensitivity.
** Well before that, he gets a good one-liner when putting his plan into action.
--->'''Lorca:''' Let's give 'em a little taste of what the ''Discovery'''s capable of.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Essentially the attitude of the entire crew when it comes to Starfleet's order to withdraw.
* SeeTheInvisible: The whole point of placing sensors on the ''Sarcophagus''.

* ShellShockedVeteran: Tyler freezes and goes catatonic when he sees L'Rell.

* TeleportSpam: This is both how the crew of the ''Discovery'' obtain enough data about the cloaking technology shrouding the Ship of the Dead ''and'' how Lorca elects to fight his much larger adversary. Knowing he can't go toe-to-toe with Kol's ship, he initially [[https://giant.gfycat.com/FaintSeparateJavalina.webm dances around it]], firing volleys whenever ''Discovery'' rematerialises. Once it cloaks, Lorca has Stamets execute ''133'' micro-jumps in order to obtain the 3D data model needed to see through the Klingon cloak.

* WhamLine:
** L'Rell telling Tyler she would never let anything happen to him, even though she's the one locked up, suggests he underwent something more sinister than torture at her hands.
** Though it's not a spoken line, Stamets screaming just as he starts his final jump counts.

** Kol's followers would seem to regard ''Discovery'' as this, as they perform the fist-on-heart salute while being torpedoed into oblivion.

* WorthyOpponent: Kol, as any good Klingon would, appreciates Burnham's challenge to duel him, and fights "fair". There's also the fact that he is trying to avoid losing face in front of his crew, especially after Burnham tells him that T'Kuvma killed Georgiou in honorable single combat, whereas Kol simply stole the ship after Burnham killed T'Kuvma.

* TemptingFate: Stamets volunteers for [[{{Retirony}} one last jump]] to get ''Discovery'' to safety and then doesn't plan to jump again until Starfleet Medical finds out what's wrong with him. This ends up being the straw that broke the camel's back and things go very wrong.

* WhamLine: L'Rell telling Tyler she would never let anything happen to him, even though she's the one locked up, suggests he underwent something more sinister than torture at her hands.