Star Trek: Discovery continues this week with “Perpetual Infinity,” the eleventh episode of the season, and now that the identity of the Red Angel has been revealed, it’s time to learn more about the inhabitant of the time-travel suit.
This week brings Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) face to face with her long-thought-dead mother (guest Sonja Sohn), revealed as the mysterious Red Angel, in an episode set to unveil the story of her time travel escapades — and it appears Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) has taken a great interest in her arrival.
(Burnham’s mom remains unnamed in CBS press information released to date).
It also seems that Leland (Alan Van Sprang) is back on his feet after being jabbed through the eye by his own ship’s systems last week; if you watched closely you could see his eye heal before “The Red Angel” cut away from him, but exactly what’s going on with the Section 31 captain is still unclear. Also note that Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz) is back on duty — and back in uniform — aboard Discovery.
And in case you missed it, here’s the video preview for the episode, which features Burnham’s mom testing out the time travel suit, and war-faring Klingons attacking the Section 31 research outpost at Doctari Alpha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgKZ2NXufP4
PERPETUAL INFINITY — Burnham receives the reunion she’s been longing for, but it doesn’t go quite as she imagined. Georgiou and Tyler sense a disturbing change in Leland.
The episode features a story from Alan McElroy & Brandon Schultz, and is directed by Maja Vrvilo.
McElroy wrote the teleplay the fourth episode of this season, “An Obol for Charon,” and Schultz served as a writers’ assistant in Discovery Season 1. While this is Vrvilo’s first full-length directing stint on Discovery, she previously directed the first Short Trek episode last fall, the Tilly-centric “Runaway.”
“Perpetual Infinity” debuts this Thursday on CBS All Access and Space, and beams to Netflix around the world on Friday.