History Recap / StarTrekDiscoveryS2E13SuchSweetSorrow

* TrueCompanions: The ''Discovery'' family comes together one more time. Remaining aboard to help Burnham with her SuicideMission are Saru, Detmer, Owosekun, Bryce, Rhys, Nilsson, Nhan, Stamets, Tilly, Reno, Po, Spock, and at least one other character who has never had lines (or a name).

* InsufferableGenius: Queen Po continues this trend from her last appearance, although the only character that she's particularly insufferable towards is [[HateSink Mirror-Georgiou]].

* AbandonShip: Pike, Saru, Burnham and the rest of the crew evacuate ''Discovery'' before activating the SelfDestructMechanism to try and keep the Sphere data in the ship's memory banks out of Control's [[AIIsACrapshoot artificially-intelligent]] hands.
* AllJustADream: Of sorts; Burnham witnesses a BadFuture through the time crystal in which both ''Discovery'' and ''Enterprise'' are beaten by Control's forces and Leland kills her personally -- before snapping back to the bridge of the ''Enterprise''.

* BreatherEpisode: {{Downplayed}} -- there's plenty of important stuff going on, but it's all prep work for next epsiode, when all hell ''really'' breaks loose.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Since ''Discovery'' must survive to [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryShortTreksE02Calypso meet Craft in the far future]], by dramatic necessity the attempts to scuttle her are doomed to failure. How she ends up completely abandoned, however, remains to be seen -- especially when the bridge crew intend to remain aboard to help Burnham take the ship to the future.

* InsufferableGenius: Queen Po continues this trend from her last appearance, although the only character she's particularly insufferable towards is [[HateSink Mirror-Georgiou]].

** Tilly reveals that she met Queen Po, confusing the hell out of everyone (since they never knew that Po was aboard ''Discovery'').

-->'''Pike:''' Serving as your captain has been one of the greatest honors of my career. You are exceptional officers. Exceptional individuals. Every single one of you. Lieutenants Detmer and Owosekun, I wouldn't be here if [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS2E01Brother you hadn't saved my life on the way to that asteroid]]. Lieutenant Nilsson, you stepped up for Airiam in a way that honors her. Lieutenants Bryce and Rhys, you're calm under pressure. And Commander Saru...I'm gonna miss the hell out of you. Lieutenant Spock...there are no words.[...] ''(to Burnham)'' And as for you...most people will never get a chance to learn what's in their own hearts. If we figure it out, it's often not what we expected, or even what we would have chosen for ourselves. I am very grateful, Commander, to have been here to watch you discover your heart. Thank you. I know that you...''(to the bridge crew)'' I know that all of you will face your destinies with bravery and honor, even those moments to come that will test the strongest among us.

* ProperlyParanoid: Number One had the ''Enterprise'' shuttles retrofitted for combat and picked up Starfleet's experimental fighters because she [[CrazyPrepared assumed things would go south]].

* SpottingTheThread: The senior officers conclude that Burnham, not her mother, must be the source of the red signals, since Gabrielle was focused solely on keeping the Sphere data out of the hands of Control, and knew nothing about the source of the signals themselves -- while the Red Angel suit included two sets of neural patterns, including both Michael and Gabrielle.
* StarKilling: When Burnham recalls that her parents used a stellar lensing array -- to power the Red Angel suit's time crystal, as she later discovered -- [[TokenEvilTeammate Mirror-Georgiou suggests using an antimatter missile to trigger a supernova]] to achieve the same effect. Cornwell, Pike and the others [[EverybodyHasStandards shoot this idea down]] in short order.
* TrueCompanions: The ''Discovery'' family comes together one more time. Remaining aboard to help Burnham with her SuicideMission are Saru, Detmer, Owosekun, Bryce, Rhys, Nilsson, Nhan, Stamets, Tilly, Reno, Po, Spock and at least one other character who has never had lines (or a name).

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: In classic ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fashion, the mere existence of the spore drive renders most of this two-parter pointless: instead of spore-jumping to Xahea to get help charging the time crystal faster, the ''Discovery'' could have jumped to some location like [[Series/StarTrekVoyager the Delta Quadrant]] or literally anywhere else past the feasible range of standard warp drives, where Control's ships couldn't possibly have caught up to them within a human lifetime. So [[RuleOfCool naturally]] the drive's canonical capabilities are completely ignored in favor of fighting a completely unnecessary BigBadassBattleSequence against impossible odds, mostly because the issue of Control hanging around needed to be solved somehow.

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: In classic ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fashion, the mere existence of the spore drive renders most of this two-parter pointless: instead of spore-jumping to Xahea to get help charging the time crystal faster, the ''Discovery'' could have jumped to some location like [[Series/StarTrekVoyager the Delta Quadrant]] or into intergalactic space where Control's ships couldn't possibly have caught up with them within a human lifetime. So [[RuleOfCool naturally]] the drive's canonical capabilities are completely ignored in favor of fighting a completely unnecessary BigBadassBattleSequence against impossible odds.

* InternalReveal: Mirror-Georgiou explains her true origins to Pike, but he already knows about the MirrorUniverse and had guessed as much.
--> '''Georgiou:''' I'm Terran, by the way. From your Mirror Universe.\\