Context Is for Kings picks up six months after the court martial that concluded Battle at the Binary Stars.
Michael Burnham, sentenced to life imprisonment for staging a mutiny aboard the U.S.S.
Shenzhou, is being transported along with other prisoners to a new detainment facility.
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Discovery swoops in to rescue them.
Luckily, Burnham knowssuus mahna, a form of Vulcan martial arts, and neutralizes the threat.
Landry whisks her away again this time, to meet Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs).
That was before the future came and hunger and need and want disappeared.
Course, theyre making a comeback now thanks to you.
Stamets is shown speaking with another Starfleet officer, Straal, whos aboard the U.S.S.
Glenn, but in confusing terminology.
In totality, the disorienting scenes articulate the disorientation Burnham must feel.
And while many of her suspicions are warranted more on that in a moment some of them arent.
The facade begins to deteriorate when the Discovery finds the Glenn adrift, with its entire crew dead.
Lorca orders Stamets and Landry to form a boarding party and commands them to take Burnham along.
He specifically labels Lorca a warmonger.
Right on cue, a Klingon appears in the hallway.
True and not true, it turns out.
He also confronts the wars knotty moral dilemmas.
That is the kind of thinking that wins wars.
He concludes with a goosebump-inducing flourish: Universal law is for lackeys.
Context is for kings.
