Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series)

Terra Firma, Part 1 (2020)

David Cronenberg: Kovich

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• Kovich : Now, I understand she's been presenting with physiological symptoms, but the cure won't be found anywhere in this room. Or in this galaxy, for that matter. Computer, open classified file Beta-4895-Omega. Lieutenant Commander Yor. Deceased. Time soldier.

  Dr. Hugh Culber : Time soldier?

  Kovich : Consider yourself lucky to have skipped the Temporal Wars. Amongst the many horrible things we discovered when weaponizing time: temporal travel can make you pretty sick. Turns out our molecules are designed to function in the time in which they're created.

  Dr. Hugh Culber : But everyone on Discovery traveled through time.

  Kovich : Yes, but only one of you is also from a parallel universe. Yor here traveled forward from 2379 and across from an alternate universe created by the temporal incursion of a Romulan mining ship. Before Georgiou, Yor was the only individual known to have traveled across both time and dimensions.

  Dr. Hugh Culber : So, you knew this would happen to her?

  Kovich : Suspected. Every molecule fights to either go back in time or jump a cosmic divide. By the end, Yor was in such pain the doctors petitioned the Federation for euthanasia.

  Dr. Hugh Culber : They couldn't send him back to his own universe?

  Kovich : Not without breaking the Inter-dimensional Displacement Restriction. Part of the Temporal Accords. Which are ironclad.

  Dr. Hugh Culber : But Georgiou didn't get sick when she first crossed to the Prime universe.

  Kovich : 900 years have passed. The Prime and Mirror universes have been drifting apart the whole time. Yor's experience was a breeze compared with what Georgiou is about to face.