Context Is for Kings
- Episode aired Oct 1, 2017
- TV-MA
- 48m
Burnham finds herself aboard the U.S.S. Discovery, where she quickly realizes things are not as they seem, including the mysterious Captain Gabriel Lorca.Burnham finds herself aboard the U.S.S. Discovery, where she quickly realizes things are not as they seem, including the mysterious Captain Gabriel Lorca.Burnham finds herself aboard the U.S.S. Discovery, where she quickly realizes things are not as they seem, including the mysterious Captain Gabriel Lorca.
- Ash Tyler
- (credit only)
- Shuttle Pilot
- (as Ronnie Rowe Jr.)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA tribble can be seen and heard purring on Captain Lorca's desk in his first scene. The tribbles were introduced in The Trouble with Tribbles (1967) and later appeared in More Tribbles, More Troubles (1973), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Trials and Tribble-ations (1996), The Breach (2003) and Star Trek Beyond (2016).
- GoofsEveryone blames Burnham for starting the war, but, while she did commit mutiny, she was caught before she could enact her plan for dealing with the Klingons. Her actions did not extend beyond the bridge of her own ship and had no effect on the engagement with the Klingons.
- Quotes
Captain Gabriel Lorca: I did choose you, but not for the reasons you think. Your assumption that the Klingons were waiting in ambush at Binary Stars was predictive. You chose to do the right thing over what was sanctioned, even at great cost to yourself. And that is the kind of thinking that wins wars. The kind of thinking I need next to me. Universal law is for lackeys. Context... is for kings. Now, what's it to be, Michael? What's in your future?
[offering her a fortune cookie]
Captain Gabriel Lorca: What do you wish for? Atonement? Redemption? Maybe... the reassurance that the captain you lost didn't die in vain? You helped start a war. Don't you want to help me end it?
- ConnectionsFeatured in After Trek: O Discovery, Where for Art Thou? (2017)
The first 2 episodes were supposed to be an epilogue to the rest of the series, and once I knew that, it all made sense. They felt rushed, but only because they really weren't focusing on character development as much as just giving some background to the events proceeding the rest of season.
I want Discovery to succeed, because I feel if it doesn't, then that will be it for ST and no-one wants that.
The first 2 episodes had mixed reviews and for good reason. It felt more like a JJ Abrams movie than a ST episode, which is a good and bad thing. I know there are plenty of ST fans out there that don't like the new movies. I liked them. They stood on their own as good fun movies, but I never took them seriously. They where outside of ST Canon so there was inconsistencies in the story compared to the hundreds of episodes ST that proceeded them.
Anyway, episode 3 has squashed all my fears. It felt like Trek, although with a more modern, gritty feel to it. I like it. This is what I always wanted Trek to be and that's probably why DS9 is my favourite ST series out of all the others. It had great characters, it was a little darker and felt more real. Discovery feels real and that is what we want.
This is ST but told through modern story telling.
- jared79
- Oct 1, 2017
Details
- Runtime48 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1