Lewis Carroll's children's novel, which Amanda Grayson read to Michael Burnham and Spock on Vulcan and which echoes through Star Trek from Shore Leave to Discovery.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a nineteenth-century Earth children's book. Its characters first appear in the Original Series episode Shore Leave, where McCoy's passing thought conjures a hurrying White Rabbit and Alice on the amusement planet, and again in the animated sequel Once Upon a Planet.
Discovery gives the book a place in the Sarek household. In Context Is for Kings, Michael Burnham recites a passage to steady herself while crawling through a Jefferies tube aboard the USS Glenn with a creature behind her, and later tells Sylvia Tilly that her foster mother Amanda read it to her and Spock as a lesson that the real world does not always follow logic.
The second season returns to the book in its flashbacks to the childhood of the two siblings.