An Obol for Charon
A mysterious sphere threatens the U.S.S. Discovery even as May, in her original form, implements a plan that puts Tilly's life in danger. Saru and Burnham's bond grows when Saru is forced to acknowledge a deeply unsettling Kelpien...
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"Rebecca Romijn turns up as Number One from the Enterprise. The character played by Majel Barrett in The Cage. If she is a recurring character surely she would have to be given a name unless she really was christened Number One. She brings news of Spock to Captain Pike who plots a course to follow his escape shuttle. However the Discovery is threatened by a mysterious sphere that has disrupted the ship's communication systems. Meanwhile Saru has become ill and Tilly's life is also in danger as the blob of consciousness is attached to her. There were hints by Saru all along that the..."
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This episode introduces Rebecca Romijn as 'Number One', who would go on to reprise the role in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) (and be identified as 'Una Chin-Riley'). The character first appeared in The Cage (1966), the unaired pilot episode of Star Trek (1966), from which the footage was later reused in The Menagerie: Part I (1966) and The Menagerie: Part II (1966). There, she was the unnamed intellectual, problem-solving second-in-command serving under Captain Christopher Pike on The Enterprise, and was played by Majel Barrett, who became the second wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
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A mysterious sphere threatens the U.S.S. Discovery even as May, in her original form, implements a plan that puts Tilly's life in danger. Saru and Burnham's bond grows when Saru is forced to acknowledge a deeply unsettling Kelpien...