This week brings us to the ninth of this season’s Star Trek: Discovery episodes, and we’ve got a new round of photos from this Georgiou-centric tale, “Terra Firma, Part 1,” for you today!
In this new episode, Michal Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) travel to a distant planet to try and find a way to save the rapidly deteriorating former Terran emperor, whose medical condition has her facing death.
Meanwhile, back on Discovery, Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Adira Tal (Blu del Barrio) make a breakthrough that offers surprising news on The Burn.
Here are just four new photos from “Terra Firma, Part 1” — which means there’s not a lot that CBS wants to reveal about this story, a Georgiou-centric episode conceived by the lead minds behind the Star Trek: Section 31 series, Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt.
Finally, if you didn’t catch it at the end of “The Sanctuary,” here’s a new preview for the episode, and a clip featuring Culber (Wilson Cruz) and Kovich (David Cronenberg) discussing a unique visitor from another time — and universe — which debuted during Thursday’s episode of The Ready Room.
The reference to “a Romulan mining ship” — Nero’s ship from Star Trek ’09, the Narada — would seem to be the first acknowledgement of the Kelvin Timeline’s existence from within the ‘prime’ Star Trek universe… and giving us a first hint as to the visual state of Starfleet from the TNG-era of that alternate universe, where officers still wore the TNG Season 1 uniform (2364) in the Star Trek: Nemesis era (2379).
Also note that in the extended Ready Room clip below, the incorrect Voyager-era combadge seen in the above trailer has been corrected to the appropriate TNG-style badge for the Starfleet uniform worn by the Betelgeusian ‘time soldier,” along with a refined look for the alien himself — and there are also a few other moments of unfinished visual effects and incomplete color timing in the “Terra Firma, Part 1” episode trailer, as well.
As we get closer to the end of the season, we’re starting to run up against the work-from-home challenges that the Star Trek: Discovery post-production team have been facing since the pandemic impacted the show’s work — and we expect future episode trailers to have similar issues — as the VFX and editing crew race to finish before each episode’s air date deadline.
TERRA FIRMA, PART 1 — The U.S.S. Discovery crew journey to a mysterious planet in hopes of finding a cure for Georgiou’s deteriorating condition. Stamets and Adira make a stunning breakthrough with the newly acquired Burn data.
Story by Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt & Alan McElroy.
Teleplay by Alan McElroy. Directed by Omar Madha.
Star Trek: Discovery returns Thursday, December 10 with “Terra Firma, Part 1” on CBS All Access and CTV Sci-Fi Channel. International viewers get the episode December 11 on Netflix, in all other global regions.