Star Trek: Discovery Season five revealed more about the Breens than ever before, but two characters from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine already knew what Bryn looked like, 800 years before L’ak (Elias Toufexis) took off his helmet. The Breen were first talked about in Star Trek: The Next GenerationBut it was Star Trek: Deep Space Nine who officially introduced Brin like menacing aliens in helmets and cold suits. Brin soon allied with the Dominion and became a real threat to the United Federation of Planets.
In recent months Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’In the Dominion War, Bryn turned the tide against the Federation. Not only did the Breen destroy Captain Benjamin Sisko’s USS Defiant with an energy dissipation device, but they attacked Earth and dealt a devastating blow to the Federation homeworld. The level of threat that the Breen had come to pose was only hinted at during their first appearance in 1995. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Indiscretion” of the 4th season, where Major Kira Nerys (Guest Nana) and Legate Dukat (Mark Alaimo) I saw something that viewers wouldn’t see for another 29 years.
Star Trek: Major Kira and Dukat from DS9 knew what Bryn looked like before L’ak was revealed on Discovery
They never talked about it.
Major Kira and Legate Dukat saw what the Breen looked like under their helmets. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 5, “Indiscreet.” Kira and Dukat became strange friends when they traveled to the planet Dozaria in the Badlands in search of passengers on a Cardassian transport ship called the Ravinok. Kira and Dukat find a Breen prison camp where Dukat’s daughter, Tora Ziyal (Sia Batten), is being held. Donning Breen cold suits, Dukat and Kira infiltrate the camp, rescue Ziyal and even capture other Breens. But if Kira and Dukat were able to disguise themselves as Brin, then they killed the carriers of the refrigerator suits. Thus, Kira and Dukat saw what the Breen looked like under their helmets.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’In Indiscretion, it is not shown how Kira and Dukat acquired Brin’s cold suits. It’s possible they found them, but it’s unlikely. The Breen never take off their suits and helmets, so it makes more sense that the Bajoran and Cardassian killed the two Breen off-screen to take their clothes. This means that Kira and Dukat undressed the dead Brin and saw their real faces. However, Kira and Dukat never mentioned what the Breens actually look like. Their focus was on the release of Ziyal and other prisoners. In 1995 Star Trek The Breen were not yet fully established, and what their true faces looked like under their helmets was not yet much of a mystery.
How Star Trek: Discovery Updated Bryn
L’ak was our gateway to understanding Bryn.
Viewers won’t know what the Breen look like under their helmets until L’ak is shown as the Breen in Star Trek: Discovery Season 5. Under the helmets “Jelly Breen” gelatinous, although L’ak hardened without a headdress. Star Trek: Discovery updated Brin to become Big Bad final season, which took gradual steps to update Brin’s canon. L’ak, who fell in love with Moll (Eve Harlow), was a descendant of the Bryn Imperium, and he was the first to turn his back on his people and run away with a human. L’ak’s uncle, the Primarch Rhun (Tony Nappo), had placed a bounty of Erigi’s blood on L’ak and Moll, but Rhun really needed his nephew to legitimize his claim to the position of Emperor Bryn.
In the fifth season of Star Trek: Discovery, the Breen entered a civil war for their imperial throne.
Unfortunately, L’ak died earlier. Star Trek: Discovery Season five ended, but Moll used his influence as Scion to take command of the Bryn dreadnought Rune to locate ancient Progenitor technology in her failed hope of resurrecting L’ak. Star Trek: Discovery In season five, the Breen are fighting a civil war for their imperial throne, but they are also a formidable force capable of crushing the United Federation of Planets. It was said that no one had ever seen a Breen without a helmet before L’ak, but Major Kira and Legate Dukat must have seen V Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Looking back, it’s surprising that they never mentioned it or treated it like a big deal.