History Recap / StarTrekDiscoveryS2E14SuchSweetSorrowPartTwo

* CombatSadomasochist: When her ship takes a hit, L'Rell is slightly wounded, bleeding from the head. Her reaction is to start laughing at her failed attempt at a "[[JustForPun bloodless]] chancellorship." Then she gives graphic encouragement regarding the sort of destruction that she expects her warriors to wreak on Control's ships.

'''Reno:''' I'm going, I'm going! Get off my ass! ''[beat]'' Sir! Get off my ass, ''sir''!

** ''Discovery'' was fully evacuated in the previous episode -- said to be less than an hour prior to this -- and it was noted that only a skeleton crew would remain on board the vessel to guide her through the wormhole. Yet during the battle, the ship is at least as visibly crowded as it has normally been (Sickbay is particularly full of medical staff and injured crew), which is even more jarring when portrayed alongside the squadrons upon squadrons of shuttlecraft and tactical flyers that both ''Discovery'' and ''Enterprise'' launched to combat Control's fleet, which must have tied up a large portion of both ships' crews. It's possible that ''Enterprise'' picked up a '''lot''' of Starfleet crew specifically for the battle before she returned from her refit to aid ''Discovery'', but nothing indicated that they did.

* TheReveal: The first five signals were sent by Burnham during the battle, each one an element they would need to complete the mission. The sixth is generated by her as a beacon for ''Discovery'' to follow through the wormhole, and the seventh is sent from Terralysium four months after the battle so ''Enterprise'' knows they made it there safely.

* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: The five previously-detected red bursts lead ''Discovery'' to the people and places they need in order to win the battle.

* SecretKeeper: Members of the crew of ''Enterprise'', any left from ''Discovery'', Sarek, Amanda, Tyler, and a few others who know lie and claim ''Discovery'' was destroyed in the battle, thus keeping it secret that it (and the Sphere data) escaped to the future.
* StableTimeLoop: Spock realizes that before Burnham can go to the future from where it's assumed she can never return, she has to first create the Red Bursts responsible for [[RetroactivePreparation putting together the pieces]] to allow for that moment of the present to take place. The only reason Burnham knows where and when to send the first five signals from is because ''Discovery'' has already received them. Burnham didn't come up with this plan, time itself came up with this plan.
* TemptingFate: When Leland Control demands ''Discovery'' surrender the Sphere data, Mirror Georgiou points out that he's outnumbered 200 to 30. He responds by telling her to count again, and hundreds of drones peel off his ships, giving him numerical superiority in both capital vessels and fighters.

* TimeSkip: The final part of the episode takes place 124 days (roughly four months) after the battle. ''Enterprise'' has been repaired, Pike and his officers have been debriefed, all information regarding ''Discovery'' and Control has been classified and/or destroyed, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Spock shaved his beard]].

* {{Unperson}}: To prevent any possible resurgence of Control, Spock suggests that all knowledge of ''Discovery'', her crew, and her mission be scrubbed from all records and any mention of any of it be considered treason.

** In addition, Mirror-Georgiou is last seen down in ''Discovery'''s engineering section, immediately after killing Leland-Control in the spore reaction chamber, suggesting she's going to the future with everyone else. There is no indication how this lines up with Creator/MichelleYeoh's already-announced starring role as Georgiou in the upcoming Section 31 spinoff series. (This ends up being resolved in a later episode.)

* VerbalBackspace: Reno, after she realizes her biting remark was directed at a superior officer.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Downplayed, but Stamets takes a piece of shrapnel in the chest as he, Spock and Burnham rush the Red Angel suit down to the shuttlebay. Tilly and Lt. Nilsson have to bring Stamets to sickbay, where Dr. Culber takes over.

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: As per Spock's recommendation, everyone with knowledge of ''Discovery'' and her true fate is ordered to never speak of her again under penalty of treason. This includes Sarek and Amanda, who agree to the restriction despite their diplomatic immunity.

** Admiral Cornwell and Number One ''both'' head belowdecks to the ''Enterprise'''s briefing room to try and defuse the photon torpedo lodged in it (instead of, say, a damage control team). Shortly thereafter, Captain Pike orders Number One back to the bridge and heads down himself to try and help Cornwell with the effort before the torpedo explodes. They do call for a [[BombDisposal munitions expert]] first, but due to the ongoing battle, there's nobody left who isn't already working elsewhere.
** Similarly, Chancellor L'Rell does not delegate the responsibility of sending reinforcements to assist the Starfleet forces fighting against Leland Control, and instead arrives on the battlefield as a FrontlineGeneral in command of a warship (she even gets there ''before'' a fleet of Klingon D-7 battlecruisers can arrive). Given Tyler is on the ship with her, this may have been a practical concern, since she faked his death and probably wouldn't reveal that deception to just anyone.

** Intentional or not, the premise of the space battle serves as a CallForward to the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Yesterday's Enterprise", where the starship ''Enterprise'' must protect another federation starship from an attacking fleet while so the other ship can travel through a temporal anomaly. While the TNG example had the ship traveling back in time to prevent a war with the Klingons, this episode has the ship traveling ''forward'' in time to prevent a war.

* TheBattlestar: ''Enterprise'' and ''Discovery'' each launch several entire squadrons of fighters, shuttles, and up-armed maintenance pods, while pounding away at the Section 31 ships and tanking hits with their own shields to protect one another.

