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** Tilly mentioning that she's trying not to swear while on duty recalls her PrecisionFStrike from season one.


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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Tilly and the swearing again.
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** We finally know that Leland's stealth ship is designated ''NCIA-93'' and that there are at least two more like it in the Section 31 fleet.

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** We finally know that Leland's stealth ship is designated ''NCIA-93'' ''N[[SignificantMonogram CIA]]-93'' and that there are at least two more like it in the Section 31 fleet.
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* {{Blackmail}}: Mirror Georiou once again proves to be the better manipulator when she effortlessly leverages her knowledge of Leland's culpability in the deaths of Burnham's parents to bring him to heel.

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* {{Blackmail}}: Mirror Georiou Georgiou once again proves to be the better manipulator when she effortlessly leverages her knowledge of Leland's culpability in the deaths of Burnham's parents to bring him to heel.
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* {{Irony}}: The last time Amanda and Michael spoke, Amanda remarked that whatever Michael did to hurt Spock, the betrayal was the reason why the family could never be in the same place at the same time, and Michael couldn't even respect her foster parents enough to explain why until years later. Now, the entire family does indeed find themselves in the same room, but despite Amanda's actions rather than because of them: She hid Spock away in a shrine on Vulcan to keep him away from Michael and Sarek. Michael deduced it as a likely hiding spot, and Sarek followed Michael.

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* TheReveal: Leland was somehow responsible for the death of Burnham's biological parents.

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* TheReveal: TheReveal:
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Leland was somehow responsible for the death of Burnham's biological parents.parents.
** We finally know that Leland's stealth ship is designated ''NCIA-93'' and that there are at least two more like it in the Section 31 fleet.
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** Talos IV will play a major role [[Recap/StarTrekS1E11TheMenageriePartI in the future of both Spock and Pike]].

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** Talos IV will play plays a major role both [[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage in the past]] and [[Recap/StarTrekS1E11TheMenageriePartI in the future of future]] for both Spock and Pike]].Pike.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Burnham, who always tries to present the Vulcan ideal of being calm, collected, and rational, gleefully jumps at the chance to take out her frustration with Georgiou with a good, old-fashioned brawl.
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* MadnessMantra: Spock is repeating the same six numbers over and over, as well as passages from ''Alice in Wonderland''.

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* MadnessMantra: Spock is repeating the same six numbers over and over, as well as definitions of logic and passages from ''Alice in Wonderland''.



* ShoutOut: The symbol on the monitors that appears when the probe downloads something into Airiam -- three solid circles arranged in a triangle -- looks suspiciously like the symbol of ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}.

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* ShoutOut: The symbol on the monitors that appears when the probe downloads something into Airiam -- three solid circles arranged in a triangle -- looks suspiciously like the symbol of ComicBook/{{Superman}} villain ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}.



* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Burnham to beat her in a fight to explain she was "overpowered" when Burnham escaped with Spock. Leland doesn't believe it for a second, but has no way of proving this.

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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Burnham to beat her in a fight to explain she was "overpowered" when Burnham escaped with Spock. Leland doesn't believe it for a second, but has no way of proving this.this, and to add injury to insult, Mirror-Georgiou blackmails him into compliance.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Burnham to beat her in a fight to explain she was "overpowered" when Burnham escaped with Spock. Leland doesn't believe it for a second.

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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Burnham to beat her in a fight to explain she was "overpowered" when Burnham escaped with Spock. Leland doesn't believe it for a second.second, but has no way of proving this.

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* {{Blackmail}}: Mirror Georiou once again proves to be the better manipulator when she effortlessly leverages her knowledge of Leland's culpability in the deaths of Burnham's parents to bring him to heel.



* DramaticIrony: Burnham wonders what awaits her and Spock at Talos IV. Any viewer familiar with the original series knows exactly what she's in for.



* TemporalParadox: The temporal rift cause ripples in time, such as Pike and the bridge crew seeing an "echo" of Pike's conversation with Tyler a few minutes earlier.

