Yahoo News Star Trek: Discovery confirms huge Ash Tyler fan theory
Warning: Contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery season 1, episode 10 'Despite Yourself'.
Star Trek: Discovery has come very close to confirming the big fan theory that Ash Tyler is actually a Klingon.
The theory, which started out on Reddit, suggests that the human character of Ash Tyler, played by Shazad Latif, isn't really human at all, but actually a Klingon in disguise.
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And not just any Klingon – the one named Voq, who is officially played by the otherwise unheard-of actor Javid Iqbal.
In last night's episode (January 7), Tyler suffers yet more dark, bloody flashbacks during a mission, before he visits Discovery's Klingon prisoner L'Rell for answers.
L'Rell implies a loving relationship between the pair of them – one in which Tyler was a completely willing party.
"You have another name, say it," L'Rell demands of Tyler after invoking the prayer of Kahless in Klingon in an attempt to use a trigger to unlock his real identity. "The prayer should make you remember."
Tyler responds in Klingon and then blacks out. He visits Dr Hugh Culber, who runs some tests and finds that Tyler wasn't just tortured by the Klingons, but actually had his appearance modified and his psychology tampered with too, giving him something of a new personality overlay.
All signs certainly point to Tyler-as-Voq, though sadly for Culber, the information triggers something in Tyler and he snaps and kills the doctor.
Previously, Den of Geek put the fan theory to Ash actor Shazad Latif, bluntly asking him: "Are you a Klingon?"
The diplomatic actor replied: "There are crazy fan theories which is... the power of Star Trek fandom. They're great detectives and some things they get right and some they get wrong."
Star Trek: Discovery will return on CBS in the US and Netflix in the UK in January.
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