WARNING: Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery, season 5, episode 9, "Lagrange Point".
Summary
- Commander Rayner leads a thrilling rescue mission in a final battle against the Breen Imperium on multiple fronts.
- Burnham and Moll venture into an ominous portal, facing dangers and potential past adversaries.
- Saru returns to negotiate with the Breen Imperium, setting up a dramatic encounter for the finale.
The end of directed by Jonathan Frakes, is a thrilling heist movie that sends Burnham and an away team to infiltrate the Breen Imperium.
As "Lagrange Point" opens, the USS Discovery has just about recovered from the damage it sustained at the end of Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 8, "Labyrinths". Unfortunately, their repairs put them behind Moll (Eve Harlow) and the Breen, who acquire the structure which houses the Progenitors' treasure. Placed inside a Lagrange Point between two primordial black holes, the structure contains an interdimensional gateway to where the five surviving 24th century scientists hid the Progenitors' technology. As Commander Rayner launches a daring rescue mission to get his people back to Discovery, Moll and Burnham become trapped in another dimension.
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Burnham and Moll Have Vanished - Where Does The Progenitors Treasure Portal Lead?
At the end of Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 9, Moll escapes into the Progenitors' portal, desperate not to lose her chance to resurrect L'ak (Elias Toufexis). Desperate to secure the treasure for the Federation, Burnham follows her into the rather ominous looking white void. It's unclear what's on the other side, whether it's a blank white space like Discovery's infinity room or a fully formed alternative dimension. While Moll and the Breen were investigating the portal earlier in the episode, two soldiers were lost on the other side, which doesn't bode well for either Moll or Burnham.
Following Moll into the Progenitors' portal is particularly ominous for Burnham as she's going in alone. If the two Breen soldiers survive, then Moll will have backup on the other side of the gateway, meaning that Burnham will be outnumbered. Worse still, Moll has a portable pattern buffer that contains L'ak, so that she can resurrect him with the Progenitors' treasure. If Moll's successful, then Burnham will have to take on Moll and L'ak alone, which didn't go well for her back in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 1.
Preserved in Moll's portable pattern buffer, L'ak s Star Trek characters like Captain Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) and Rukiya M'Benga (Sage Arrindell) who were both kept alive by Starfleet's transporter technology.
Rayner Takes Command Of The USS Discovery To Save Burnham
With Burnham lost in another dimension with Moll, it's up to Commander Rayner to lead the USS Discovery crew in saving their captain and securing the Progenitors' treasure. The final scene of Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 9, "Lagrange Point", is a punch-in-the-air moment for fans of Commander Rayner. Since his demotion in Discovery season 5, episode 2, Rayner has struggled to take the conn from Burnham. This hasn't escaped Lt. Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman) or Commander Gen Rhys (Patrick Kwok-Choon), who are both uncomfortable with Rayner's pacing, and his refusal to sit in the center seat.
Chosen by Rayner as his acting Number One, Tilly gives him some of her "warm and fuzzy encouragement", by affirming that the crew are 100% behind Burnham's Number One. It's a touching moment in an action-packed hour that sets up Tilly and Rayner as Star Trek: Discovery's most unlikely friendship. It's incredibly satisfying, therefore, to see Rayner take this on board, and finally sit in the center seat, ready to lead his crew on a daring mission to defeat the Breen and secure the treasure. Rayner even gets an appropriately matter-of-fact catchphrase; "Let's do this".
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Burnham & Rayner's Plan To Steal The Progenitors Portal Calls Back To Star Trek II
While Burnham and Saru are Star Trek: Discovery's Kirk and Spock, the captain of the USS Discovery does have a similar shorthand with her new Number One, Commander Rayner. Trapped behind enemy lines, Burnham sends Rayner a message that she hadn't got her "grum of osikod", which pricks up the Kellerun's ears. Burnham then goes on to describe her first confrontation with Moll and L'ak, highlighting their "fried" shields and the fact she was sent out into space but saved by her crew.
Burnham's reference to "a grum of osikod" is taken from the Kellerun poem The Ballad of Krul, which she previously used as a code for Rayner in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 5, "Mirrors".
