Five more episodes in the season, and now we have titles. Carefully considered predictions (i.e. wild guesses) we can all laugh about later:
10. Despite Yourself Implies someone meets their double. We're in the mirror universe and we encounter alt-Stamets, who peeked out of the mirror so creepily at the end of "Choose Your Pain." Possibly other doppelgangers as well? We learn that Lorca intentionally brought the Discovery there; tension is ratcheted up as the story feeds mistrust of Lorca. (I'm betting that, while this is the mirror universe and the crew does encounter some of the locals, the contact is very limited, in order to preserve the TOS premise that Kirk et al arrive in the mirror universe with no knowledge of the place.)
11. The Wolf Inside Resolution of the Voq/Tyler story line. I'm betting that Tyler is really human, not a surgically altered Voq, but Voq's mind has been implanted in him (resulting in the death of the real Voq, who has in fact sacrificed everything). Something activates the Voq inside; Voq/Tyler team up with L'Rell in an effort to steal the Discovery; they fail, and inner Voq is vanquished, leaving Tyler as himself again.
12. Vaulting Ambition A Tilly episode, as the concept of ambition seems most closely associated with her and her very specific career goals. No idea what it's about, but hoping she saves the day and receives the recognition she deserves.
13. What's Past Is Prologue This is where my pet theory about Lorca's motives being all about rescuing the crew of the Buran, trapped in the mirror universe, plays out. The past to which the title refers is the supposed destruction of the Buran at Lorca's own hand, which could be prologue to the destruction of the Discovery. But in fact, the past is Lorca never giving up on his crew, which is prologue to the successful rescue of both the Buran's crew and Discovery itself, which safely returns to its own universe.
14. The War Without, The War Within The resolution of the war without (with the Klingons) and the war within (the conflicts on Discovery). Along the way, Burnham (yet again) renders a vital service at great personal risk and is pardoned.
15. Will You Take My Hand? Couldn't begin to guess at the story, but it ends with a peacetime Discovery (the spore drive having been abandoned and its existence buried in never-to-be-opened top secret files, lest it open a gateway to dangerous universes), a unified crew, Burnham restored to her Starfleet rank, and a new mission of discovery.
The pointing and laughing begins January 7, 2018. I'll go first.
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