Star Trek: Discovery
admonition : SPOILERS for Star Trek : Discovery Season 5 , Episode 7 - " Erigah "
Summary
Commander Rayner ( Callum Keith Rennie ) , the new Kellerun First Officer onStar Trek : Discovery , lastly opens up about his tragic past tense inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 7 , " Erigah " , and it draws surprising latitude to the history of USS Enterprise Security Officer Lt . La’an Noonien - Singh ( Christina Chong ) inStar Trek : Strange New Worlds . Commander Rayner ’s practical position stand up in contrast to Captain Michael Burnham ’s ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) steadfast idealism , make believe Burnham and Rayner one of the best Captain and First Officer pairs inStar Trek : Discoveryand its ever - changing bidding lineup . Rayner was subdued about personal contingent , however , untilDiscovery ’s plot of land demanded it .
Star Trek : Strange New Worldsspun off fromStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 , following the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) and the USS Enterprise bunch , and include both intimate reference like Lt . Spock ( Ethan Peck ) and brand - unexampled characters with conversant names , likeLt . La’an Noonien - Singh . La’an is , in fact , a descendent of the ill-famed Khan Noonien Singh ( Ricardo Montalban ) , but La’an ’s connection toStar Trek ’s notorious dictator is just one thing that influences Lt . Noonien - Singh ’s persona . La’an ’s personal history is both more compelling and more tragic than being touch to Khan , with details doled out cautiously throughoutStar Trek : Strange New Worlds ' first 2 seasons .
Screen Rant interviews Callum Keith Rennie about how his novel character , Captain Rayner , accommodate into Star Trek : Discovery season 5 .
Commander Rayner’s Breen Backstory Matches La’an Noonien-Singh Surviving The Gorn
Rayner and La’an Provide Valuable Intel for Starfleet’s Survival
Star Trek : Discovery ’s Commander Rayner andStar Trek : Strange New Worlds’Lt . La’an Noonien - Singhare boththeir families ' exclusive subsister of desolation wracked by enemy Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets know almost nothing about . While Federation representatives count options for treat the imminent Breen menace inDiscoveryseason 5 , episode 7 , " Erigah " , Commander Rayner tells Captain Michael Burnham that the Breen gutted the Kellerun homeworld to utilise as an outstation , killing Rayner ’s entire family in the process . Similarly , La’an reveals to Captain Pike that the Gorn used the entire complement of the SS Puget Sound as either nutrient or raising sacks , with La’an alone pull round as a warning from the Gorn .
La’an was captured by the Gorn again inStar Trek : Strange New Worlds ' time of year 2 finale , " Hegemony . "
The Federation has an advantage in facing these crimson and otherwise mysterious exotic species becauseRayner and La’an roll in the hay how the Breen and the Gorn , respectively , operate , despite being traumatized by the horrors they experienced . Rayner knows well that Kellerun was devastated under the leadership of Breen Primarch Tahal , and even provides specific detail to legitimize the Federation ’s bluff to stall the Breen force-out demanding L’ak ( Elias Toufexis ) . La’an ’s expertness help the Enterprise survive a Gorn encounter inStar Trek : Strange New Worldsseason 1 , sequence 4 , " Memento Mori " , and shapes the plan to deliver Gorn attack survivor inStrange New Worldsseason 1 , instalment 9 , " All Those Who Wander " .
The Kellerun did n’t have it well-heeled in their first coming into court , either . InStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 2 , installment 13 , " Armageddon Game " , the Kellerun home world was already ravaged by Harvesters , biologic weapon used in the war against the T’Lani .
How Traumatic Backstories Shaped Rayner in Star Trek: Discovery and La’an in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Starfleet Mentors Help La’an and Rayner Overcome Their Tragic Pasts
Commander Rayner inStar Trek : Discoveryand Lt . La’an Noonien - Singh inStar Trek : Strange New Worldswere severely impacted by the psychic trauma they experience as survivors of baneful foreign massacres , and that pain manifest in very standardised ways for both of them . Rayner and La’an seem standoffish and curt , building designed emotional walls between themselves and anyone who might want to get near to them . Both have a potent regard for rules and regulating , because rules keep people dependable , and also trust in their own judgment over anyone else ’s , disregardless of whether Breen or Gorn are need or not , thanks to their own raise sensitivity to danger .
Fortunately , bothLa’an Noonien - Singh and Rayner have Starfleet mentors who take a personal interest in helping them cure the damage from their past . Commander Una Chin - Riley ( Rebecca Romijn ) regard a mirror of her own hard past in La’an ’s struggles to relate to the world . Michael Burnham run fromStarfleet ’s first mutineer to Discovery ’s captainthanks to second luck , so Burnham extends the dismissed Captain Rayner an offer to be Discovery ’s First Officer . Through the reenforcement of others and new opportunity to help , bothStar Trek : Strange New Worlds’La’an Noonien - Singh andStar Trek : Discovery ’s Rayner have opportunities to grow beyond their traumatic pasts and truly flourish instead of just surviving .
Star Trek : Discovery and Star Trek : Strange New Worlds are streaming on Paramount+ .
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