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Star Trek: Discovery – Season 1, Episode 5 Choose Your Pain

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Star Trek: Discovery – Season 1, Episode 5

Choose Your Pain

Aired Oct 15, 2017

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

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"Choose Your Pain" packs a dark thematic punch, sharpened by the wit of Rainn Wilson's performance as a Harry Mudd.

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Captain Gabriel Lorca

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Lieutenant Ash Tyler

Anthony Rapp

Paul Stamets

Michelle Yeoh

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Ed Gross

Empire Magazine

10/17/2017

3/5

There are a number of excellent moments in this episode.

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Eric Renner Brown

Entertainment Weekly

10/16/2017

B+

With Sunday's fifth episode, "Choose Your Pain," Discovery continued to loosen up, albeit in small ways.

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Andrew Lowry

Independent (UK)

10/16/2017

This episode is the perfect time for the show to open things up beyond its stoic but hardly laugh-a-minute protagonist and bed in the other characters we're likely to spend the next few years with.

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Monique Jones

Slashfilm

03/14/2018

Okay, what was with that ending of the latest Star Trek: Discovery episode? Did "Choose Your Pain" turn Star Trek into a horror show?

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George M. Thomas

Akron Beacon Journal

10/23/2017

Mudd offered this: "They always say confession is good for the soul, too back none of us have one anymore." I cannot help but think that line continues the subtext that the show's creators and writers have set forth comparing their future to the present.

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Kevin Yeoman

Screen Rant

10/20/2017

Presenting new sides to its flawed characters has worked in the favor of Discovery, which is fitting.

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Synopsis

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

Executive Producer: Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller, Heather Kadin, Gretchen J. Berg, Aaron Harberts, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth
Network: Paramount+
Rating: TV-14 (V|L)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 15, 2017