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* TemporalParadox: The temporal rift cause ripples in time, such as Pike and the bridge crew seeing an "echo" of Pike's conversation with Tyler a few minutes earlier.earlier and Pike witnessing his own actions a few minutes into the future.

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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Bunham to beat her in a fight to explain she was "overpowered" when Burnham escaped with Spock. Leland doesn't believe it for a second.

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* WhamLine:
** When Mirror-Georgiou tells Leland he needs her to prevent Burnham from learning the truth:
--->'''Mirror-Georgiou:''' You're responsible for the death of her parents.
** After realizing the numbers Spock has been repeating are backwards, Burnham orders the shuttle computer to search the numbers in reverse. It gets a set of coordinates. The location?
--->'''Computer:''' Identification: [[Recap/StarTrekS1E11TheMenageriePartI Talos IV]].
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Bunham Burnham to beat her in a fight to explain she was "overpowered" when Burnham escaped with Spock. Leland doesn't believe it for a second.
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* DeadpanSnarker: When Tyler tries to assert authority over the mission because he's a member of Section 31, Pike shuts him down quick.
--> '''Pike:''' Mr. Tyler, the chair outranks the badge.


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* SadisticChoice: Sarek tells Burnham now that she knows where Spock is, she has two choices: risk her career again by continuing to conceal a wanted man, or turn Spock over to Section 31.


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* TemporalParadox: The temporal rift cause ripples in time, such as Pike and the bridge crew seeing an "echo" of Pike's conversation with Tyler a few minutes earlier.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Bunham to beat her in a fight to explain she was "overpowered" when Burnham escaped with Spock.

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* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Bunham to beat her in a fight to explain she was "overpowered" when Burnham escaped with Spock. Leland doesn't believe it for a second.
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Add "As you know" because this episode seemed to hit the viewer over the head with it to move exposition along.

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* AsYouKnow: Seemingly overused throughout the episode, ranging from discussions between Stamets and Tilly about four-dimensional math to discussions between Grayson and Burnham about Spock's childhood. At least the season 1 references to ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' finally have context.
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* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. When Burnham arrives at Vulcan she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area. Although it was mentioned on ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' that Vulcan had lush, forested parks, it was only ever previously seen on screen as a dry desert.

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* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. When Burnham arrives at Vulcan she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area. Although it was mentioned on ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' that Vulcan had lush, forested parks, it was only ever previously seen on screen as a dry desert.
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* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. Previously only ever seen on screen as a dry desert, when Burnham arrives at Vulcan she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area.

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* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. Previously only ever seen on screen as a dry desert, when When Burnham arrives at Vulcan she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area.area. Although it was mentioned on ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' that Vulcan had lush, forested parks, it was only ever previously seen on screen as a dry desert.
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* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. Previously only ever shown as a desert, when Burnham arrives at Vulcan, she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area.

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* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. Previously only ever shown seen on screen as a dry desert, when Burnham arrives at Vulcan, Vulcan she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area.
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* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. Previously only seen ever shown as a desert, when Burnham arrives at Vulcan, she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area.

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* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. Previously only seen ever shown as a desert, when Burnham arrives at Vulcan, she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area.
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* MythologyGag: Not the first time that a mechanical probe of human or Federation origin has come back with [[Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling with powers]] and/or [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture new sentience]] (although, in-universe, it predates both examples).
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Pike insists on personally piloting the shuttle to the anomaly, reasoning that as a former test pilot he's the most qualified. Tyler suggests the real reason he's doing it is to make up for not participating in the war, which Pike eventually admits is part of it.

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* BadLiar: Amanda's attempt to lie about Spock's whereabouts falls flat with Burnham. As Burnham explains, since Amanda never lied to her when she was growing up, it's obvious she's doing so now.



* CallBack: Saru recalls how Stamets is immune to temporal changes as a result of his tardigrade gene therapy, which they learned during [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS1E07MagicToMakeTheSanestManGoMad Mudd's temporal shenanigans]].
* CameBackStrong: The probe fired into the anomaly disappears, winds up 500 years into the future, then comes back with sentience and a bunch of upgrades.



