Star Trek Discovery: What moments in the timeline do Michael and Rayner travel to in episode 4?

“Star Trek: Discovery” Season 5 is back with a bang: The new episode “The Time Spider” is funny, exciting and action-packed. At its core there is a little time travel story that is extremely nostalgic but also extremely refreshing.

Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie) and Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) are about to use their communicators to beam from the ready room to the bridge when a glitch occurs. You’re still on Discovery, but in a different time.

It is the USS Discovery as it travels from the 23rd century to the 32nd century, a few years in the past of the fifth “Star Trek: Discovery” season 5. Rayner and Burnham are irritated, but before they can discuss further, they jump They go back in time and find themselves in the 23rd century. Rayner recognizes the pattern: there is a time spider on board the USS Discovery that causes the spaceship to jump in time.

Because Michael and Rayner were in the middle of the beam process when the time travel was triggered, they escape the effects of the time spider and feel the time jumps, while the rest of the crew is unaware of them and simply accepts all the events. Only one other person can also perceive the time jumps: Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp).

What eras do Burnham and Rayner jump through?

Michael and Rayner decide to find Stamets so that they can work together to disable the time spider and return to the correct timeline. However, this turns out to be difficult as the time jumps that keep happening never give them enough time to make a plan together and carry it out.

Due to the time jumps, they end up in different decades that fans already know from other “Star Trek: Discovery” seasons, but also in parallel timelines that we don’t know yet. At these points during the episode, Rayner and Michael jump in the following order:

• The journey from the 23rd to the 32nd century (“Star Trek: Discovery” end of season 2/beginning of season 3)
• The construction of the USS Discovery (ca. 2256 – shortly before “Star Trek: Discovery” season 1)
• The fight with the villainous AI Control (“Star Trek: Discovery” Season 2)
• The confrontation with the Orion Emerald Necklace under villain Osyraa (“Star Trek: Discovery” Season 3)
• The alternate future in which the Breen destroyed Starfleet (Year 3218; 30 years after “Star Trek: Discovery” Season 5)
• Back in the Past (sometime during Season 2)
• 32nd Century (you can tell from the uniforms that it takes place around season 3 or 4)
• Lorca on an away mission when Michael was still a mutineer (during the first season)

The journey from the 23rd to the 32nd century (“Star Trek: Discovery” end of season 2/beginning of season 3)

The first jump occurs almost directly between the finale of the second season of “Discovery” and the beginning of the third season of “Discovery”. It’s Discovery’s journey from the 23rd century to the 32nd century, with all the turmoil that entails. They flew through a wormhole, through which Michael leads Discovery as the Red Angel.

While Michael lands on a planet without a spaceship, Discovery and its crew only arrive in the “future” a year after Michael.

The construction of the USS Discovery (ca. 2256 – shortly before “Star Trek: Discovery” season 1)

The next jump takes Michael and Rayner into the 23rd century. To be more precise, in the year 2256 (or shortly before). It is the construction of the USS Discovery in dry dock in San Francisco, at Starfleet Headquarters. In the “Star Trek” chronology, this is shortly before the first “Star Trek: Discovery” season, in which the ship is still described as “new”.

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