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* DueToTheDead: The episode begins with the funeral for Airiam, with every person aboard Discovery in attendance. As in ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The Wrath of Khan]]'', Airiam's body is placed in a torpedo casing and shot away from the ship towards a nearby planet.
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* DueToTheDead: The episode begins with the funeral for Airiam, with every person aboard Discovery in attendance. As in ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The Wrath of Khan]]'', Airiam's body is placed in a torpedo casing and [[BurialInSpace shot away from the ship towards a nearby planet.planet]].
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* {{Irony}}: As {{lampshaded}} by Georgiou.
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-->'''Spock:''' To call Essof IV "inhospitable" would be a gross understatement. Temperatures fluctuate wildly, and its carbon monoxide atmosphere is laced with perchlorate dust, which will quickly prove lethal to any oxygen-breathing life-form.
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The ''Discovery'' crew has only one chance to capture the Red Angel, because failure would kill Burnham.
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* PartingWordsRegret: {{Defied}} when Burnham goes to see Tyler after giving him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, telling him that she doesn't want that to be the last thing she says to him. He accepts that she was angry about how Section 31 indirectly caused the Klingon attack on Doctari Alpha.
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* {{Understatement}}: Spock's description of the toxic atmosphere on Essof IV makes it clear that "inhospitable" is an insufficient descriptor.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Admiral Cornwell, who supervised the operation to capture the Red Angel, disappears now that she's in custody, not appearing again until the 2-part finale. (This is slightly more justified than Jett Reno's on-and-off presence as Cornwell was explicitly shown arriving via her own FasterThanLightTravel-capable shuttle.)
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Admiral Cornwell, who supervised the operation to capture the Red Angel, overthrow Section 31, disappears now that she's in custody, again, not appearing again until the 2-part finale. (This is slightly more justified than Jett Reno's on-and-off presence as Cornwell was explicitly shown arriving via her own FasterThanLightTravel-capable shuttle.shuttle -- not to mention that ''Discovery'' accomplished the objective she had set for it.)
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Nhan and Burnham come to respect each other by this -- Burnham by telling Nhan that she did the right thing by opening the airlock, and Nhan saying that she was glad Burnham was there to try and find any other solution before having to eject Airiam into space.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Admiral Cornwell, who supervised the operation to capture the Red Angel, disappears now that she's in custody, not appearing again until the 2-part finale. (This is slightly more justified than Jett Reno's on-and-off presence as Cornwell was explicitly shown arriving via her own FasterThanLightTravel-capable shuttle.)
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Nhan and Burnham come to respect each other by this -- Burnham by telling Nhan that she did the right thing by opening the airlock, and Nhan saying that she was glad Burnham wasthere still trying to try and find any other solution before having to eject Airiam into space.solutions.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Nhan and Burnham come to respect each other by this -- Burnham by telling Nhan that she did the right thing by opening the airlock, and Nhan saying that she was glad Burnham was
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* DueToTheDead: The episode begins with the funeral for Airiam, with every person aboard Discovery in attendance. As in The Wrath of Khan, Airiam's body is placed in a torpedo casing and shot off the ship.
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* DueToTheDead: The episode begins with the funeral for Airiam, with every person aboard Discovery in attendance. As in ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The Wrath of Khan, Khan]]'', Airiam's body is placed in a torpedo casing and shot off away from the ship.ship towards a nearby planet.
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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Leland mentions that Burnham's parents were working on the theory that sudden technological and scientific advances in history that seemed to come out of nowhere were due to time travelers. Burnham disputes the idea, but they're right: the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E8FuturesEnd Future's End]]" shows that the information age was kickstarted thanks to the crash-landing of a 29th century timeship in TheSeventies.
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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Leland mentions that Burnham's parents were working on the theory that sudden technological and scientific advances in history that seemed to come out of nowhere were due to time travelers. Burnham disputes the idea, but (in-universe) they're right: the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E8FuturesEnd Future's End]]" shows that the information age was kickstarted thanks to the crash-landing of a 29th century 29th-century timeship in TheSeventies.
