7 Ups & 2 Downs From Star Trek: Discovery 5.9 — Lagrange Point

Whether it's trying to calculate Pi to the last digit, being taught basic arithmetic by Quark, fearing fractal calculus, or just appreciating the "creative use of the minus sign," mathematics — as a discipline — is a constant in Star Trek, even when the laws of physics (pace Scotty) are not. "Math doesn't lie," as Stamets adds in Lagrange Point. Maths is incapable of such a thing, but a/the person behind the equations is never infallible. In this case, proof of the proof comes in the success of the ramming. The pudding will have to wait!

I can't resist the thought of Rayner's best Michael Caine over the comm to a bewildered Stamets had things gone wrong: 'You were only supposed to go and blow the bloody containment field off!' Fortunately, Burnham's idea, cleverly related through a throwback to Red Directive, and Stamets' mathematical solution did not make liars out of either of them.

We were almost expecting a "prepare for ramming speed," or for Deanna Troi to appear suddenly at the helm beforehand, but, tucking up its nacelles, the Discovery dives down directly through the containment field, phasers and photons firing. In the shuttlebay, explosive decompressions erupt. All the Breen, and the Progenitors' tech, get thoroughly Harry Kim'd!