Synopsis: Commander Burnham and Discovery’s crew come to understand what needs to be done to save all sentient life in the galaxy.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s later understanding of the collective unconscious, that it is something that humans are a part of and that it connects all living things, and his theories about synchronicity, which he wrote after he started corresponding with quantum physicist, Wolfgang Pauli.
In “Such Sweek Sorrow, Part I” on Vulcan, Sarek has a vision that his adoptive daughter, Commander Michael Burnham, is leaving them. Meanwhile, on Discovery, the plan to evacuate the crew to the Enterprise and destroy the vessel and the sphere archive that is aboard fails. Burnham reasons that in order for the sphere archive to not be assimilated by Control, Discovery needs to go into the future and she will use the Red Angel suit to take the ship there. Lt. Spock reasons that it was Burnham herself who has been sending Discovery the signals from the future. The next signal appears and it leads Discovery to the planet Xahea, where its queen has the ability to integrate the time crystal into the suit. Burnham realizes that she will have to stay in the future.
Sarek and his wife, Amanda Grayson, travel to Discovery to say goodbye to her. The crew, other than Captain Christopher Pike and Section 31 Liaison Ash Tyler, tell Burnham that they will go with her and Discovery into the future. Tyler tells Pike there is something he must do and leaves the ship. Pike returns to the Enterprise. Section 31 ships surround Discovery.
In “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II,” Control, using the body of Captain Leland, hails Discovery before a massive battle begins. Burnham in her Red Angel suit and Spock in a shuttle land on an asteroid. A Klingon ship, with Tyler aboard, and a squadron of Ba’ul ships, being led by Commander Saru’s sister, arrive to fight off the Section 31 vessels. When Burnham is ready to travel into the future, Spock’s shuttle’s engines are damaged and he is not able to follow her. Burnham and Discovery go into the future; Spock returns to Enterprise.
In these episodes, the Discovery crew comes to understand that every signal that appeared to them was a message from Burnham in the future. That everything in the galaxy, the multiverse – past, present, and future – is connected, even though we are normally only allowed to experience it linearly. This is in line with Jung’s later writings about the collective unconscious and synchronicity. In our normal day-to-day life, we may not realize this web of coexistence until something out of the ordinary happens, which alerts us to know just how interrelated we are to everyone and everything around us.
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