The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery continues on Thursday with the eighth episode, and we have details, new photos, and a clip WITH SPOILERS.
Episode 8: “Labyrinths”
The eighth episode of the season, “Labyrinths,” was written by Lauren Wilkinson & Eric J. Robbins and directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour. The episode debuts on Paramount+ on Thursday, May 16.
Synopsis:
When Captain Burnham is trapped within a “mindscape” designed to test her worthiness to retrieve the Progenitor’s powerful technology, Book, Rayner, and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery must hold off the Breen long enough for her to escape.
Co-showrunner Michelle Paradise previously teased this episode saying, “Oh, just an incredible gorgeous location, incredible scope and a singular journey for Burnham.”
UPDATE: Efrosian!
The episode includes an Efrosian character, as confirmed in the comments below by co-writer Eric J. Robbins:
She is indeed Efrosian — I’m a big fan of STVI.
I hope you all enjoy the episode, it’s a fun one. Our director Emmanuel knocked it out of the park!
Elena Juatco as Hy’Rell in Star Trek: Discovery, episode 8, season 5, streaming on Paramount+, 2023. Photo Credit: Marni Grossman /Paramount+
NEW photos:
Tony Nappo as Primarch Ruhn (Michael Gibson/Paramount+)
Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham (Marni Grossman /Paramount+)
Tony Nappo as Primarch Ruhn (Michael Gibson/Paramount+)
Dorian Grey as Lt. Arisar (Michael Gibson/Paramount+)
Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham (Marni Grossman /Paramount+)
Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham (Marni Grossman /Paramount+)
UPDATE: Episode trailer
Clip
You can see a clip from “Labyrinths” from the latest episode of The Ready Room below…
The fifth and final season of Discovery debuted with two episodes on Thursday, April 4 exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., the UK, Switzerland, South Korea, Latin America, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, and Austria. Discovery also premiered on April 4 on Paramount+ in Canada and will be broadcast on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel in Canada. The rest of the 10-episode final season will be available to stream weekly on Thursdays. Season 5 debuted on SkyShowtime in select European countries on April 5.
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I guess Hy’Rell is a Efrosian.
Interesting. I was thinking Klingon.
Why not both? Maybe she’s half-Klingon, half-Efrosian…
Same.. I couldn’t tell if it was Klingon ridges or not. Wait… did I just racially profile a character over ridges and hair?
We definitely need to see 32nd century Klingons before the show is over. As much as I’l like a STIV deepcut, I hope she’s Klingon…
we will, some stunt guys leaked it before the season started said they’d be playing Klingon and Breen soldiers
I expect that they’d have the same basic make-up as in Strange New Worlds season 2.
She is indeed Efrosian — I’m a big fan of STVI.
I hope you all enjoy the episode, it’s a fun one. Our director Emmanuel knocked it out of the park!
That’s cool!
VERY COOL!
Woohoo!! I’m excited for this episode. Awesome to see an Efrosian again after all of this time!
It looks like you were in the Writers Room for S5. Can you tell us anything about that experience? Now that DSC is completed, what are you working on?
It was a great episode. I really liked it!
That’s awesome, considering I was the director of a couple of fan films in the ’90s that had an Efrosian character! (My friends and I really mined that Star Trek IV Sourcebook Update for aliens for the characters we played.)
My money is on Klingon…… Change the Hy to L and you have L’Rell.
Should be Klingon.
Er, a Discovery writer just told us here that she’s Efrosian.
Cool that one of the writers replied and let us know.
Brave soul to post on a trek site though. We can be a rowdy bunch at times.
I always loved the Efrosian in Voyage Home. “Here it comes now-”
Great voice on the actor, Nick Ramus, who I’m just learning was a member of the Blackfoot tribe.
Wow, I always thought he was an *Asian* Indian.
Same here, though with all the makeup it was hard to tell.
Looks like Ramus was in quite a few westerns. He passed away in 2007, age 77.
“…singular journey for Michael” this whole show has been only about Michael.
the only parts of this season i’ve enjoyed are Moll / L’ak and the Breen
“this whole show has been only about Michael”
Just because you don’t like an African-American woman in the lead role doesn’t make this true.
