Introduction

“Perpetual Infinity” is the 11th 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

When the Burnhams’ laboratory was attacked by Klingons years ago, Michael’s mother donned the time travel suit to go back in time an hour and warn them of the attack.

She instead arrived 950 years in the future to find all sentient life destroyed by Control.

Tethering herself to a nearby planet, Dr. Burnham made over 840 attempts to change the future, including moving humans to her planet, Terralysium, to test how she can change history.

Trying to stop Control from gaining the Sphere’s data, Dr. Burnham was responsible for it crossing paths with the Discovery.

Now, the Discovery crew plans to upload the data into the suit and send it into the future where Control cannot access it, while keeping Dr. Burnham in the present, but a Control-possessed Leland intercepts their download.

Georgiou and Tyler confront Leland, with Tyler gravely injured but able to warn Discovery.

The crew is forced to cut the transmission short and release Dr. Burnham back to the future, with the suit now damaged.

Control-Leland escapes with half of the sphere data.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): Maja Vrvilo.
• Writer(s): Alan McElroy and Brandon Schultz.
• Release Date: 28 March 2019.
• Running Time: 50 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.