Episode
Star Trek: Discovery: Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Overview
The U.S.S. Discovery is tasked with a high priority mission to planet Pahvo and learn the science behind the Klingon's cloaking technology.
Details
- Series
- Star Trek: Discovery
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2017-11-05
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum is Episode 8 in Season 1 of Star Trek: Discovery. It aired on 2017-11-05. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 7: Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad
As the U.S.S. Discovery crew attempts to let loose at a party, an unwelcome visitor comes aboard bringing about a problematic and twisted sequence of events.
Episode 9: Into the Forest I Go
Bypassing Starfleet's orders, Lorca uses the U.S.S. Discovery crew's ultimate asset, the ship itself, in an effort to end the war with the Klingons once and for all.
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Episode 13: What's Past is Prologue
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