Gabrielle Burnham was a human scientist and Section 31 agent in the 23rd century. She was also the mother of Michael Burnham. (DSC episodes: "Battle at the Binary Stars", "The Red Angel", "Perpetual Infinity")
Biography[]
In the 2230s decade, Burnham, her husband Mike and young daughter Michael were on a station. Sometime after, Dr. Burnham and her husband were recruited into Section 31 to help with their Daedalus Project. They kept their involvement with Section 31 a secret from their daughter. They were sent to Doctari Alpha, worked on the project and Gabrielle posed as a astrophysicist. (Short Treks episode: "The Girl Who Made the Stars"; DSC episode: "Perpetual Infinity")
In 2236, Burnham was given a Time crystal from Section 31 agent Leland. With the crystal, she planned to use Alpha lupi's star's supernova to charge the crystal and power up her suit. As the the star went supernova, the Klingons were able to track the crystal and attacked the colony. Gabrielle hid her daughter in the closet and told her to be quite. Mike drew a phaser and was killed. As the klingons got closer, Gabrielle put the suit and set the time to 1 hour before the attack. Her daughter believed that klingons took their time with Dr. Burnham and that the suit was destroyed. (DSC episodes: "The Vulcan Hello", "Will You Take My Hand?", "The Red Angel", "Perpetual Infinity")
In reality, Dr. Burnham went 950 years and saw that there was no life at all. She discovered that Control, due to it's evolution, had terminated all life in the galaxy. Dr. Burnham made it her mission to stop control's evolution and to return to her family. To carry out her mission, Dr. Burnham, posing as a "red angel" was able to save a group of people from a bomb attack during World War III and transported them to Terralysium in the Beta quadrant. She was able to prevent Control from gaining acess to a Sphere by having the USS Discovery find it first. Burnham was able to make contact with Spock as child due his L'tak Terai in order to warn him about her daughter's death in Vulcan's Forge and how to find her. Later, she allowed Spock to mind meld with her prior to the appearance of seven red bursts warning of the end of all life in the universe. (DSC episode: "Perpetual Infinity")
In 2257, Burnham was lured to Essof IV where she saved her daughter from asphyxiation. She was then captured by Discovery's crew and questioned by Captain Christopher Pike and her daughter. However, she denied being the cause of the red bursts and asked Pike and her daughter to release before Control could sieze the sphere's data. Burnham approved of her daughter's idea to transmit the data to her suit. Unfortunately, Control using Captain Leland's body, stopped Commander Burnham from transmitting the data or rescuing her mother. Gabrielle told her daught to let her go back to the future and was allowed to do so. (DSC episodes: "The Red Angel", "Perpetual Infinity")
Despite her return to the future, Discovery was able to prevent control from evolving. Burnham, instead of landing of Terralysium, landed on Essof IV where there was life. There, the colonists took Burnham to the Qowat Milat sister J'Vini who healed her. Eventually, Burnham would join the Qowat Milat and reside on Ni'Var. (DSC episodes: "Unification III", "Choose to Live")
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| Known members and associates of Section 31 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| primary universe | Olivia Akomo • Caliq Aczura • Julian Bashir • Gabrielle Burnham • Mike Burnham • Lance Cartwright • Cole • Katrina Cornwell • Control • Dietz • Matthew Dougherty • Sarina Douglas • Franklin Drake • Enderby • Darwyn Friel • Kamran Gant • Philippa Georgiou • Matthew Harris • Jedburgh • Karim • Bendes Kettaract • Ken Kitsom • Ko Ji-hoon • Jhun Kulkarno • L'Haan • Peter Lawrence • Lee • Leland • Ethan Locken • Roberta Luke • Merra • Erovan M'Rill • Olim Parra • Patar • Tinh Hoc Phuong • Erik Pressman • Ramirez • Parvati Rao • Malcolm Reed • Tomas Roeder • William Ross • Connaught Rossa • Sakonna • Luther Sloan • Eric Stillwell • Aubin Tabor • Malla Tancreda • Kestellenar th'Teshinaal • Charles Tucker III • Ash Tyler • David Webb • Marcus Williams • Vasily Zeitsev • Cortin Zweller |  31
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| Kelvin timeline | Thomas Harewood • John Harrison • Robert April • Alexander Marcus • Yuki Sulu • unnamed Section 31 personnel | ||
Appearances and references[]
Appearances[]
- DSC episode: "New Eden" (first appearance)
- DSC episode: "Point of Light"
- DSC episode: "If Memory Serves"
- DSC episode: "The Red Angel"
- DSC episode: "Perpetual Infinity"
- DSC episode: "Through the Valley of Shadows"
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 DSC episode: "Perpetual Infinity"
- ↑ DSC episode: "Unification III"
External link[]
- Gabrielle Burnham article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Gabrielle Burnham article at the Star Trek Timelines Wiki.