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WARNING: This article contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery, “Lethe,” and potentially for the series as a whole. With its sixth episode, “Lethe,” Star Trek: Discovery cemented its themes of duality and betrayal with more revelations about Michael Burnam’s Vulcan upbringing and her relationship with her adoptive father Sarek, and with Captain Lorca’s deceptions. However, if a seemingly outlandish — and undeniably intriguing — fan theory turns out to be true, the series is prepared to take those elements to a new level. RELATED: Star Trek: Discovery Renewed For Second Season Emerging, as is so often the case, on Reddit, the theory centers on the Klingon Voq (played by Javid Iqbal), an outcast who takes up the call of the messianic radical T’Kuvma to unite the Empire and repel the Federation, and Starfleet Lt. Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif), a prisoner of war who escapes Klingon custody with Captain Lorca