People of Earth

This Story: Season 3 Episode 3 (production code 303)
DSC Overall: Episode 32
Trek Overall: Story 714, Episode 758
Airdate: 29 Oct 2020
Written by Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt
Directed by Jonathan Frakes

Notes

• The fourth of eight episodes of Discovery directed by TNG’s Jonathan Frakes.
• The first episode (of nineteen) with Adira Tal, a Trill symbiont.  Adira is played by Blu del Barrio, who in real life identifies as non binary, and becomes the first Star Trek cast member to identify this way.
• Adira is said to be a human hosting a Trill symbiont.  This was done once before – in the first episode ever with a Trill – TNG’s “The Host”.  Said human was Riker, played by Jonathan Frakes, who also directed this one.
• A lot of backstory about “The Burn” and events surrounding that are divulged.  Including Earth left the Federation after that and is no longer a member.  Also exactly how the Burn wrecked spaceflight.
• The second (of three) episodes with April Hussain as Sahil.
• The first (of six) episodes with Phumzile Sitole as Diatta Ndoye, a 32nd century Earth Defense Force officer.
• The first of two appearances by Kenneth Welsh as Senna – a prior host of the Tal symbiont. The other episode is the next one.

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