The Brightest Star

Episode aired Dec 6, 2018
15m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

943

YOUR RATING

Doug Jones in Star Trek: Short Treks (2018)

Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi Short

Before he was the first Kelpien to join Starfleet, Saru lived a simple life on his home planet of Kaminar with his father and sister. Young Saru, full of ingenuity and a level of curiosity u... Read allBefore he was the first Kelpien to join Starfleet, Saru lived a simple life on his home planet of Kaminar with his father and sister. Young Saru, full of ingenuity and a level of curiosity uncommon among his people, yearns to find out what lies beyond his village, leading him on ... Read allBefore he was the first Kelpien to join Starfleet, Saru lived a simple life on his home planet of Kaminar with his father and sister. Young Saru, full of ingenuity and a level of curiosity uncommon among his people, yearns to find out what lies beyond his village, leading him on an unexpected path.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

943

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Goofs
Saru is able to contact Starfleet using a piece of technology scavenged from the Ba'ul, the predator species of his Kelpian race. Other installments of Star Trek: Discovery (2017) establish that Kaminar, the home world of both the Kelpians and Ba'ul, is considered pre-warp and thus off limits to contact with the Federation. If the Ba'ul are pre-warp, they should not have a subspace beacon capable of transmitting to a Starfleet vessel.

Quotes
Saru: I saw hope, in the stars. It was stronger than fear. And I went towards it.

Connections
Featured in Star Trek: Discovery: The Sound of Thunder (2019)

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Featured review

10/10

The story of an immigrant,a modern theme.

This episode is a pretty interesting episode even for a Discovery anti-fan like me.There are so many people who simply can't understand how hard is for a person to leave his/her motherland for a better life,and not just for the sake of a better modern gadget,like many people are thinking,nobody puts the family in danger for something like that,for Saru ,his need for knowledge was the reason to make him to leave .I also liked very much the return of one of the best characters of the series.