[Book] It's the Viridian, Osyraa's ship.
Osyraa's scanning us, but she isn't blocking
our scans in return.
She wants us to see her and all her firepower.
Wow, it's been a while since we've seen
a Starfleet vessel.
Are you lost?
Osyraa is the leader of the Emerald Chain.
She is a very determined,
highly intelligent, somewhat fierce leader
who doesn't always employ
the most diplomatic methods to get what she wants.
My ancestors knew that power is virtue
and that there is no nobility in suffering.
You do what it takes to get what you need, or you don't.
She can be quite heavy-handed
and employs methods that would be very frowned upon
by the Federation.
I'm Osyraa's nephew.
This is her territory.
[Michael] Where do you get your help from?
They owe Osyraa.
They work for us forever.
It's pretty simple.
We start hearing about her in Episode 5,
the Emerald Chain, and we start hearing the name Osyraa,
and it comes up a little bit more in Episode 6.
The Cuyahoga is reporting Orion
and Andorian vessels in the Sigma Draconis system.
It's the Emerald Chain.
[Michelle] You're kind of getting, hopefully,
this growing sense of dread about who is this individual,
whose running this salvage planet,
and about whom people are speaking
with a little measure of fear.
We finally meet her in Episode 8.
Did you get blown to bits and forget to tell me?
The more we learn about her,
I think the more fully realized she becomes.
When the Burn hit, damage to subspace
shifted our moon's orbit, causing tidal changes.
Sea locusts came out of the ocean and ate our harvest.
Millions are starving.
Then the Chain came along.
Let me guess.
They had the solution to all your problems.
When Cleveland Booker has to go back to his home,
he's forced to go back to his home,
'cause Osyraa's threatening the people of Kwejian
by depriving them of a pesticide
which allows them to regulate and control their agriculture.
You don't seem surprised, sir.
The Chain's turned Prime Directive violations
into an art form.
Right now, I'm tracking 50 star systems
in the same predicament.
Kwejian is a planet that I interact with.
Some people would say that I am not particularly fair
to the people of Kwejian.
Osyraa breaks people.
Bring the Andorian.
He was born into the Emerald Chain.
He tried to rally the people against them.
People were beginning to listen,
so she hacked off his antennae.
As we are moving through the season,
we were looking at, well, who are the other individuals
in this new future?
And how have they handled the Burn?
We see via Federation headquarters and Vance
how the Federation has handled the Burn.
What about the non-Federation members?
And so certainly there would be those
who would respond in a different way.
You have just sealed your own fate
and the fate of the Federation.
I promise you will feel the full weight of the chain.
[Janet] I think hatred is the wrong word.
I think that she doesn't necessarily believe
that they deserve to be held in such high esteem.
She works very hard for her people to advance themselves
and yet they don't enjoy the same reputation
as the Federation.
So I think possibly envy is a better way to go than hatred.
She'll be back.
Osyraa.
And it will be bad next time.