USS Discovery

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The USS Discovery (NCC-1031) was a Crossfield-class starship operated by the Federation Starfleet in the 23rd century, initially under the command of Captain Gabriel Lorca and, later, Christopher Pike. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings", "What's Past Is Prologue", "Brother")

After time traveling to the 32nd century, Discovery underwent a three week retrofit and was recommissioned with the registry NCC-1031-A under the command of Captain Saru, and later Captain Michael Burnham. (DIS: "Far From Home", "People of Earth", "Scavengers", "That Hope Is You, Part 2". Over time, owing to her fusion with the Sphere data, she became a fully fledged artificial intelligence. She experienced emotions, worked with the crew, and chose her own name, Zora. (DIS: "The Examples", "Stormy Weather")

In the 33rd century, the ship was returned to her 23rd century configuration and restored back to its original NCC-1031 registry and abandoned by her crew. She then remained empty for almost a thousand years as part of a Red Directive mission. Starfleet promised to return for the ship once this mission involving Craft was completed. (DIS: "Life, Itself"; ST: "Calypso")

Service history[]

Construction[]

The Discovery was built on Earth at the San Francisco Fleet Yards, near the Golden Gate Bridge. Its motto was a quote from Galileo Galilei: "All things can be understood once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." (DIS: "Context Is for Kings", "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", "Face the Strange")

By November 2256, it was still considered impressive and new, fresh out of the shipyards and equipped with some of Starfleet's most advanced technologies, in contrast to the older USS Shenzhou. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")

As a Crossfield-class starship, the Discovery was officially designated a science vessel. In 2256, the ship had a crew manifest of approximately 136. (DIS: "Choose Your Pain") However, by 2257, following the Federation-Klingon War the complement increased to over two hundred during the investigation of the Red Angel. (DIS: "The Red Angel") The ship's facilities were able to accommodate three hundred discrete scientific missions, a Starfleet record at the time. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")

Both the Discovery and its sister ship, the USS Glenn, were equipped with an experimental spore drive for field testing. Much research and refinement remained to be done as of late 2256, but if perfected, it had the potential to instantly traverse vast galactic distances in the blink of an eye. The Discovery only used it in short bursts while attempting to perfect it into a reliable drive system. In contrast, the crew of the Glenn took bolder risks to develop it more quickly, resulting in an accident which killed the entire crew and crippled the ship. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")

The Discovery was built from the ground up to be a test bed for the experimental spore drive, based on the research of Paul Stamets and his colleagues. Stamets had intended his research to pursue purely theoretical knowledge and peaceful applications but, with the outbreak of war, the Discovery was rapidly constructed to perfect the military applications of his research. (DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry")

Due to the top secret, and, in some cases, dangerous research projects being conducted on the Discovery, its internal security was much more rigid and compartmentalized than was regular protocol on Starfleet vessels; breath print identification locks were used to restrict access to different sub-sectors. It also possessed a disproportionately prominent and well-armed security detail, standing guard at various restricted access points throughout the ship. These guards were outfitted with tactical gear bearing a Section 31 "black star" uniform insignia, unlike the normal silver Starfleet delta insignia. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")

Several experiments conducted aboard Discovery had the potential to physically endanger the ship itself and its crew; hazardous situations caused by the black ops experiments being activated were addressed by declaring a "black alert" (which was not a standard protocol on Starfleet vessels). (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")

Gabriel Lorca's command[]

Federation-Klingon War[]

Following the outbreak of the Federation-Klingon War, Discovery was placed under the command of Captain Gabriel Lorca and given a clandestine mission to conduct black ops scientific research, developing top secret weapons and technologies that would help the Federation win the war. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")

Six months into the war, Discovery rescued the prison shuttle SPT 21 from an infestation of Species GS54 during an interstellar storm. Among the prisoners being transported, former Commander Michael Burnham came aboard and was enlisted by Captain Lorca to serve as a specialist aboard Discovery. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings")

In November 2256, Discovery received a distress call from Corvan II, under attack by Klingons. The only ship in range, Discovery attempted a spore jump to the Federation mining colony, ending up dangerously close to a star. Utilizing the tardigrade as a conduit through which to navigate the ship, the crew ultimately jumped Discovery to Corvan II in time to destroy the attacking Birds-of-Prey and save the colony from destruction. (DIS: "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry")

