The newest episode of Star Trek: Discovery — “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry” — has just debuted, and we’re sure you’re ready to dive into a discussion on all the events that just took place.
Here’s your place to take on all the new Trek lore this episode brought us, with no restrictions on spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched the episode, that’s your last warning!
This thread will remain open until our episode review is posted, later this week.
The cast and executive production team from Star Trek: Discovery beamed down to New York City on Saturday for a pair of panels at two wildly-different venues: in front of a crowd of thousands at the Theater at Madison Square Garden for New York Comic Con, and and intimate panel discussion at the Paley Center for the Media.
First up was the NYCC event on Saturday afternoon, where astronaut and well-known Star Trek fan Dr. Mae Jemison hosted a fan panel hosting Discovery executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Gretchen J. Berg, and Aaron Harberts, along with much of the series’ cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Jason Isaacs, Doug Jones, Mary Chieffo, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Wilson Cruz.
The event began with a screening of the opening teaser act of tonight’s “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry,” expanding upon the preview clip featured on last week’s After Trek — Michael Burnham’s first day of duty aboard the USS Discovery.
After retrieving her new Sciences uniform from the wardrobe replicator — in a neat visual effect that shows the replication process at the molecular level — Tilly arrives with a delivery for Burnham: a shipping crate containing the ‘last will and testament’ of her former captain, Philippa Georgiou.
After hiding the crate under her bunk and reporting to Captain Lorca for duty, she is assigned to study the recently-captured tardigrade creature, exposed for the first time to Lorca’s laboratory and his view of his assignment for Starfleet.
Ending the debut of new footage, the panel then responded to questions from both Jemison and fans in the audience, touching on topics such as:
On the topic of Discovery‘s cast, the remaining unseen players are coming soon: Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz) will first arrive in tonight’s episode, and both Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) and Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson) will make their first appearances in next weeks’ “Choose Your Pain.”
Then came the surprise of the afternoon, as a fan approached the question microphone and asked, “Will you bring back Captain Georgiou?” …only to reveal herself as Michelle Yeoh in disguise!
Michelle Yeoh says to Isaacs, "If you don't look after my baby girl @SonequaMG I'm going to come & kick your ass." #NYCC #StarTrekDiscovery pic.twitter.com/riS9yVgB3o
— Star Trek (@StarTrek) October 7, 2017
The Shenzhou captain then made her way to the stage accompanied by thunderous applause from the audience, and after pretending for a bit to ‘haunt’ the cast as the ghost of Philippa Georgiou — and threatening to Jason Isaacs that she would “kick [his] ass” if he didn’t take care of her “baby girl” Michael Burnham — Berg then confirmed to the crowd that we’ve not yet seen the last of Michelle Yeoh on Star Trek: Discovery.
Moving on to Saturday evening’s PaleyFest discussion, the well-dressed cast and crew spent another hour talking about the series and production details at the Paley Center for the Media in New York City.
At this panel, the team featured yet another new clip from the series, showcasing the first on-screen appearances of Shazad Latif and Rainn Wilson from episode 105, “Choose Your Pain,” airing on October 15.
Captain Lorca encounters the pair as prisoners of the Klingons, sharing a cell aboard a Klingon vessel.
Lorca marvels that Tyler, a survivor of the USS Yeager which was destroyed in the Battle of the Binary Stars, is still alive seven months into his captivity; meanwhile Harry Mudd shares his cynical views on “Starfleet arrogance” about “boldly going where no one has gone before” when that leads to encroaching on other civilizations’ territory.
Producer Aaron Harberts made note that next weeks’ episode #105 sets the stage for the rest of Season 1’s storyline.
In addition to the preview, discussion also turned to the casting process for Michael Burnham; producer Heather Kadin noted the difficulty of finding a leading actress who could look convincing holding a gun — or phaser — without looking like one of “Charlie’s Angels” on-screen, praising Martin-Green for filling the role on Discovery.
Martin-Green herself, dressed in a stunning gold dress, spoke to Burnham’s unusually calm demeanor when the prison transport shuttle was facing mishap during “Context is King,” indicating that while Burnham would not actively seek to commit suicide, in that moment the character saw her impending demise as an escape from her enormous guilt and expected lifetime of incarceration.
