Introduction
“Light and Shadows” is the 7th 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
Discovery is confronted by a time anomaly while researching the Red Angel’s signal over Kaminar. Pike and Tyler investigate the anomaly in a shuttlecraft, sending a probe into it.
They are soon attacked by that same probe, now upgraded with future technology, which uses their shuttle’s computer system to secretly infect Airiam.
They are able to destroy it with Stamets’s help, as his exposure to the network allows him to ignore the time discrepancies in the anomaly.
Meanwhile, Burnham visits Vulcan as she continues to search for Spock. Confronting Grayson, Burnham learns that she has been hiding Spock, who is in psychological distress, repeating phrases and a series of numbers.
His father Sarek instructs Burnham to trust Starfleet and take Spock to Section 31 for help in fixing his mind. Section 31’s doctors claim that they can help him, but Georgiou warns her that Spock will not survive the memory extractor that Section 31 plans to use on him.
Georgiou helps Burnham stage an attack that allows Burnham and Spock to escape the ship.
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Production & Filming Details
- Director(s): Marta Cunningham.
- Writer(s): Ted Sullivan and Vaun Wilmott.
- Release Date: 28 February 2019.
- Running Time: 50 minutes.
- Country: US.
- Language: English.
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