There is a Tide

This Story: Season 3 Episode 12 (production code 312)
DSC Overall: Episode 41
Trek Overall: Story 722, Episode 767
Airdate: 31 Dec 2020
Written by Kenneth Lin
Directed by Jonathan Frakes

Notes

• The sixth (of eight) episodes of Discovery directed by TNG’s Jonathan Frakes, and the third this season.
• The episode title comes from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”.
• Three regular characters do not appear in this episode (Nhan, Culber, & Saru).  However Nhan has left the series at this point, not sure why still credited – and Saru does appear in the recap, but not in the new stuff.
• The original title of this episode was “The Good of the People”.
• The first of two appearances by Kenneth Mitchell as Aurellio (the other is the next episode). Aurellio has a futuristic looking wheelchair as Mitchell in real life has ALS.  Mitchell also played the Klingon Kol in five episodes of Season 1, the Klingon Kol-Sha in “Point of Light“, the Klingon Tenavik in “Through the Valley of Shadows”.  He also voiced three unnamed characters in three separate Lower Decks episodes as well.
• Burnham executes the rarely performed Vulcan neck pinch – by a human.

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