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Star Trek: Discovery S1E5 — Choose Your Pain

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Star Trek: Discovery•Season 1•Episode 5

Choose Your Pain

7.3/10 · 6,129 votesOct 15, 201747 min

Ranked #10 of 15 in Season 1•−0.2 vs season avg

Lorca unexpectedly finds himself in the company of a prisoner of war, Starfleet Lieutenant Ash Tyler, and a notorious intergalactic criminal, Harry Mudd. Meanwhile, Burnham voices her concerns about the repercussions of the spore drive jumps on “Ripper.”

Directed byLee Rose

Written byKemp Powers

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Seasons5

Season 1 Episodes15

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The Vulcan Hello

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Battle at the Binary Stars

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Context Is for Kings

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The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry

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Choose Your Pain

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Lethe

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Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad

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Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

Into the Forest I Go still

Into the Forest I Go

Despite Yourself still

Despite Yourself

The Wolf Inside still

The Wolf Inside

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Vaulting Ambition

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What's Past is Prologue

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The War Without, The War Within

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Will You Take My Hand?

Cast6

Sonequa Martin-Green

Sonequa Martin-Green

Michael Burnham

Doug Jones

Doug Jones

Saru

Mary Wiseman

Mary Wiseman

Sylvia Tilly

Anthony Rapp

Anthony Rapp

Paul Stamets

Jason Isaacs

Jason Isaacs

Gabriel Lorca

Shazad Latif

Shazad Latif

Ash Tyler

Crew12

A

Aaron Harberts

Story

G

Gretchen J. Berg

Story

L

Lee Rose

Director

Adam Winlove-Smith

Adam Winlove-Smith

Stunts

S

Scott Gamzon

Editor

C

Christopher McGuire

Stunt Coordinator

Hubert Boorder

Hubert Boorder

Fight Choreographer

G

Geoff Meech

Stunt Double

J

Jason Lee Bell

Stunts

S

Steve Gagne

Stunts

G

Glen Keenan

Director of Photography

Simon Northwood

Simon Northwood

Stunts

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Episode Summary

"Choose Your Pain" is episode 5 of Star Trek: Discovery season 1. It scored 7.3/10 from 6,129 votes, ranking #10 of 15 episodes this season (season average 7.5). Directed by Lee Rose and written by Kemp Powers, it aired on October 15, 2017.

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