Star Trek: Discovery
monition : SPOILERS for Star Trek : Discovery Season 5 , Episode 1 - " Red Directive "
Summary
InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 1 , " Red Directive " , the USS Discovery ’s mission takes Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) to an 800 - class - old Romulan spaceship containing the belongings and the remains of a long - dead Romulan scientist name Doctor Vellek ( Michael Copeman ) . Vellek has been inter in his ship since the 24th century , whenStar Trek : The Next Generationtakes position . Dr. Vellek ’s notes check key info on the galaxy ’s greatest treasure : a mysterious , ancient , and very powerful artifactthat the United Federation of Planets ' mystic Dr. Kovich ( David Cronenberg ) prioritize recovering before it falls into the hands of the nefarious Moll ( Eve Harlow ) and L’ak ( Elias Toufexis ) .
InStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 6 , episode 20 , " The Chase " , Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) follows in the step of his recently - asleep archeology wise man , Professor Galen ( Norman Lloyd ) , by cull up a trail that Galen had long been pursuing . Picard mold a tenuous bond with Klingons and Cardassians pursuing the same mysterious end , discovering clues that lead to the uninhabited planet Vilmor II . Upon arrival , however , Picard , Lt . Commander Worf ( Michael Dorn ) , and Dr. Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) , along with Klingon and Cardassian representatives , transmit down to find a crew of Romulans that have beaten them there . Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 ’s premierereveals more about one of those Romulans , Dr. Vellek .
As Burnham assay the universe ’s greatest gem in Star Trek : Discovery season 5 , she ’ll ask help from a legion of Modern and returning character .
Who Was Doctor Vellek In Star Trek: TNG’s “The Chase”?
Star Trek: Discovery reveals the Romulan Doctor Vellek’s TNG connection.
Doctor Vellek is a Romulan scientist with the work party that has already go far at Vilmor II inStar Trek : The Next Generation’s"The Chase " , establishing howDiscoveryseason 5 connect toTNG . or else of joining in the collaborative effort with the Federation as the Klingons and Cardassians did , the Romulans simply monitored communications as the USS Enterprise traveled from land site to site , unveil hint at each destination that led to the next . Everyone present is equally privy to the information reveal by a holograph of an Ancient Humanoid ( Salome Jens ) that their raceway seed life throughout the beetleweed , so all humanoid species share a coarse ancestor , whichStar Trek : Discoveryhas dubbed the primogenitor .
Dr. Kovich already have sex what ’s been"classified for centuries"when telling Captain Burnham about Vellek ’s own find of the Progenitors ' technology .
The Klingons and Cardassians drop the spirit of cooperation that led them to this full stop , resist at the mind that they ’re relate in any way . But the Romulans , who essentially copied the Federation ’s homework to come at Vilmor II , contact Captain Picard with hope of an alliance between the Romulans and the Federation . This implies Vellek had been in contact with the Federation while leading the search for the Progenitors ' technology in the 24th hundred , because inDiscovery ’s 32nd century , Dr. Kovich already have sex what ’s been"classified for centuries"when tell apart Captain Burnham about Vellek ’s own discovery of the primogenitor ' technology .
Why The Progenitors Technology Is Star Trek: Discovery’s Greatest Treasure
“A few thousand years ago, we’d have called them gods.”
The Progenitors ' applied science isStar Trek : Discovery ’s greatest treasure because it holds the answers to scientific and philosophical questions about the nature of life-time as we know it , and also has the power to create living essentially from scratch . The situation of Progenitor applied science could excuse the ancient mechanical man ' motive beyond what was revealed inStar Trek : The Next Generation , fundamentally alter societies at their very centre . With that sort of information and the powerfulness of creation , the user of Progenitor technology could become the most powerful power in the galaxy , especially if the top executive to make also hold within it the power to put down .
The Romulan inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 1 , " Red Directive " , Dr. Vellek , realize the importance of keeping info about the progenitor and their engineering as unassailable as possible . Vellek seek to keep the location of Progenitor technology out of the wrong handsby continue a paper journal , which ca n’t be hacked , and hiding that Word within a Romulan teaser box , itself within a cloak vault aboard his twenty-fourth - century Romulan ship . Even then , Dr. Vellek ’s diary is n’t the treasure itself , but a clew that kicks offStar Trek : Discovery ’s galactic treasure hunt , destine to change the galaxy irrevocably .
Star Trek Discovery season 5 streams Thursdays on Paramount+ . Star Trek : The Next Generation is pour on Paramount+ .
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