Introduction

“Vaulting Ambition” is the 12th 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

Burnham and Lorca are summoned to the ISS Charon, the imperial flagship. Georgiou sends Lorca to a torturous agony booth, and has dinner with Burnham.

Stamets finds himself within the mycelial network with the consciousness of his Mirror counterpart, learning that the network has been corrupted by the Mirror Stamets’ experiments.

Stamets encounters a representation of Culber and accepts his loss, before waking up to find his spore collection infected. Georgiou laments allowing Lorca to become a father figure for Burnham, only for the pair to fall in love and plot to overthrow her.

She plans to execute Burnham, who reveals the truth about being from another universe. Explaining how they had crossed over, Georgiou trades the spore drive’s schematics for information on alternative ways to cross between universes, which leads Burnham to realise that the Lorca she knows is actually from the Mirror Universe, and has been manipulating events to get close to her and back to the Mirror Universe. Lorca escapes from the agony booth.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Hanelle M. Culpepper.
• Writer(s): Jordan Nardino.
• Release Date: 21 January 2018.
• Running Time: 50 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.