Star Trek: Discovery Recap: Nature Boy

Saru found his inner tree-hugger this week on Star Trek: Discovery, as the crew visited a remote planet with a super groovy vibe, man.

After another Starfleet vessel gets blown up by a caravan of cloaked Klingon ships, Lorca is ordered to find a way to detect those ships while they’re cloaked. So he sends Burnham, Saru and Tyler on an away mission to the forest planet of Pahvo, where the trees and plants all emit audible tones that are harnessed by a crystal transmitter. (It’s all very New Age-y.) Starfleet wants to modify that transmitter to use those tones as sonar to detect the cloaked ships. Hey, don’t ask too many questions, OK? It’s Star Trek.