History Recap / StarTrekDiscoveryS2E14SuchSweetSorrowPartTwo

* TheUnreveal: We don't see any details of where or when ''Discovery'' emerges into the future, so as to leave a SequelHook to the third season. By extension, this also means the lead-up to the events of "[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryShortTreksE02Calypso Calypso]]" remains unexplained, as the near-immaculate state of the ship in that short episode (after a thousand years of abandonment) is inconsistent with her heavy battle damage prior to escaping into the future.

* TheUnreveal: We don't see any details of where or when ''Discovery'' emerges into the future, so as to leave a SequelHook to the third season. By extension, this also means the lead-up to the events of "Calypso" remains unexplained, as the state of the ship in that short is inconsistent with its heavy battle damage prior to escaping to the future.

* BittersweetEnding: The crews of ''Discovery'' and ''Enterprise'' manage to prevent Control from getting its digital mitts on enough of the sphere data to evolve, and what's left of the rogue AI has been dismantled, rendering the BadFuture that Gabrielle Burnham arrived in as an averted AlternateTimeline. However, ''Discovery'' is stranded in the future with no way back to its own time and has been [[DeathFakedForYou falsely declared destroyed with no survivors]], so nobody stupid enough to search for the data will be able to find them.
** Spock only knows that Michael and the rest of the crew are safe because of the final red burst, knows he'll never see her again, and can never even speak of her because, well aware of how dangerous the sphere data are, he's ensured that anyone aware of what really happened to ''Discovery'' is sworn to secrecy about the ship under penalty of treason.

* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Leland-Control accurately predicts that Mirror-Georgiou would hide the Sphere data in the spore drive control room. However, Mirror-Georgiou knew that he would figure that out, and led him there on purpose in order to use the spore containment cell to kill him.

** In the previous episode, it was established that the time crystal in the Red Angel suit would burn out as soon as they used it to travel to the future. In this episode, before opening a wormhole to the future, Burnham is able to travel into the past five separate times in order to create the first five red bursts. After she and ''Discovery'' have arrived, she's able to go back one last time to create the final red burst.
*** Spock only claimed that it would "ultimately lead" to the time crystal burning out. Given the number of jumps that Dr. Burnham was able to make from Terralysium, it's fairly clear that the suit jumping only itself and its operator to other time periods doesn't use an excessive amount of power -- but that creating a supersized wormhole to propel the entire ship a millennium into the future was probably the tipping point. Even so, Burnham is still able to jump back and create the seventh signal as she intended.

* TheUnreveal: We don't see any details of where or when ''Discovery'' emerges into the future, so as to leave a SequelHook to the third season.

* TheBattlestar: ''Enterprise'' and ''Discovery'' each serve as this, launching several entire squadrons of fighters while pounding away at the Section 31 ships and tanking hits with their own shields to protect one another

** 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 intelligent holograms]]; 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 authority on tactical decisions.

* TheCavalry: A fleet of Klingon warships under L'Rell's command and Kelpian-controlled Ba'ul fighters led by Siranna arrive right when ''Discovery'' and ''Enterprise'' are on the ropes.

* EnemyMine: L'Rell arrives with a fleet of Klingon warships, accompanied by Kelpian starfighters, to aid the Starfleet forces. L'Rell {{lampshades}} this by pointing out that she wouldn't consider the Kelpians or Starfleet ''friends'', but nonetheless sees no problem with fighting to defend the Klingons' future.

* GunshipRescue: L'Rell shows up with the Klingon cleave ship and several D-7s in the middle of the battle, accompanied by a Ba'ul fighter wing piloted by Kelpians, including Saru's sister Siranna.

* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Leland-Control accurately predicts that Mirror-Georgiou would hide the Sphere data in the spore drive control room. However, Mirror-Georgiou knew he would figure that out, and led him there on purpose in order to use the spore containment cell to kill him.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Downplayed, but Stamets is run through by a piece of shrapnel as he, Spock and Burnham rush the Red Angel suit down to the shuttlebay. Tilly and Lt. Nilsson have to rush Stamets to sickbay, where Dr. Culber takes over.

