Introduction
“Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum” is the 8th 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
Coming to the aid of another Federation ship, the Discovery is unable to prevent the ship’s destruction by a Klingon ship with cloaking technology.
Desperate for a way to detect these ships even when they are cloaked, Burnham, Tyler, and Saru are sent to Pahvo, a seemingly uninhabited planet with a naturally occurring crystalline transmitter that broadcasts the planet’s vibrational frequency into space.
They hope to use the transmitter to create a sonar for the hidden Klingon ships. They discover that Pahvo is inhabited with indigenous life that introduce Saru to their higher understanding of peace, and he attempts to force Burnham and Tyler to remain with him on the planet forever.
Burnham is able to fight off Saru and broadcast the new signal. However, the Pahvo lifeforms adjust the signal to contact the Klingons as well, hoping to end the war. Kol receives the signal, after sentencing L’Rell to death: she had tried to help Cornwell escape in exchange for protection from Kol, leading to L’Rell apparently killing Cornwell to try save face with Kol.
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Production & Filming Details
- Director(s): John S. Scott.
- Writer(s): Kirsten Beyer.
- Release Date: 05 November 2017.
- Running Time: 50 minutes.
- Country: US.
- Language: English.
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