* NegativeSpaceWedgie: A temporal anomaly forms at Kaminar and the Discovery's shuttle ends up inside.

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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: A temporal anomaly forms at Kaminar and the Discovery's ''Discovery's'' shuttle ends up inside.
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* BlatantLies: Burnham packs a bag then asks Pike for leave in order to find Spock. Pike guesses that she's already packed, and Burnham says she never would without his permission.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: After the shuttle is saved, Pike concedes to Ash that he does feel guilty about missing the war and is risking himself as a method of atonement, while Ash admits that Pike's decision to vent the drive plasma as a signal was the right move.


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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Spock has been driven mad by whatever the Red Angel showed him. Pike and Burnham wonder whether he simply couldn't handle it or the Red Angel deliberately showed it to him to cause his madness.

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** Pike's trick of dumping and igniting the shuttle's fuel as a signal [[Recap/StarTrekS1E16TheGalileoSeven will be used again Spock in about 10 years]].

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** Pike's trick of dumping and igniting the shuttle's fuel as a signal [[Recap/StarTrekS1E16TheGalileoSeven will be used again by Spock in about 10 years]].



** The obelisk in the center of the Vulcan shrine is similar in design to Kir'Shara from the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E09KirShara Kir'Shara]]", except made of glowing stone instead of being a piece of technology.



* GenreSavvy: Leland doesn't believe Georgiou's WoundedGazelleGambit for a second and realizes she allowed Burnham and Spock to escape.



* MadnessMantra: Spock is repeating the same six numbers over and over.

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* MadnessMantra: Spock is repeating the same six numbers over and over.over, as well as passages from ''Alice in Wonderland''.



* PetTheDog: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Burnham to rescue Spock from Section 31, claiming they weren't going to help him as they claimed.

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* PetTheDog: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Burnham to rescue Spock from Section 31, claiming revealing the device they weren't going intend to help use on him as they claimed.is a memory extractor which will destroy his mind. Her stated reason for helping is because it will benefit both Burnham and herself, since it will make Leland look bad.
* PsychicStatic: The shrine Amanda hides Spock in is made of katra stone, which naturally disrupts Vulcan telepathy.



* WalkInChimeIn: Right after Amanda states that, as the wife of the Vulcan Ambassador, she has the right to invoke diplomatic immunity to protect her son Sarek steps into the crypt and states that she can only if the Ambassador himself does not object.

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* ShoutOut: The symbol on the monitors that appears when the probe downloads something into Airiam -- three solid circles arranged in a triangle -- looks suspiciously like the symbol of ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}.
* ThatsAnOrder: Pike uses this with threats of a court martial to get Tyler to obey his order to release drive plasma as a signal to ''Discovery''.
* UnstuckInTime: Inside the anomaly, the shuttle is lost in both space and time, randomly bouncing between the past and future.
* WalkInChimeIn: Right after Amanda states that, as the wife of the Vulcan Ambassador, she has the right to invoke diplomatic immunity to protect her son son, Sarek steps into the crypt and states that she can only do so if the Ambassador himself does not object.
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* EurekaMoment: After Amanda discloses that Spock had some issues with a learning disability, and Leland compares that disability to dyslexia, Burnham realizes the numbers Spock constantly repeats should be read in reverse order.


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* GoshDarnItToHeck: Tilly says something is "freakin' amazing". When Saru chides her, she says that she's working hard to follow his advice not to swear while on duty.
* MadnessMantra: Spock is repeating the same six numbers over and over.
* MakeItLookLikeAStruggle: Georgiou tells Burnham right as the cameras come back on that she needs to "make it look good". Burnham does.


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* WalkInChimeIn: Right after Amanda states that, as the wife of the Vulcan Ambassador, she has the right to invoke diplomatic immunity to protect her son Sarek steps into the crypt and states that she can only if the Ambassador himself does not object.