** At the beginning of the previous episode, the time crystal gave Burnham a vision of the battle, with ''Enterprise'' being nailed by an undetonated photon torpedo, Leland boarding ''Discovery'' and attacking the bridge crew. To prevent this, she hatches the "travel into the 32nd century" plan. Alas, once the plan is underway, everything Burnham saw still comes to pass, and she has a brief HeroicBSOD over the fact that she [[YouCantFightFate can't seem to change the future]]. Spock suggests that the reason the crystal showed her that future was so that she could change it, getting her back on track.
** Subverted with Pike. He reasons that because he ''knows'' what his future is, if he stays with the torpedo, it won't detonate with him present. Cornwell convinces him to leave by pointing out the hundreds of lives he's risking if he's wrong.

** Meanwhile, the oversight Section 31 will now be subject to because of their literally near-apocalyptic screwup will likely cause backlash that probably makes them even more secretive by [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine the 24th century]]; on the subject of the 24th century, the Control shitstorm will probably contribute to discriminatory attitudes towards [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Data]] and [[Series/StarTrekVoyager the Doctor]]; and Starfleet has lost hundreds of people, including an entire starship crew and [[HeroicSacrifice a flag officer]], and revolutionary propulsion technology to the [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong phenomenally dumb decision]] to grant an AI created by an amoral-at-best black ops agency any authority on tactical decisions.

* CombatSadomasochist: When her ship takes a hit, L'Rell is slightly wounded, bleeding from the head. Her reaction is to start laughing at her failed attempt at a "[[JustForPun bloodless]] chancellorship." Then she gives graphic encouragement regarding the sort of destruction she expects her warriors to wreak on Control's ships.

'''L'Rell:''' Day Soch yIja': [=DISqa=]'vIrIy Suvbogh qoq yo'Daq yIbaHrup! tugh mayIttaHvIS qIvDu'maj [=SIch=] jaghpu'ma' pIgh! (Tell the D7 to target the drone fleet that attacks ''Discovery''! We will wade knee-deep through the ruin of our enemies!)

* ArcWelding: Most, if not all, of the complaints about how ''Discovery'' allegedly violates canon are addressed before the end of the episode. Everything pertaining to ''Discovery'' and her crew, particularly the volatile topics of the spore drive, TimeTravel, and [[AIIsACrapshoot Control]], are declared ClassifiedInformation, while Section 31's screw-ups lead Starfleet to exert more oversight over it, with the implication that this is what causes the group to become the shadowy organization it was introduced as in ''[=DS9=]''.

** Nhan gets slammed headfirst into various bulkheads during the GravityScrew phase of her and Mirror-Georgiou's fight with Leland-Control, and then collapses to the deck and is not seen for the remainder of the episode.

** Mirror-Georgiou is last seen smiling as Leland-Control is magnetized to death, and does not show up on the bridge for ''Discovery'''s trip through the wormhole.

** In addition, Mirror-Georgiou is last seen down in ''Discovery'''s engineering section, immediately after killing Leland-Control in the spore reaction chamber. There is no indication how this lines up with Creator/MichelleYeoh's already announced starring role as Georgiou in the upcoming Section 31 spinoff series[[note]]unless it too is a prequel or interquel, or she pulled an offscreen VillainExitStageLeft before ''Discovery'' passed through the wormhole[[/note]].

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->'''Captain Michael Burnham:''' Let's fly.

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--> '''Number One:''' In English, please. I can't blow a path through what you're saying.

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: As per Spock's recommendation, everyone with knowledge of ''Discovery'' and her true fate is ordered to never speak of her again under penalty of treason.

* CallForward: The ''Enterprise'' losing much of the forward section of her primary hull is a close mirror for the ''Enterprise''-E losing her bow in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' (even though the causes are an explosion and [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming]] respectively).

* TimeSkip: The final part of the episode takes place 124 days (roughly four months) after the battle.

-->'''L'Rell:''' ''(laughing, in English)'' And I thought my chancellorship would be bloodless!\\

'''Tyler:''' ''(to bridge officers)'' chaHDaq baH! Qangra' QIHqangwI'pu' tIQaw'! (Return fire! Destroy those who would harm your chancellor!)\\
'''L'Rell:''' Day Soch yIja': DISqa'vIrIy Suvbogh qoq yo'Daq yIbaHrup! tugh mayIttaHvIS qIvDu'maj SIch jaghpu'ma' pIgh! (Tell the D7 to target the drone fleet that attacks ''Discovery''! We will wade knee-deep through the ruin of our enemies!)

'''Weapons officer:''' lu', QangwI'. (Yes, my chancellor.)\\
'''L'Rell:''' Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam! (It is a good day to die!)\\
'''All:''' Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!

'''Tyler:''' ''(to bridge officers, in Klingon)'' Return fire! Destroy those who would harm your chancellor!\\
'''L'Rell:''' ''(in Klingon)'' Tell the D7 to target the drone fleet that attacks ''Discovery''! We will wade knee-deep through the ruin of our enemies!

** At the beginning of the previous episode, the time crystal gave Burnham a vision of the battle, with ''Enterprise'' being nailed by an undetonated photon torpedo, Leland boarding ''Discovery'' and attacking the bridge crew. To prevent this, she hatches the "travel into the 33nd century" plan. Alas, once the plan is underway, everything Burnham saw still comes to pass, and she has a brief HeroicBSOD over the fact that she [[YouCantFightFate can't seem to change the future]]. Spock suggests that the reason the crystal showed her that future was so that she could change it, getting her back on track.

'''L'Rell:''' ''(in Klingon)'' Tell the D7 to target the drone fleet that attacks ''Discovery.''! We will wade knee-deep through the ruin of our enemies!

-->'''Pike''': Works for me!

** When ''Discovery'' enters the wormhole, the visual effects on the bridge crew are identical to ''Enterprise's'' brush with a wormhole in ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture''.