The year 3188: Upon arrival through the wormhole, Michael Burnham collides with a ship. Both crash land on a nearby planet. Burnham sends the Red Angel suit back through the closing wormhole to transmit the final signal to Spock, and also activates its self destruct. She walks to the crash site of the ship where she gets into a fight with the pilot, who will later introduce himself as Cleveland "Book" Booker. They come to terms when Burnham offers Book her ancient tricorder to barter for dilithium. The substance used in all warp drives is scarce since a cataclysm known as the "Burn", which destroyed almost all dilithium in the galaxy and ultimately made the Federation collapse. The two walk to a place called Requiem. Once they have arrived in the city, Book has Burnham confined and takes the rest of her equipment too. Burnham is interrogated and reveals, under the influence of a truth serum, that the man she came with stole his cargo from another courier. As the guards try to apprehend Book, Burnham switches sides. Using a portable transporter, they escape from the city. Burnham gets injured, whereupon Book connects to a plant that releases an anti-inflammatory substance to treat her wound. He also allows her to use his subspace communicator to call the Discovery, but it is in vain. Once they have arrived at his ship, the guards from Requiem materialize and demand his cargo. Book opens his cargo bay with a huge trance worm, an endangered species that is traded as food. The worm attacks the other people and eventually swallows Burnham too. But Book can appease the animal and get it to release her. He is an environmental activist, whose intention is to transfer the worm to a sanctuary. Book takes Burnham to a Starfleet station that was abandoned a long time ago. Here, she is greeted by Aditya Sahil, who acts as a Starfleet liaison, although he was never officially commissioned. The two hope to find the Discovery and to rebuild Starfleet.

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