History Recap / StarTrekDiscoveryS2E02NewEden

--> '''Riker:''' Six hundred million dead ... no resistance.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The Red Angel was able to teleport a church and everyone inside it from Earth to a planet over 51,000 light years away.

* ContinuityNod: The ancestors of Terralysium's residents were originally taken from Earth during the Third World War, the aftermath of which was shown in ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]''.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The audience finds out more about Owosekun and she's the one who comes up with the way of escaping the basement they're locked in, not the uber-competent Burnham or experienced Pike.

* InsistentTerminology: For unexplained reasons, the crew always refer to the AlienNonInterferenceClause as "General Order One," never once using its more widely-known name (and the original trope name), the PrimeDirective.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Tilly gets Detmer to become enthusiastic about her plan when she points out Detmer will get to pull donuts. In a ''starship''.

* OhCrap: This is Pike's reaction when he sees one of the colonists fumbling around with his phaser, doubly so when she inadvertently triggers a discharge.

* ContinuityNod: The ancestors of New Eden's residents were originally taken from Earth during the Third World War, the aftermath of which was shown in ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]''.

* DeadPersonConversation: Tilly has a conversation with another crewmember who gently prods Tilly to come up with the solution that saves New Eden. Tilly eventually recognizes her as a childhood friend.

** The people of New Eden ''know'' their ancestors were saved by the Red Angel, who they believe was a divine messenger.

* SpottingTheThread: Jacob confronts the landing party and says they aren't from the planet because the skin on their hands isn't roughened and weathered from the hard manual labor the colonists perform on a daily basis.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: One of the colonists gets her hands on Pike's phaser and triggers a discharge. Pike barely has enough time to tackle it out of her hands, frying his stomach in the process.

* CentralTheme: Faith is the driving concept behind the different plot elements, whether it's faith in a religion (Mother), faith in science (Jacob, Burnham), or faith in your crewmates (too many to mention). In particular, ''Discovery'' saves the entire planet from an extinction-level event that they can't even warn Captain Pike about. They resolve the crisis just in time for the Away team to call them for help when Pike is wounded, something they would have been unable to do had their faith in their crewmates been misplaced.

* LampshadeHanging: Captain Pike is a bit put off when he first hears about the spore drive and how it works, but since it will get them to where they need to go immediately, rather than the 150 years it would take with normal warp drive, he decides to just roll with it.

* SceneryPorn: The opening shot of ''Discovery'' sailing out of a cloudy red nebula. Also the orbital shots of Terralysium, with its multiple rings are stunning.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The Red Angel was able to teleport a church and everyone in it from Earth to a planet over 51,000 light years away.

* EarthThatWas: The people of Terralysium believe they are the only humans left in the universe, saved by unknown angelic beings on the eve of World War Three. But there are a few, like Jacob's family, who believe the Earth and the rest of the human race are still out there.

* WholePlotReference: This isn't the first time a Star Trek crew has stumbled upon a planet of pre-First Contact humans who were taken from Earth by SufficientlyAdvancedAliens.

* DivineIntervention: The people of New Eden ''know'' their ancestors were saved by the Red Angel, who they believe was a divine messenger.

* MetaphoricallyTrue: Spock ''is'' on approved leave from the ''Enterprise''. Pike simply didn't mention that a week after he left the ship he ended up in a psychiatric facility on Starbase 5 because Starfleet regulations prohibited Pike from doing so.

* ClarkesThirdLaw: Specifically brought up by Pike. He then goes on to quote [[https://michaelshermer.com/2002/01/shermers-last-law/ Shermer's Last Law]], which seems very apropos for the ''Star Trek'' universe: "Any sufficiently-advanced extraterrestrial is indistinguishable from God."

* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Or locking people you strongly suspect to be from a more advanced society in basement full of old technology.

* EmergencyMultifaithPrayer: While the people who were saved from Earth agree they were saved by DivineIntervention, because there were people of a number of different beliefs who were taking shelter in the church they realized they didn't know ''what'' deity or faith might have saved them. As a result they created a religious text that [[CrossoverCosmology brought in aspects of, among others, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, and even Wicca]].

-->'''Tilly:''' Computer, locate quarters for Ahern, May.
-->'''Computer:''' Ship's manifest has no such name.
-->'''Tilly:''' Computer, search Federation database for the whereabouts of Ahern, May, originally from San Francisco, California, Earth.
-->'''Computer:''' Working. Ahern, May Theresa. Born April 30th, 2236. [[WhamLine Deceased, June 9th, 2252]].