Introduction

“Point of Light” is the 3rd 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

Spock’s mother Amanda Grayson learns that he has escaped the psychiatric unit and is wanted for murdering three doctors. She steals his medical records and takes them to Discovery for decryption.

Grayson recognises a drawing in the records from Spock’s childhood art: the Red Angel. Burnham admits to emotionally hurting Spock when they were young, to protect him from Vulcan’s logic extremists.

On Qo’noS, Klingon house leader Kol-Sha threatens to kill Starfleet Officer Ash Tyler – formerly the Klingon Voq – and the Klingon Empire’s leader L’Rell for having a secret child.

Instead, they kill him with the help of Philippa Georgiou, the Empress of the Mirror Universe’s Terran Empire and now a Starfleet Section 31 agent.

In a ruse to consolidate power, L’Rell convinces the Klingon High Council that Tyler and the baby are dead. Georgiou delivers the baby to a monastery and recruits Tyler to Section 31.

Burnham and Engineer Paul Stamets use dark matter to remove a parasite from Tilly that was causing her hallucination of May.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Olatunde Osunsanmi.
• Writer(s): Andrew Colville.
• Release Date: 31 January 2019.
• Running Time: 50 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.