Choose to Live
Joe Siegler
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Choose to Live
This Story: Season 4 Episode 3 (production code 403)
DSC Overall: Episode 45
Trek Overall: Story 726, Episode 771
Airdate: 2 Dec 2021
Written by Terri Hughes Burton
Directed by Christopher J. Byrne
Notes
- The episode title is supposedly taken from a repeated line of dialog from Star Trek: Picard that says the same thing – “Choose to Live”.
- The zhian’tara ceremony happens here where a Trill host can communicate with the prior ones due to their previous hosts temporarily existing in another person. The first time this happened was on DS9’s “Facets“. This scene was filmed, but didn’t appear in the episode. It does exist as a deleted scene on the DVD/Blu-Ray, though.
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[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | IMDB | Amazon US DVD | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek Discovery Episode 45 - Choose to LiveI think I'm remembering why I didn't care for S4 on first viewing. This season's arc is yet another plot where everything is threatened by some random unknown thing - and only Discovery can save it. I'm tired of plots like that in my
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) November 9, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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shows. This one deals with a Romulan stealing dilithium that involves Burnham's mother who is also part of the same organization. Overall not bad but the way the last one ended with such a galaxy threatening ending turned me off a bit. Almost didn't want to watch this. Fortunately, most of this ep
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) November 9, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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was smaller personal moments, which I rather enjoyed. We also dig into the Trill zhian'tara again, only this time combined with Picard's golem body tech to bring back Adira's boyfriend to corporeal form. Overall, the personal stuff was really good - I enjoyed it a lot. I hope that remains that way.
— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) November 9, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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