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10. Grass Is Greener; Grass Is Breener

On the other side of the "heavy emo" of season four, as Jonathan Frakes put it to Star Trek Explorer Magazine (via TrekMovie), season five of Star Trek: Discovery was generally lighter fare. It still had the high stakes, but it wasn't taking itself quite so seriously. If the show had to go out, at least it went out on greener — Breener — pastures.

Speaking of, if you're looking for L'ak, you won't find him over the fence, but up the Jefferies tube. That was Elias Toufexis' on-set hideaway during the filming of Mirrors, as the actor noted on Twitter. A life-long fan of Star Trek (and then some), Toufexis was geeking out about his role just as much as we were watching him. Breen courier, and reluctant scion of the Imperium, L'ak — and Toufexis — made Trek history. Galactic hell hadn't frozen over, but it was still a bit chilly beneath the mask. L'ak was the first Breen we'd seen take it off.

From Breen and green to the red forests of Sanctuary Four, the fence at the end of the series was to keep Alice safely out. With the news of Discovery's cancellation looming over like that Breen dreadnought, producers sought to construct a coda. The result wasn't perfect, but overall, it was an elegant way to say goodbye to the series that had said its "Vulcan Hello" to contemporary Trek. The 'Red' of one last Red Directive for Discovery, the ship, was then a future for Craft.