The following month, Discovery, under the command of first officer Saru, was tasked by Admiral Katrina Cornwell with the rescue of Lorca following his abduction by the Klingons. Once again using the tardigrade as a living navigational computer, Discovery jumped into Klingon territory, but the creature was disabled in the process. Unwilling to subject the tardigrade to further injury, Lieutenant Stamets injected himself with the creature's DNA, allowing Discovery to recover Lorca and his fellow POW, Ash Tyler, and jump back to Federation space. (DIS: "Choose Your Pain")

One week later, Cornwell's cruiser rendezvoused with Discovery before departing for peace talks on Cancri IV. (DIS: "Lethe")

On stardate 2136.8, Discovery encountered an injured space-dwelling lifeform known as a gormagander and conducted aid per the Endangered Species Act. This resulted in Harcourt Fenton Mudd boarding Discovery and activating a time crystal, creating a time loop in which Mudd repeatedly destroyed the ship in an effort to learn the secret of the spore drive and sell the ship to the Klingons. The loop was eventually discovered by Stamets, avoiding the permanent destruction of Discovery. (DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")

On stardate 1308.9, Discovery engaged a Klingon destroyer in defense of the USS Gagarin. With the advantage of their invisibility screens, the Klingons succeeded in destroying the Gagarin forcing Discovery to withdraw. Discovery then proceeded to the planet Pahvo where it retrieved a landing party as the native Pahvans broadcasted a signal directed at both the Federation and Klingons. (DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")

Encountering the Ship of the Dead in orbit of Pahvo, Discovery engaged in ship-to-ship combat with the Klingons. Discovery then conducted 133 micro-jumps around the cloaked Klingon vessel, allowing the crew to target and destroy the enemy's capital ship. (DIS: "Into the Forest I Go")

The mirror universe[]

After an apparent accident with the spore drive propelled Discovery into the mirror universe, it emerged that Lorca was in fact an inhabitant of that universe who had replaced his counterpart and deliberately brought Discovery to his home universe. Following Lorca's revelation, Saru assumed full command of Discovery. (DIS: "Despite Yourself", "Vaulting Ambition", "What's Past Is Prologue")

In order to return to their universe, Discovery then launched an attack on the Terran flagship, ISS Charon, on stardate 1834.2. Flying through the Terran ship's superstructure, Discovery destroyed the super-mycelial reactor powering the Charon, and used the resulting mycelial shockwave to power the spore drive and cross back into normal space. (DIS: "Despite Yourself", "Vaulting Ambition", "What's Past Is Prologue")

Return to the war[]

Discovery returned nine months after its departure, having overshot its intended destination. In that time, the Klingons had captured a significant proportion of Federation territory. Boarded by a number of Starfleet officials including Vulcan Ambassador Sarek, Discovery was placed under the temporary command of Admiral Cornwell and brought to Starbase 1, 100 au from Earth. Finding the station overrun by Klingons, Discovery warped away. (DIS: "What's Past Is Prologue", "The War Without, The War Within")

With Klingon forces encroaching on Earth, Starfleet elected to use Discovery to prepare a strike against the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS, and solicited the abilities of the Terran emperor, Philippa Georgiou. In order to make the jump to the Qo'noS, Discovery traveled to the Veda system where the crew terraformed the moon Delta 2 and replenished their supply of mycelium spores. (DIS: "The War Without, The War Within")

Under the command of Emperor Georgiou (standing in as the deceased Captain Philippa Georgiou), Discovery became the first Starfleet vessel to visit the Klingon homeworld since Captain Jonathan Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 visited the planet in 2151. In order to avoid detection and conflict with Klingon planetary defenses, Discovery jumped into an inactive volcanic cavern large enough to accommodate a Crossfield-class starship beneath the surface of Qo'noS. A landing party to the surface ultimately concluded the mission and brought a peaceful resolution to the conflict. (DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?")

With the war over, Discovery returned to Earth, where its senior staff was honored. The starship was then ordered to Vulcan to retrieve its new commanding officer to take Ambassador Sarek home. (DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?")