* MythologyGag: Airiam's funeral is an homage to ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The Wrath of Khan]]'', right down to having a speech (or several) in her memory, followed by music (singing, instead of bagpipes), and launching the casket from the ship towards a nearby planet.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: ''Discovery'' blew up Section 31 Headquarters to destroy Control's primary terminal.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: After the events of "Project Daedalus", ''Discovery'' blew up Section 31 Headquarters 31's SpaceStation headquarters to destroy Control's primary terminal.terminal. Afterwards, they must have also managed to escape the surrounding minefield, if it was not disabled by the loss of the nearby station.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: ''Discovery'' and Section 31 have 2 minutes to capture The Red Angel and revive Burnham before her death becomes irreversible. They don't make it, but The Red Angel revives Burnham using her suit's technology.
* RedHerring: Subverted - Pike and Cornwell are convinced the Project Daedalus file is a fake set up by Control as a diversion, until Culber points out if it were a fake the brain scans contained within it would be flawless and not have the small imperfections that real people have.
* RedHerring: Subverted - Pike and Cornwell are convinced the Project Daedalus file is a fake set up by Control as a diversion, until Culber points out if it were a fake the brain scans contained within it would be flawless and not have the small imperfections that real people have.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: ''Discovery'' and Section 31 have 2 two minutes to capture The the Red Angel and revive Burnham before her death becomes irreversible. They don't make it, but The the Red Angel revives Burnham using her suit's technology.
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** Subverted- -- Pike and Cornwell are convinced the Project Daedalus file is a fake set up by Control as a diversion, until Culber points out if it were a fake fake, the brain scans contained within it would be flawless and not have the small imperfections that real people have.have.
** Also, the neural patterns are believed to be a complete match for Michael Burnham, when they actually come from her mother (or were a fake intended to misdirect the ''Discovery'' crew).
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Nhan and Burnham come to respect each other by this - Burnham by telling Nhan she did the right thing by opening the airlock, and Nhan saying she was glad Burnham was there to try and find any other solution before having to eject Airiam into space.
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* OurWormholesAreDifferent: The red wormhole used by the Red Angel to travel through time is temporary, kept open by the time crystal in the suit. Just before closing, it snaps the Angel back into it like a rubber band. The future AI uses the open wormhole to send agents into the past. Apparently, an opening wormhole sends out a pressure wave that temporarily knocks out ship systems, as the crews of the ''Discovery'' and the ''NCIA-93'' find out.
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* AnythingThatMoves: According to Georgiou, who herself fits the trope, she had flings with both Mirror!Stamets and Mirror!Culber, who were pansexual. Stamets then counters that even if that were true, the Prime universe's versions of them are firmly on the "gay" side of the spectrum. Culber in particular is shocked to hear Georgiou call him "papi".
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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Leland mentions that Burnham's parents were working on the theory that sudden technological and scientific advances in history that seemed to come out of nowhere were due to time travelers.
** Of course, given what we know from the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E8FuturesEnd Future's End]]", they would turn out to be right about at least one such advancements (namely, the advent of the information age, thanks to the crash-landing of a 29th century timeship in TheSeventies).
** Of course, given what we know from the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E8FuturesEnd Future's End]]", they would turn out to be right about at least one such advancements (namely, the advent of the information age, thanks to the crash-landing of a 29th century timeship in TheSeventies).
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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Leland mentions that Burnham's parents were working on the theory that sudden technological and scientific advances in history that seemed to come out of nowhere were due to time travelers.
** Of course, given what we know fromtravelers. Burnham disputes the idea, but they're right: the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E8FuturesEnd Future's End]]", they would turn out to be right about at least one such advancements (namely, the advent of End]]" shows that the information age, age was kickstarted thanks to the crash-landing of a 29th century timeship in TheSeventies).TheSeventies.