All of which communicates to Rayner that Burnham wants him to fly the Discovery right into the Breen Dreadnought's shuttle bay, destroying the Breen's shields and blasting Burnham, Booker, and the structure into space. It's similar to how iral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) communicated his plans to Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Their conversation about hours seeming like days when it came to the Enterprise was a coded discussion that ordered Spock to wait two hours before rescuing Kirk and the landing party from Regula 1.
Burnham's communication with Rayner is similar, not because of the words or the orders, but because it's done "by the book". Starfleet regulation 46A states that "If transmissions are being monitored, no uncoded messages on an open channel", which is why Burnham delivers her own coded message from inside the powerful Breen Dreadnought. The plan largely works, although Discovery is too late to beam the structure aboard, leaving it to remain in position between the two blackholes.
Ambassador Saru Returns To Negotiate With The Breen
Doug Jones finally returns to Star Trek: Discovery after a short absence as Saru prepares to assist the Federation in negotiating with the Breen Imperium. Moll's murder of Primarch Ruhn (Tony Nappo) in Discovery season 5, episode 8, has plunged the Imperium into even more chaos, leading to further in-fighting. To stake her claim to leading the Breen Imperium, Primarch Tahal is on her way to the Discovery's location to acquire the Progenitors' treasure. Putting his life at risk, Saru volunteers to do the "logical" thing by taking a shuttle, equipped with Discovery's spore drive replacement, to negotiate with Primarch Tahal.
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Primarch Tahal is a key figure in the tragic backstory of Commander Rayner, which sets up a cathartic encounter for the Kellerun in Star Trek: Discovery's finale. It was revealed in Discovery season 5, episode 7, "Erigah", that the Breen conquered Kellerun, and placed Primarch Tahal as ruler. The Breen Primarch posioned the seas and blackened the skies on Kellerun, which has left deep psychological scars on Discovery's Commander. Rayner, still traumatized from his experiences, helped the Federation to leverage Primarch Ruhn by negotiating the release of Moll and L'ak with Tahal. It remains to be seen how Saru will fare with Tahal in Discovery's feature-length finale.
Burnham Has One Final Progenitor Clue Moll Doesn't Know About
What Does Burnham’s Final Progenitor Clue Mean?
Trapped in another dimension with Moll, the remains of L'ak, and potentially two Breen soldiers, Burnham is outnumbered going into the Star Trek: Discovery finale. However, she does have one final clue from the Progenitors' scientists that Moll isn't even aware of. Explaining that there is one last obstacle between them and the Progenitors' treasure, Burnham tells her senior staff that she was given a phrase that would help her it. That phrase is "Build the shape of the one between the many", but what could it mean?
Progenitors Scientist Team |
Species |
Clue Hidden Location |
|---|---|---|
Vellek |
Romulan |
Lyrek |
Jinaal Bix |
Trill |
Trill |
Carmen Cho |
Terran |
ISS Enterprise |
Hitoroshi Kreel |
Denubulan |
Halem'no |
Marina Derex |
Betazoid |
Eternal Gallery and Archive |
Unnamed Scientist |
Unknown |
Deceased |
Star Trek: The Next Generation revealed that the Progenitors were the original humanoids that seeded their genetic data across the galaxy, creating most humanoid life in the Star Trek universe. That would surely make the Progenitors "the one", as in the originators of humanoid life, which means that "the many" are their progeny. Alternatively, given season 5's allusions to the Indiana Jones movies, it could be literal instructions to a final puzzle that protects the Progenitors' technology. Whatever the clue means, Burnham will first have to put some distance between her and Moll if she stands any chance of securing the technology and the future of the Federation in Star Trek: Discovery's finale.
The Star Trek: Discovery finale streams on Paramount+ on Thursday, May 30th.
Star Trek: Discovery
- Release Date
- 2017 - 2024-00-00
- Showrunner
- Alex Kurtzman
- Directors
- Olatunde Osunsanmi, Jonathan Frakes
Cast
Rekha Sharma
WHERE TO WATCH
Star Trek: Discovery is an entry in the legendary Sci-Fi franchise, set ten years before the original Star Trek series events. The show centers around Commander Michael Burnham, assigned to the USS Discovery, where the crew attempts to prevent a Klingon war while traveling through the vast reaches of space.
- Writers
- Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller
- Franchise(s)
- Star Trek
- Seasons
- 5
- Streaming Service(s)
- Paramount Plus
- Where To Watch
- Paramount Plus
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