Star Trek: Discovery
WARNING : Contains spoiler for Star Trek : Discovery , season 5 , episode 5 , " Mirrors " .
Summary
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 , " mirror " reveals a raft of young details about the Breen fromStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . The Breen are the latestDS9aliens to appear inDiscovery , making their proper return in the flashback successiveness that sate viewers in on the backstory of Moll ( Eve Harlow ) and L’ak ( Charles Lamb Toufexis).Written by Johanna Lee & Carlos Cisco , and directed by Jen McGowan , " Mirrors " finds Moll and L’ak stranded in interdimensional blank space with Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) and Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) .
With the four treasure hunters forced to run together , there ’s a luck to reveal more about Moll and L’ak ’s motivation inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 . The bombshell reveal thatL’ak is actually Breenis the first of many revelations about the enigmaticStar Trek : Deep Space Ninealiens in the sequence . The flashback to Moll and L’ak ’s burgeoning romance shed light on a bit of prospect of Breen polish in the 32nd century , including just what pose underneath those helmet .
Discovery ’s glum timeline makes a fight between Burnham and DS9 ’s Breen inevitable , gravely up the stakes for Star Trek : Discovery time of year 5 .
8L’ak Is A Breen
But he doesn’t fit the mold of a traditional Breen.
As Burnham and Book attempt to reason out with Moll and L’ak , the couple unwrap that they ’re trying to outrun an Erigah , a Breen blood bounty . This substantiate to Burnham thatL’ak is a Breen , albeit without the helmet and refrigeration suit . The flashbacks to how Moll and L’ak met reveal thatL’ak was a appendage of the Breen royal kinfolk , but he did n’t fit the mold . Demoted from his royal duties , L’ak was put to shuttle bay duty , where he met and light in passion with Moll .
InStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , Lt . Commander Worf ( Michael Dorn ) once stated that nobody had seen a Breen without their helmet and live to assure the tale . The revelations about L’ak ’s origins stand for that half thecast ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5have managed to do just that . However , as the flashbacks show , the Breen are still incredibly tightlipped about render their cheek , which makes L’ak a unique fellow member of his species .
7Moll Used To Sell Dilithium To The Breen Imperium
It’s how she made her living during The Burn
During the meter of scarceness follow The Burn , Moll supplied the Breen with dilithium for utilisation in their starships . However , Moll was cutting her dilithium supplying with " dross " , meaning that the Breen ’s supply was well water down . Confronted about this by L’ak , Moll offered to go into job with the cast - breaking Breen to make things go swimmingly . L’ak concord , partly due to his desire to get payback for his demotion , and partially due to his quick attraction to Moll .
Moll and L’ak became a courier couple like Burnham and Booker , giving Book hope that he could get through to his newfangled " sister " .
Moll and L’ak were finally constitute out for their scam , for which the penalty was carrying out . However , as L’ak could n’t bestow himself to kill the woman he jazz , he turned on his own people , rather . In response , the Breen order an " Erigah " on L’ak , a blood bountifulness that could never be cleared . While Burnham and Booker declare oneself Federation protection from the Breen , Moll and L’akwere unconvinced that they could truly aid wipe off the Erigah .
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Screen Rant interview Elias Toufexis and Eve Harlow about joining Star Trek : Discovery and play season 5 ’s nefarious lovers , Moll and L’ak .
6The Breen Placed A Blood Bounty On Moll And L’ak
“Can they erase an Erigah?”
Although the Erigah was point on L’ak , Moll refused to leave alone his side , intend that the Breen rake bounty was direct on them both . This explains Booker ’s assessment that the duet were hold playfulness and plight in " cliffs - bound kind of stuff" . Moll and L’ak ’s Prince of Darkness may care position so far inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 is probably driven by the fact that they ’re on the ravel for their very lives . Moll and L’ak are so committed to each other that the Breen enjoin Burnham that he ’d " rather die " than be separated from Moll in a Federation prison .
An Erigah is an facet of Breen civilization that was n’t previously mentioned in the species ' multiple appearance inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . It ’s therefore ill-defined how one collects a blood bounty , but Moll , L’ak , Burnham , and Book all seem troubled by the cite of the name . Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 7 is titled " Erigah " , so it will presumptively molt further twinkle on the pedigree bounty placed on Moll and L’ak ’s heads , and who will attempt to collect it .
5The Breen Atmosphere Is “Quite Comfortable”
Just as DS9’s Weyoun said it was.
It ’s long been speculated that the Breen lived in sub - zero temperature , withStar Trek : Deep Space Ninecharacterslike Gul Dukat ( Marc Alaimo ) and Quark ( Armin Shimerman ) mention to their planet as a stock-still waste . While Moll does n’t call in the Breen homeworld inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , instalment 5 , she is in their territorial dominion and does n’t require to wear any protective clothing to cope with the temperatures . This , therefore , confirms something that Weyoun ( Jeffrey Combs ) said inDS9season 7 , sequence 20 , " The modify Face of Evil " .
The Breen were also tell to wear infrigidation suits to contend with the higher temperature of other planets , something which is also ostensibly contradicted byStar Trek : Discovery .
The Breen were potent ally of the Dominion in the latter stages of their war with the Federation Alliance inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . After the Breen and the Dominion had sign their alliance , Weyoun reflected that the temperature on Breen was " quite comfy " . It was always potential that this was wry sarcasm on Weyoun ’s part . However , the aura insideStar Trek : Discovery ’s huge empire spaceport appears to reassert Weyoun ’s appraisal of the temperature on Breen .
