Introduction

“The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry” is the 4th episode of the American television series Star Trek: Discovery, which is set roughly a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series and explores the war between the Federation and the Klingons.

Outline

Lorca assigns Burnham to study the creature from the Glenn, dubbed a Tardigrade, to find a way to use its biology as a weapon.

Starfleet orders Discovery to the dilithium mining colony Corvan II, which is under Klingon attack. Stamets is reluctant to make such a long jump using the spores, and when the drive is activated the ship nearly collides with a star.

Lorca sends Commander Landry to keep Burnham’s research on track, and she attempts to sedate the Tardigrade (that she names Ripper) to cut off its claw; it kills her. Burnham believes that Ripper was acting in self-defence, and is drawn to the spores. Stamets and Burnham transport it to Engineering, where it connects to the spore drive and interfaces with the navigation system. The ship successfully makes the jump to Corvan II and saves the colony.

On T’Kuvma’s stranded ship, Klingon leader Kol earns the loyalty of T’Kuvma’s desperate followers, and leaves Voq to die in the wreckage of the Shenzhou. L’Rell, secretly loyal to Voq, promises a way for them to win the war for the house of T’Kuvma.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Olatunde Osunanmi.
• Writer(s): Jesse Alexander and Aaron Eli Coleite.
• Release Date: 08 October 2017.
• Running Time: 50 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.