“Such Sweet Sorrow” is the 13th episode of the 2nd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” and follows “Through the Valley of Shadows”.
The crew of the USS Discovery is abandoning the starship, which must be destroyed to prevent Control from seizing information that would allow it to become fully sentient but the database has a form of self-protection and prevents destruction.
The novel “The House That Jack Built” by Guy Adams was published for the first time in 2009.
When Gwen Cooper blocks a shoplifter during her shopping and the police intervene to arrest her, her old colleague Andy tells her about the strange death of a boy in the vicinity of an old house called Jackson Leaves, which seems to be tied to a peak of chronon energy similar but not the same as that coming from the Cardiff Rift.
Captain Jack Harkness hired an alien who came to spend his retirement on Earth using the name Alexander Martin to work for Torchwood as a freelance doctor when they need someone to do the job Owen Harper used to do. The Jackson Leaves investigation brings to Jack’s mind old memories because in 1906 he became the house’s first owner.
The novel “Fossil Hunter” by Robert J. Sawyer was published for the first time in 1993. It’s the second of the Quintaglio Ascension trilogy and follows “Far-Seer”. It won the Homer Award as best novel of the year.
Toroca, one of Afsan and Novato’s children, works on a geological mission that aims to produce a survey of all the existing resources to assess which can be useful in the great exodus that the Quintaglio will have to make to save themselves from their world’s destruction. During that task, Toroca makes some unexpected discoveries such as an object made of a material much harder than anything known and clearly artificial and animals that live at the South Pole that have some characteristics that seem to be those of species known but adapted to aquatic life, as if their ancestors changed over time.
Emperor Dybo must direct the operations that will lead to the exodus hoping that Afsan and his other advisers find a way to leave their world but their focus is strongly disturbed. Someone killed one of Afsan and Novato’s children, an event that almost no one remembered among people who kill only when caught by the fury triggered by territoriality. Dybo himself is in danger when his brother Rodlox disputes his right to the throne and challenges him to a fight that can end only with the death of one of them.
An article published in the journal “Current Biology” reports the discovery of the fossils of a quadruped whale in sea sediments near the coast of Peru, dated about 42.6 million years ago. A team of researchers named this new species Peregocetus pacificus, probably the oldest found in the Americas. The uncovered skeleton constitutes the first indisputable finding of fossils of amphibian cetaceans that could move on land and swim in sea waters.
“Through the Valley of Shadows” is the 12th episode of the 2nd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” and follows “Perpetual Infinity”.
A new cosmic signal is detected and even if its origin is unknown it’s a trace that can’t be ignored. It brings to Boreth, the Klingon planet that hosts a monastery that among other things keeps time crystals. While Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) goes to the monastery, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Spock (Ethan Peck) investigate an anomaly linked to the activity of a Section 31 starship.
