I really enjoyed the episode but there were a few issues that I couldnt let go.

1.The police recording on camera scene and getting them to let kirk go. It felt like a shoehorned attempt to be topical but like kirk was driving recklessly through a pedestrian area in the snow and got pulled over and had neither license nor registration. This wasnt police corruption. Police corruption is letting them go because someone tells you theyre somebody semi-famous.

2.Hotels in toronto are expensive and I have a hard time believing they got a hotel that ritzy in Toronto with money made playing chess.

3.Speaking of money I cant imagine a cab ride from Toronto to rural vermont was cheap either. Vermont is close to canada but it’s like 7 or 8 hours away. This also could have easily been solved by just having the bunker be in Ontario instead of vermont. Or the episode taking place in NY or montreal.

Other than that I enjoyed the chemistry between alternate kirk and Singh and I usually enjoy an episode where modern starfleet people are forced to exist in temporary day. Also somebody finally explains the discrepancy with WWIII, the Eugenics war and why 1990s California was just like normal in that episode of voyager.