YMMV / Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E03 "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"

• Genius Bonus:
  • One of Pelia's "Artifacts" is "The Concert" by Johannes Vermeer. It's a painting that was stolen in 1990 from a museum in Boston (and not the Louvre as the episode claims) and remains missing to this day. It's estimated to be the most valuable single object currently stolen.
  • Toronto is frequently used as California Doubling for New York City, making Kirk's confusion both a shout-out and a bit of Fridge Brilliance: Since he grew up in space and has barely seen Earth outside of movies, there's no reason he wouldn't fall for it.
  • The episode title comes from the same play as the TOS episode "All Our Yesterdays," and both episodes are Time Travel stories.
    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.
• Ghost Shipping: Multiple fanfics pairing La'an and alternative timeline Kirk already exist. And the episode itself could be considered Ship Tease for regular timeline Kirk and La'an, given he asked her out for a drink during their brief interaction at the end.
• Spiritual Successor: The episode has a similar narrative, albeit in a different permutation as TOS's "The City on The Edge of Forever."
  • The plot appears to be an inversion of Gene Roddenberry's idea of having the crew travel back in time to ensure the Kennedy assassination takes place.
• Unexpected Character: While the Previously on… contains a number of quotes about genetics, they all look like they're referring to La'an, who "Ad Astra Per Aspera" established was an Augment. Khan (Desmond Sivan) isn't hinted at or referred to until he shows up in the last ten minutes of the episode.

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