On Saru and the production side of Discovery, the production team revealed some interesting concepts that were dropped during the show’s development:
Finally, a fun tidbit about Saru’s snacking habits was reveled — wandering the corridors of Discovery with a bowl of blueberries comes from a similar habit of former showrunner Bryan Fuller, who would do the same thing in the Discovery writers’ offices.
The lovely @SonequaMG meeting a fan at @startrekcbs event at @paleycenter! #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek pic.twitter.com/sRxdsSqvZf
— Marina Kravchuk 🖖 (@drakkorex) October 8, 2017
At the end of the night, the cast graciously made their way through a throng of passionate fans as they exited the Paley Center, signing autographs and pausing for photos before they departed the venue.
The next episode of Star Trek: Discovery airs tonight at 8:00 on SPACE in Canada, 8:30 on CBS All Access, and Monday on Netflix.
Illustrating comic book covers is an art form. Its presentation needs to grab a reader’s attention on a shelf littered with hundreds of different titles. For a licensed property like Star Trek, cover art becomes even more important to generate new fan interest as well as keeping regular readers hooked.
Luckily for IDW Comics, one of its Star Trek variant cover artist, George Caltsoudas, is more than up to the task.
No recent cover seized fan’s attention more than Star Trek: Boldly Go #4, depicting Kelvin Timeline Spock in the process of being assimilated by the Borg. If fans were not yet reading the newly launched ongoing series, it was hard to “resist” as Caltsoudas cover revealed all bets were off in the new title written by Mike Johnson and illustrated by Tony Shasteen.
“I was told to play with the idea that Spock might be turned into a Borg,” Caltsoudas explained. “But, I wanted him as only half-Borg, to show him in a transitional state so you don’t know exactly what will happen in the issue.”
Discovering comic books at the age of 10, Caltsoudas’ grandmother allowed him to check out a nearby comic book store as she dropped of dry cleaning. He was immediately drawn to Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #50, but it wasn’t until he flipped to the page with a Jim Lee pin-up of the Dark Knight that Caltsoudas knew comic book artist was what he wanted to do with his life.
Combining his marketing sensibilities from his full-time graphic designer job and desire to remind fans of how comic book covers used to appear 50 years ago, the Greek-Canadian artist is producing some of the most striking art on shelves.
“Why aren’t covers more like how they used to be when you got a sense of what the story was going to be,” Caltsoudas posited. “I love those covers from the 60s and 70s; there is something missing today. However, now that I am inside the industry, I understand why it’s difficult as covers are due so far in advance. Despite that, IDW’s Trek team and I made a strong effort to accomplish that goal with the first 12 covers for Boldly Go.”
Comic books are solicited to retailers at least three months in advance of publication, which means the cover art needs to be ready prior to the listing. That is a lot of lead time for a story that can ultimately change before it arrives in reader’s hands. Caltsoudas takes part in a discussion each month with Sarah Gaydos, IDW Group Editor, and Johnson (among others), throwing around ideas that also considers the issue’s plot as well as how to market the comic.
Often, Caltsoudas will focus on the issue’s central character for the cover theme.
“We will do a character study because Mike knows the issue will be about that character. I try to figure out what that character would be doing, so they are not just standing there. With Bones (for Star Trek: Boldly Go #6), I just came up with the idea.
At first I thought I was going to put him on a forest planet, but decided I wanted something more Mad Men. Karl Urban has something 1960s Mad Men about him, and I always loved the Ten-Forward bar Whoopi Goldberg hosted in The Next Generation. Plus, McCoy is very much like this cover in the Kelvin Timeline – cool and stylish.”
Prior to joining the Star Trek comic book team at IDW, Caltsoudas worked with an agency on the marketing for Star Trek Into Darkness. His experience brainstorming promotional material allowed him a unique perspective when it comes to selling each issue with one image. Currently with genre posters, montages are all the rage as companies attempt to pack the one-sheet with as many characters featured in the film.
However, Caltsoudas prefers more action-based images like his already iconic cover to Star Trek: Boldly Go #1 with our heroes beaming onto a planet ready to go.
