Some fans have suggested that Alice really has amnesia after her accident, and only after she sees the pirates, the sight triggers her memory's full return.
When in the end Alice tells the children of their future, is she telling the truth or not? Or partly? She warns them not to believe her, but that can be interpreted as her desire to avoid a temporal paradox. She does mention to Yulia, earlier, that she has read about Borya Messerer's art in her time, and it can be assumed she says the truth about Kolya Sulima, since she probably knows him as the time machine's inventor. However, it's hard to figure out with the rest of the class.
It Was His Sled: Kolya Naumov is the one who went to the future. In the book, it's written to be a grand reveal (his last name is never mentioned in the first part), but thanks to the movie, it's turned into Internal Reveal.
Never Live It Down: While at the hospital, Alice brings up a dish called brambulet that she can cook herself and talks about it for a couple of paragraphs. Brambulet is only mentioned this one time and isn't brought up in any other book of the franchise. In fanon, it has become the national dish of Alice's world and Alice's own favorite.
Complete Monster: Glot is the power-hungry leader of the space Pirate Alliance. His previous attempt to take over the Star Federation having been thwarted, Glot seizes the chance for revenge once he senses that the cosmion, the time-travel substance that he has lost, has appeared in the year 2124 again. Thrown into the past in his hunt for cosmion, Glot uses his hypnotic powers to sabotage Earth's first contact with the Star Federation and establishes a Bad Future in which he rules over Earth, now a pirates' base where people get a choice between working like slaves to produce new weapons or getting killed. With his mind-control abilities, Glot makes Alice slowly and tortuously choke Kolya, whom Alice loves, to obtain the cosmion now hosted in Kolya's body. Glot just as coldheartedly gets his own right-hand man killed once he no longer needs him and tries to murder Kolya's Innocent Bystander friends and Alice's parents purely for getting in his way. Devoid of all the humanizing qualities of his book counterpart, Glot cares for nothing except his own ambitions.
