Discovery’s Moll & L’ak were never able to find the Season 5 treasure on their own
Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5.
Summary
- The plot of Star Trek: Discovery’s fifth season reveals the complicated web surrounding the Progenitors’ technology and the dark future it could lead to.
- Moll and L’ak’s ruthless pursuit of the Progenitors’ treasure brings them into conflict with ethical challenges raised by scientists.
- The Breen pose a threat to the preservation of technology whether Moll and L’ak are involved in Star Trek: Discovery or not.
Star Trek: Discovery Season five’s renegade lovers Moll (Eve Harlow) and L’ak (Elias Toufexis) could never have found the ancestral technology on their own. Discoveries In the fifth and final season, Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the crew of the USS Discovery set off an intergalactic treasure hunt for technology that the ancestors used to create humanoid life. After Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) finds a message from the ancestors Star Trek: The Next Generation The Chase, the United Federation of Planets, assembled a team of scientists to study the life-giving technology of the ancestors.
After one of the Ancestral team of scientists was killed in the 24th century, the five remaining researchers spread clues across the galaxy that would lead to the Ancestors’ treasure. Because of the sheer power of this technology Only someone who could pass certain character tests would be able to find and put together the clues. As revealed in Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 5, “Mirrors”, L’ak is Breen and turned his back on his people by falling in love and running away with Moll. For this reason, there is an Erigah or Breen blood bounty on L’ak and Moll. L’ak and Moll desperately hope that they can trade the ancestral technology for their freedom.
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Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 proves that Moll & L’ak were never able to find the ancestral treasure
The five scientists took steps to ensure that people like Moll and L’ak couldn’t find the treasure.
People like Moll and L’ak are exactly why the five scientists ensured that the ancestral technology would be so difficult to find. Moll and L’ak have no interest in using the technology responsibly or even ensuring that it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands; It is merely a means to an end for L’ak and Moll’s desire for freedom. Moll and L’ak have already proven that they are willing to do whatever it takes to find the technology. That means they probably wouldn’t have passed the tests that were done to hide the clues. The Trill Jinaal (Wilson Cruz) certainly wouldn’t have given up on his reference to Moll and L’ak.
However, Moll and L’ak are smart and have found ways to keep up with the progress that Captain Burnham and the USS Discovery have made in their search. Without Discovery, Moll and L’ak would likely have been thwarted by the second clue to Trill. Although L’ak and Moll found the third ancestral clue on the Mirror Universe’s ISS Enterprise in interdimensional space, it is difficult to imagine how the Couriers could have found the fourth clue on Halem’no like Burnham and Lt. Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman) did. The final clue has yet to be revealed, but the five scientists have gone to great lengths to prevent the Progenitors’ technology from falling into the wrong hands, so the final test will likely be the most difficult yet.
In order to find the ancestral clues, the five scientists had to conduct ethics, morals and character tests, which Moll and L’ak would have had to pass.
How Star Trek: Discovery’s Dark Breen Future Could Have Happened
If Moll & L’ak couldn’t find the ancestral technology, how would the Breen get it?
Whether Moll and L’ak managed to find the ancestral treasure or not, the dark future was revealed Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 4, “Face the Strange” could still have happened. When the USS Discovery was caught in a time loop, captain Burnham and Commander Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie) saw a possible future in which the Breen had destroyed the Federation and killed the crew of the USS Discovery. However, this raises the question of how the Breen acquired the ancestral technology. If Moll and L’ak had gotten stuck in their search, they could have recruited someone else to help them, who could have passed the tests and gotten the clues.
It’s also possible that the Breen would have intervened earlier and found a way to take the clues by force. The Breen clearly have a formidable army and access to advanced technology, so they probably could have found a way to get to the treasure. The Breen could have killed Moll and L’ak and found an alternative way to obtain the ancestral technology. Without the Federation’s involvement, other couriers and bounty hunters could have gotten involved and found ways to pass the character tests. Whatever the outcome, Captain Burnham and her crew had to make it happen Star Trek: Discovery’s The dark Breen future will never happen.
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