"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" is the eighth episode of Star Trek: Discovery in the program's first season, which premiered on 5 November 2017 exclusively on CBS All Access.

Log entries[]

Personal log, Specialist Michael Burnham, stardate 1308.9

We landed on Pahvo eighteen hours ago. It's a seemingly uninhabited planet, but a unique and, for us, strategic one. Every tree, rock, and blade of grass here vibrates with its own specific tone. Together these combine to form a kind of music, the signature sound of the planet heard everywhere on the surface. The sound is even broadcast into space by a towering crystal structure, a sort of naturally-occurring transmitter. It is Starfleet's plan to modify the electromagnetic frequency of Pahvo's signal and harness it as a form of SONAR that can detect the presence of cloaked Klingon vessels decimating our fleet, make them visible to our sensors, and turn the tide of war in our favor.

References[]

Characters[]

Airiam • R.A. Bryce • Michael Burnham • Katrina Cornwell • Hugh Culber • Keyla Detmer • Grafk • Kol • T'Shen Kovil • Gabriel Lorca (mirror) • L'Rell • Joann Owosekun • Gen Rhys • Saru • Silrek • Paul Stamets • Terral • Sylvia Tilly • Torath • Ash Tyler (Klingon) • unnamed Klingons • Pahvans • USS Discovery computer

Starships and vehicles[]

USS Discovery (Crossfield-class) • Sarcophagus • Chargh class • Qugh class • Klingon bird-of-prey

Referenced only

USS Muroc

Locations[]

Pahvo

Races and cultures[]

Human • Kelpien • Klingon • Pahvan • Vulcan

Other references[]

apex predator • radio silence

Chronology[]

2256

The Klingons and Starfleet continue warring.

Appendices[]

Background[]

• The eighth episode of Discovery, this episode was made available on CBS All Access streaming service for subscribers only on 5 November 2017.

Notable cast and crew[]

• Written by Kirsten Beyer

Images[]

Captain T'Shen Kovil.

USS Gagarin (NCC-1309).

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 links[]

• "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.