Saru for example has had a major character arc over the course of the series. If you don’t see that, you can’t be helped. Also Culber/Stamets have gone through major, even soap opera level of stories with their relationship.
You could criticize the series for being too much about the characters. But the series being about the main character is a silly criticism. Or can I see your criticism about Kirk doing everything in TOS? Would like to see a link to that.
And before you come with the trite “but we don’t know nothing about the bridge crew!11!”: Tell me the names and character arcs of the people working in Ops of Deep Space Nine. I’ll wait (actually I won’t, I have better things to do).
If you don’t like a black woman lead, just say so.
This comment right here is why it is so difficult to get people to take actual issues around racism and misogyny serious.
Jan, your comment is completely unwarranted. Nothing in Sean’s comment suggested a racial component to his critique. I dislike the entire series as a matter of fact. Not because of the genders, racial origins or personal lives of the characters depicted or the cast – I just don’t like it Especially compared with Strange New worlds. An apology is in order.
Where did you get a racial dislike from what he said? All he said was “this whole show has been only about Michael” which is accurate (also the way the show was designed from Day 1, but I don’t see where he’s disputing that). So not sure where this criticism is coming from. I’ve been very critical of the character, but it has nothing to do with her race… I don’t think she has been written very well. My dislike of how they’ve written her has nothing to do with who is playing her. Sonequa is a wonderful actress and has elevated the writing because of it. The fact is, she and the character deserve better than they’ve gotten. Knock on wood, so far this season she has been written much better, where her character is concerned. None of that has anything to do with her race. But I have to defend Sean here, because I just don’t see where you get that from anything he said, and it’s unfair of you to project that on to anyone without knowing.
Sure, Jan.
Wow, I just realized something beautiful. All the five clues are hidden within the worlds of all five classic legacy shows.
Fred, the Soong-type android = TNG
Trill = DS9
ISS Enterprise = TOS
Denobulan weather station = ENT
Badlands = VOY
Well spotted!
Whoah, I really like this. Nice catch! That’s awesome!
Awesome observation Garth!
Excellent catch!!
I wonder if Hy’Rell is even a real person. The uniform looks very 23rd/24th century. Maybe it’s a projection of what Burnham expects to see.
Re: a closed thread below:
There’s a solid case to be made that Discovery has focused primarily on one character more than any Trek show before it.
Sure, the other shows sometimes gave the captain more attention than other characters (although I’d argue that Spock, Data, Worf, Kira, the Doctor, Seven and T’Pol often had the spotlight), but Discovery has been The Michael Burnham Show from the get-go, by design.
Nope. Solid character arcs for Saru, Stamets, Culber, even Book and Adira… Michael is the lead character but not to an extend any of the other characters get sidelined…
I think that’s true of any show centered around one central character. With TOS, there was the Troika of Kirk, Spock, Bones, all others were support with some occasional focus on them. Disco is no different, it’s just much more focused on one person, rather than a triumvirate.
I think the issue is the low episode count per season and length of time between seasons, combined with Discovery’s identity crisis and needing to reinvent itself every season, that prevents any meaningful connections to any of the supporting characters. The show was designed to be about Burnham’s journey, even if they seemed to be in a rush to shorten that journey by making her captain as fast as possible in my opinion.
The Berman era shows had more episodes to include the supporting cast than the new era of Trek does and there wasn’t that long of a wait between seasons to forget about what happened before.
You’re contradicting yourself. All of the other live action shows had as their primary focus the person in command as well. No exceptions. Yet Discovery sets off some people. Gee, what is the obvious difference between Discovery and all other live action Trek…..
Please don’t try to continue a contentious topic that we closed for a reason.
Dorian Grey chose a good role. No way he sees the portrait through that helmet.
Ha! But that was Gray. :-)
He’s good, he won’t see it burn either.
The production is amazing. That efrosion looks terrific. Wow! The make up artists and the costume designers are fantastic and deserve awards.
Perhaps it is just me, but I was thinking — not for the first time in modern Trek — that the latex on the Efrosian looks very latex-y, not like natural skin. I had the same reaction to Sneed in Picard and sometimes to Saru, especially this season.
An Efrosian, cool. Shout out to Mel Efros, the namesake and creator of the design.