Logline
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.
A little remarked side effect of time travel is that it causes infatuation (Kirk, in “City on the Edge of Forever”) and horniness (Spock, in “All Our Yesterdays”). La’An experienced both!
Edit: I forgot about Bashir and Jadzia in “Trials and Tribble-ations” but honestly they just seemed to be acting in character!
La’An fell head over heels for someone who had never heard of her. Absolutely makes sense. An entire lifetime of being treated differently, because everyone knows. Even if they don’t treat her negatively, they still know.
This Kirk was the first person since grade school that she met someone who didn’t know.
Absolutely makes sense.
Plus it ties in with the previous episode where she and Number One reflect on their augments, family history, and years of feeling shame about who they are.
This came out of left field for me but I really love La’An as a character and I want her to be consoled so hard 🥺
I wish we knew a bit more about her family. It’s notable that she is ashamed of the history of her name, but proud enough to keep it. One imagines there must be a strong line of incredibly stubborn people desperate to redeem the horrible deeds of their family’s past.
I don’t remember the exact name of that building, but “Noonien-Singh Institute For Improving Society” or something vaguely like that. I imagine, if they weren’t evil incarnate duping the masses, that they were probably a very proud family that did a lot to attempt to make the world a better place. Perhaps before the “socialist utopia” they were a very wealthy family that performed a lot of charitable work and did great things. Perhaps Khan and his siblings were simply a huge mistake that were unintentionally contrary to all the other things they did.
What about Sisko, Bashir, and Jadzia (then later O’Brien and Kira) in “Past Tense”? I didn’t see any horniness except for maybe from O’Brien
Sisko did his horny stuff in the mirror universe.