![]() It was J’Vini who nursed Gabrielle back to health after her traumatic time travels and gave her a new purpose in the Qowat Milat, and Gabrielle believes that J’Vini would not have killed to steal the dilithium unless it was in service to a worthy cause. Teaming them up together is meant as a gesture of trust between their governments, but it also complicates the mission as Gabrielle has a personal connection to J’Vini. Michael Burnham’s counterpart on the mission is her own mother, Gabrielle (Sonja Sohn), who was revealed last year as having joined the Qowat Milat after her arrival in the 32nd century. Therefore, a team of four - two Starfleet, two Qowat Milat - will be sent after J’Vini, under Burnham’s command but abiding by Qowat Milat rules. ![]() Ni’Var, the home planet of both the Romulans and Vulcans, is in negotiations to rejoin the Federation, and neither Rillak nor Ni’Var’s President T’Rina (returning guest star Tara Rosling) are willing to look weak in the eyes of their constituents. At Starfleet Headquarters, President Rillak assigns Commander Burnham to lead a joint mission with the Qowat Milat to track down J’Vini and bring her into custody, but Burnham is frustrated that pursuing a murderer has turned into a delicate political matter. He declines, and a short melee ends with J’Vini’s sword run through the officer’s chest. Their leader is J’Vini (Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves, Y: The Last Man ), a member of the Qowat Milat order of Romulan warrior nuns, who offers the ship’s first officer one chance to surrender his ship’s dilithium without bloodshed. ![]() “Choose to Live” begins with an incident aboard the Starfleet vessel Credence, where a shipment of dilithium bound for a planet in need is hijacked by a group of sword-wielding mercenaries dressed head-to-toe in black. Have You Heard? Star Trek Has Ninjas Now. This week’s new episode, “Choose to Live,” is the first to relegate the big mystery to the B-plot, and while it adds two more character-driven storylines, neither of them feel entirely spaceworthy. The first two chapters of Star Trek: Discovery season four introduced us to this year’s ongoing mystery plot, centered around a devastating gravitational anomaly that is roaming the galaxy and swallowing entire planets whole. ![]()
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