#l'ak*

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY // S5E4 Face the Strange We are always changing. With everything that happens to us, with the choices we make, what's meaningful to us.

[knightotoc]

Season 1: 23rd century, mutiny, Federation-Klingon War, T'Kuvma, Ash/Voq, L'Rell, Captain Lorca, giant tardigrade, Sarek, logic extremists, Vulcan Expeditionary Group applications, Admiral Cornwell, time loop Harry Mudd, Pahvo, Mirror Universe, Captain Killy, Culber dies, Emperor Georgiou

Themes: betrayal, trust, good vs evil

Season 2: Captain Pike, Red Angel, seven signals, Spock's nightmares, Jett Reno, Terralysium, Amanda Grayson, L'Rell and Ashvoq's baby, Section 31, Leland, the ghost of May, the Sphere's data, Culber gets better, Kamina, Talos IV, Control, Airiam dies, Klingon monastery, time crystals, Queen Po, jump to the future

Themes: motherhood, secrets, corruption

Season 3: 32nd century, the Burn, Book, trance worm, Aditya Sahil, Zareh, Captain Saru, Tal, Adira, Gray, Trill, Admiral Vance, seed archive, Nhan, Ni'Var, Qowat Milat, T'Rina, Kwejian, the Emerald Chain, Osyraa, Carl, goodbye Georgiou!, Su'Kal and the holograms, Burnham demoted then promoted, dilithium deliveries

Themes: grief, scarcity, transphobia?

Season 4: Captain Burnham, President Rillak, the DMA (cough covid cough), Kwejian destroyed, Gray resurrected, J'Vini, cadets stranded on the moon, Ruon Tarka and Oros's parallel universe, Felix and the orb, Gray and Zora play a Trill board game, Species 10-C, Book's betrayal, hydrocarbon emotion math language

Themes: misunderstanding, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" references

Season 5: Progenitors, Moll and L'ak, solving riddles to make a map, Q'Mau, Fred, Rayner, Lyrek, Adira and Gray break up, Jinaal possesses Culber, time bug, the Breen, atheism on Halem'no, racer Tilly, Ravah, Ruhn, Eternal Gallery and Archive, Hy'Rell, Tahal, wedding and finale

Themes: romances, religion, power

[pikechris]

me, when they revealed that l'ak is breen: so that's what they look like? I thought they'd be a little more fucked up ngl

me, five minutes later: hey nevermind this is perfect actually. glowing transparent aliens. that's more like it

[quasi-normalcy]

Possibly controversial opinion (Major spoilers for this week's episode of Star Trek Discovery)

I'm not sure I approve of the canon that this episode establishes for the Breen. Like, I like that L'ak is an unmasked Breen, and in principle, I like the idea of a Breen falling in love with a human woman and running off with her. But I think the episode makes the Breen *too* human.

Like, to me, the central appeal of the Breen is that they're mysterious. Their language is so alien that universal translators can't handle it without modification; they wear refrigeration suits in spite of their planet being temperate; their ships are asymmetric unlike almost everyone else in Star Trek and so on. But then when we see them, they're just another humanoid race; L'ak even bitches about his uncle (why would they have comparable family structures to us?) It just feels like a wasted opportunity.

We need writers with more respect for Alienness!

[autisticburnham]

The reveal that L'ak is a prince has tipped his and Moll's storyline into complete silliness and made it fun instead of boring for me. Moll was working a shitty job when she met and had a forbidden romance with a disgraced prince so they ran away together for a life of crime. That's the plot of a choose your own adventure mobile game

[baronafanas002]

[ashleywritesstuff]

It's always fun when I get to talk to other Star Trek fans. It's even more fun when that Star Trek fan is a Trek actor! I am delighted to share my interview with Star Trek: Discovery's L'ak aka Elias Toufexis on @fangirlishsite.

[galacticrambler]

We’re now halfway through the final season of Star Trek: Discovery, and I have to admit that I’m quite enjoying this season’s quest.

Of course, this episode features a fairly dangerous away mission that Captain Burnham must go on and she must take Booker with her. With Saru’s departure, it really does feel like the remainder of this show will be focused on the Michael and Book story.

