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Star Trek: Discovery
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Directed by
John Scott
TV-14
S1 • E8
Nov 5, 2017
42m
6.8
6.4
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The U.S.S. Discovery is tasked with a high priority mission to planet Pahvo and learn the science behind the Klingon's cloaking technology.
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Cast of Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
Sonequa Martin-Green
Michael Burnham
Doug Jones
Saru
Mary Wiseman
Sylvia Tilly
Anthony Rapp
Paul Stamets
Jason Isaacs
Gabriel Lorca
Shazad Latif
Ash Tyler
Wilson Cruz
Dr. Hugh Culber
Michael Boisvert
Kovil
Anthony Grant
Klingon Communications Officer
Tyler Evan Webb
Klingon
Kenneth Mitchell
Kol
Conrad Coates
Admiral Terral
Sara Mitich
Airiam
Mary Chieffo
L'Rell
Jayne Brook
Admiral Katrina Cornwell
Ronnie Rowe
Lt./Lt. Cmdr. R.A. Bryce
Oyin Oladejo
Joann Owosekun
Patrick Kwok-Choon
Rhys
Emily Coutts
Keyla Detmer
John Scott
Director
Star Trek: Discovery - S1 • E8 Ratings & Reviews
Geeks of Color
María Garduño
... as it is not sure what it wants to be (a landing party adventure, build up for the "climax" of the war or an interesting way of presenting subplots) it makes difficult to really become invested in what's going on.
Syfy Wire
Swapna Krishna
The intensity didn't let up throughout the episode, and it was a wild ride from beginning to end.
Slashfilm
Monique Jones
Saru is an angry being, and I think we as audience members - and the members of the Discovery - fail to remember that to be in constant fear is also to be in constant anger.
Black Girl Nerds
DaVette See
We did find out more about who some of these characters are, what they want, and what they are willing to do to get it. At least I think we did.
TV Equals
Mark Trammell
The most recent episode was the first one for me that actually felt sort of like old-school Star Trek. Not that the other episodes were bad or anything, or felt that much out of character with the previous series.
SFX Magazine
Leon Hurley
It's a bit of a placeholder episode for Star Trek Discovery this week via a self contained story with no larger ramifications other than to set up the finale. That said, it poses plenty of interesting questions.
Den of Geek
Kayti Burt
If this episode proved anything, it's that Discovery is willing to go weird when it comes to its forms of wonder.
Independent (UK)
Andrew Lowry
I keep saying to not sweat the details of this episode, so let's not start now - but let's do consider that in delivering its funniest episode so far, STD also delivered its best. Let's hope the creators take that lesson on board.
Digital Spy
Megan Davies
'Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum' may have been a choppy episode, but it has led the series into its mid-season finale on a strong note and set up the scene for an epic confrontation between the Discovery and the Klingons to follow.
New York Times
Sopan Deb
The Klingon story moved in ways I didn't expect.
TV Fanatic
Diana Keng
The series began with a two-part introduction to the war and Burnham. It seems apt that the first arc of the season ends with a two-parter that brings the war's two enemy flagships and Burnham into direct conflict.
Empire Magazine
Ed Gross
Star Trek Discovery should not let staff writer Kirsten Beyer go. Cutting her teeth in the final frontier on a series of Voyager novels, her teleplay for Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum is without a doubt Discovery's strongest episode to date.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mallory Ortberg
Over the weekend I saw Event Horizon for the very first time (I know!) and it has given me an entirely new way to feel creeped out by Captain Lorca. How did you escape from the Event Horizon, Jason Isaacs?
IGN Movies
Scott Collura
"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" is a very nice mix of old and new Star Trek styles, taking the Klingon War arc and all the attendant drama of that situation and grafting on to it a planet-based story that is about as TOS Trek as it gets.
AV Club
Zack Handlen
While "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" isn't perfect, it continues the show's slow process of discovering itself. Most importantly, it has a certain kind of energy that I associate mostly with the original Trek.
indieWire
Liz Shannon Miller
Spending significant time on an alien planet, discovering a new alien species, was quite a welcome change of pace, one that invoked many fond memories of previous Trek series. However, it still had a Discovery feel.
Entertainment Weekly
Eric Renner Brown
While the episode developed the plot in some significant ways, making it likely next week's "Into the Forest I Go" will be a doozy, it wasn't tremendously compelling in its own right.
Akron Beacon Journal
George M. Thomas
The second to last episode of the fall slate, it's establishing something much larger, how much larger remains to be seen.
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