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Warning: This Article Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5
Summary
- Elias Toufexis regrets missing out on the final Star Trek: Discovery episode directed by Jonathan Frakes.
- L’ak tragically dies in Star Trek: Discovery episode 507 but remains in the storyline through his corpse’s preservation.
- Toufexis passed on the opportunity to return for episode 509, and he missed out on Frakes’ last episode as director.
Star Trek: Discovery season 5 actor Elias Toufexis has serious FOMO about missing out on the final episode directed by Jonathan Frakes. Toufexis played Lak, the renegade Breen in love with Moll (Eve Harlow). Hunted by both the Breen and the USS Discovery as they sought the ancient treasure of the Progenitors, L’ak tragically died in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 7, “Erigah” – just 2 episodes before Jonathan Frakes came aboard to direct Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 9, “Lagrange Point”.
Although L’ak was dead, Moll kept his corpse in a place of honor aboard the Breen dreadnought, and she transported L’ak’s body into a portable pattern buffer to preserve him in the hopes that the Progenitors’ power of creation can resurrect L’ak. This meant that while L’ak still appeared in Star Trek: Discovery, Elias Toufexis was no longer wearing the Breen’s prosthetics – a fact Elias came to regret when Jonathan Frakes directed Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 9. Read Toufexis’ X post below where he reveals his FOMO:
Star Trek: Discovery
‘s cast and crew didn’t know season 5 would be the final season during production, which they found out after filming wrapped.
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Star Trek: Discovery season 5 is streaming on Paramount+
