Star Trek Lower Decks
admonition : SPOILERS for Star Trek : Lower grace Season 5 , Episode 4 - " A Farewell To Farms"Mary Chieffo , who playedStar Trek : Discovery ’s best Klingon , is back inStar Trek : Lower Decks . In its 5th and final season on Paramount+,Star Trek : Lower Decksgives the USS Cerritos a raw mission : investigating a series of interdimensional crevice that lead to alternateStar Trektimelines . Lt . Beckett Mariner ( Tawny Newsome ) and Lt . Brad Boimler ( Jack Quaid ) scanned one such scissure in Klingon space that lead toMariner visiting her onetime Quaker , Ma’ah ( Jon Curry ) . on the Klingon homeworld Q’onoS.
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 1controversially bring up the Klingons into the serial ' chief antagonist . Even more exotic in plan and behavior , the Klingons declare war on the United Federation of Planets . TheKlingon War of 2256 - 2257became a fucking battle that definedStar Trek : Discoveryseason 1 , with ramifications carrying over intoStar Trek : Strange New Worlds . However , the revamped Klingons were wide disliked by fans , andStar Trekhas since distanced itself fromDiscovery ’s bring up warriors from Qo’noS.
Star Trek: Discovery’s Mary Chieffo Voices A New Klingon On Lower Decks
Introducing K’Elarra
Mary Chieffo portray L’Rell onStar Trek : Discovery , and she ’s back as a new Klingon named K’Elarra inStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 5 , episode 4 , " A Farewell To Farms . " K’Elarra appears in a Klingon bar when Ma’ah and his brother , Malor ( Sam Witwer ) , cut down by . K’Elarra make romantic overtures toward Ma’ah , a former Klingon Captain who return to his farm on Qo’noS in ignominy . When Mariner and Boimler arrive , K’Elarra is indignant that Ma’ah has human Starfleet friends .
Different Star Trek establish played parts in redefine Klingons over the years , from simple villains to dear Star Trek alien with a rich culture .
Mary Chieffo ’s classifiable voice is plain as K’Elarra , and she seems to have a lot more fun bantering with Ma’ah in her brief scene inStar Trek : Lower Decksthan Mary had impersonate L’Rell inStar Trek : Discovery . Certainly , being able to voice a Klingon is much easier than wear upon L’Rell ’s all - comprehend andpainful Klingon prosthetics . As K’Elarra , Chieffo finally gets to play a more traditional Klingonthan she did inStar Trek : Discovery , cement Mary as the most prominent distaff actress to play Klingons in modernStar Trek .
What Happened To L’Rell On Star Trek: Discovery
L’Rell Was Last Seen In Star Trek: Discovery Season 2
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 1 differentiate a slow - burn fib aboutL’Rell rising to become Chancellor of the Klingon Empire . L’Rell was introduced as a follower of T’Kuvma ( Chris Obi ) , the self - styled Klingon Messiah . will for dead along with her lover , Voq ( Shazad Latif ) , L’Rell cunningly worked her way into a position of power and influence among the Klingons . L’Rell finally ally herself with Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) to save Qo’noS from a hydrogen bomb that could have destroyed the planet . L’Rell ended the war by rising up to become Chancellor .
Voq was surgically modify to resemble Starfleet Lt . Ash Tyler , and Tyler retained his human strain to become commander of Section 31 in Star Trek : Discovery time of year 2 .
InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 , L’Rell resist off menace to her power as Chancellor among the Klingons . L’Rell and Ash Tyler obscure their boy , Tenavik ( Kenneth Mitchell ) on Boreth , where Tenavik grew to become a monk who showed Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) his tragical destiny thanks to a Klingon metre crystal . L’Rell ’s last appearance was leading the Klingons to defeat Section 31 ’s genocidal A.I. , Control , as the USS Discovery for good jumped to the 32nd C at theend ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2 .
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Why L’Rell & Discovery’s Klingons Vanished From Star Trek
Discovery’s Klingons May Not Be Seen Again
Star Trek : Discoveryrelocating to the thirty-second century in time of year 3 not only open up a new era ofStar Trekto explore , but it alsoallowedDiscoveryto permanently aloofness itself from its Klingons . Discoveryendured unnumbered charge from sports fan about how itsKlingons violated canonin seasons 1 and 2 . The unpopular Klingons have since been drop fromStar Trekand have n’t been seen since the oddment ofDiscoveryseason 2 .
If Star Trek : Discovery ’s controversial Klingon redesign has an in - universe explanation after all , Star Trek ’s next serial can make it canyon .
Star Trek : Strange New Worldsseason 2 even retconnedStar Trek : Discovery ’s Klingon War so that the Klingons Starfleet fought resemble the popular version fromStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s era . Mary Chieffo explained thatStar Trek : Discovery ’s Klingons were a different sectof the warrior backwash , and that Klingons were multicultural . Even ifStar Trek : Discovery ’s Klingons do n’t return , Mary Chieffo remains a popularStar Trekactorwho is welcomed back as a traditional , classic Klingon inStar Trek : Lower deck .
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