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* ContinuityNod:
** Pike's trick of dumping and igniting the shuttle's fuel as a signal [[Recap/StarTrekS1E16TheGalileoSeven will be used again Spock in about 10 years]].
** Talos IV will play a major role [[Recap/StarTrekS1E11TheMenageriePartI in the future of both Spock and Pike]].



* TheMole: The 500-years advanced ''Discovery'' downloads some kind of viral payload into Airiam which clearly has some kind of influence over her.
* MythologyGag: Pike's trick of dumping and igniting the shuttle's fuel as a signal [[Recap/StarTrekS1E16TheGalileoSeven will be used again Spock in about 10 years]].

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* TheMole: The 500-years advanced ''Discovery'' probe downloads some kind of viral payload into Airiam which clearly has some kind of influence over her.
* MythologyGag: Pike's trick of dumping and igniting the shuttle's fuel as a signal [[Recap/StarTrekS1E16TheGalileoSeven will be used again Spock in about 10 years]].
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* PetTheDog: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Burnham to rescue Spock from Section 31.

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* PetTheDog: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Burnham to rescue Spock from Section 31.31, claiming they weren't going to help him as they claimed.

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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The temporal anomaly that forms at Kaminar and the Discovery's shuttle ends up inside.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Pike initially sees a FlashForward of him shooting Tyler. Later the episode makes it clear that he's shooting at a probe tentacle holding Tyler.

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* GenreSavvy: Leland doesn't believe Georgiou's WoundedGazelleGambit for a second and realizes she allowed Burnham and Spock to escape.
* TheMole: The 500-years advanced ''Discovery'' downloads some kind of viral payload into Airiam which clearly has some kind of influence over her.
* MythologyGag: Pike's trick of dumping and igniting the shuttle's fuel as a signal [[Recap/StarTrekS1E16TheGalileoSeven will be used again Spock in about 10 years]].
* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The A temporal anomaly that forms at Kaminar and the Discovery's shuttle ends up inside.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Pike initially sees a FlashForward of him shooting at Tyler. Later the episode makes he realizes it clear that he's was showing him shooting at a probe tentacle holding Tyler.



* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. Previously only seen ever shown as a desert, when Burnham arrives at Vulcan, she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area.

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* TheReveal: Leland was somehow responsible for the death of Burnham's biological parents.
* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. Previously only seen ever shown as a desert, when Burnham arrives at Vulcan, she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area.area.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Bunham to beat her in a fight to explain she was "overpowered" when Burnham escaped with Spock.
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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The temporal anomaly that forms at Kaminar and the Discovery's shuttle ends up inside.

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* OnceMoreWithClarity: Pike initially sees a FlashForward of he and Tyler in an armed standoff with each other. Later the episode makes it clear what the context is.

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* OnceMoreWithClarity: Pike initially sees a FlashForward of he and Tyler in an armed standoff with each other. him shooting Tyler. Later the episode makes it clear what the context is.that he's shooting at a probe tentacle holding Tyler.


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* PetTheDog: Mirror-Georgiou arranges for Burnham to rescue Spock from Section 31.
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* AcePilot: Pike reveals one of his first assignments was as a test pilot, making him probably the best shuttle pilot on the ship.
* ExactTimeToFailure: ''Discovery'' has to find Pike and Tyler in the anomaly before they're exposed to a lethal level of radiation.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Pike initially sees a FlashForward of he and Tyler in an armed standoff with each other. Later the episode makes it clear what the context is.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: For just a moment, Sarek's voice cracks and he's on the verge of breaking down at the thought of losing both Spock and Michael.
* SingleBiomePlanet: For once, averted in regards to Vulcan. Previously only seen ever shown as a desert, when Burnham arrives at Vulcan, she does so in the middle of a rainstorm, and Sarek and Amanda's home is in a forested area.
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Burnham returns to Vulcan to try and discover more information about Spock while ''Discovery'' remains at Kaminar to try and discover more about the Red Angel.

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