February 8, 2019

Saru (Doug Jones) and Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in An Obol for Charon (Image courtesy CBS / Netflix. All rights reserved)

“An Obol for Charon” is the 4th episode of the 2nd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” and follows “Point of Light”.

Number One (Rebecca Romijn) arrives on the USS Discovery to bring Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) an update on the ongoing repair work aboard the USS Enterprise but also to bring him the information she found about Spock, in particular a trace to follow. The USS Discovery is on course to follow Spock’s route but is stopped by an unknown entity, very powerful and ancient, which attacks the internal systems while Saru (Doug Jones) also starts suffering serious health problems.