"...But to Connect" is the seventh episode of Discovery's fourth season. It aired on 30 December 2021 on Paramount+.

Description

Tensions rise as representatives from across the galaxy gather to confront the threat of the Dark Matter Anomaly. Zora's new sentience raises difficult questions.

References

Characters

Cleveland Booker • Michael Burnham • Hugh Culber • Grudge • Kovich • Lee'U • Diatta Ndoye • Laira Rillak • Saru • Sta'Kiar • Paul Stamets • Gray Tal • Ruon Tarka • T'Rina • Xi (Trill) • Zora (artificial intelligence) • unnamed Ferengi • unnamed Orion • unnamed Osnullus

Starships and vehicles

USS Discovery (Crossfield-class science vessel)

Referenced only

USS Voyager-J

Locations

Archer Spacedock

Referenced only

Earth • Titan (moon)

Races and cultures

Alshain • Andorian • Android • Cardassian • Ferengi • Human • Kelpien • Kwejian • Lurian • Orion • Osnullus • Risian • Trill • Vulcan

Referenced only

Klingon • Unknown Species 10-C

Other references

Dark Matter Anomaly • Denobulan blood worm • Gorathian sulfur slug • isolytic subspace weapon • Khitomer Accords • Melai'Zhi • Multilateral DMA Strategy Assembly • Polyphemus moth • Tartan vole

Appendices

Related media

• TNG episode & novelization: Insurrection: Isolytic subspace weapons were banned in accordance to the Second Khitomer Accords.

Connections

Star Trek: Discovery episodes
season 1	chapter 1	"The Vulcan Hello" • "Battle at the Binary Stars" • "Context Is for Kings" • "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" • "Choose Your Pain" • "Lethe" • "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" • "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" • "Into the Forest I Go"
	chapter 2	"Despite Yourself" • "The Wolf Inside" • "Vaulting Ambition" • "What's Past Is Prologue" • "The War Without, The War Within" • "Will You Take My Hand?"
season 2	"Brother" • "New Eden" • "Point of Light" • "An Obol for Charon" • "Saints of Imperfection" • "The Sound of Thunder" • "Light and Shadows" • "If Memory Serves" • "Project Daedalus" • "The Red Angel" • "Perpetual Infinity" • "Through the Valley of Shadows" • "Such Sweet Sorrow"
season 3	"That Hope Is You, Part 1" • "Far From Home" • "People of Earth" • "Forget Me Not" • "Die Trying" • "Scavengers" • "Unification III" • "The Sanctuary" • "Terra Firma" • "Su'Kal" • "There Is A Tide..." • "That Hope Is You, Part 2"
season 4	"Kobayashi Maru" • "Anomaly" • "Choose to Live" • "All Is Possible" • "The Examples" • "Stormy Weather" • "...But to Connect" • "All In" • "Rubicon" • "The Galactic Barrier" • "Rosetta" • "Species Ten-C" • "Coming Home"
season 5	"Red Directive" • "Under the Twin Moons" • "Jinaal" • "Face the Strange" • "Mirrors" • "Whistlespeak" • "Erigah" • "Labyrinths" • "Lagrange Point" • "Life, Itself"

Timeline

published order
Previous episode: Stormy Weather	Discovery episode produced	Next episode: All In
Previous episode: Stormy Weather	Discovery episode aired	Next episode: All In
chronological order
Previous Adventure: Stormy Weather	Memory Beta Chronology	Next Adventure: All In

External link

• ...But to Connect article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.