Between 2256 and 3191, the USS Discovery was under the command of Captains Gabriel Lorca, Christopher Pike, Saru, and Admiral Michael Burnham. During Lorca's tenure as captain, Discovery was vital part of ending the Federation-Klingon War in the Alpha Quadrant. In Pike's tenure, Discovery was able to stop Section 31's Control progam from evolving and destroying all organic life. In Saru's and later Burnham's tenure, Discovery was able to help the Federation heal itself from The Burn in the later half of the 32nd century. (DSC episodes: "Context Is for Kings", "Brother", "Far From Home", "That Hope Is You, Part 2", "Life, Itself")
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2256[]
- 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")
2257[]
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 The 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") etecting 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") 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")
3189[]
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")
3190[]
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")
3191[]
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")