- With Georgiou at the helm of the plan to end the Klingon war once and for all, the USS Discovery crew struggles to fathom and tolerate her hostile tactics. Memories of past hardships are rekindled within Burnham.
- When the Federation seeks to turn the war with the Klingons, a dark plan is put in motion and Captain Philippa Georgiou is tasked with its implementation. Meanwhile, Michael Burnham is confronted with her past and thus finds a way to try to end hostilities.—Tantrum1701
- Mirror Georgiou takes command of Discovery and is very brusque with her crew. She won't consider the Klingons as equals and refers to them as animals. Burnham does not like the way Georgiou is leading the crew and confronts her. Burnham does not trust Georgiou and wants to know her real plan. Georgiou says that she has been asked by Starfleet to defeat the Klingons, who are advancing on Earth and only Georgiou can stop them.
Georgiou reveals herself to L'Rell, who is perplexed to see her alive. Georgiou beats L'Rell savagely when she refuses to cooperate which chimney (out of 7) should the Discovery crew use to enter the volcanic cave system on Qo'NoS. Georgiou doesn't believe Tyler can be useful to either the Klingon's or to the Federation, but Burnham argues that Tyler has access to Voq's memories.
Tyler suggests that a drone enter Qo'NoS's underground, dormant volcanic system to covertly search the planet for targets. The cave in which the Discovery will appear, is not connected to the rest of the Volcanic system, so the crew will have to use one of the 7 chimneys to enter it and map the military targets on the planet. Georgiou agrees to take Tyler with her. Tyler says that the most feasible entry point is a chimney that used to a temple to Molor, until Molow was defeated by Kahless. Then the Molor temple was built over and the land around it given to Orion traders.
Discovery jumps to a cave near the system's entrance, and a party of Georgiou, Burnham, Tilly, and Tyler pose as traders visiting an Orion outpost on the planet, in order to find the entry to the chimney and the volcanic cave system. Burnham and Tilly keep a close eye on Georgiou and want to know her actual plan.
Tilly discovers that the volcanic system they are targeting is active, and that the "drone" Georgiou has is a hydro-bomb. But before Tilly can communicate with Burnham, Georgiou finds the location of the Molor shrine from a couple of prostitutes and enters the cave system. A hydro bomb will release water overactive volcanic lava and will be turned into super-heated steam. This steam will build in pressure and cause a massive explosion while escaping to the landmass directly above. The land will be vaporized and the whole planet would be uninhabitable.
Burnham confronts Cornwell, who admits that detonating the bomb in the active volcano will annihilate all life on Qo'NoS and win the war for the Federation. Burnham insists that Starfleet not commit genocide and convinces Georgiou to give up the detonator in exchange for her freedom. Georgiou relents when she realizes that she is not prepared to kill Burnham, who she considers her daughter in the parallel Universe.
They give the detonator to L'Rell. L'Rell then addresses the Klingon Great Houses and tells them that she is the leader to fulfill T'Kuvma's call of unity for the Klingon Empire. The Klingons present scoff at her claim until she shows them the detonator. She then orders them to lay down their arms, and the Klingon fleet headed towards Earth veers off.
The Discovery crew are hailed as heroes, and Burnham is issued a full pardon and restored to the rank of commander. Tyler chooses to remain with L'Rell.
As Discovery warps to Vulcan to pick up its new captain, the crew receive a distress call from Captain Pike of the USS Enterprise.
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