"Coming Home" was the season 4 finale episode of Discovery, released on 17 March 2022 on Paramount+.

Description[]

The DMA approaches Earth and Ni'Var. With evacuations underway, Burnham and the team aboard the USS Discovery must find a way to communicate and connect with a species far different from their own before time runs out.

References[]

Characters[]

Cleveland Booker • Michael Burnham • Christopher • Hugh Culber • Keyla Detmer • Taahz Gorev • Harral • Hirai • Linus • Diatta Ndoye • Eva Nilsson • Joann Owosekun • Tracy Pollard • President of United Earth • Saru • Jett Reno • Gen Rhys • Laira Rillak • Paul Stamets • Adira Tal • Ruon Tarka • Sylvia Tilly • T'Rina • Charles Vance • Zena • Zora • USS Discovery personnel roster (unnamed USS Discovery personnel)

Referenced only

Kyheem • Leto • Oros

Michael Burnham.

Gen Rhys

Laira Rillak.

The President of Earth.

Starships and vehicles[]

USS Credence (NCC-2804) • USS Discovery (Crossfield-class) • USS Greco • USS Mitchell (NCC-325027, Merian-class science vessel/command science dreadnought) • USS Pathfinder • USS Tikhov-M (seed vault ship) • USS Yelchin-F • shuttlecraft

Locations[]

Earth

Referenced only

Andoria • Europa • Kwejian (planet) • Ni'Var • Tellar Prime • Tiburon (planet)

Races and cultures[]

Bajoran • Cardassian • Human • Kelpien • Kwejian • Orion • Risian • Saurian • Tellarite • Vulcan

Science and classification[]

energy • lifeform • matter • planet • space • star • star system • technology • time • universe • weapon

Lifeforms[]

humanoid

Materials and substances[]

atmosphere • blood • gas • metal

Technology and weapons[]

isolytic weapon • pattern interrupter • shuttle • spacecaft • starship

Ranks and titles[]

Federation Starfleet ranks • Federation Starfleet ranks (32nd century) • president • President of United Earth

Other references[]

boot • clothing • genetic hybrid • government • gravimetric flux • jacket • jumpsuit • mavi • nation-state • pants • races and cultures • rank • Risian whiskey • science • Starfleet uniform • Starfleet uniform (32nd century) • title • tunic • uniform • World Root

Appendices[]

Related media[]

• TOS episodes: "The Savage Curtain", "The Way to Eden": Burnham and Booker had visited the Beta Quadrant planet of Tiburon in 3188.

Background[]

Notable cast and crew[]

• The President of Earth was played by politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams^WP.

Images[]

Federation President Laira Rillak greets the President of Earth.

The President of Earth.

Earth.

USS Mitchell saves the shuttle.

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[]

External link[]

• "Coming Home" article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.