“Boldly Go suggests action and I had never seen them teleporting midway, ready to bounce into a new adventure. I try to make every cover feel like a story in progress. You don’t know what happened before or what will occur immediately after.
“It’s a nice challenge to find ways to make things fresh. When drawing the ship, what is exciting? I look for an angle that has not been seen before. On the marketing campaigns for Star Trek, we always see the ship head on, but what would it look like if we see it from a different angle – it’s all about presentation. What does it look like piercing through the clouds? What does it look like crashing towards Earth?
“I remember doing a lot of sketches for Into Darkness in the shape of the logo in the rubble. There were a lot more edgy things, like Khan appearing in the captain’s chair and crew dead around his feat. I like the more hopeful and optimistic campaign for Star Trek Beyond. That image of the ship bursting through the clouds into the psychedelic colors is more what I am about. I like the hopeful attitude that’s Star Trek stands for.”
One other area Caltsoudas must consider when illustrating his Star Trek covers is approval from CBS. Licensed characters need to reflect the actor images and the artist’s highly-stylized work could have become an issue. He is very conscious of not just producing photo realistic images (otherwise, why not just have photographs on the cover).
“CBS has been really open to explore. Artists in general portray the characters in a more iconic way. With my style, when I’m drawing characters in portrait or close up, I add more details so it’s more realistic.
“I’ve done covers for Mirror Broken, and I felt I had a really good likeness for issue three with Dr. Crusher. Fans have such an admiration for the the Next Generation characters that you want to get the likenesses, but still make it look cartoony for a comic.”
Support from fans on Caltsoudas’ work has been vocal, so much so that the response to his first Star Trek cover, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #2, garnered him the opportunity to work on the first six issue of Boldly Go, which turned into the first 12, plus six covers for Star Trek: Mirror Broken, and now the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery comic, debuting this month.
While he enjoyed coming up with the concepts and finished product for the Spock-Borg and McCoy bar issues, his favorite might surprise fans.
“Starfleet Academy is still my best Trek cover art to date. I think it’s my best work.”
Caltsoudas’ Star Trek origin story is typical of professionals hired to do a job. While he enjoyed watching reruns of the Original Series and remembered Guinan in TNG when he was younger – “that lady in Sister Act,” he admitted as a six year-old at the time, its idea went over his head at the time. Yet, like everyone who eventually works intimately in the franchise, Caltsoudas appreciates the ideas Gene Roddenberry presented.
“You see that theme of family a lot in the Kelvin films – it does seem like that theme is recurring when Kirk is trying to do what’s right for his crew/family. Those films seem to be about tackling complicated social political relationships within the human race instead of with other alien races.
Which maybe says more about relations in America today, than what Roddenberry was trying to say about international relations back when TOS was being made.”
You can follow George Caltsoudas on Twitter or visit his official store at GeorgeCaltsoudas.com.
One day before the cast of Star Trek: Discovery hits New York Comic Con tomorrow in the Big Apple, CBS has released the next batch of episodic photos from this Sunday’s episode, “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry.”
Some interesting details revealed about the alien ‘tardigrade’ through Burnham’s scans, including its three lungs, three stomachs, and four kidneys.
L’Rell’s ornate mek’leth, sheathed at her side:
Also, this is our best look yet at the Discovery‘s dedication plaque; hopefully we’ll get a more up-close-and-personal view soon, allowing us to read the text of the Crossfield-class vessel’s signage.
Stay tuned for more of our ongoing Star Trek: Discovery coverage, and tune into our Twitter feed Saturday afternoon and evening for live coverage of both Discovery events in New York City!
We reported a few weeks ago that Eaglemoss was launching its special Star Trek: Discovery line of ships for release in 2018, and this week in New York City, almost-finalized versions of those forthcoming models debuted at New York Comic Con.
Both the USS Shenzhou and USS Discovery arrived at the con today, giving fans their first close-up look at the ships; please note that each model’s paint detailing is not finalized and are expected to be tweaked before the official 2018 releases debut.
