Star Trek: Discovery
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Summary
L’ak ( Elias Toufexis ) is more than one ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 ’s villains , but the Breen rebel is also a historicStar Trekcharacter . Along with his lover , Moll ( Eve Harlow ) , L’ak is a newfangled creation ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , and they function as antagonists to Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) and the USS Discovery . Moll and L’ak are in a race with Discovery to find the ancient treasure of the Progenitors , which is the source of humanoid life-time in the galaxy .
Moll and L’ak beganStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 as mysterious marauders who matched wits with Captain Burnham and the USS Discovery . Although Burnham ’s newfangled First Officer , Commander Rayner ( Callum Keith Rennie ) , had past encounter with Moll and L’ak , Discovery brought in Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) to assist Burnham outmaneuver the former couriers . Burnham and Boom finally caught up with Moll and L’ak inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , instalment 5 , " Mirrors,“which revealed L’ak is a Breen who fled his people out of sexual love for Moll . As a Breen without a helmet , L’ak is a revolutionaryStar Trekcharacterin more ways than one .
The Breen placed an Erigah , or blood premium , on L’ak and Moll ’s heads and they want the Progenitors ' technology to bargain with the Breen in hopes they ’ll rescind it .
As Burnham seeks the universe ’s greatest treasure in Star Trek : Discovery season 5 , she ’ll need help from a host of new and returning character .
Discovery’s L’ak Is Star Trek’s First True Breen Character
L’ak takes the Breen to another level
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 has laudably made L’ak into the first fully - realized Breen persona inStar Trek . Before L’ak , the Breen were essentially faceless and exchangeable , albeit certainly memorable . L’ak is the first Breen with a real personality , individual goals , hopes , pipe dream , and love . L’ak is read/write head - over - heels in love with Moll , who encouraged"green eye"to show her his true nerve - an turn that is culturally anathema to the Breen . By choosing Moll over his own masses , and even round his uncle , Primarch Ruhn ( Tony Nappo ) , L’ak completely digest aside from the Breen Imperium . But even before L’ak black market away with Moll , he was already against the Breen ’s civilisation of isolationism and xenophobia .
Elias Toufexis antecedently come out inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 1 , episode 3 before returning in season 5 as L’ak .
There were other illustrious Breen inStar Trek : Deep Space Ninesuch as Thot Gor ( Todd Slayton ) and Thot Pran ( Max Omega ) , who were often see to it with the Female Changeling ( Salome Jens ) and Weyoun ( Jeffrey Combs ) during the Dominion War . ButDS9 ’s Breen never showed their face , and they spoke in the Breen language only Weyoun and the Female Changeling , not the spectator , understood . The Breen were never presented as three - dimensional individuals beforeStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5.Elias Toufexis ' layered and resounding enactment of L’ak takes the Breen to a whole new grade .
How L’ak & Discovery Changed Star Trek’s Breen
Some Breen mysteries have been solved by Discovery
The Breen were first mentioned inStar Trek : The Next Generation - Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 is a sequel toTNGseason 6 ’s " The Chase”- but the mysterious warriors wearing distinctive infrigidation suit made their true shock inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 7 . The Breen allied with Changelings in the waning days of the Dominion War , and they were devastating opposer whose energy - dampening weapon system destroyed the USS Defiant . The Breen even attacked Earth , the homeworld of the United Federation of Planets . Yetwhat was known about the Breen was rumor , and the helmeted stranger were shrouded in mystery untilStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 .
If they gain possession of the primogenitor ' technology , the Breen will wipe out the Federation .
The weather sheet of the Breen has been lifted compellingly byStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 . Through L’ak ’s backstory with Moll , the Breen are bring out to be gelatinous humanoids who rely on their refrigeration suits as a cultural touchstone , to the point that show their truthful form to others is a foretoken of weakness . The32nd - hundred Breen Imperiumis broken up into factions fighting for authorization , butif they gain willpower of the Progenitors ' engineering , the Breen will wipe out the Federation . The Breen are horrendous adversaries inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , but thanks to L’ak , they now have a distinctiveness and depth that make them even more interesting .
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