Line #14 Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS2E11PerpetualInfinity


1	Michael and the crew of ''Discovery'' learn her mother Gabrielle's history and mission to save the galaxy from Control; Control takes over Leland's body.
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4	!!Tropes in this episode:
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6	* BadVibrations: One of the signs of the impending Klingon attack.
7	* CanonImmigrant: Georgiou derisively mentions her "sentimental Prime-universe counterpart." The term "Prime Universe" was, until now, an unofficial label for the franchise's original continuity, founded by Creator/GeneRoddenberry, as opposed to the "Kelvinverse" AlternateTimeline from Creator/JJAbrams's films. It originates from the credits of ''Film/StarTrek2009'', where Creator/ZacharyQuinto is credited as "Spock" while Creator/LeonardNimoy plays "Spock Prime," but had never been used by a character until now (Quinto and Nimoy simply addressed each other as "Mr. Spock"). It's also never been used to differentiate aforementioned continuity from the MirrorUniverse whence (this) Georgiou originates, though it obviously serves the purpose.
8	* CurbStompBattle: Leland-Control easily mows down the ''Discovery'' security team when he beams down to the planet.
9	* EmergencyTemporalShift: Gabrielle's plan when the Klingons attacked was to go back an hour to prevent it. Something went wrong, and she wound up 950 years in the future.
10	* GoryDiscretionShot: When Tyler walks in on Leland, the camera is positioned behind Leland while the nanotech is reconstructing his face, and only shows Leland from the front once it's mostly finished.
11	* GrandTheftMe: Control injects some very Borg-esque nanotechnology into Leland which allows it to modify Leland's body and occupy it.
12	* GravitySucks: The longer that ''Discovery'' keeps Gabrielle and the suit in the containment field, the more power that they have to use to fight the gravitational effect of time trying to "yank" her back. Pike and Saru compare it to playing tug-of-war with the universe itself.
13	* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The plan to beam Gabrielle out of her time suit requires so much power that they only have one go at it.
14	* MeaningfulEcho: Gabrielle tells Georgiou that Control will try to kill her because it sees her as "an unacceptable risk to the larger mission", a phrase that [[SpottingTheThread Leland had used earlier]] to describe Gabrielle.
15	* MythologyGag:
16	** Perhaps a CallForward. Prior to assimilating him, Control tells Leland "Struggle is pointless", which sounds a lot like "Resistance is futile".
17	** Gabrielle tells Pike that "I can tell you more about your future, but you wouldn't like it."
18	* {{Nanomachines}}: Control injects Leland with these to take over his body.
19	* NeckSnap: How Leland-Control finishes off the last member of the ''Discovery'' security team.
20	* NoSell: The nanotech-modified Leland-Control shrugs off phaser blasts, and even the ridiculously skilled Georgiou can only delay him slightly in hand-to-hand combat.
21	* NotMeThisTime: Gabrielle denies any responsibility for the red signals.
22	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Before [[GrandTheftMe taking him over]], Control tells Leland that his goals and methods to reach those goals aren't that different from Control's.
23	* OrbitalBombardment: Burnham has ''Discovery'' fire torpedoes at the containment facility in an attempt to kill Leland-Control, but he beams back up to his ship before the torpedoes hit.
24	* OutOfCharacterAlert: Both Georgiou and Tyler realize that something is up with Leland, but it's only when Georgiou [[SpottingTheThread spots the thread]] that she realizes what that something is.
25	* TheReveal:
26	** Gabrielle Burnham used the Red Angel suit to try to save her husband and Michael the day that the Klingons attacked, but jumped 950 years into the future, long after Control had destroyed all intelligent life in the galaxy.
27	** Gabrielle created Terralysium as an experiment to see if she could change the past, as the colony did not exist when she first started time-jumping.
28	** Gabrielle was responsible for putting the Sphere in the position where ''Discovery'' would encounter it, hoping that that would prevent Control from getting the data.
29	** Gabrielle has no idea what the crew is talking about when they mention the signals that ''Discovery'' was investigating, because she didn't create them.
30	* SadisticChoice: The only way to stop Leland-Control is to destroy the containment field generators, but with the suit damaged and Gabrielle outside of it, she will be lost in the timestream with no technology to assist her.
31	* SpottingTheThread: Georgiou realizes that Control is influencing Leland when Gabrielle makes a comment about how Control views her, which echoes a phrase that Leland used earlier.
32	* TrappedInThePast: Inverted with Gabrielle, who inadvertently jumped 950 years into the future and couldn't return because the suit anchored her there. She could only make short jumps back to change the timeline. At the end of the episode, Leland-Control destroys the time crystal in the suit, meaning that she's permanently stranded in the future.
33	* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: The ''Discovery'' crew outline their plan to transfer the Sphere data into the time suit and send it into the future while separating Gabrielle from the suit's effects. It goes completely sideways, with Control gaining some of the data while Gabrielle winds up back in the future.
34	* WhamLine: When Pike asks Gabrielle about the red signals, she tells him "I don't know about any signals." This flies in the face of everyone's assumption that, as the Red Angel, she was responsible for the red signals.
35	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Gabrielle asks Georgiou to promise to look after Michael, stating that she's seen her risk and even give up her life to save Michael, even that she loves her. When Georgiou dismisses her by saying that Gabrielle obviously believes her to be Georgiou-Prime and that as a Terran she's too self-centered and out for herself to ever be so noble, Gabrielle states that to the contrary she knows ''exactly'' who Georgiou really is.
36	* YouCantFightFate: Gabrielle explains that she keeps trying to change history to prevent Control from committing genocide, but no matter what she does, it seems that Control gains the Sphere's data and goes on its rampage. At the end of the episode, Spock insists that they still have an opportunity to prove her wrong.

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