Warning: This Article Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5

Summary

• Moll and L'ak are more than villains, they are head over heels in love and racing the USS Discovery for the Progenitors' hidden power.
• Elias Toufexis and Eve Harlow believe Moll and L'ak are the coolest couple in Star Trek history.
• Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 focuses on love stories and the reasons behind Moll and L'ak's actions are explained.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5's new cast , Elias Toufexis and Eve Harlow, make their case for L'ak and Moll as the "coolest couple in Star Trek history." Moll and L'ak are Discovery season 5's main antagonists, but they're more than villains seeking the ancient treasure of the Progenitors. L'ak and Moll are head-over-heels in love, and they're racing with the USS Discovery to locate the hidden power to create life itself in Star Trek: Discovery season 5.

Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis spoke with Screen Rant for an exclusive interview about Star Trek: Discovery season 5. While Discovery is full of love stories such as Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Cleveland Booker (David Ajala), and Ambassador Saru (Doug Jones) and President T'Rina (Tara Rosling), Toufexis and Harlow set Moll and L'ak above them and explain why they feel the renegade couriers are the best couple in Star Trek. Read their quotes below:

Elias Toufexis: I’d say they’re the best couple in Star Trek history.

Eve Harlow: Obviously, we’re the best because it’s us!

Elias Toufexis: I mean, look, they’re the coolest. They’re the coolest couple in Star Trek history, that's for sure. They're smart. They're in love. They're ionate. They know what they want. They do what they need to do to get it. And they don't care who's standing in their way. But they're not inherently evil. They're not inherently villains, really. Yeah, they're the antagonists of the show. But they're doing what they're doing for a reason. And those reasons are explained. And that's one of my favorite things about this season, that they're explained. The reasons are shown why we're doing what we're doing.

What Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Has Revealed About Moll & L'ak So Far

Moll and L'ak are one step ahead of Discovery

Moll and L'ak have been billed as the Bonnie and Clyde of Star Trek: Discovery season 5, but this isn't quite an accurate description of the couple. Unlike Bonnie and Clyde, the romance between Moll and L'ak doesn't harbor dysfunction. L'ak and Moll are deeply devoted to each other and united in their common goal to find the Progenitors' treasure before the USS Discovery. Cleveland Booker even sees the parallel between Moll and L'ak and himself and Michael Burnham when they were still together, which reminds him of what he lost.

The details of Moll and L'ak's love story are yet to be revealed in Star Trek: Discovery season 5.

Rather than power or wealth, however, what Moll and L'ak treasure most is freedom, and perhaps this is what they intend to buy if they locate the Progenitors' technology. Curiously, L'ak is of a currently identified species while Moll is a human whose real name is Malinne Booker. Moll is the daughter of Book's mentor, Cleveland Booker IV, which, in his mind, sort of makes them "family." The details of Moll and L'ak's love story are yet to be revealed in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, and it remains to be seen if a happy ending is possible for the 32nd century's coolest couple.

Source: Screen Rant Plus

New episodes of Star Trek: Discovery season 5 stream Thursdays on Paramount+