Star Trek: Discovery is an entry in the legendary Sci-Fi franchise, set ten years before the original Star Trek series events. The show centers around Commander Michael Burnham, assigned to the USS Discovery, where the crew attempts to prevent a Klingon war while traveling through the vast reaches of space.
The Dominion War was the bloodiest difference of opinion in Star Trek history , and its complicated timeline was filled with shocking twists and turns .
4The Breen Primarch Is L’ak’s Uncle
Part of the Yod-Thot royal caste.
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 1 , " Red Directive " revealed thatthe Breen Confederacy had become the Breen Imperium in the 800 days since the end ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . Not much was know about the inner working of the Breen Confederacy inDS9 , other than negotiations with the Dominion were led by Thot Gor ( Todd Slayton ) . In the thirty-second century , the Breen Imperium is run by the Yod - Thot royal caste , suggesting an ancestral link withDS9 ’s Breen .
One of the primal members of the Breen Imperium is Primarch Ruhn ( Tony Nappa ) , the uncle of L’ak inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5.The Primarch is disgusted by L’ak ’s relationship with Moll and his insistence on deny his heritage . L’ak stopped curtly of murder his uncle while escape with Moll , meaning that Primarch Ruhn may return afterward inDiscoveryseason 5 . peculiarly if Moll and L’ak open negotiations with the Breen Imperium to provide them with theProgenitors ' powerful technology .
3The Breen Imperium Destroy The Federation In An Alternate Future
They’re the “wrong hands” that the Progenitors' technology must not fall into.
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 4 , " Face the Strange " revealed thatthe Breen took possession of the Progenitors ' technology in a timeline where the USS Discovery never defeat the time bug . The Krenim chronophage , leave over from the Temporal Wars , was supposed to keep Discovery out of the gem hunt until Moll and L’ak could secure the Progenitors ' engineering . The Breen Imperium then used the powers of the Progenitors to destroy the entire Federation in one of the most spectacular scenes fromDiscoveryseason 5 , episode 4 .
The Breen previously launched an attack on Federation Headquarters inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 7 , episode 20 , " The shift Face of Evil " .
At the opening ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 , " mirror " , Burnham and Commander Rayner ( Callum Keith Rennie ) reflected on the stakes of their mission . " Mirrors " also revealed that Moll and L’ak are still determined to use the Progenitors ' technology to dicker for their lives with the Breen Imperium . As Moll and L’ak escape the ISS Enterprise at the end of " mirror " , they are more desperate than ever , makingDiscovery ’s bleak future tense look like a serious possibility .
Rayner reveals the links between Star Trek : Discovery ’s time bug and a deep - cut Star Trek : Voyager foe , tying them to the Temporal Wars .
2The Breen DO Bleed
Or leak, at the very least.
InStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 5 , sequence 14 , " In Purgatory ’s Shadow " , Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) confidently states thatthe Breen have no fluid circulatory arrangement . Conducting blood screenings to root out Changeling infiltrator in the Dominion prison camp , Bashir says everyone relegate the Breen prisoner has been tested because they have " No blood" . Star Trek : Discoveryappears to discover that this is n’t the face , as L’ak appear to bleedafter fall down on his own knife during thefight with Burnham .
give the disclosure about the Breens ' physiology inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , instalment 5 , there are some possible explanation for the contradiction in terms . first of all , the Breen are an fantastically closelipped race , who were largely nameless to the Federation in the twenty-fourth 100 . The Breen prisoner inStar Trek : Deep Space Ninecould , therefore , have just been lie down to Bashir about not get any blood . The other explanation is that L’ak is n’t bleeding , rather he ’s leaking the jellylike organic stuff that appoint a Breen consistence .
1The Breen Have Two Faces
One solid face, one translucent face, both green.
The bragging reveal about theBreen inStar Trek : Discoveryis what they keep underneath their helmet . It ’s stated that a Breen has two faces ; one which is semitransparent and gelatinlike , and another which is solid and firmly humanoid . This Revelation of Saint John the Divine is delivered as if the viewer was already aware of such a fact , which means thatDiscoverydoesn’t plunk deeper into the reasons for the Breen having two case . Primarch Ruhn tell L’ak that the Breen have evolved past their solid var. , and that their translucent form is a signal of strength .
Star Trek : Discoverydoesn’t break what role the Breen ’s armor plays in conserve their anatomy , translucent or otherwise . Still , the idea that the Breen ’s soft , more vulnerable face is strong than the hard shell is a enough sci - fi conceptthat will hopefully get further exploration later inDiscoveryseason 5 . However , both nerve are very clearly humanoid , which intemperately connote that they may also originate from the primogenitor . Whether this selective information will lead to peace between the Breen and the Federation remain to be realise asStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 continue .
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Star Trek : Discovery is an ingress in the legendary Sci - Fi franchise , pose ten years before the original Star Trek series issue . The show centers around Commander Michael Burnham , assigned to the USS Discovery , where the crew attempts to prevent a Klingon war while traveling through the immense grasp of space .
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , also live as DS9 , is the 4th serial in the long - running Sci - Fi enfranchisement , Star Trek . DS9 was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller , and stars Avery Brooks , René Auberjonois , Terry Farrell , and Cirroc Lofton . This particular series follows a mathematical group of someone in a space post near a planet call Bajor .
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, also known as DS9, is the fourth series in the long-running Sci-Fi franchise, Star Trek. DS9 was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller, and stars Avery Brooks, René Auberjonois, Terry Farrell, and Cirroc Lofton. This particular series follows a group of individuals in a space station near a planet called Bajor.