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* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Off-duty Culber wears a very contemporary-looking blazer. The contrast between him and everyone else's FutureSpandex is almost funny.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Because the Angel's neural patterns closely match Burnham's, and the Red Angel has appeared at points where Burnham's life was in danger, they believe Burnham in the future must have somehow obtained the suit and is now using it. To capture the Red Angel, they put Burnham's life in danger deliberately so future Burnham will be forced to prevent a GrandfatherParadox. As it turns out, the Red Angel isn't Burnham, but her mother, so the reason she acted as such was to protect her daughter.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Because the Angel's neural patterns closely match Burnham's, and the Red Angel has appeared at points where Burnham's life was in danger, they believe Burnham in the future must have somehow obtained the suit and is now using it. To capture the Red Angel, they put Burnham's life in danger deliberately so future Burnham will be forced to prevent a GrandfatherParadox. As it turns out, the Red Angel isn't Burnham, but her mother, so the reason she acted as such was to protect her daughter.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Burnham is strapped into a chair and exposed to an atmosphere that consists of carbon monoxide and perchlorate dust, making her suffocation both agonizingly slow and excruciatingly painful.
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* HostageSituation: When Pike orders the attempt to lure the Red Angel stopped, Spock pulls his phaser and holds Culber, Stamets and Georgiou hostage to prevent them from rescuing Burnham.
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* MyGreatestFailure: Leland admits that the death of Burnham's parents was due to his ambition as a young operative making him sloppy and careless.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: ''Discovery'' blew up Section 31 Headquarters to destroy Control's primary terminal.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: ''Discovery'' blew up Section 31 Headquarters to destroy Control's primary terminal.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: ''Discovery'' and Section 31 have 2 minutes to capture The Red Angel and revive Burnham before her death becomes irreversible. They don't make it, but The Red Angel revives Burnham using her suit's technology.
* RedHerring: Subverted - Pike and Cornwell are convinced the Project Daedalus file is a fake set up by Control as a diversion, until Culber points out if it were a fake the brain scans contained within it would be flawless and not have the small imperfections that real people have.
* RedHerring: Subverted - Pike and Cornwell are convinced the Project Daedalus file is a fake set up by Control as a diversion, until Culber points out if it were a fake the brain scans contained within it would be flawless and not have the small imperfections that real people have.
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** The rogue futuristic AI still exists, hiding inside the main computer of Leland's ship.
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Nhan and Burnham come to respect each other by this - Burnham by telling Nhan she did the right thing by opening the airlock, and Nhan saying she was glad Burnham was there to try and find any other solution before having to eject Airiam into space.
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* DueToTheDead: The episode begins with the funeral for Airiam, with every person aboard Discovery in attendance. As in The Wrath of Khan, Airiam's body is placed in a torpedo casing and shot off the ship.
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* ConnectedAllAlong: The mysterious Red Angel is not Burnham ... but her mother.
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* ConnectedAllAlong: The mysterious Red Angel is not future Burnham ... but her mother.
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* AndThisIsFor: Burnham gives Leland two palm strikes to the nose, one for each of her parents, when she learns that he was responsible for their deaths.
* CastingGag: Airiam's replacement, Lt. Nilsson, is played by the same actress who played Airiam in season 1.
* CastingGag: Airiam's replacement, Lt. Nilsson, is played by the same actress who played Airiam in season 1.
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* AndThisIsFor: Burnham gives Leland two palm strikes to the nose, face, one for each of her parents, when she learns that he was responsible for their deaths.
* CastingGag: Airiam's replacement,Lt. Lieutenant Nilsson, is played by the same actress (Sara Mitich) who played Airiam [[TheOtherDarrin in season 1.Season 1]].
* ConnectedAllAlong: The mysterious Red Angel is not Burnham ... but her mother.
* CastingGag: Airiam's replacement,
* ConnectedAllAlong: The mysterious Red Angel is not Burnham ... but her mother.
* EntertaininglyWrong: The crew think they have evidence that proves that a future version of Burnham is the Red Angel. Instead, the being is revealed to be Burnham's mother.
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** The Red Angel suit is a creation of Section 31's Project Daedelus, meant to protect the Federation from Klingon attempts to weaponize time travel.
