Star Trek: Discovery
Warning : This article contains SPOILERS for Star Trek : Discovery season 5 .
Summary
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 ’s deserter lovers Moll ( Eve Harlow ) and L’ak ( Elias Toufexis ) would never have been able to find the Progenitors ' technology on their own . Discovery’sfifth and final season find Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) and the crowd of the USS Discovery ship onan intergalactic treasure Richard Morris Hunt for technology the Progenitors used to make humanoid living . After Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) notice a message from the Progenitors inStar Trek : The Next Generation’s"The Chase , " the United Federation of Planets tack together a squad of scientists to study the Progenitors ' life - giving technology .
After one of the 24th - century team of Progentors ' scientists was killed , the five remain researchers scattered clue across the wandflower that would lead to the Progenitors ' hoarded wealth . Because of the transparent king of this technology , only someone who could pass sure tests of reference would be able-bodied to obtain and meet the clues . As revealed inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 5 , " Mirrors , " L’ak is Breen , and turned his back on his masses by descend in love and running aside with Moll . Because of this , L’ak and Moll have an Erigah , or Breen rakehell bounty , on their heads . L’ak and Moll desperately hope they can trade the Progenitors ' technology for their freedom .
Star Trek : Discovery revealed the five scientist who hid hint to the Progenitors ' treasure , and they all have links to Star Trek ’s legacy .
Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Proves Moll & L’ak Could Never Find The Progenitors’ Treasure
The five scientists took steps to ensure those like Moll & L’ak couldn’t find the treasure.
the great unwashed likeMoll and L’akare the very reason why the five scientist ensured that the Progenitors ' technology would be so unmanageable to find . gun moll and L’ak have no interest in using the technology responsibly or even ensuring that it does n’t fall into the wrong hired hand ; it ’s merely a means to an close for L’ak and Moll ’s desire for exemption . Moll and L’ak have already bear witness that they are unforced to do whatever it takes to find the technology , meaning they in all likelihood would have failed the tests put in station to hide the cue . The Trill Jinaal ( Wilson Cruz ) certainly would not have give up his clew to Moll and L’ak .
Moll and L’ak are clever , though , and have found room to keep up with the advance Captain Burnham and the USS Discovery have made in their search . Without Discovery , Moll and L’ak would likely have been thwarted by the 2d clue that was located on Trill . Although L’ak and Moll did settle the third Progentors ' clue on theMirror Universe ’s ISS Enterprisein interdimensional space , it ’s intemperate to see how the couriers could have located the 4th clue on Halem’no the way Burnham and Lt . Sylvia Tilly ( Mary Wiseman ) did . The concluding hint has yet to be revealed , but the five scientists get to great lengths to keep the progenitor ' technology out of the improper custody , so the final test will likely be the hardest one yet .
Finding the Progenitors ' clues has involved mental test of moral principle , morality , and character by the five scientists , which Moll and L’ak would have been challenge to elapse .
How Star Trek: Discovery’s Dark Breen Future Could Have Happened
If Moll & L’ak couldn’t find the Progenitors' tech, then how would the Breen get it?
Whether or not Moll and L’ak were able-bodied to notice the Progenitors ' treasure , the dark future glimpsed inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 4 , " Face the Strange " could still have happened . When the USS Discovery was trammel in a time eyelet , CaptainBurnham and Commander Rayner ( Callum Keith Rennie ) sawone potential future where the Breen had destroy the Federation and killed the USS Discovery ’s crowd . But this elicit the enquiry of how the Breen acquired the Progenitors ' applied science . If Moll and L’ak got adhere in their search , they could have recruited someone else to help them , who would have been capable to empty the tests and acquire the clues .
It ’s also potential that the Breen would have intervened preferably , and find a fashion to take the clew by force . The Breen clearly have a formidable army and memory access to advanced engineering , so they in all likelihood could have found a way to get their hands on the treasure . The Breen could have killed Moll and L’ak and find an alternative way to get to the progenitor ' engineering . Without the Federation ’s involvement , other couriers and bounty hunters could have go involved , as well , and determine ways to get past the tests of character . However it would have played out , Captain Burnham and her crew must make sureStar Trek : Discovery’sdark Breen futurewill never happen .
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