#boreth

Part of the Dispatches from Sickbay series.

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Rating: Teen

Warning: Boreth aftermath. Tears? Maybe. Good tears.

Word Count: 1.7k

Chapter Summary: This story vignette about Tilly’s injury will have two endings, the previous one which sticks to cannon, and this one, the one I originally envisioned, that does not. I think both can be considered happy endings. Though this story vignette is ending, there will be future Dispatches from Sickbay tales.

Summary: After Ensign Tilly is seriously injured, Dr. McCoy makes a house call to Discovery and changes his mind about Starfleet. Takes place during season 2. (If Bruce Greenwood is your favorite Pike, I think this story could fit in the Kelvin universe.)

Excerpt: Earth

Tilly wheeled into the intensive care unit at Command Headquarters. She was not surprised to find Dr. McCoy there, now known affectionately to her as Commander Doctor McCoy. He was staring at the figure on the other side of the glass partition. The patient was prone and unconscious, and surrounded by and hooked to numerous life-sustaining machines.

She parked her wheelchair beside the Doctor and reached for his hand. Without diverting his gaze, McCoy clasped it with a light comforting squeeze. “Hello Captain. When did the Magellan dock?”

“We got here about an hour ago, but, well, orbital traffic control is backed up. Quite a few ships from the fleet have suddenly discovered urgent reasons to visit Earth,” Tilly responded. She avoided looking at the patient, not yet ready to envision Fleet Captain Pike in any way but healthy and robust and leading from the front. “I heard Dr. Boyce left retirement to care for him.”

McCoy nodded slowly. “He came with Enterprise. We arrived yesterday. Spock just left. I’ve not seen him so shaken.”

“How can this be possible?” Tilly voiced the question knowing it was unanswerable.

“Damn, foolish Captains,” McCoy muttered under his breath, “with no thoughts nor care for their own safety.”

Tilly wondered if the good Doctor was speaking only of Pike or also his current commander.

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"Son".

after going outside in this week’s episode and actually not nearly die (though the planet did shake immediately when he arrived so CHRIS STOP GOING OUTSIDE EVEN THE PLANET IS TELLING YOU THAT!), Captain Pike is safely back on his ship and giving us some helpful information about a new signal!

Pike: “this new signal is the 4th of 7, it appeared over the Klingon planet of Boreth”

we finally got to the 4th signal, but 3 are still left, and we only have Episodes 12, 13, and 14 left, and if Episode 12 is gonna be about the 4th signal, then we are running out of episode real estate to deal with the other signals, unless they all start appearing together in one of these episodes?

the mission this whole season was suppose to be finding out what these signals mean, that was Pike’s mission when he came aboard - we’ve assumed all season that it was brought about by the Red Angel but we now know that’s not true so we’re back to square one - what are these signals and why?

first the asteroid field where we find the Hiawatha, then Terralysium, Kaminar, and now Boreth...

here in the two images, we see the planet of Boreth and a bridge to what I’m guessing is the monastery - we know that this is a sacred place for the Klingons, and we last saw L’Rell and Voq’s baby being sent there to live with the monks

Burnham: “whatever it is that you’re not telling us about Boreth, I need to know”

so we see Michael and Ash having a conversation about Ash hiding something about Boreth, we of course know it’s where he sent his son. i assume that Ash does tell Michael about the baby he gave up and that is why we see Michael and Ash hug in the image above

L’Rell and Ash reunites, my guess is that in this scene, they are both looking at their baby - this is not a flashback as we see Ash is in his Discovery uniform, though it still looks like he’s got the black badge - I’m not sure if Control might be able to track those black badges? maybe it’s best to get rid of it hmmmm

LOOK AT THIS CUTE PRECIOUS BABY, sorry i just love babies

we see some sort of shuttle traveling, I’m not entirely sure, it looks like a vulcan ship, but it looks to be traveling towards red lights in space, so maybe it’s going to the signals?

we see this shot of Discovery over Boreth, but they are joined by another ship, my guess is that this is L’Rell’s ship perhaps arriving over Boreth? we may see the D-7?

Spock: “these signals have invested in Discovery, but you must not dismiss the importance in defeating Control”

so Spock is traveling somewhere, it’s possible the image we saw of the ship/shuttle that was traveling may be carrying Spock, and my guess is that he is speaking to Michael who is traveling with him - this may be another split-up sort of mission/episode much like “If Memory Serves” when Michael/Spock had their own story on Talos while everyone else was dealing with something else - so this could be Michael/Spock dealing with Section 31 while Pike and the rest of the Discovery crew deal with the situation of the signal over Boreth

we see dead people floating in space, there is a light from a shuttle that’s going past

the wide shots show all these dead people frozen in space with the Section 31 ship warping away, my guess here is that Control, having taken over, decided to eject all the people into space to kill them because they were no longer of any use to it?

Detmer: “that’s a Section 31 ship”

Pike looks very concerned, Section 31 is giving him a huge headache, he’ll probably get a few more gray hairs because of this

Spock: “they are all Section 31 ships”

so from Spock’s dialogue, it looks like the crew at some point in the episode does all deal with Section 31 together, but i am not sure if this is all Section 31 ships here ready for attack, or all Section 31 ships who have their crew ejected out into space and Control has somehow just been able to run them all on its own?

i assume that having had 54% (i think?) of the Sphere data means that it could somehow learn more abilities to taking over all the Section 31 ships is something I could believe it could be able to end up doing

Burnham: “they’re coming for us”

this is rather vague, I’m not sure who is “they” and who is “us” that Michael is necessarily referring to as there could be multiple answers to that depending on whatever scenario is happening

maybe she is talking about Control’s Section 31 ships coming for Discovery? maybe it wants the rest of the Sphere data?

Michael looks like she’s on an empty Section 31 ship?

Pike: “the signal brought us here for a reason”

so this brings up a question i was asking in another separate post, who is sending these signals and why Discovery? Pike is right, the signal keeps bringing them to places, they thought it was the Red Angel but it clearly wasn’t, and it’s not Control...so who is behind the signals and why?

could it be that the signals are appearing over places where changes in time were made?

here we see Spock, likely in the same place as Michael, since they are dressed the same - he’s trying to pry open some doors, and can I just say, ummmm LOOK AT THOSE ARMS??????

OH MY MUSCLES !!!!

Burnham: “the future hasn’t been written yet”

so here is Michael expressing the sentiments that Spock told her the episode before, but my guess is this is her coming face to face with Control, who is likely still using Leland’s body, probably taunted Michael about how the future can’t be changed or something which caused Michael to say this

so it looks like the Klingons make a return next week along with L’Rell and her baby, this will be interesting to see how the Klingons will play into the end of this season and what is going on with these signals

Control and Section 31 issues are still being dealt with, though I’m starting to think Section 31 gets decimated by Control, which is why Mirror Georgiou will get her own show, likely rebuilding Section 31 from the ground up the way she wants to which is how Section 31 morphs into the even worse sort of organization that we see in DS9

again, a lot of the scenes are likely shown out of order, so I can’t be sure how the plot will be structured, but it looks like Michael and Spock will be off on their own little mission again