WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:03.300 [Book] It's the Viridian, Osyraa's ship. 2 00:00:03.300 --> 00:00:05.360 Osyraa's scanning us, but she isn't blocking 3 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:06.270 our scans in return. 4 00:00:06.270 --> 00:00:09.313 She wants us to see her and all her firepower. 5 00:00:12.410 --> 00:00:15.450 Wow, it's been a while since we've seen 6 00:00:15.450 --> 00:00:17.150 a Starfleet vessel. 7 00:00:17.150 --> 00:00:18.583 Are you lost? 8 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.480 Osyraa is the leader of the Emerald Chain. 9 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:26.470 She is a very determined, 10 00:00:26.470 --> 00:00:30.520 highly intelligent, somewhat fierce leader 11 00:00:30.520 --> 00:00:34.500 who doesn't always employ 12 00:00:34.500 --> 00:00:38.350 the most diplomatic methods to get what she wants. 13 00:00:38.350 --> 00:00:42.010 My ancestors knew that power is virtue 14 00:00:42.010 --> 00:00:44.800 and that there is no nobility in suffering. 15 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:47.830 You do what it takes to get what you need, or you don't. 16 00:00:47.830 --> 00:00:49.700 She can be quite heavy-handed 17 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:52.730 and employs methods that would be very frowned upon 18 00:00:52.730 --> 00:00:53.670 by the Federation. 19 00:00:53.670 --> 00:00:55.830 I'm Osyraa's nephew. 20 00:00:55.830 --> 00:00:57.010 This is her territory. 21 00:00:57.010 --> 00:00:58.250 [Michael] Where do you get your help from? 22 00:00:58.250 --> 00:00:59.497 They owe Osyraa. 23 00:01:00.630 --> 00:01:02.903 They work for us forever. 24 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:04.673 It's pretty simple. 25 00:01:04.673 --> 00:01:07.270 We start hearing about her in Episode 5, 26 00:01:07.270 --> 00:01:09.610 the Emerald Chain, and we start hearing the name Osyraa, 27 00:01:09.610 --> 00:01:11.810 and it comes up a little bit more in Episode 6. 28 00:01:11.810 --> 00:01:13.180 The Cuyahoga is reporting Orion 29 00:01:13.180 --> 00:01:16.170 and Andorian vessels in the Sigma Draconis system. 30 00:01:16.170 --> 00:01:17.020 It's the Emerald Chain. 31 00:01:17.020 --> 00:01:18.510 [Michelle] You're kind of getting, hopefully, 32 00:01:18.510 --> 00:01:21.470 this growing sense of dread about who is this individual, 33 00:01:21.470 --> 00:01:23.430 whose running this salvage planet, 34 00:01:23.430 --> 00:01:25.030 and about whom people are speaking 35 00:01:25.030 --> 00:01:26.980 with a little measure of fear. 36 00:01:26.980 --> 00:01:29.740 We finally meet her in Episode 8. 37 00:01:29.740 --> 00:01:31.860 Did you get blown to bits and forget to tell me? 38 00:01:31.860 --> 00:01:33.760 The more we learn about her, 39 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.210 I think the more fully realized she becomes. 40 00:01:36.210 --> 00:01:37.990 When the Burn hit, damage to subspace 41 00:01:37.990 --> 00:01:40.670 shifted our moon's orbit, causing tidal changes. 42 00:01:40.670 --> 00:01:43.860 Sea locusts came out of the ocean and ate our harvest. 43 00:01:43.860 --> 00:01:46.340 Millions are starving. 44 00:01:46.340 --> 00:01:47.830 Then the Chain came along. 45 00:01:47.830 --> 00:01:48.830 Let me guess. 46 00:01:48.830 --> 00:01:50.640 They had the solution to all your problems. 47 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:53.470 When Cleveland Booker has to go back to his home, 48 00:01:53.470 --> 00:01:55.330 he's forced to go back to his home, 49 00:01:55.330 --> 00:01:57.460 'cause Osyraa's threatening the people of Kwejian 50 00:01:57.460 --> 00:02:00.070 by depriving them of a pesticide 51 00:02:00.070 --> 00:02:04.420 which allows them to regulate and control their agriculture. 52 00:02:04.420 --> 00:02:05.870 You don't seem surprised, sir. 53 00:02:05.870 --> 00:02:08.170 The Chain's turned Prime Directive violations 54 00:02:08.170 --> 00:02:09.260 into an art form. 55 00:02:09.260 --> 00:02:11.380 Right now, I'm tracking 50 star systems 56 00:02:11.380 --> 00:02:12.310 in the same predicament. 57 00:02:12.310 --> 00:02:17.090 Kwejian is a planet that I interact with. 58 00:02:17.090 --> 00:02:20.720 Some people would say that I am not particularly fair 59 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:22.478 to the people of Kwejian. 60 00:02:22.478 --> 00:02:23.680 Osyraa breaks people. 61 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:24.513 Bring the Andorian. 62 00:02:24.513 --> 00:02:25.892 He was born into the Emerald Chain. 63 00:02:25.892 --> 00:02:27.330 He tried to rally the people against them. 64 00:02:27.330 --> 00:02:28.614 People were beginning to listen, 65 00:02:28.614 --> 00:02:29.772 so she hacked off his antennae. 66 00:02:29.772 --> 00:02:31.950 As we are moving through the season, 67 00:02:31.950 --> 00:02:34.970 we were looking at, well, who are the other individuals 68 00:02:34.970 --> 00:02:35.870 in this new future? 69 00:02:35.870 --> 00:02:37.340 And how have they handled the Burn? 70 00:02:37.340 --> 00:02:40.748 We see via Federation headquarters and Vance 71 00:02:40.748 --> 00:02:44.080 how the Federation has handled the Burn. 72 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:45.690 What about the non-Federation members? 73 00:02:45.690 --> 00:02:48.120 And so certainly there would be those 74 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:50.070 who would respond in a different way. 75 00:02:50.070 --> 00:02:52.150 You have just sealed your own fate 76 00:02:52.150 --> 00:02:53.883 and the fate of the Federation. 77 00:02:55.330 --> 00:02:58.960 I promise you will feel the full weight of the chain. 78 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.200 [Janet] I think hatred is the wrong word. 79 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:03.650 I think that she doesn't necessarily believe 80 00:03:03.650 --> 00:03:07.470 that they deserve to be held in such high esteem. 81 00:03:07.470 --> 00:03:12.470 She works very hard for her people to advance themselves 82 00:03:12.930 --> 00:03:16.860 and yet they don't enjoy the same reputation 83 00:03:16.860 --> 00:03:17.960 as the Federation. 84 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:21.310 So I think possibly envy is a better way to go than hatred. 85 00:03:21.310 --> 00:03:22.470 She'll be back. 86 00:03:22.470 --> 00:03:23.303 Osyraa. 87 00:03:24.536 --> 00:03:26.486 And it will be bad next time.