Synopsis: Discovery arrives in the future and crash lands on a planet.
This episode can also be seen as illustrations of what James Hillman called the acorn theory, that just as an acorn has everything it needs inside it to become an oak tree, we all have inner daimons that have all the information we need to become who we were born to be.
In “Far from Home,” Discovery emerges from the wormhole, and much like Commander Michael Burnham, crash lands on a planet, although Lt. Keyla Detmer does what she can to make the landing as smooth as possible under the circumstances. Ensign Silvia Tilly is able to detect that there is rubindium on the planet that is needed to repair the communications on Discovery, and Commander Saru takes Tilly with him to meet the inhabitants of the planet, since people tend to like her. Meanwhile, Lt. Commander Paul Stamets, now out of a coma, works with Commander Jett Reno to make other repairs. On the planet, Saru and Tilly run into trouble and Phillipa Georgiou arrives to fight their way out of it. As Discovery attempts to leave the planet, she is caught in a tractor beam from Cleveland Booker’s ship and Burnham hails the Discovery crew. In this episode, all the Starfleet personnel use their natural gifts to save themselves and their ship. Detmer is able to make the crash landing softer than otherwise would have been the case. Tilly uses her intellect to locate a settlement on the planet. Saru uses his leadership abilities to prioritize the actions of the crew, and takes Tilly with him to the planet, because he knows that she naturally is friendly. Stamets, barely out of a coma goes to work with Reno to try to get the ship running. Georgiou uses her fighting skills and aggressive actions to rescue Saru and Tilly. And finally, Burnham keeps her hope alive while looking for Discovery and her crew. These are all instances of individuals listening to their inner daimons, to use the gifts they were born with, to achieve an outcome that would not otherwise have been possible.
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