Introduction

“Brother” is the 1st episode of season 02 of the American television series Star Trek: Discovery, which is set roughly a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series and follows the crew of the USS Discovery as they investigate seven mysterious signals.

The season was produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Alex Kurtzman serving as showrunner.

Sonequa Martin-Green stars as Michael Burnham, along with the returning Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Shazad Latif; they are joined by former recurring guest star Wilson Cruz as well as Anson Mount as original Star Trek captain Christopher Pike. Ethan Peck recurs as another original series character, Spock. These characters and their starship, the USS Enterprise, were included as part of the series’ attempt to explain its connections to the larger Star Trek franchise.

The season was officially ordered in October 2017, and filming took place in Toronto, Canada, from April to December 2018. Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts, the first season’s showrunners, returned for the second but were fired during production; co-creator Kurtzman replaced them.

The 14-episode season was released from 17 January to 18 April 2019, on CBS All Access. A third season was ordered in February 2019.

Outline

En route to the planet Vulcan to pick up its new captain following the betrayal of Captain Gabriel Lorca during the Federation–Klingon war, the USS Discovery receives a distress call from the USS Enterprise.

Captain Christopher Pike takes emergency command of the Discovery and explains that the Enterprise was investigating seven mysterious red signals when it was catastrophically damaged. All but one of the signals have disappeared, but it too is gone when Discovery arrives at its location.

They discover the wreckage of the USS Hiawatha – which went missing during the war – on an asteroid made of non-baryonic matter and inside find engineer Jet Reno nursing the last survivors of the crew. All are transported back to the Discovery.

Commander Michael Burnham has a vision of a red figure while on the asteroid, and later visits the damaged Enterprise to investigate the quarters of her foster brother Spock, who had previously taken leave for a personal investigation.

She discovers that he had been having nightmares of the seven signals.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Alex Kurtzman.
• Writer(s): Ted Sullivan, Gretchen J. Berg, and Aaron Harberts.
• Release Date: 17 January 2019.
• Running Time: 50 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.