Trivia / Star Trek: Discovery S1E08 "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"

• Deleted Scene:
  • Part of an "interrogation" scene in which L'Rell and Admiral Katrina Cornwell meet was removed.
  Jayne Brook: What the audience didn't get to see, we had much more together happening when she came to interrogate me. There was a great moment, that got edited out, where she's circling me to interrogate me and I use my psychology background. She's trying to threaten me, and I say to her, basically, "You don't have markings of House Kor. You don't speak the language. And you would've killed me already. So, I don't buy any of these threats. Who are you?" That kind of propels L'Rell into saying, 'I want to defect.' In the end, they didn't really need the full scene and they just kept the wanting to defect part.
  • A short scene extension was cut from the end of a scene in which Stamets and Tilly, dining together in the Discovery's mess hall, discuss how using the starship's spore drive is having an impact on Stamets' mental health but also that he is adamant not to tell Dr. Culber about that issue. Mary Wiseman explained, "Culber walks in, and then, like, Tilly has a conniption, 'cause she immediately cannot keep a secret. That's something that I was playing. It was, like, the first sign I got that maybe I don't have to keep it anymore. I was like, "Phew, this is the secret". Wiseman also theorized that the "little scenelet," as she referred to it, was edited out because there wasn't time for it to remain in the episode.

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