Star Trek: Discovery
Warning : SPOILERS for Star Trek : Discovery Season 5 , Episode 5 - " mirror "
Summary
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 , " mirror , " discover L’ak ( Elias Toufexis ) is a Breen , but it was foretell in the season 5 premiere . write by Johanna Lee and Carlos Cisco and directed by Jen McGowan , Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 sends Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) and Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) into interdimensional space after L’ak , Moll ( Eve Harlow ) , and the next clue to the ancient gem of the progenitor . The foursome are stranded on the derelict ISS Enterprise from the Mirror Universe where Burnham and Book learnL’ak is a Breen without his helmet .
The Breen were insert inStar Trek : The Next Generationbut became cult fan - favorite alien villain onStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . The Breen allied themselves with the Changelings in the decline days ofDS9 ’s Dominion War , and the dreaded adversaries even attacked Earth . The Breen are placeable for their distinctive helmets , refrigeration wooing , and their unique language . BeforeStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , no one had ever seen what a Breen looked like before , but it ferment out audiences have been watch over a Breen - L’ak - all along sinceDiscoveryseason 5 ’s premiere .
The Breen also seem in an episode ofStar Trek : Lower Decks .
As Burnham attempt the universe ’s slap-up treasure in Star Trek : Discovery time of year 5 , she ’ll need help from a host of new and render eccentric .
Star Trek: Discovery Season 5’s Premiere Foreshadowed L’ak Is A Breen
L’ak really doesn’t like helmets.
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 ’s premiere , " Red Directive , " cleverly foreshadowed that L’ak is a Breen . When Moll and Lak first arrived on the 24th - centuryRomulan starship of Doctor Vellek(Michael Copeman ) seeking the first clue to the Progenitors ' treasure , the lovers were wearing spacesuit with helmets . When Moll and L’ak shed their headgear , Moll plain about the smell of the ship , but L’ak replies,“It ’s better than wear out a helmet . "
L’ak violated one of the Breen ’s fundamental laws when he showed his true fount to Moll .
L’ak ’s remark flew over audiences ' heads at the time , but it was the seed planted forStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , sequence 5 ’s revealing that L’ak is Breen . In fact , L’ak is the nephew of the Breen Primarch Ruhn(Tony Nappo ) , who bump L’ak to work in the shuttle bay . L’ak fell in love with Moll , who was a courier selling dilithium to the Breen Imperium , but L’ak plunder one of theBreen ’s central lawswhen he showed his honest face to Moll , an offworlder and a"lesser being"according to the Breen .
Star Trek: Discovery’s Breen Bounty On Mol & L’ak Explained
Moll and L’ak are desperate for the Breen to lift the Erigah
The flashbacks inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 , " mirror " , tell the backstory of Moll and L’ak ’s romance , and why they are seeking the Progenitors ' technology . Moll and L’ak are a forbidden love , and L’ak turned his back on the Breen for Moll . Worse , when they were discovered and face by Primarch Ruhn , L’ak support Moll and shoot his own uncle . For his crimes , the Breen post an Erigah - a parentage H.M.S. Bounty - on Moll and L’ak ’s heads . This is an irreversible conviction , and it mean that the Breen will never check hunting Moll and L’ak .
All L’ak require is to be free to live his life with Moll without the Breen hunting him .
L’ak and Moll are actuallydesperate to find the Progenitors ' treasure , which they hope to turn over to the Breen in exchange for them lifting the Erigah . There is no guarantee that the Breen would endure by this petition , but it ’s the only chance Moll and L’ak have to be free . L’ak already had conflicts with the Breen ’s law and culture , and it ’s improbable L’ak would ever be permit to give to the Imperium , not that he want to . All L’ak need is the freedom to live his living with Moll without the Breen hunt him . L’ak ’s dislike for his helmet inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 ’s premiere was a soupcon of his honest account as an outcast from the Breen Imperium that was told in " Mirrors " .
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