Very solid episode, overall.

Paul Wesley’s performance certainly isn’t Shatnerian (nor should it be), but I thought he was charming in his own right. May he play an endless procession of alternate Kirks.

The writers showed remarkable restraint in not bringing in Spiner to play Adam Soong.

One thing I did not care for was the official conflation of the Department of Temporal Investigations and Voyager’s time cops. I prefer those being separate entities, with DTI being a fairly boring Federation department that interrogates time travel adventures. A minor thing, and that ship sailed in the fandom long ago, so I will let it go.

Really enjoyed this one (again)!

Felt like it probably worked a bit less like a time travel mystery, but worked very well as a La’an character piece. She got to experience what it was like to live without the burden of her heritage, but realised that for the greater good, the bad things had to happen.

The plot contrivances were a bit on the nose, the convenience with which they located people and facilities in particular, but again, it didn’t bother me one bit. The emotional scene of La’an in her quarters, at the end, after her call with Kirk… great stuff!

I expected a Guinan-esque moment where she would hand the watch back to Pelia and they would just smirk and nod. I felt like Pelia was given her “the look” when she returned to the bridge at the end, so that may have been it. But then the “cliffhanger ending” where the camera focused on the watch? Who knows, Boimler may need to come back and fix this mess!

But also… no matter which timeline we’re in: Where did Chief Kyle go??? Was he too mean?

World’s worst security on that super secret base

Also I love these time travel episodes where they just conveniently time travel to the current day of whenever they are shooting the current episode, and this was a excellent addition to those

Nice character episode with a simple premise and a good amount of Pelia!

I’ve always thought Trek is at its worst or riskiest when doing time travel stuff, but the tone and focus of this episode being on La’an and her relationship to her heritage really centered the episode. In a way it was a subtle, but strong, IMO, character driven plot point to have her struggle with finding for once a real intimate connection with someone destined to be lost and “forgotten”.

Having Kahn appear as a child was low-key wonderful.

What’s up with the watch? Is there more to Pelia than meets the eye? Seems she’s conveniently forced herself and her myriad belongings onto the ship for this particular time period while also (and I forget what Trek’s take on time travel is here) knowing about that watching coming on board at this point … ?

Anyone else feeling a certain lack of Pike in the first 3 episodes? Not against it, it just seems somewhat conspicuous given that I imagine the character is half of the reason the show exists.

Canon purists are making leaps about the placement of the eugenics wars. Sounds to me like they’re blaming the Temporal Cold War for changing things.

Must be pre USS Relativity time agency…

Fun episode, but the gymnastics to tell Kirk stories without impacting TOS is getting a bit obvious.

Silly plot aside, I just wanted to give La’an a hug after that, damn.

Christina Chong is amazing at the role too.

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.

I like the premise of the episode, but it’s just… such Marvel writing, especially the whole car stuff with Kirk. I pretty much expected him or La’an to go “he’s right behind me, isn’t he?” at some point in the episode

I broke with La’An. I shared tears with her. I could feel her heart within my own.

This episode resonated strongly with me.

And yes to many of the things spoken in the other comments here as well. I’m so glad for this episode and Christina Chong. 💜