History Recap / StarTrekDiscoveryS1E04TheButchersKnifeCaresNotForTheLambsCry

* PlanetOfHats: This episode reveals that the hat of the House of Mo’Kai is espionage and subterfuge. Other Klingons refer to them as the house of “watchers and deceivers”.

** In a larger sense, the mining colony of Corvan II produces ''forty percent'' of the Federation's dilithium. Why is there not a fleet guarding this priceless strategic resource?

* RealityEnsues: Landry attempts to sedate Ripper, but isn't able to calculate the correct dosage to knock it out and is killed when she tries to get a sample for study.

* WeakenedByTheLight: Ripper recoils from bright light. After it mauls Landry for attacking this, Burnham exploits this by maximizing the lighting in the biolab so it will retreat to the dark and shielded containment cell.

** The alien monster is a giant alien tardigrade (named "Ripper") that feeds on the spores used in the new drive. The secret of the ''Glenn'''s ability to make long jumps was using Ripper's link to the spores.

* TooDumbToLive: Landry tries to sedate Ripper and remove its claws without even checking to see if the sedative actually worked. It earns her a painful death by mauling.

* FluffyTamer: Burnham manages to tame Ripper to some extent, allowing the crew to hook it up to the drive

* HonorBeforeReason: Voq refuses to scavenge equipment off the derelict ''Shenzhou'' to repair the Klingon ship as he feels using the Federation tech would betray T'Kuvma's crusade against assimilation. L'Rell convinces him to be practical.

* ManipulativeBastard: Burnham invites Saru to the biolab under the pretense of apologizing to him for her actions, but she actually intends to see if he'll sense death from Ripper. He's not happy about being used.

* IgnoredExpert: Landry, desperate for any kind of results, tries to sedate Ripper and amputate a call. Burnham warns that they have no idea how it will react to standard sedation protocols. The protocols do nothing and it mauls Landry to death.

* WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: ''Discovery's'' dual-section saucer counter-rotates as part of the spore drive's operation, followed by the whole ship spinning on its x-axis and disappearing.

* FakeDefector: L'Rell seems to take Kol's offers and suggests a FateWorseThanDeath for Vuq, but she is actually saving his life and joins him, stealing a fighter just before T'Kuvma's ship warps out.
* FateWorseThanDeath: After defecting to Kol, L'rell tells Kol to beam Vuq to the ''Shenzhou'', so that he may die aboard the vessel of those that killed his leader. It's subverted when it turns out she did so in order to save him, covertly beaming herself over after hijacking a shuttle without Kol's knowledge.

* FoodAsBribe: Kol gets T'Kuvma's followers to desert Vuq simply by providing them with a feast after they've been stranded in space and starving for months.

* HonorBeforeReason: Vuq refuses to scavenge equipment off the derelict ''Shenzhou'' to repair the Klingon ship as he feels using the Federation tech would betray T'Kuvma's crusade against assimilation. L'Rell convinces him to be practical.

* TheManBehindTheMan: L'Rell tells Vuq she doesn't want to be a leader but instead prefers to work behind the scenes.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Vuq and L'Rell share some obvious attraction. Vuq, having been outcast by other Klingons all his life, is clearly somewhat unsure how to deal with it.

* CargoShip: Stamets is jealous that Ripper can somehow communicate with the spores, saying he always wanted to talk to his mushrooms.
* CassandraTruth: Burnham warned Landry that there's no telling how Ripper would react to attempted sedation. Landry pays for not listening with her life.

* GunshipRescue: ''Discovery'' makes it's entry to the battlefield over Corvan 2 by jumping in and blowing two Birds-of-Prey into atoms.

* ManipulativeBastard: Saru is ''not'' impressed that Burnham maneuvered him into a position to see if his danger-sensing ganglia reacted to the presence of Ripper.

* NonMaliciousMonster: Ripper the Giant Tardigrade isn't inherently violent, it just responds violently to threats.

** The unusual design of the ''Discovery'''s saucer section is due to the rings counter-rotating as part of the spore drive.

* TeleporterAccident: The first time ''Discovery'' tries to make a long-distance jump to respond to a distress call, they end up inside the gravity well of a star instead.

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-->'''Landry:''' We'll do better next time, sir.
-->'''Lorca:''' It would be hard to do ''worse''.

* VideoWill: Burnham receives Captain Georgiou's, along with her most prized family heirloom - [[spoiler: her telescope]].

-->''Landry:''' We'll do better next time, sir.

* TeleporterAccident: The first time ''Discovery'' tries to make a long-distance jump to respond to a distress call, they end up inside the gravity well of a star instead.

* CoolBigSis: Tilly's opinion has done a complete 180 since she first met Burnham. Whereas she at first was afraid that associating with Burnham would hurt her career, by the end of this episode she's decided Burnham is the most awesome person in the galaxy.

** The unusual design of the ''Discovery'''s saucer section is due to the rings counter-rotating as part of the spore drive.

Burnham begins her new assignment as an unranked member of the crew of the ''Discovery'' just as the Klingons launch on attack on a strategic planet with Lorca and his crew the only Starfleet ship that can get there in time if they can get the spore drive to work.

* TheReveal: The alien monster is a giant alien tardigrade (named "Ripper") that feeds on the spores used in the new drive. The secret of the ''Glenn'''s ability to make long jumps was using Ripper's link to the spores.

* TheReveal: The secret of the ''Glenn'''s ability to make long jumps was using Ripper's link to the spores.

* HonorBeforeReason: Vuq refuses to scavenge equipment off the derelict ''Shenzhou'' to repair the Klingon ship as he feels using the Federation tech would betray T'Kuvma's crusade against assimilation. L'Rell convinces him to practical.

Burnham begins her new assignment as an unranked member of the crew of the ''Discovery'' just as the Klingons launch on attack on a strategic planet with Lorca and his crew the only Starfleet ship that can get there in time if they can get the experimental drive to work.

* HonorBeforeReason: Vuq refuses to scavenge equipment off the derelict ''Shenzhou'' to repair the Klingon ship as he feels using the Federation tech would betray T'Kuvma's crusade against assimilation.

** Lorca shows Burnham that the alien monster from the ''Glenn'' is in a lab on the ''Discovery'' and that she's to study it.

* ImAHumanitarian: The Klingons on T'Kuvma's ship ''ate'' Georgiou's corpse. Given that they've been adrift for six months without supplies, it's understandable.

Burnham begins her new assignment as an unranked member of the crew of the ''Discovery''.

* InternalReveal: Lorca reveals to Burnham that the alien monster from the USS ''Glenn'' is in a lab on the ''Discovery''.