Christopher Pike's command[]

Investigating the red bursts[]

En route to Vulcan, a priority 1 distress call led Discovery to drop out of warp and respond to the call from Captain Christopher Pike on the USS Enterprise. (DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?")

With Enterprise unable to continue its mission – the investigation of one of seven red bursts that were detected across the galaxy; Pike was ordered to assume command of the Discovery from Acting Captain Saru under Starfleet Regulation 19, Section C. Discovery then warped to an interstellar asteroid at the coordinates of the burst, where it located the wreckage of the USS Hiawatha. Unable to maintain shields while transporting survivors from the Hiawatha, the starship suffered severe hull damage from the fragmenting asteroid, before capturing a fragment of the asteroid in its shuttle bay using a gravity simulator. (DIS: "Brother")

Detecting a new signal in the Beta Quadrant, Discovery used the previously defunct spore drive to jump to the coordinates, but found no sign of a red burst. Instead, Discovery entered into orbit over Terralysium, a previously unknown Earth colony of World War III-era Humans. With the planet and its population threatened by radioactive asteroids, Helmsman Keyla Detmer piloted Discovery in a donut maneuver, using a dark matter asteroid to magnetically drag the radioactive debris away from the planet. (DIS: "New Eden")

Later, a Vulcan cruiser rendezvoused with Discovery, offloading Amanda Grayson. (DIS: "Point of Light")

While searching for Spock, Discovery was pulled out of warp by an massive sphere-shaped lifeform. Discovery's computer system was overloaded by what the crew believed to be a computer virus. Eventually, the Sphere's intentions were discovered and Discovery subsequently became the recipient of a hundred thousand years of the Sphere's knowledge and memories. (DIS: "An Obol for Charon")

In order to rescue Sylvia Tilly from the JahSepp, Discovery executed a partial jump into the mycelial plane. The ship was almost instantly attacked by the JahSepp, who began to dissolve the hull. In order to keep from being destroyed, Discovery was assisted by Section 31 chief Leland aboard the NCIA-93. (DIS: "Saints of Imperfection")

After a red burst appeared over Kaminar, Discovery arrived in the system where it came into conflict with the Ba'ul. Using the Sphere's signal that had triggered vahar'ai in Saru, they helped the Kelpien race evolve beyond the limitations forced on them by the Ba'ul, and opened the way for the two races to somehow coexist. (DIS: "The Sound of Thunder")

Control[]

The red bursts, as well as an entity associated with it (known by the crew as the "Red Angel"), appeared to be tied to Michael Burnham's foster brother, Lieutenant Spock of the Enterprise, and Section 31 took an interest in capturing him. They caught up to Spock and Burnham on Talos IV, but they were revealed to be illusions projected by the Talosians; the real Spock and Burnham had escaped to Discovery, which was declared a renegade ship and forced to go on the run. (DIS: "If Memory Serves")

The data from the Sphere also included information on artificial intelligence. An AI from the future infected Control, the threat assessment system developed by Section 31, and made it sentient. Control became obsessed with obtaining all of the Sphere's data on artificial intelligence in order to evolve into a true lifeform and wipe out all other sentient life. Discovery's spore drive operations officer, Lieutenant Commander Airiam, was possessed by Control through her cybernetics, and forced to deliver the Sphere data to Control at Section 31 Headquarters. Airiam was killed and the base destroyed before it could take the entire archive. Before her death, Airiam told her colleagues to find "Project Daedalus". (DIS: "Project Daedalus")

Daedalus proved to be a Section 31 project involving time travel, building a suit capable of taking its wearer through time. The suit matched the description of the Red Angel. The Angel appeared to be connected to Commander Burnham, and she was used as bait to attract it to Essof IV, where the Angel was revealed to be her mother, Dr. Gabrielle Burnham, who was believed killed by the Klingons on Doctari Alpha some two decades before. (DIS: "The Red Angel")

Finding that the Sphere data would not allow itself to be deleted from the databanks, the Discovery crew attempted to send the data back to the future with Gabrielle. However, the plan was sabotaged by Leland, who was possessed by Control through nanotechnology; he destroyed the time crystal in Gabrielle's suit, which was pulled back along with Gabrielle to her anchor point in the future. (DIS: "Perpetual Infinity")

