The First Servant is ready to go home to meet his destiny. Spock also has good news, using kid genius’ personal subspace frequency to find the little guy hidden in a cargo container, beamed there instead of to that ill-fated ship. He gets his first answer from Uhura, who sorts out that Gamal was behind the abduction. Alora is understandably upset, but Pike doesn’t understand when she says the loss of the First Servant will doom Majalis to “fall out of the sky.” If this kid was some kind of holy symbolic figure, how does the fate of the planet rely on him? Finally, Pike starts to ask questions. The Enterprise jumps into action, grabbing the kidnap cruiser in a tractor beam, but the ship is so determined to escape that it tries to go to warp and explodes, stunning everyone. Huse Madhavji as Elder Gamal, Ian Ho as the First Servant, Jess Bush as Nurse Chapel, and Babs Olusanmokun as M’Benga “We honor his sacrifice.” Before they can figure it out, Elder Gamal tries to leave the ship with his son, who then gets yanked out of the transporter by another ship from Prospect VII. Pike’s crew is asking the right questions, like “Why would anyone leave paradise?” But Chris still in the warm glow of all that “guarding,” can’t see it and is certain Alora will have some reasonable explanation. Tasked with translating some data chips “liberated” from the crash site, Uhura finds “a lot.” Pike is brought back to face a kind of intervention from his officers, who have sorted out that Alora has been lying to him: The “alien colony” is actually just a low-tech struggling offshoot of Majalis on a mining planet called Prospect VII. La’an is running her own investigation and Uhura’s cadet rotation sets her up as a sidekick, struggling to keep up with the stern security chief and a long list of lessons. But this Elder Gamal is a bit prickly, not willing to share his med-tech, and gets evasive when Spock asks him about a neural dampening device found at the crash site clearly fit for the kid. He had just been reading to her again, and later, his heart breaks when little smarty pants breaks her out of her protective pattern buffer to play space hopscotch. M’Benga drooling and clearly wondering if it might help his very sick little girl. Doctor dad shows off some miraculous medical tech that has Dr. The kid is an adorable genius who impresses even Spock with a deep understanding of subspace communications. While Pike is with Alora, his crew is busy tending to the First Servant and the mystery of the attack. Lindy Booth as Alora and Anson Mount as Pike “I was having fun.” Alora tempts him with the chance to save himself in their little utopia, with the only catch being “you have to be one of us to live here, our way.” Something about how she said that last part though… After some off-screen “guarding,” the pair has some cute pillow talk that turns serious when Pike reveals his beeping chair fate. After discovering a link to the First Servant’s personal guard, Pike invites himself to Majalis to help… as a “friend.” On the idyllic planet of sky cities, Alora identifies the traitor, which results in a chase where Pike doing some punching, and a final showdown where Alora stabs the guard claiming to be protecting the First Kid and renouncing Majalis as a “floating hell.” Alora is shaken, wondering if there are more threats, so Pike once again steps up to stand guard, which she welcomes-but prefers he stay close… like real close. The bad guys are said to be from a close-by alien colony, but Pike has to insist on investigating the attacker’s crashed ship over Alora’s objections. It turns out this is Pike’s second shuttle rescue for Alora, who is impressed with his new uniform and big, um… ship. The bad guys must have been trying to kidnap this “holy” child known as the First Servant for ransom as he was headed home to Majalis for his big ascension ceremony. When the alien shuttle passengers are beamed on board, Pike faces a blast from his past in the form of the alluring Alora, along with an injured boy and his dour doctor dad. Uhura inadvertently slices the aggressor in half… oops. A shuttle is under attack from a determined cruiser that starts taking vigorous (yet harmless) potshots at the Big E, which returns fire. The Enterprise is back out on the frontier on a routine mission when a distress call disrupts the quiet Pike was enjoying. WARNING: Spoilers below! RECAP “Long live the First Servant.” Lindy Booth as Alora, Ian Ho as the First Servant, Huse Madhavji as Elder Gamal
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