Star Trek: Discovery

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Star Trek : Discovery ’s Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly ( Mary Wiseman ) is an infrequent member of the USS Discovery ’s outside delegation , withStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , instalment 6 , " Whistlespeak " , marking Tilly ’s 6th functionary away charge as part of Discovery ’s crew . Tilly only has one away mission put down prior toStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , but that year mark a Brobdingnagian step forward for Tilly ’s character growth . Captain Saru ( Doug Jones ) throw Ensign Tilly his Number One despite Tilly ’s abject rank and file , and requests Tilly ’s presence on away missionsthat Saru believe will benefit from Tilly ’s personable demeanor .

Sylvia Tilly ’s promotion to Lieutenant inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 4 comes with new responsibilities , including involvement in moreStar Trekaway missions , which Tilly is more likely to take on of her own will . Each time Sylvia accept another bold step out of her quilt zona , Tilly win more confidence and becomes a good Starfleet officer . Tilly ’s growth is remark by the multitude who care for her , so her wise man , Captain Saru , and best supporter , Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) , both continue to push for Sylvia Tilly to widen her horizons with more away missionary station asStar Trek : Discoverycontinues .

Screen Rant interviews Mary Wiseman about Star Trek : Discovery time of year 5 , Tilly ’s friendly relationship with Burnham , and her intellection on the series ending .

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6Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, Episode 10 - “The Red Angel”

Tilly Helps Prepare for the Red Angel’s Arrival

As a plebe inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 1 , Sylvia Tilly ’s scientific attainment are often better suited to duties aboard the USS Discovery , but Tilly ’s promotion to Ensign inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 lets Sylvia see her first right away missionary post . InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 , episode 10 , Ensign Sylvia Tilly is part of the away squad that radiate down to Essof IV , a satellite with no breathable standard pressure , to ready up the " mousetrap " designed to turn back theRed Angel inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2.The bait in the mousetrap is Michael Burnham , whose survival is linked to premature appearance of the Red Angel throughout Michael ’s past .

To summon the Red Angel and hopefully contain it for further study , Burnham insists on putting her life in danger by intentionally being disclose to Essof IV ’s toxic standard atmosphere . Ensign Tilly is no fan of the dangerous planbut is on hand to monitor planetary house of the tachyon radiation that always keep company the Red Angel ’s visual aspect . After foresighted moment of waiting and watching Michael endure from suffocation , Tilly finally reports on the tachyon spike that eventually comes in good order before Burnham nearly die .

When the"mousetrap"works , Star Trek : Discoveryseason 2 ’s first Red Angel is revealed to be Gabrielle Burnham ( Sonja Sohn ) , Michael Burnham ’s female parent , but Gabrielle did n’t localise the Red Angel signaling .

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5Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 2 - “Far From Home”

Saru & Tilly Look For Help on a Hostile Ice Planet

InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , installment 2 , " Far From Home",Commander Saru ( Doug Jones)chooses Sylvia Tilly as the person to join the away mission on an nameless internal-combustion engine planet after the USS Discovery misses the target planet of Terralysium , and or else collapse - lands in the thirty-second century . Discovery is badly in need of mending , andSaru believes that Tilly ’s instinctive power to put people at ease will be an assetin trading some of Discovery ’s dilithium for the rubindium needed to fix Discovery ’s communications systems .

Saru is right , of course . When Saru and Tilly approach a individual outpost in the frigid wasteland , Tilly ’s averment that they ’re Starfleet officers make one of the local miner , Kal ( Jonathan Koensgen ) , curious and eager to help oneself . Trouble comes with Zareh ( Jake Weber ) , a conceited messenger who acts externally uncongenial towards Tilly , and straight - up murder Kal for helping Saru and Tilly . The encounter indicates thatthe USS Discovery crew is definitely not in the 23rd C anymore , and Tilly is hold out to have to align toStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 ’s time jump .

4Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, Episode 1 - “Kobayashi Maru”

Tilly Leads the Away Team to Help Deep Space Repair Beta Six

InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 4 , episode 1 , " Kobayashi Maru " , Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly undergoes her own rendering of the famousStarfleet Academy no - win scenario exam , but this time , the Kobayashi Maru is for material . A suffering call from the space post Deep Space Repair Beta Six , know the core of a gravitational anomaly , alerts the gang of the USS Discovery , andLt . Tilly leads the away mission to serve make the station ’s thrusters , with Ensign Adira Tal ( Blu del Barrio ) in tow .

After the station collides with debris pulled in by the gravitational distorted shape , the theoretically mere repair business turns into an evacuation , consummate with upset transporters and a dearth of safety valve pods lead to a nerve - wracking countdown . Tilly manages to focalise on the situation despite her own nerves , and steps up to take charge , post shaken station personnel back to the USS Discovery , while Tilly , Tal , and station commander Nalas ( Rodrigo Fernandez - Stol ) hold off for delivery . Tilly ’s tenacious refusal to abandon the place as the clock ticks down is a accelerator for a variety of programme and , after returning to the USS Discovery follow the harrowing experience , Tilly starts to rethink her biography choices inStar Trek ’s thirty-second hundred .

3Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, Episode 3 - “Choose to Live”

Tilly and Burnham Help the Qowat Milat Track Down a Romulan Murderer

Lt . Sylvia Tilly ’s produce uncertainty about the counsel of her fresh life prompts Captain Saru to suggest Tilly as a companion for Captain Michael Burnham ’s outside commission inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 4 , sequence 3 , " Choose to Live " , a joint speculation with theRomulan Qowat Milat , after a Starfleet officer is murdered by a Qowat Milat nun discover J’Vini ( Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves).Tilly ’s elbow room out of her comfort zone , but Michael and the two Qowat Milat sisters – one of whom is Michael ’s female parent , Gabrielle Burnham ( Sonja Sohn ) – are skilled enough to dribble the weight of any fighting they may face in bring J’Vini to justice .

The Qowat Milat , first introduced inStar Trek : Picard , are a sect of Romulan warrior nuns who dedicate their life to lose causes . Star Trek : Discoveryseason 3 unveil that Gabrielle Burnham bring together the Qowat Milat after the Red Angel suit attach Gabrielle to the 32nd century .

Lt . Tilly helps piece together that the lunar month that J’Vini take flight to is actually a spaceship living accommodations the last remnants of the Abronians , a sleeping species that J’Vini swore to ferry to their ultimate finish before reawakening . J’Vini ’s story of determine the Abronians and dedicate her blade to their lose cause shakes something easy in Tilly ’s tedium , as Tilly considers how her own Modern way might be interchangeable to J’Vini ’s , as a deviation from the tracks that they ’d each been on .

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The roll of Star Trek : Starfleet Academy has yet to be announced , but Mary Wiseman ’s Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly should definitely be a part of it .

2Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, Episode 4 - “All Is Possible”

Tilly Trains Starfleet Cadets on a Snowy Moon

Exploring new directions for her life , Lt . Sylvia Tilly volunteer to train a squad of Starfleet Academy plebe , but the routine planetal survey deputation turns into a tryout by fire . develop up inStar Trek : Discovery ’s post - Burn galaxy means the cadet already do n’t get along , thanks to the vast social chasms spread astray among all of them . Val Sasha ( Amanda Arcuri ) has never met a non - human , and Harral ( Seamus Patterson ) , an Orion , and Taahz Gorev ( Adrian Walters ) , a Tellarite , are instantaneously hostile towards one another . That alone would be a difficult challenge for a raw teacher , but a gamma ray erupt knocks the shuttle off course of study , sending the Starfleet Academy squad spiral into a crash landing .

Tilly ’s twenty-third one C feeler of cooperation through communication and empathy works .

It ’s up to Lt . Tilly to keep the fledging crew of cadets tranquil in the face of almost certain danger , and help them work together if they ’re go to make it out alive , because this is not the mission that any of them – including Sylvia Tilly – prepared for . Tilly ’s twenty-third 100 overture of cooperation through communicating and empathy study , and Pierce through the 32nd 100 walls that Harral and Gorev have put up , and encourage Sasha to mouth up . The calamity turn out to be a find , andTilly resolve that she wants to be a instructor at Starfleet Academy , setting up the possibility of Sylvia Tilly being inStar Trek : Starfleet Academy .

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1Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 6 - “Whistlespeak”

Tilly Races to Save the Pre-Warp Planet Halem’no

Captain Burnham select Lt . Sylvia Tilly as an outside team mate to retrieve the next clue inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 ’s treasure William Holman Hunt , which is likely to be found in a weather tower constructed centuries earlier by the Denobulan scientist Hitoroshi Kreel . The towboat add rainfall to Halem’no , a teetotal planet that ’s home to a pre - warp society , sothe local Halem’nites idolise the post as a holy tabernacle that can only be entered by the winners of a traditional race . The solution , then , is unproblematic : get into the race and win .

Tilly has been unsealed about the impact she ’s had on her Starfleet Academy bookman , but this mental testing of endurance is well within Lt . Tilly ’s abilities . Thanks to Sylvia ’s kindness , both Lt . Tilly and Ravah ( June Laporte ) , a Halem’nite juvenility , win entry to the temple and the purity of being give to Halem’no ’s god . ( Wait , what ? ) While Burnham sound off downStar Trek ’s Prime Directiveto lay aside Tilly ( and all of Halem’no ) , Sylvia ’s compassion towards Ravah keep them give-up the ghost through what they conceive is their last moments , andStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 6 , " Whistlespeak " , serve to remind Tilly that she does go at Starfleet Academy , despite the doubts she ’s been having .

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Lt . Sylvia Tilly ’s participation in the away missions onStar Trek : Discoveryhas only increased asDiscoverygoes on , and the 6 mission that Tilly has go on so far have each contributed to Tilly ’s overall lineament electric discharge . By taking steps off of the USS Discovery , Tilly breaks out of her comfort zone and realise that she ’s capable of more than she in the first place believed . Each missionary work helps Tilly come nearer to her ultimate goal of teaching at Starfleet Academy in a slow , naturalistic way that keep Tilly relatable and true to role , as Tilly becomes the best adaptation of herself onStar Trek : Discoveryaway missionary post .

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