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The battle began after T'Kuvma ordered his ship to open fire on the Shenzhou, forcing it to take evasive maneuvers and fire in retaliation. To cover the Shenzhou, the starship USS Sioux, along with others, moved up and opened fire, inflicting considerable damage to the smaller Klingon ships. However, Starfleet began to take considerable losses early on in the battle, with the USS Clarke and USS Yeager destroyed, and the Shenzhou heavily damaged and unable to fight. (DIS: "Battle at the Binary Stars")
At this point, the Shenzhou began drifting toward the debris field and was left by the Klingons to be destroyed by a collision with a large asteroid. Moments from impact, the USS Europa arrived at the battle and saved the Shenzhou with a tractor beam. (DIS: "Battle at the Binary Stars")
Following this, Admiral Brett Anderson made contact with the Klingons and managed to negotiate a brief cease fire. But, while communicating with Captain Philippa Georgiou on the Shenzhou, the Europa was deliberately rammed by a cloaked Klingon cleave ship. The low-speed collision began tearing through the Europa's saucer section, ripping it apart like paper. With this happening, the Europa deliberately collapsed its anti-matter containment field, which overloaded the warp core. The resulting breach destroyed both vessels. The cease fire was broken, the Klingons resumed shooting, and a wave of new Klingon reinforcements warped into the system as well. Several other Starfleet vessels were destroyed, until only the Klingons remained. T'Kuvma told the other Klingon leaders that they should return home and declare far and wide that the Klingons fought as a united empire again, and they departed – but T'Kuvma stayed behind on his flagship, the Sarcophagus, to recover their fallen comrades for proper funeral rites. (DIS: "Battle at the Binary Stars")
As the Klingons collected their dead, the crew of the Shenzhou transported an explosive photon torpedo warhead onto the body of a Klingon warrior adrift in space. As the body was tractored into the Klingon flagship, it detonated, severing the "head" of the ship, and inflicting considerable damage. Captain Georgiou and Commander Burnham took this opportunity to board the ship in order to take T'Kuvma prisoner. While searching the ship, the officers were ambushed, and a brief fight ensued. Commander Burnham was knocked down but was able to overcome her attacker. However, Captain Georgiou was stabbed through the chest by T'Kuvma and killed. Burnham then shot T'Kuvma in the back, killing him. She was then beamed back before she could recover Captain Georgiou's body, and the Shenzhou was abandoned.
