Star Trek: 10 Things We Now Know About The Breen

With one question from Captain Michael Burnham in Mirrors came to a gripping end the decades of wondering just what was beneath those helmets: "Erigah? You're Breen?" And now that none of us appear to be dead, the real discussion can begin.

"An Erigah is a Breen blood bounty. They're after you, aren't they?" Burnham added to L'ak (the Breen!!) and Moll moments later in Mirrors. 'They,' in this case, is presumably at least all of L'ak's royal Breen faction of the Yod-Thot, including one angry uncle. And, as was alluded to in the episode Erigah, other factions probably wouldn't mind getting their hands on L'ak either.

In the final flashback to the Breen definitely-not-a-space-station in Mirrors, we saw that the Erigah was placed on our amorous duo's heads in the first place because L'ak, in defending Moll from certain death, shot two of his fellow Breen followed by his 'Primarch' — not the fast-fashion retail chain — 'of the Sixth Flight' uncle, Ruhn.

"An Erigah's impossible to lift. They will never stop hunting me," L'ak added to Moll before he was convinced to go on the run with her. The loved-up lovers were then hoping that billions of years old Progenitors' tech would be the one, and only, thing that could end an Erigah. Bonkers, but most brilliantly Star Trek! 

It turns out it was even more bonkers than that. In the episode Erigah, Burnham coerced more information out of the ailing L'ak. This is all still not quite entirely clear, but we are told that L'ak is, in fact, the direct descendant of the deceased Breen emperor, making him the "Scion of the Breen Imperium". Uncle Ruhn can't succeed to the throne without L'ak, let alone enact a 'blood bounty' on him. Burnham summarises it best to Ruhn later in the episode when she says, 

"This was never about an Erigah. It's about power."