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Aboard the Starship Shenzhou, Lieutenant Michael Burnham, a human girl raised and educated among Vulcans, is promoted to acting first official. But if she really wants to keep the job, she must prove to Captain Philippa Georgiou that she deserves to have it.

She gets her possibility when the Shenzhou must protect a Federation colony that’s under attack by an ancient alien vessel that has surfaced from your deepest fathoms from the planet’s dark, uncharted sea.

As the menace from this strange vessel grows stronger, Starfleet declares the colony expendable in the name of halting the threat. To save lots of thousands of innocent lives, Burnham must infiltrate the alien dispatch. But to do so, she must face the truth of her troubled past, and look for the aid of a man she has tried in order to avoid her whole life-until now.