Discovery continued to investigate the red bursts while keeping ahead of Leland/Control, and detected a fourth signal orbiting the Klingon world of Boreth. There, they obtained a time crystal and began work to create a Daedalus suit of their own in order to take the Sphere data to the future, beyond Control's reach. However, they were surrounded by Section 31's fleet, which was fully under Control's domination. Pike summoned the Enterprise to take on Discovery's crew before setting the ship to auto-destruct, in an effort to prevent Control from obtaining the Sphere data. (DIS: "Through the Valley of Shadows")

However, they discovered that the Sphere data would also not allow the ship to be destroyed, leading to a change of plans: To bring Discovery itself into the future, and the data with it. Pike and other essential personnel returned to the ship to investigate a fifth red burst on the planet Xahea, where they welcomed aboard its queen, Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po, who had developed a dilithium incubator that could be used to charge the time crystal. Discovery began retrofitting its fleet of shuttles and landing pods with enhanced weaponry, joined together with similarly-modified craft from the Enterprise, to combat the Section 31 fleet. At the same time, work continued on preparing the Daedalus suit, to be worn by Burnham, as her mother's DNA was encoded into the suit schematics and she was the closest match. However, it was revealed that it would be a one-way trip, as the energy needed to charge the crystal with Po's incubator would make it unstable. The senior staff all chose to remain with Discovery and make the trip with Burnham. Pike relinquished command of Discovery back to Saru for the journey, and returned to the Enterprise to prepare for the battle to come. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow")

After a pitched battle with Control's forces, Burnham successfully opened the wormhole, taking Discovery through with her. Pike, his first officer Una, Spock, and acting Section 31 chief Tyler all reported to Starfleet Command that Discovery was destroyed with all hands. Spock furthermore recommended that in order to prevent such incidents with Section 31 from happening again, that all participants in the event were to be barred from talking about Discovery, her crew, or her spore drive under penalty of treason. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

In 2259, Captain Christopher Pike wore a USS Discovery pin for Starfleet Remembrance Day. (SNW: "Memento Mori")

In 2383, Hologram Janeway showed the young crew of the USS Protostar an image of the Discovery while explaining the history of the Federation and Starfleet to them. (PRO: "Starstruck")

Saru's command[]

Arriving in the 32nd century[]

Upon exiting from the wormhole in 3189, Discovery crash-landed on an ice planet known simply as "The Colony". It was eventually rescued by Michael Burnham who had arrived in the future a year earlier. (DIS: "Far From Home")

After Discovery arrived in the 32nd century, shipboard computer developments caused some crewmembers such as Captain Saru to develop a theory that the integration of the vast quantities of Sphere data, central to their journey into the future, had prompted the development of a self aware protective instinct among the ship's computer systems. (DIS: "Forget Me Not")

At Federation Headquarters, Discovery underwent a three-week retrofit, with all of her systems being upgraded on par with 32nd century technology. Part of this refit included the installation of programmable matter into all stations for better control and converting her warp engines to be detached for improved maneuverability and performance. During the refit, the ship was recommissioned with the registry NCC-1031-A. The change of registry was to also hide the fact that Discovery travelled through time, as time travel was outlawed after the Temporal Wars.

Adira Tal also included an upgrade to the spore drive reaction cube as well as converting the physical injector shunts into nanogel control interfaces.

At the same time, her mission orders were that of a rapid response craft based out of Federation Headquarters due to the unique nature of her spore drive. (DIS: "Die Trying", "Scavengers")

As part of its refit, Discovery was equipped with a cloaking device, the turbolifts didn't run on tracks anymore, they hovered, and the systems hub section was upgraded. (DIS: "Su'Kal")

A holodeck was also among the renovations included in the refit. (DIS: "All In")

The Discovery was eventually hijacked by Osyraa and her Emerald Chain forces who used the ship to reach Federation Headquarters. (DIS: "Su'Kal", "There Is A Tide...") During the battle that followed, Burnham killed Osyraa, reset the computer to its previous operating system and retook the ship. Discovery's warp core was then ejected and detonated in order to destroy the Emerald Chain flagship Viridian while Discovery herself spore jumped away using Cleveland Booker's empathic abilities in the absence of Paul Stamets. (DIS: "That Hope Is You, Part 2")

