10 Times Streaming Era Star Trek Went Apocalyptic
5. Control Taking The Sphere Data - Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2
Star Trek: Discovery never met a stake it couldn't make higher, so when the second season dawned, it seemed only natural that a galaxy-ending threat would pop up quicker than you can 'Sphere Data.'
In some rather questionable logic, Section 31, the Galaxy's least-secretive secret organisation, deferred all of its intelligence decisions to a program called Control. This program, by design, analysed threats to the Federation and advised accordingly. So far, so Skynet.
Though never achieving true sentience, Control evolved beyond the control of Section 31, killing all of the operatives it could get its digital hands on. Once it learned of the existence of a huge repository of knowledge, obtained by the Discovery from a galactic sphere (just go with it), it knew that surely in there were the ingredients to true living.
Thus began a hunt, culminating, after visits to Klingon moons and Vulcan's surface, in a battle between the Discovery, the Enterprise, and a fleet of ships under Control's...control. Visually spectacular, the battle seemed fairly one-sided until the Klingons and Kelpians joined the fight.
There was no ambiguity in Control's ambitions. While it wanted life, it also sought to rid the galaxy of organic life, deeming it too great a risk to leave unchecked. When one looks at the damage the human race has done to a single planet today, one has to admit - Control, while misguided, certainly made a compelling argument.