They were required to go into a quasi-wormhole where they discovered a wrecked ISS Enterprise from the Mirror Universe, AND IT TOTALLY WORKS! By the end of the episode, they were flying it back to Starfleet in an interesting plot thread for the future.

I’m glad that we got one more episode involving the Mirror Universe for Star Trek: Discovery considering how important it was to this show in the early seasons.

This episode was, essentially, a backstory for Moll and L’ak which I thoroughly enjoyed. L’ak is Breen! And they have two faces? A translucent one and a solid one? That was cool.

At the end of the day, these two fell in love and are now in the run from Breen forces who have placed an “erigah” (blood bounty) on L’ak’s head since he betrayed his people to be with Moll.

I’m still incredibly interested in exactly what the Progenitor tech is going to be when discovered, but now I want Moll and L’ak to get through this and be together. That’s all in addition to, obviously, the Discovery crew getting a good send-off.

[eastsideofthemoon]

The Parallels between Erigah and The Battle of the Binary Stars

I'm going to just go there... Captain Burnham did what Prime Georgiou should have done at the Battle of Binary Stars. Instead of dismissing Rayner because of his past trauma with the Breen, she utilized the information he had to give Starfleet the best chance at a peaceful resolution.

And by doing so, they came up with a plan that would have worked if L'ak hadn't got all Shakespeare on us.

[bophtelophti]

When one of the characters on Discovery said they didn't know what kind of alien L'ak is, I was a little surprised, because I was sure I recognized the makeup design from somewhere—

...and then I realized, he just looks like a Narn from Babylon 5 without the spots.

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY // S5E7 Erigah What does he really want with you? Fine, I'll tell you what he wants. The throne. I'm guessing, somehow, you can get it for him, if he can have you under his thumb again. And for someone who fought for their freedom, that would be worse than death, wouldn't it?

[tinderbox210]

Okay hear me out:

a Michael x Rayner AU inspired by the VOY ep. "Workforce"!

On the hunt for the Progenitor technology, the Discovery falls into another trap set up by Moll and L'ak where they use a device that messes with people's memories.

Michael and Rayner get abducted and end up at a salvage yard controlled by the Emerald Chain with false memories implanted into their heads (like the Voyager crew in the episode). Despite not remembering each other, they feel attracted to each other and start to hook up.

When the Discovery rescues them eventually and they regain their real memories, things are tense and awkward between them on the bridge because of what happened between them and even more because the feelings they have developed for each other just won’t go away again...

Oh, all the delicious unresolved tension with them trying to act professional and pretend it didn't mean anything and will certainly not happen again 😏

[pluralzalpha]

My theory on the Breen, which will probably be proven wrong by Thursday:

The Breen homeworld has an eccentric orbit around its primary, giving it extremely long, harsh seasons. The Breen have evolved to be able to take two forms, each adapted to a different climatic stage.

The ordinary humanoid stage is adapted to the long summer, which is temperate, while the fluidic/gelatinous form is adapted to the long winter, when the planet Breen is a frozen wasteland. What they're made of I don't know, but it's something that's stable at subzero temperatures and breaks down or evaporates at higher temperatures.

The shift to summer happened only a relatively short time before the 24th century, and it's still summer in the 32nd. This explains the contradictory accounts of planet Breen by outsiders; the tales of the frozen wasteland are out of date.

The winter form is stronger and more resilient than the summer form in the right conditions, but can't survive in normal class-M environments. At some point, the Breen learned to be able to shift between the forms at will, and decided their winter form was superior. They developed their suits to keep themselves cold, just so they can stay in their "superior" form all the time.

Perhaps the ship we saw in "Mirrors" is an environment just for dealing with other species, or perhaps they keep their ships in class-M conditions and stay in their suits all the time out of a cultural imperative.

Eventually, maybe with L'ak's help, they'll learn that neither form is superior, merely adapted to different conditions.

[autisticburnham]

Moll and L'ak really are the funniest Trek villians. Goth Sia and her frog prince boyfriend