Special thanks to early convention attendee Benson Yee of BWTF.com who shared the above photos with us; also thanks to Nils Walter Khan for these additional shots:
The team from the Priority One Podcast also got a close look at the ship:
A look at @StarTrekModels #StarTrekDiscovery model. #Beautiful *Spore-Drive not included* pic.twitter.com/RDLY7Yiyyu
— Priority One: A Community Star Trek Podcast (@priorityonepod) October 5, 2017
Be on the lookout for a large gallery of Eaglemoss’s fleet of ships — including more views of the Discovery and Shenzhou models, as well as the XL-sized USS Voyager and Enterprise NX-01 models, upcoming shuttle sets, and more when our team hits NYCC later this week.
As we’ve reported the last few months, Star Trek: Discovery made its first inroads to the world of Trek gaming through the mobile adventure Star Trek Timelines — and now the game is entering into a four-week ‘mega-event’ centered around Discovery content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgk0c1O4abg
Developer Disruptor Beam explains the events as follows:
The U.S.S. Shenzhou has arrived in the present day with a bang: the ship appears to be enveloped in a new form of temporal anomaly which can travel with her. As the Shenzhou moves across the Alpha Quadrant, she leaves a trail of disrupted chronitons and displaced people behind it, bringing fresh chaos to the galaxy you have been working so hard to keep intact. Worse yet, the Shenzhou is not responding to hails from Starfleet or anyone else. We are concerned that something terrible has befallen the Shenzhou and her crew. It’s up to you to chase down the Shenzhou, determine the fate of her crew, and stop the new wave of destruction to the timeline.
For this month, the featured 5* Legendary crew for all events will be T’Kuvma, the self-styled heir of Kahless the Unforgettable from Star Trek: Discovery. This powerful Klingon will make a valuable addition to any crew.
The schedule for this Mega-Event and their schedule is as follows:
“Streak of Stardust”
Thursday, 10/5 – Tuesday, 10/10“First Impressions”
Thursday, 10/12 – Monday, 10/16“Orion Belt”
Thursday, 10/19 – Monday, 10/23“A Logical Reaction”
Thursday, 10/26 – Monday, 10/30
Disruptor Beam has also released these promotional images for the new event.
Keep checking back to TrekCore for more Star Trek gaming news!
Sunday’s Star Trek: Discovery episode, “Context is for Kings” had a lot of impressive Easter eggs and connections to the broader Star Trek canon. From an extremely obscure reference from to The Animated Series to an Enterprise deep-cut, it’s clear the Discovery writers know their Trek!
While we haven’t seen the blue-skinned aliens on-screen yet, Discovery continues to reference the Andorians in this episode from the first scene aboard the prisoner transport.
Later in the episode, when Burnham is experiencing the spore drive, Lorca makes a reference to “the moons of Andoria,” a place we visited in Star Trek: Enterprise episode “The Aenar.”
We end the episode in Captain Lorca’s private laboratory in the lower decks of Discovery, where he’s secretly keeping the giant tardigrade creature rescued from the USS Glenn.
On display in Lorca’s collection are several creatures seen in Trek’s future: a full-size Gorn skeleton, and on central examination table is a pair of deceased of Cardassian voles — plus a second Tribble, dissected for study.
Landry comments on Michael Burnham’s impressive display of Vulcan martial arts, which Burnham confirms it’s the Suus Manha fighting style — first introduced to the ‘Star Trek’ universe in “Maurauders,” part of Star Trek: Enterprise’s second season.
T’Pol was also trained in Suus Manha, and taught the technique to a group of colonists being harassed by Klingon privateers in the episode.
The USS Discovery’s mess hall has food synthesizers, similar to the devices seen in The Original Series. When Saru and Burnham first converse on Discovery, Saru is eating blueberries from a bowl.
Burnham remarks that the blueberries taste better than the ones in prison, and Saru attributes that to the surrounding rather than the quality of the food synthesizer.
Captain Lorca’s office is sparsely decorated, with a standing desk and a pet tribble. In addition, the wall of the office features a map showing the borders of Federation and Klingon space.