** Burnham's parents secretly worked for Section 31 and her mother developed the Red Angel suit to use in a potential temporal conflict against the Klingons. They were killed when Leland unintentionally allowed a Klingon agent to trace the time crystal stolen by Section 31 from the Klingons to them, though Burnham's mother evidently escaped using the suit.
** Burnham's parents secretly worked for Section 31 and her mother developed the Red Angel suit to use in a potential temporal conflict against the Klingons. They were killed when Leland unintentionally allowed a Klingon agent to trace the time crystal stolen by Section 31 from the Klingons to them, though Burnham's mother evidently escaped using the suit.
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** The Red Angel suit is a creation of Section 31's Project Daedelus, Daedalus, meant to protect the Federation from Klingon attempts to weaponize time travel.
** Burnham's parents secretly worked for Section 31 and her mother developed the Red Angel suit to use in a potential temporal conflict against the Klingons. They were killed when Leland unintentionally allowed a Klingon agent to trace the time crystal stolen by Section 31 from the Klingons to them, though Burnham's mother evidently escaped using thesuit.suit (or really did die in the attack, and has yet to return to that time period).
** Burnham's parents secretly worked for Section 31 and her mother developed the Red Angel suit to use in a potential temporal conflict against the Klingons. They were killed when Leland unintentionally allowed a Klingon agent to trace the time crystal stolen by Section 31 from the Klingons to them, though Burnham's mother evidently escaped using the
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* CastingGag: Airiam's replacement, Lt. Nilsson, is played by the same actress who played Airiam in season 1.
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* {{Forgiveness}}: Spock finally accepts Burnham's apology for the things she said to him as a child.
* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Leland mentions that Burnham's parents were working on the theory that sudden technological and scientific advances in history that seemed to come out of nowhere were due to time travelers.
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* SpottingTheThread: Spock realizes the times and places the Red Angel has shown up without being connected to one of the signals is when Burnham herself has been in danger.
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Tilly finds a datafile in Airiam's memory that reveals the Red Angel is a future version of Burnham, and the crew of ''Discovery'' and Section 31 set out to capture her in order to stop her from traveling through time. Only to find out that the Red Angel is in fact Burnham's ''mother''.
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* EyeScream: The future AI causes something to be injected into Leland's eye when it infiltrates his ship.
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* EyeScream: The future AI causes something to be injected into Leland's eye when it infiltrates his ship.
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Tilly finds a datafile in Airiam's memory that reveals the Red Angel is a future version of Burnham, and the crew of ''Discovery'' and Section 31 set out to capture her in order to stop her from traveling through time. Only to find out that the Red Angel is in fact Burnham's ''mother''.
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* AndThisIsFor: Burnham gives Leland two palm strikes to the nose, one for each of her parents, when she learns that he was responsible for their deaths.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: To attract the Red Angel, believing her to be Burnham from the future, the crew deliberately places Burnham in a situation where she'll die without the Angel's intervention.
* EyeScream: The future AI causessomething to be injected into Leland's retinal scanner to jab a needle into his eye when it infiltrates his ship. It's possible this is meant to be a countermeasure for unauthorized access.
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* AndThisIsFor: Burnham gives Leland two palm strikes to the nose, one for each of her parents, when she learns that he was responsible for their deaths.
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: To attract the Red Angel, believing her to be Burnham from the future, the crew deliberately places Burnham in a situation where she'll die without the Angel's intervention.
* EyeScream: The future AI causes
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* InternalReveal: Leland tells Burnham about his involvement in the death of her parents.
* OhCrap: When the ship's computer repeats his own words back to him, Leland realizes that the AI is in his ship just before he gets a needle in the eye.
* OhCrap: When the ship's computer repeats his own words back to him, Leland realizes that the AI is in his ship just before he gets a needle in the eye.
