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Lethe
This Story: Season 1 Episode 6 (production code 106)
DSC Overall: Episode 6
Trek Overall: Story 689, Episode 732
Airdate: 22 Oct 2017
Written by Joe Menosky & Ted Sullivan
Directed by Douglas Aarniokoski
Notes
- The first and only writing credit Joe Menosky had on Star Trek Discovery. The last one before this was 2000’s “Unimatrix Zero, Part II“. This was his final writing credit for any incarnation of Star Trek. In all he wrote 16 episodes of TNG, 4 of DS9, & 36 of Voyager as well.
- Spock’s mother Amanda Grayson appears here, now played by Mia Kirshner. She would reprise the role in 8 other episodes (one on Strange New Worlds, the rest on Discovery).
- The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is mentioned here.
- The first appearance of the “Disco” T-Shirts the crew wears. I always thought this was similar to the NX-01 baseball cap that popped up a few times on Enterprise.
Links
[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | IMDB | Amazon US DVD | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek Discovery Episode 6 - LetheAsh Tyler from the last ep joins the crew & is here through end of S2. Both he and Lorca end up not being what they seem. There's some good background stuff with Burnham and Sarek. Sarek's ship is sabotaged, and Burnham talks Lorca into going
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) September 30, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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to rescue him. This ep feels more straightforward than the ones before this - that might have something to do with being partially written by Joe Menosky who wrote a lot of TNG/DS9/VOY. We also spend some time examining Lorca's head too. You can see characters being setup for large moves later.
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) September 30, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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