Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery...
- Mm-hmm. - [Grudge meows]
HIRAI: Which is the one that concerns us now.
If I know Michael, she'll find a way
You found a way?
attempting to understand our technology before proceeding.
We need to mirror the light pattern back to them.
I-I fear that such numbers could hold
You need my access codes.
DETMER: We're 250,000 kilometers out.
I'll set it up for us.
Stay in contact. That's it.
on this hyperfield surface.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons
When he retired,
just big enough to attach your ship
Booker's ship was attached to ours.
I'm getting significant energy spikes
Maybe the lights are a key.
HARAI: Applying the light pattern to decode.
Uh...
We sent DOTs down to the planet's surface.
I have to go.
We need to show them that we understand.
They could be dead for all we know.
[sighs]
the individual hydrocarbons,
since the dawn of time.
When my wife died, I needed a focus.
of the ship during the time range in question.
ZORA: I believe so.
However we think first contact will go, it won't.
SARU [over comm]: Captain, we need you
Indicating that the B compound in the middle
RHYS: Weapons systems are dropping off-line.
BURNHAM: Zora, show us the light pattern.
SARU: I will assemble a portable transporter unit
TARKA: I assure you, I'm not.
We have less than 15 hours.
Here we go.
It appears to be an orb of some kind.
and now they're gone.
So, we agree on our response.
Any changes? A response of any kind?
ZORA: I'd be happy to assist, Doctor.
but right now, it sounds like we can't even say hello.
You've already given up so much for this.
Aw...
but I do have something that can help.
a mist of molecules onto the viewscreen.
Won't take nearly that long to get us out of here,
President T'Rina, General Ndoye,
Not because of him, because of me.
there was an ensign, horribly burned.
This is a betrayal.
Commander Detmer, how close are we?
of the planet's atmosphere.
The universal translator won't be helpful.
But when this is all over, we're taking a vacation.