Star Trek: Discovery
Warning : SPOILERS for Star Trek : Discovery Season 5 , Episode 3 - " Jinaal "
Summary
The reply toStar Trek : Discovery ’s test for Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) and Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) on the Trill homeworld is a reversion to a classic episode ofStar Trek : The Original Series . InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 3 , " Jinaal " , write by Kyle Jarrow and Lauren Wilkinson and guide by Andi Armaganian , Jinaal , the Trill symbiont occupying the body of Dr. Hugh Culber ( Wilson Cruz ) , insiststhe next part of the puzzler is on a path winding through the territory of Itronoks , huge , fast-growing insectoidsthat stand in the way of Book and Burnham retrieving the clue .
InStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 1 , episode 26 , " The Devil in the Dark " , a giant lurks in the mines of Janus VI , killing miners and destruct equipment , and the USS Enterprise is call in to investigate . Based on the presence of mysterious Si spheres littering the caves , Mr. Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) surmises the creature is Si - free-base . That masks the creature from sensing element , so Spock and Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) enter the mines , phasers draw , to do what must be done to maintain mining operations . Through amind meld , Spocklearns thatthe creature is call a Horta , and is killing miner to protect her egg .
As Burnham seeks the cosmos ’s greatest treasure in Star Trek : Discovery season 5 , she ’ll need help from a host of new and returning type .
The Answer to Star Trek: Discovery’s Trill Test Is In TOS (and Lower Decks)
The Star Trek “monster” trope is a good way to judge one’s character.
Like the Horta inStar Trek : The Original Series , the Trill Itronoks inStar Trek : Discoveryare unknown , strong-growing adversaries protect the same hoarded wealth : their own offspring . After being pierced by an Itronok stinger , Book time a collection of stones as Itronok ball . Michael suggests communicate with the creatures much the same way that Spock infer that the silicon spheres are Horta eggs and start a judgment meld with the Horta inStar Trek : The Original Series . Book ’s attempt to tie via Kwejian empathy is stymied when the Itronoks wo n’t cooperate , but the cloaking insectoids comply after Book and Burnham , like Kirk , drop their phasers to prove non - aggression .
An unknown animation form displaying aggression to protect their young has become a classicStar Trektrope that ’s played straight onStar Trek : Discovery , but gets a more light-hearted discussion inStar Trek : Lower Decks , season 4 , episode 8 , " cave " . Lt . Samanthan Rutherford ( Eugene Cordero ) is trap in a cave with the dreadful Grafflax , so Rutherford communicates with the Grafflax using a modified tricorder and find out thecave monster inStar Trek : Lower Decksis like the Horta : a protective parent fighting off outsiders go into their territory . How someone react to perceived monster is a good style to gauge morals , which Jinaal tells Burnham and Book is precisely the dot .
Why Jinaal Hid Star Trek: Discovery’s Progenitor Technology Clue
The Progenitor technology is too powerful for the wrong people.
Jinaal conceive it was necessary to put as many block as possible between would - be adventurers and the next piece ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 ’s treasure map due to the sheer world power inherent in the Progenitors ' engineering . As Commander Paul Stamets ( Anthony Rapp ) discovers later inDiscoveryseason 5 , episode 3,the Progenitor technology can create life according to design , quicken evolution , modify ecosystem , and may even be able-bodied to resurrect citizenry . The squad of scientists that include Jinaal andDr . Vellek ( Michael Copeland)decided Progenitor technology was too knock-down for the hawkish 24th one C , better off hidden for a peaceful futurity when people could use it responsibly .
Star Trek : Discovery ’s Trill trial run required understanding and respecting different life forms .
To that close , Jinaal ’s team act to destroy their research , anddevised puzzles design to quiz the worthiness of those who sought Progenitor technology , assure it would n’t fall into the wrong hands . Vellek ’s trial on Lyrek inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 2 , " Under the Twin Moons " required persistence and curiosity to bring out the Romulan revlav , which point to Trill . Star Trek : Discovery ’s Trill trial required discernment and respect different life forms , not unlike Spock did with the Horta inStar Trek : The Original Series , so Book ’s empathic connection to fauna and Michael Burnham ’s xenoanthropology background helped them pass with take flight colors .
Star Trek : Discovery season 5 streams Thursdays on Paramount+ .
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