The map, which includes visible references to Archanis and Mempha sectors, follows closely the maps in Star Trek: Star Charts and Star Trek: Stellar Cartography. Archanis is under Klingon control in this timeframe, but is part of Federation territory by the era of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
During her first encounter with Lt. Stamets, the scientist provides Burnham with a square computer disk made of translucent yellow plastic; Lorca also has a disk rack on the desk in his ready room.
These are clearly an homage — nicely updated — to the Original Series’ solid plastic computer disks (also seen in Enterprise’s “In a Mirror, Darkly”) used for sharing information between Enterprise duty stations.
Lt. Stamets and his counterpart aboard the USS Glenn discuss winning the Zee-Magnees Prize, a Nobel-level scientific award in the Federation.
The first known Trek recipient of the prize was Dr. Richard Daystrom (above), featured in the Original Series episode “The Ultimate Computer,” as well as Dr. Ira Graves from TNG’s “The Schizoid Man.”
It wouldn’t be a Federation starship without Jeffries tubes, and Burnham uses the intra-ship access tunnels to lead the monster aboard the USS Glenn on a chase, allowing the away team to get back to the shuttle with their scientific findings.
While being chased through the Jeffries tube on board the USS Glenn, Burnham recites a portion of Alice in Wonderland; later she shares with Tilly that her foster mother, Amanda Grayson, read the book to her and “[Amanda’s] son” as a child.
We have to give credit to Aaron Harvey for first recognizing the connection to the Animated Series’ “Once Upon a Planet” — where Spock shares that his mother was “particularly fond of Lewis Carroll’s work.”
One of the most surprising images from the final sequence this episode was the return of a structure not seen since 1968: a Preservers obelisk as seen on planet Amerind in “The Paradise Syndrome.”
While the one seen in the Original Series was constructed in a lush forested area of Amerind, the one in Burnham’s experience appears in a wide-open wetlands, clearly indicating a different location than the one seen in the classic Trek episode.
As Lorca sends Burnham through her trip through the spore drive, he calls out a number of familiar destinations, including Romulus and “the moons of Andoria” — and we see familiar sights from around Federation space: Starbase 11 (from “Court Martial”) and what seems to be the mining colony on Janus VI (“The Devil in the Dark).”
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We can’t wait to see what else Star Trek: Discovery‘s writers bring to the table in this weekend’s new episode, “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry.” Keep your eyes peeled for more canon connections in the future!
Following in the footsteps of literary sister ship USS Titan, the novel-only Federation starship Aventine (NCC-82602) warps into collectors’ hands this week as the newest special release in the Eaglemoss Official Starships Collection line of Star Trek spacecraft models.
Following a long few years of development after a fan petition rocketed the two ships to the Eaglemoss production line, the Titan debuted earlier this month — see our review here! — and now the Vesta-class USS Aventine joins the fleet as a New York Comic Con exclusive here in the United States. (Don’t worry, it’s coming to the Eaglemoss web shop later.)
Designed by illustrator Mark Rademaker, the Vesta-class line of starships is named after the Roman goddess of hearth and home; individual vessels share the names of the seven hills of Rome: Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Viminal have been named to date.
The Aventine fell under the command of Captain Ezri Dax in 2381 (as of the events of the 2008 novel Gods of Night), and serves as a testbed for a variety of new technologies including slipstream warp capabilities remains one of the fastest ships in the current Federation fleet.
We’ll say this up front: even though it’s 5.5″ long, this model is tiny, especially compared to the other members Eaglemoss line — and that’s to be expected with a starship as lithe as the Aventine. From its pencil-thin warp nacelles to its just-over-an-inch-wide saucer section, this robin-egg-blue ship looks like it is meant to fly as fast as a hummingbird (given the special warp drive the ship carries).
That’s not to say the Aventine doesn’t have some charm to it, but if there was ever a pocket-sized starship, this is it. The primary and secondary hull of the ship are as solid as Eaglemoss’ other offerings, but the nacelles’ spindly struts give us a little pause in terms of long-term durability; definitely handle this one with care.
Despite the size, however, this model has a ton of detail squeezed onto its hull — from the microscopic Starfleet labeling and sharp red-and-yellow thruster and sensor nodules to the finely-detailed texturing all over the starship.