* ContinuityNod: The Starfleet regulation that Spock cites is the same one that the Department of Temporal Investigations cited to Captain Sisko in [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations "Trials and Tribble-ations"]]

* GunshipRescue: L'Rell shows up with several ships in the middle of the battle, accompanied by a Ba'ul fighter wing piloted by Kelpians, including Saru's sister Siranna.

* KeystoneArmy: The entire Section 31 armada is unmanned and remotely controlled by Leland-Control. When Mirror-Georgiou kills him, all the ships go dormant.

* SavedByCanon: Since trapping Spock in the future obviously isn't an option, his shuttle winds up disabled while he's protecting Burnham, forcing ''Enterprise'' to beam him back.
* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: The five previously-detected Red Bursts fundamentally work this way, as they lead ''Discovery'' to the people and places they need in order to win the battle.
* ScottyTime: Defied; at the start of the episode Burnham asks Reno if she can charge up the time crystal any quicker, but Reno retorts that it's only even charging as quickly as it is because she already bypassed the safeties, and that to go any faster would require violating the basic laws of physics.

* ArcWelding: most, if not all, of the complaints about how ''Discovery'' violates canon are squared away by the end of the episode. Everything pertaining to her, particularly the volatile topics of the spore drive, TimeTravel, and AIIsACrapShoot, is declared ClassifiedInformation, while Section 31's screw-ups lead Starfleet to exert more oversight over it, with the implication that this will cause it to become the shadowy organization it was introduced as in ''[=DS9=]''.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: At the beginning of the previous episode, the Time Crystal gives Burnham a vision of the battle, of ''Enterprise'' being nailed by an undetonated photon torpedo, of Leland boarding ''Discovery'' and attacking the bridge crew. To prevent this, she hatches the "travel into the 33nd century" plan. Alas, once they conduct the plan, everything she saw still comes to pass, and she has a brief HeroicBSOD over the fact that she 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. Cornwell convinces him to leave by pointing out the hundreds of lives he's risking if he's wrong.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: One of the largest in the franchise's history, involving squadrons of small craft and at least two dozen larger ones.
* BittersweetEnding: ''Discovery'' manages to prevent Control from getting its digital mitts on enough of the sphere data to evolve, and what's left of the rogue AI has been dismantled, rendering the BadFuture Gabrielle Burnham arrived in an averted AlternateTimeline. However, the ship is stranded in the future with no way back to its own time and has been [[DeathFakedForYou falsely declared destroyed with no survivors]] so nobody stupid enough to search for the data will be able to find them. Spock only knows that Michael and the rest of the crew are safe because of the final red burst, knows he'll never see her again, and can never even speak of her because, well aware of how dangerous the sphere data are, he's ensured that anyone aware of what really happened to ''Discovery'' is sworn to secrecy about the ship under penalty of treason. 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 intelligent holograms]]; 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 authority on tactical decisions.
* TheCavalry: A fleet of Klingon and Kelpian warships arrives when ''Discovery'' and ''Enterprise'' are on the ropes.
* ContinuityNod: The Starfleet regulation Spock cites is the same one that the Department of Temporal Investigations cited to Captain Sisko in [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations "Trials and Tribble-ations"]]

* DynamicEntry: The Klingon fleet's arrival is heralded by a decloaking Cleave ship slicing straight through one of the Section 31 vessels.

