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LoglineLa’An travels back in time to twenty-first-century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity’s future history—and bring her face to face with her own contentious legacy.


Written by David Reed

Directed by Amanda Row

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[–] JWBananas@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me at the beginning: Oh, great. More time travel. I'm so sick of time travel and temporal mechanics. The Science Vulcan Directorate has determined that time travel has been done to death.

Me at the end: 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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[–] Argonne@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is La'an supposed to be stronger than regular humans? She gave that Romulan some good ass kicking. That's really impressive

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[–] AustNerevar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really liked it. It was the best SNW episode for me so far. However I really don't like the whole changing of established continuity via time travel.

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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That was a love letter to trek time travel stories and a nice character piece for Christina who feels less and less like a budget Drummer ripoff. Like any episodal television SNW is a bit hit and miss but better the occasional highs than a season long arc that drags and disappointments.

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[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Man poor La'an. That ending broke my heart.

[–] Spoken_Weakley@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

"This was supposed to happen in 1992!"

Is that a reference to how the eugenics wars were supposed to happen in the 90's but obviously those came and went so they're softly retconning when the eugenics wars took place?

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[–] plasmoidal@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Just here to note two details I appreciated:

  1. La'an still doesn't know what a Romulan looks like after her adventure. The only one she met was surgically altered to look human, although Sera did drop a hint by complaining about the ears. Still, there's plenty of aliens with non-human ears, so not really much to go on.
  2. If she was paying attention, though, La'an did get another clue about Romulan physiology: When she shot Sera, the blood spray was green! Of course, Sera remembered her grandma's old recipe for molecular solvent, so La'an may have thought that was the reason for the coloration.
[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Another surprisingly good episode, this season is turning out the be a banger.

[–] MooseGas@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I am so late to this. I was up at the cottage for the long weekend and missed the episode until today.

Khan could be my neighbour.

[–] khan_shot_1st@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I gotta say, it wasn't my favorite. The save baby hitler plot fell flat for me. Kirks death scene was both predictable and rushed. I usually like time travel episodes AND I was looking forward to a La'an-heavy episode, so I'm a bit disappointed.

Also really starting to miss Pike? Kinda weird.

Carol Kane's Pelia continues to make me smile, she is a delight. Possibly the first reference to poutine in star trek? Also a Denobulan sighting! Yay!

[–] lwaxana_katana@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

I agree about Pelia! Also Iiiii think I must be bad at TV tropes because I did not see Kirk dying until the final second of him smiling at La'an after inviting the Romulan lady to find out if he was bluffing lol.

[–] JWBananas@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe once Mariner gets there, La'an can finally talk about what she went through.

[–] Getting6409@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not bad for a time travel episode. I feel like these have a better shot at working with the episodic format. I was relieved when the car chase scene turned out to be more of a reasonable speed thread the needle through cramped city center streets rather than some over the top Bay schlock; I was sure it was going to be schlock when he chose the flashy red sports car.

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