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Star Trek: DISCOVERY episode 9, ‘Into the Forest I Go’ hit the mid-season break with
a ***
We saw the crew of the Discovery break the back of the Klingons, in the process perhaps
breaking Stamets too, and we saw the Discovery attempt a final jump home, only to end up
lost in space surrounded by debris
Welcome to Final Frontier; let’s take a look at the Easter eggs and references to
Star Trek canon in Star Trek: Discovery episode 9
We hear the intercom page Cadet Decker to go to the ready room
Is this a nod to Will Decker, who was briefly captain of the USS Enterprise during her refit
after the five-year mission?
Perhaps it is even the very same person…
After managing to nullify the technology behind the Klingon invisibility screens as well as
kill Kol aboard the Klingon Ship of the Dead, Captain Lorca is informed that he will receive
the Legion of Honor, a Starfleet commendation
Philippa Georgiou was also a recipient of the Legion of Honor and Doctor McCoy and Lt
Commander Data would both receive the award in the future
When deciding how many jumps Stamets would be required to make, the writers initially
selected 525,600
This was an in-joke reference to the song ‘Seasons of Love’ from the musical Rent,
which actors Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz both appeared in
However, the writers ended up choosing a more realistic 133 jumps, as an homage to the superb
Battlestar Galactica pilot ‘33’, which was written by a former Star Trek writer,
Ronald D Moore
The writers did manage to sneak in a reference to Rent though; Stamets offers to take Culber
to see a production of the opera La Bohème, upon which Rent is based
Lorca tells Stamets that he "chose to go where no-one has gone before"
This makes it, chronologically, the earliest instance of this phrase including the term
"no-one."
Zefram Cochrane previously used the phrase "where no man has gone before" in a speech
in the Enterprise pilot: "Broken Bow"
Talking of "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the Original Series episode of the same name
featured Gary Mitchell and Elizabeth Dehner slowly showing a whitening of the eyes as
they gained godlike powers
This change in eye colouration is perhaps an indication of what is happening with Stamets
as the spore drive takes its toll on him
Stamets mentioned pockets of negative mess as an indication of an alternative parallel
universe connected to the mycelial network
We previously heard mention of negative star mass in The Animated Series episode: "Beyond
the Farthest Star"
The most frequent contact between the primary universe and a parallel universe on a different
dimensional plane involves the Mirror universe, which has been seen numerous times in Star
Trek
This episode's title comes from a quote by the author John Muir: "And into the forest
I go, to lose my mind and find my soul."
The writers of the episode chose it because they believed it reflected Michael Burnham's
journey during the first part of the show
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