* EndingTheme: A mix of the ''Discovery'' theme with the soprano singer from the original series.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: After closing the blast door to protect the rest of the ''Enterprise'', Admiral Cornwell calmly stands and faces the torpedo before it detonates. In contrast, Leland Control dies screaming, having failed at his mission.
* GigglingVillain: Perhaps to remind the audience that she's not strictly a ''[[TokenEvilTeammate good]]'' [[EnemyMine guy]], Georgiou giggles happily to herself as she watches Leland Control die screaming.
* GravityScrew: During Miror Georgiou and Nhan's fight with Leland-Control, the artificial gravity in the hallway fails, causing the gravity to shift wildly and send them sprawling over the walls and ceiling as they struggle to adapt.
* GunshipRescue: L'Rell shows up with several ships in the middle of the battle, joined by a Ba'ul fighter wing piloted by Kelpians.
* HeroicSacrifice: Admiral Cornwell manually seals a damaged blast door between the rest of ''Enterprise'' and an undetonated torpedo lodged in the forward saucer. The detonation still vaporizes a good chunk of the saucer, but her sacrifice saves the rest of the ship.
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Leland Control accurately predicts that Mirror Georgiou would hide the Sphere data in the spore control room. However, Georgiou knew he would figure that out and led him there on purpose, as she could use the spore containment cell to kill him.
* KeystoneArmy: The entire Section 31 armada is unmanned and remotely controlled by Leland Control. When Mirror Georgiou kills him, all the ships go dormant.

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Georgiou's explicit goal in her confrontation with Leland Control is to make him scream. When she finally succeeds, by trapping him in the Spore Chamber and magnetizing it to pull him apart, she watches while [[GigglingVillain giggling.]]
* PlotHole: In the previous episode, it was established that the time crystal would burn out as soon as they used it to travel to the future. In this episode, before opening a wormhole to the future, Burnham is able to travel into the past five separate times in order to create the first five red bursts. After she and ''Discovery'' have arrived, she's able to go back one last time to create the final red burst.

* 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 Control's defeat.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: In her final moments, Admiral Cornwell faces the torpedo about to kill her, calmly stands straight with her hands behind her back, and is vaporized without so much as flinching.

* DiplomaticImmunity: Po invokes this when Pike asks why she's flying a stolen shuttle in the middle of the battle, before explaining ''why'' she stole it in the first place.

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: at the beginning of the previous episode, the Time Crystal gives Burnham a vision of the battle, of ''Enterprise'' being nailed by an undetonated photon torpedo, of Leland boarding ''Discovery'' and attacking the bridge crew. To prevent this, she hatches the "travel into the 33nd century" plan. Alas, once they conduct the plan, everything she saw still comes to pass, and she has a brief HeroicBSoD over the fact that she can't seem to change the future.

* EndingTheme: A mix of the ''Discovery'' theme with the soprano singer from the original series.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: After closing the blast door to protect the rest of the ''Enterprise'', Admiral Cornwell calmly stands and faces the torpedo before it detonates. In contrast, Leland Control dies screaming, having failed at his mission.

-->'''Saru:''' Hurry!
-->'''Reno:''' I'm going, I'm going! Get off my ass! ''[beat]'' Sir. Get off my ass, sir.

* EnemyMine: L'Rell arrives with a fleet of Klingon warships, accompanied by Kelpian starfighters, to aid the Starfleet forces. L'Rell {{lampshades}} this by pointing out that she wouldn't consider the Kelpians ''friends'', but nonetheless sees no problem with fighting to defend the Klingons' future.

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

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Leland Control dies by having the nanites in his body painfully ripped out of him by a magnetized floor.

* BigBadassBattleSequence: one of the largest in the franchise's history, involving squadrons of small craft and at least two dozen larger ones.

* PlotHole: In the previous episode, the explicit problem with the Time Suit is that ItOnlyWorksOnce. In this episode, Burnham uses it no less than ''seven'' times -- to create the seven Red Bursts. (There is some FanWank to be had about how she only uses it to travel into ''the future'' once, which [[DumbassHasAPoint would make sense as a rule]], but it's never discussed on camera.)

* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: the five previously-detected Red Bursts fundamentally work this way, as they lead ''Discovery'' to the people and places they need in order to win the battle.

* 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 signals responsible for [[RetroactivePreparation putting together the pieces]] to allow for Control's defeat.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: In the final moments, Admiral Cornwell faces the torpedo about to kill her, calmly stands straight with her hands behind her back, and is vaporized without so much as flinching.