Michael Burnham's command[]

Following the resolution of the crisis, Michael Burnham was promoted to captain of Discovery while Saru took Su'Kal home. The ship was then assigned to transport dilithium to various Federation worlds. (DIS: "That Hope Is You, Part 2")

Dark Matter Anomaly crisis[]

With the threat of the Dark Matter Anomaly, Discovery was assigned to travel beyond the galactic barrier and make first contact with Species 10-C, bringing along a number of diplomatic representatives including the Federation President and the President of Ni'Var. The mission left the spore drive burned out, stranding the ship decades away from Earth at warp speed. However, the crew succeeded in convincing the 10-C to shut down the DMA just in time to save Ni'Var and United Earth and Titan from destruction. Before the 10-C shut down the DMA completely, they used the wormhole to return the Discovery to Earth. (DIS: "The Galactic Barrier", "Rosetta", "Species Ten-C", "Coming Home")

Search for the Progenitors' technology[]

In 3191, Discovery was seen in the windows of Captain Rayner's quarters in Federation Headquarters when Captain Michael Burnham went and had a chat with him. While they were chatting, Rayner commented, "I got to say... she's a beautiful ship. They don't make 'em like that anymore." With Saru having resigned from Starfleet to take up a post as the Federation Ambassador, Rayner became Discovery's new first officer. (DIS: "Under the Twin Moons")

Discovery subsequently raced Moll and L'ak to the pieces of the map located on Lyrek, Trill, the ISS Enterprise, and Halem'no, breaking the Prime Directive in the process on Halem'no and getting stuck in time cycling for six hours between Trill and the Enterprise. (DIS: "Under the Twin Moons", "Jinaal", "Face the Strange", "Mirrors", "Whistlespeak")

After the USS Locherer captured the couple, Discovery returned to the USS Federation, only to discover that the Breen were on their way as well as Primarch Ruhn and his faction came after L'ak. Upon their arrival, Burnham recognized Ruhn's dreadnaught as the ship that she and Rayner had seen in an alternate timeline while Discovery was time cycling, the one that destroyed the Federation after getting the Progenitors' technology. Attempts at negotiating with the Primarch were derailed by L'ak's accidental death in an escape attempt and Moll revealed the search to Ruhn, hoping to use the technology to resurrect her husband. The Breen departed with Moll, leaving Discovery in a race with the Breen to find the Progenitors' technology. (DIS: "Erigah")

After tracking the last piece of the map to the Eternal Gallery and Archive in the Badlands, Discovery came into conflict with the Breen dreadnaught as it worked to protect the Archive and Burnham's away team. Forced to turn over the entire map to Ruhn in order to save the Archive, Discovery was seemingly destroyed by Ruhn's ship. However, Burnham faked the ship's destruction so as to gain an advantage over the Breen, although Discovery suffered heavy damage, including to both its spore drive and warp drive which took hours to fix. (DIS: "Labyrinths", "Lagrange Point")

While Discovery managed to reach the coordinates to where the Progenitors' technology was hidden first, Moll's Breen forces recovered the device first, forcing Discovery to send a team to the dreadnaught to steal it back. In addition, having learned of Ruhn's death at Moll's hands, Primarch Tahal and her entire fleet were on their way to take Ruhn's forces for themselves with Starfleet able to do little to help Discovery aside from sending every ship in the sector to them, most of whom wouldn't arrive in time, and Saru in a shuttle equipped with the new pathway drive to intercept Tahal and try a diplomatic solution to delay her. After Ensign Adira Tal disabled the dreadnaught's shields, Discovery rammed through the shuttle bay containment field to recover the team and the structure, blasting the interior of the shuttle bay with its weapons and severely damaging the dreadnaught in the process. However, the structure fell into open space between two black holes revealing a portal which both Moll and Burnham had entered, leaving the crew with little time to recover the captain and the technology before Tahal's fleet arrived. (DIS: "Lagrange Point")

Final mission[]