While the nacelles’ bussard collectors are the only site of translucent plastic on this ship, the main deflector dish is the one main deficiency we can point to on the Aventine — unlike the ‘real’ starship, the deflector on this vessel is a glossy blue oval with just the barest hint of raised detail, without any of the additional coloring expected on this part of the ship.
Still, despite those few tiny quirks, we’re happy to see the “beta-canon” fleet expand with the Aventine, and we hope it’s not the last time Eaglemoss’ collection expands into the secondary Star Trek sector.
If you can’t make it to New York Comic Con, you can keep an eye on Eaglemoss’ web store for the ship to leave spacedock in your sector.
In Eaglemoss’ US store, TrekCore readers can use promo code TREKCORE at checkout for 10% off any ‘Star Trek’ collectible purchase $50 or greater (Starships, Plaques, Binders, Graphic Novels).
We’ve got a load of new Star Trek videos out this week from all around the franchise: from Star Trek Online‘s debut of one of the galaxy’s best engineers to a host of Star Trek: Discovery clips and interview packages, tune in to these looks at the whole universe of Trek.
As announced in August, Star Trek Online welcomes aboard LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge in their newest expansion, and today the game publisher released a first preview of the engineer in action.
Star Trek comic publisher IDW Publishing has also released a first video overview of their Trek offerings, just ahead of New York Comic Con this week.
Included in the IDW video is a first look at their comic rendition of the USS Shenzhou, from artists Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire.
Speaking of Discovery, there’s a number of new videos out from CBS All Access including clips from this past Sunday’s After Trek and a preview for “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufLSCE–djg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYoAxeKnA5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpttOKoeGJQ
Keep checking back to TrekCore for the latest news in Trek!
While cheering continued expansions of the CBS All Access streaming platform tonight, the digital arm of the broadcast network has announced that the first half of Star Trek: Discovery‘s first season will last through November 12, a week past the original November 5 schedule, with a new press release.
“CBS ALL ACCESS” SETS ANOTHER RECORD HIGH FOR WEEKLY SUBSCRIBER SIGN-UPS
The First Three Episodes of “Star Trek: Discovery” Push CBS All Access into Warp Speed, Surpassing the Record Set the Previous Week Leading into the Series PremiereNEW YORK – Oct. 3, 2017 – CBS All Access, the CBS Television Network’s digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service, today announced that its latest original series, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, has pushed the service to a new record high for subscriber sign-ups in a single week. This builds on the momentum and previous record the series set around its Sept. 24 premiere which marked a record-breaking day, week and month for the service.
“Consumer response to the launch of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY has been tremendous,” said Marc DeBevoise, President and COO, CBS Interactive. “The build up to the show’s premiere led us to a record-setting month, week and ultimately day of sign-ups. The second week of the series has also exceeded our expectations and is a credit to the brilliant and dedicated work of the show’s entire creative team and cast. We can’t wait for fans to see what comes next for the U.S.S. Discovery and its crew.”
Earlier this year, the series was expanded from a 13 to 15-episode inaugural season, and now rather than an 8-and-7 season split, this early run of episodes will conclude November 12 for the winter break.
As previously announced, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY will air in two chapters. The eight-episode-long first chapter of the series will now be increased to nine episodes, with the final episode of chapter one debuting on Sunday, Nov. 12. The second chapter, featuring the remaining six episodes, will return in January 2018.
Meanwhile, two more episode titles have been revealed due to published television listings, with the rest of 2017’s schedule looking like this for the next six weeks:
– October 8: “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry”
– October 15: “Choose Your Pain”
– October 22: “Lethe”
– October 29: Episode 107
– November 5: Episode 108
– November 12: Episode 109
For those curious, “Lethe” comes from classical Greek, where the literally means “oblivion”, “forgetfulness”, or “concealment”.
As we learned from “Battle at the Binary Stars,” Klingon leader T’Kuvma was named as the inventor of the Sarcophagus ship’s surprise cloaking device; this title could be a clue towards that end of the Discovery storyline.
Star Trek: Discovery airs weekly on CBS All Access, Space, and Netflix around the world.