“Will You Take My Hand?” - With Georgiou at the helm of the plan to end the Klingon war once and for all, the U.S.S. Discovery crew struggles to fathom and tolerate her hostile tactics, and memories of past hardships are rekindled within Burnham, on the season one finale of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Original CBS All Access airdate 2/11/18. -- Episode 115 -- Pictured: Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Photo Cr: Jan Thijs/CBS © 2017 CBS Interactive. All Rights Reserved.

Best-bets for Feb. 4: great heroines, real and fictional

1) “Star Trek: Discovery” first-season finale, 10 p.m., CBS. Here’s what the previous 14 episodes have led to – an attempt to end the fierce war with the Klingons. Burnham (shown here) is in a tiny landing party with Ash (who still has memories as a Klingon) and Georgiou (whose intentions are iffy). The result has high stakes, great visuals and excessive violence against a helpless prisoner. It also has stiff dialog; you get that when your main character was raised by Vulcans. The next seasons are already on CBS All Access. Read more…

1) “Star Trek: Discovery” first-season finale, 10 p.m., CBS. Here’s what the previous 14 episodes have led to – an attempt to end the fierce war with the Klingons. Burnham (shown here) is in a tiny landing party with Ash (who still has memories as a Klingon) and Georgiou (whose intentions are iffy). The result has high stakes, great visuals and excessive violence against a helpless prisoner. It also has stiff dialog; you get that when your main character was raised by Vulcans. The next seasons are already on CBS All Access.

2) Movies, cable. Here’s a Black History Month night worth recording. HBO has “Harriet” (2019), the Harriet Tubman story, at 10 p.m.; Showtime has a Spike Lee double-feature. At 9 p.m. is “Do the Right Thing” (1989); the American Film Institute puts it at No. 96 on its all-time list, ahead of “Toy Story,” “Blade Runner” and more. At 6:50 p.m. is “Mo Better Blues” (1989), starring Denzel Washington – who also stars in “Equalizer 2” (2018), at 8 and 10:30 p.m. on FX.

3) Comedy reruns, 8-9:30 p.m., CBS. The rerun siege will finally end next week. For now … well, “B Positive” (8:30) is running an episode (a good one, actually) for the third time in just 11 weeks. There are also reruns on “Young Sheldon” at 8 (a Dungeons & Dragons game) and “Mom” at 9 (a sober retreat). Fortunately, “Mom” had been using shows from last year, when Christy was still there.

4) “Mr. Mayor,” 8 p.m., NBC. With CBS tied up in reruns, NBC has had new episodes of this clever (but inconsistent) comedy, co-produced by Tina Fey and starring Ted Danson as a well-meaning mayor. Tonight, a mandatory meeting complicates schedules.

5) “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” 9 p.m., NBC. Here’s a rerun of the season-opener, an episode that reflects the way police shows becoming more reflective. Investigating an assault in Central Park, the unit finds that the community is losing trust in the police.

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