In the 33rd century, the ship was reverted to her pre-refit appearance and was abandoned by her crew as part of a Red Directive mission. Now-Admiral Burnham explained to Zora that the mission would likely take longer than the crew's lifespans and it involved Zora waiting for "Craft," although Burnham didn't know if that was going to be a person or a vessel. Burnham promised that Starfleet would return for Discovery once the mission was over and that there would be a new beginning once Zora returned. (DIS: "Life, Itself")

Discovery remained empty for almost a thousand years before it rescued Craft, a man who was adrift in an escape pod for a month before being found by Discovery. Although Zora fell in love with Craft, she eventually helped him go home in the old ship's only remaining shuttlecraft, Funny Face, while Discovery continued to maintain position, waiting for Starfleet to come back for it. (ST: "Calypso")

Merge with Sphere data and sentience[]

After Discovery's encounter with the sphere-shaped lifeform and its subsequent downloading of its millennia worth of information, the data seemed to have a mind of its own. (DIS: "An Obol for Charon") It was repeatedly said to be "protecting itself", preventing its own deletion, not allowing the ship to self-destruct, and even raising the ship's shields when the USS Enterprise tried to destroy it with a photon torpedo in one possible timeline. (DIS: "Perpetual Infinity", "Such Sweet Sorrow") It combined with Discovery's systems in 3189, and the computer's voice changed to signify this. Her first act that stretched the bonds of a normal computer was holding a movie night for the crew. (DIS: "Forget Me Not"). When Osyraa hijacked Discovery, the Sphere data transferred itself to the DOT-23s, which then helped the crew of Discovery take back the ship. Most notably of her actions during that time, she rescued Owosekun from death by oxygen deprivation. (DIS: "Su'Kal", "There Is A Tide...", "That Hope Is You, Part 2")

By the 32nd century, the computer AI had assumed the name Zora. (DIS: "Anomaly (DIS)") A relatively short period of time after that, she had developed emotions. (DIS: "The Examples") She worked with the crew of the Discovery on a personal level to escape a subspace rift, struggling with the task due to having to manage her new emotions. (DIS: "Stormy Weather")

Alternate timelines[]

In an alternate timeline shown to Burnham by the time crystal, Control, in the body of Leland, successfully eliminated the Discovery bridge crew during the Battle near Xahea and took control of the ship and the Sphere data. However, after Burnham warned the crew of what she saw, they were able to alter the future with Control simply heading off to find the Sphere data after a brief engagement on the bridge. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow", "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

In another alternate timeline, Discovery was abandoned and nearly wrecked near the debris field of the USS Federation. When Burnham and Commander Rayner arrived on this Discovery in 3218 from a time jump, they found the ship covered in dust and only Zora left who had lost most of her memory. Zora revealed that Discovery had been rescued from its time cycling by Starfleet too late to stop Moll and L'ak from finding the Progenitors technology and selling it to the Breen who had destroyed the Federation and killed everyone, including Discovery's crew. Zora helped the two figure out the pattern of the time cycling and begged them to make things right before Burnham and Rayner were sent to another time period. This future was averted when Burnham, Rayner and Paul Stamets, with the help of the Discovery crew of an alternate 2256, stopped the time cycling six hours after it began. (DIS: "Face the Strange")

In an alternate timeline, Burnham, Rayner and Stamets enlisted the help of the Discovery crew of 2256 to break the ship's time cycling, revealing to them details of the future in the process. The bridge crew aided in the process by breaking the warp bubble at maximum warp after Burnham revealed her personal knowledge of each of them, particularly of Airiam's death. In engineering, Rayner used his personal knowledge of Gen Rhys and Burnham -- who had already encountered her future self -- to convince them both to stand down. This timeline was erased when the time bug was removed before it could reset the cycle again as the changes made in each time period wouldn't become permanent until the bug reset. (DIS: "Face the Strange")

Embarked craft[]

Discovery was originally equipped with a complement of Class C shuttlecraft and worker bees stored in its shuttlebay. In 2257, the shuttlecraft were upgraded with enhanced phasers in preparation for battle with a Control-led Section 31 fleet. (DIS: "Context Is for Kings", "Such Sweet Sorrow")

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Discovery also carried four landing pods, first developed for a mission to Kim-Tara, though two were destroyed in 2257. (DIS: "Brother")

Following its refit to 32nd century technology in 3189, Discovery's shuttle complement was replaced with UFP-02-type shuttles. (DIS: "Kobayashi Maru", et al.)

