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La’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

Note: This is a second attempt, as technical difficulties were preventing people from seeing the original discussion post. Apologies to the people who were able to comment in the original.

  • Madison_rogue@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    When the cab pulled up to Pelia’s cabin I initially wondered how they got across the border, and then La’an mentions they bribed a border guard. Pretty good save there. You know it would’ve ended up in someone’s plot hole YouTube video, or a clickbait ScreenRant article if they didn’t cover that.

    This was another solid episode; even though the ending was gut wrenching. Who would have thought that a writer would shoehorn a ship between Kirk and the descendent of his greatest nemesis. I really love this series.

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      True, but as someone on Tumblr observed, they could have avoided that just by placing Pelia’s “bunker” on Nova Scotia or somewhere else in Canada.

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        I think it’s fine; I don’t think it’s a huge deal that this could’ve been solved by moving her to someplace like Quebec (Toronto or even Ontario would’ve been too convenient). Like I said, it was just a thought when they arrived at the cabin.

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          It felt to me like there was an idea for a scene that was cut somewhere in the process with them having to deal with there being borders on earth, but the idea of the bunker being in Vermont remained and was explained with this throwaway line

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          I thought about this too, it would work, but would have softened the big “Canada” reveal a bit. As a Torontonian I was delighted by the big reveal in Dundas Square

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      It was a hand-wavy reason to explain how they got across the border, but then they had to do it the other way too. I’m pretty sure bribing two different border officers the day after an incident of international terrorism is not that easy. I don’t care how good Kirk is at chess, you can’t raise the kinds of funds needed to do that by betting on games for an afternoon

      Also, how did they get a fancy hotel room? Even if you’re paying in cash you need a credit card to secure the room (and ID)

      • Madison_rogue@kbin.social
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        Their badges are made of gold. IIRC in another time travel episode someone used their badge as ante before playing poker or some other game.