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** Burnham's parents secretly worked for Section 31 and her mother developed the Red Angel suit to use in a potential temporal conflict against the Klingons. They were killed when Leland unintentionally allowed a Klingon agent to trace the time crystal stolen by Section 31 from the Klingons to them.them, though Burnham's mother evidently escaped using the suit.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Because the Angel's neural patterns closely match Burnham's, and the Red Angel has appeared at points where Burnham's life was in danger, they believe Burnham in the future must have somehow obtained the suit and is now using it. To capture the Red Angel, they put Burnham's life in danger deliberately so future Burnham will be forced to prevent a GrandfatherParadox. As it turns out, the Red Angel isn't Burnham, but her mother, so the reason she acted as such was to protect her daughter.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Because the Angel's neural patterns closely match Burnham's, and the Red Angel has appeared at points where Burnham's life was in danger, they believe Burnham in the future must have somehow obtained the suit and is now using it. To capture the Red Angel, they put Burnham's life in danger deliberately so future Burnham will be forced to prevent a GrandfatherParadox. As it turns out, the Red Angel isn't Burnham, but her mother, so the reason she acted as such was to protect her daughter.
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* SurvivorsGuilt: Spock finally states the obvious; Burnham's willingness to keep sacrificing herself physically and emotionally for others is due to her guilt at feeling responsible for the death of her parents.
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* SurvivorsGuilt: Spock finally states the obvious; Burnham's willingness to keep sacrificing herself physically and emotionally for others is due to her guilt at feeling responsible for the death of her parents.parents.
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-->'''Burnham:''' Mom?
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* PetTheDog: Mirror-Georgiou displays honest concern over Burnham's well-being and safety, and for once openly shows and isn't trying to deny she truly cares about her.
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* PetTheDog: Mirror-Georgiou displays honest concern over Burnham's well-being and safety, and for once openly shows and isn't trying to deny she truly cares about her.
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Tilly finds a datafile in Airiam's memory that reveals the Red Angel is a future version of Burnham, and the crew of ''Discovery'' and Section 31 set out to capture her in order to stop her from traveling through time. Only to find out that the red Red Angel is in fact Burnham's mother.
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Tilly finds a datafile in Airiam's memory that reveals the Red Angel is a future version of Burnham, and the crew of ''Discovery'' and Section 31 set out to capture her in order to stop her from traveling through time.
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** The Red Angel is a Burnham's mother.''mother''.
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** Burnham's parents secretly worked for Section 31 and her mother developed the Red Angel suit to use in a potential temporal conflict against the Klingons. They were killed when Leland unintentionally allowed a Klingon agent to trace the time crystal stolen by Section 31 from the Klingons to them.
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* SurvivorsGuilt: Spock finally states the obvious; Burnham's willingness to keep sacrificing herself physically and emotionally for others is due to her guilt at feeling responsible for the death of her parents.
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Tilly finds a datafile in Airiam's memory that reveals the Red Angel is a future version of Burnham, and the crew of ''Discovery'' and Section 31 set out to capture her in order to stop her from traveling through time.
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* GrandfatherParadox: Referenced by name when Burnham points out the way to lure future her to where she can be captured is to have present Burnham placed in mortal danger so the Red Angel intervenes to save her past self.
* TheReveal
** The Red Angel is a future Burnham.
** The Red Angel suit is a creation of Section 31's Project Daedelus, meant to protect the Federation from Klingon attempts to weaponize time travel.
** Burnham's parents secretly worked for Section 31 and her mother developed the Red Angel suit to use in a potential temporal conflict against the Klingons. They were killed when Leland unintentionally allowed a Klingon agent to trace the time crystal stolen by Section 31 from the Klingons to them.
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* GrandfatherParadox: Referenced by name when Burnham points out the way to lure future her to where she can be captured is to have present Burnham placed in mortal danger so the Red Angel intervenes to save her past self.
* TheReveal
** The Red Angel is a future Burnham.
** The Red Angel suit is a creation of Section 31's Project Daedelus, meant to protect the Federation from Klingon attempts to weaponize time travel.
** Burnham's parents secretly worked for Section 31 and her mother developed the Red Angel suit to use in a potential temporal conflict against the Klingons. They were killed when Leland unintentionally allowed a Klingon agent to trace the time crystal stolen by Section 31 from the Klingons to them.