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List of First contacts[]

Over its century of service, the Discovery made first contact with the following species:

• Pahvans, 2256 (DIS: "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
• Species 10-C, 3190 (DIS: "Species Ten-C")
• Halem'nites, 3191 (DIS: "Whistlespeak")

Command crew[]

• Commanding officer
  • Gabriel Lorca (2256-2257)
  • Katrina Cornwell (2257) (acting)
  • Philippa Georgiou (2257)
  • Saru (2257, 2258, 3189) (acting, later promoted)
  • Christopher Pike (2257-2258) (under Starfleet regulation 19, section C)
  • Michael Burnham (3189-) (acting, later promoted)
  • Rayner (3191) (acting)
  • Gen Rhys (3191) (acting)
• First officer
  • Saru (2256-2258, 3189, 3190-3191)
  • Michael Burnham (3189)
  • Sylvia Tilly (3189-3190; 3191) (acting)
  • Rayner (3191-)
• Security chief
  • Ellen Landry (2256)
  • Ash Tyler (2256-2257)
  • D. Nhan (2257-2258, 3189)
  • Cleveland Booker (3189-3190) (consultant)
• Science officer
  • Michael Burnham (2257-2258, 3189)
  • Linus (2257-2258, 3189-)
  • Arav (2256-2258, 3189-)
  • Adira Tal (3189-)
  • Naya (3191)
• Helmsman/Conn officer
  • Keyla Detmer (2256-2258, 3189-)
  • Haj (3189) (acting)
  • Asha (3191)
• Communications officer
  • Milton Richter (2256)
  • R.A. Bryce (2256-2258, 3189-3190)
  • Christopher (3190-)
  • Haj (2257)
• Operations officer
  • Joann Owosekun (2256-2258, 3189-)
  • Airiam (2257) (acting)
  • Gallo (3191)
  • Lorna Jemison (3191)
• Physician
  • Hugh Culber (2256, 2257-2258, 3189-)
  • Tracy Pollard (2257-2258, 3189-)
• Tactical officer
  • Gen Rhys (2256-2258, 3189-)
• Spore drive navigator
  • Paul Stamets (2256-2258, 3189-)
• Spore drive ops officer
  • Airiam (2256-2257)
  • Nilsson (2257-2258, 3189-3191)
  • Linus (3191-)
• Engineer
  • Jett Reno (2257-2258, 3189-)
  • Sylvia Tilly (2256-2258, 3189)
• Counselor
  • Hugh Culber (3190-)

Starships named Discovery USS Discovery (NCC-1031-A) • USS Discovery (24th century) Mirror universe: ISS Discovery

Crossfield-class starships USS Discovery • USS Glenn Mirror universe: ISS Discovery

See also[]

• USS Discovery personnel
• Unnamed USS Discovery personnel

Appendices[]

Appearances[]

Background information[]

Bryan Fuller chose the Discovery's registry number, 1031, because he loves Halloween. [1]

Before the show premiered, Aaron Harberts described the ship as "the latest and greatest ship to roll off the assembly line" (SFX, issue 292, p. 80)

The set used for the Discovery's interior was a reused set which, with just a few changes, had previously served as the interiors of the USS Shenzhou and the USS Glenn. (AT: "Context Is for Kings")

In "Choose Your Pain", Saru, while commanding the ship, says he has 134 souls to protect, strongly hinting at the size of the ship's crew. The statement is made while captain Lorca and the shuttle pilot are off-ship, one episode after Ellen Landry is killed, and before Ash Tyler joins the crew, suggesting the complement is 136 at that time.

Apocrypha[]

USS Discovery appears in Star Trek Online in an ending cutscene for the players taking the "Discovery" route, where it mentions the crew and the special mission Discovery was to undertake. Later, in the mission "The Measure of Morality", Discovery is again mentioned when the player comes in contact with Michael Burnham. In that scene, it is mentioned that the Discovery was lost with all hands at some point in the past.

External link[]

• USS Discovery at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works