(And, for the record: “His legacy is genocide, torture…and me” is a hell of a line!) But that doesn’t mean she is destined to become him. Of course, like any good story, that’s exactly why La’an must ultimately accept that she, too, is also part of Khan’s legacy, for both good and ill. Strange New Worlds: Illyrians Call Back to One of Star Trek’s Darkest Moments By Joe George When is the last time that happened to her? Maybe never? And, of course, it’s nice to see her finally being judged for herself alone, without any of the trauma of her last name attached.
Here, despite the whole “trying to solve a mystery that could irrevocably alter the timeline of her life as she knows it” thing, she seems looser, freer, and like she might actually be enjoying herself. (Thanks, cryostasis, I guess!) But, more importantly, this episode is also the first time we’ve ever really gotten to see La’an relax in this way-she always carries a certain tension around her, whether she’s doing routine aspects of her job or throwing back bloodwine with Klingons, as though she’s inevitably waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop. Call me a sucker but I kind of love the idea of Kirk maybe kind of having a romantic flirtation with a woman descended from the man who will become his greatest adversary. Plus, Wesley and Chong also have adorable chemistry with one another. I like this Kirk, dangit, even though I didn’t at all intend to. From his gleeful embrace of street hot dogs and real showers to his skill at hustling chess players in a park, this is a Kirk who hasn’t yet been weighed down by his own choices, a man who still believes in the promise of a better world so strongly he’s willing to die to bring it about, who chooses to follow La’an’s admittedly insane plan not for himself but for the possibility of bringing back the brother he lost. It’s been a nice surprise, particularly in all the ways that Wesley’s Kirk just feels so darn young-lighthearted and playful in a way we don’t get to see in Pine or Shatner’s version. Strange New Worlds, smartly, has used alternate timelines to not only ease us as viewers into the idea of this character but to also give Wesley lots of space to find his own footing and make the role more than a remix of what Chris Pine or William Shatner have done before. So it’s something fairly close to a miracle that the two episodes he’s appeared in thus far have actually been some of the series’ best. Admittedly, I was firmly Team Stefan during the actor’s time on The Vampire Diaries, so I’m already predisposed to like the guy, but I’ll also go to my grave insisting this show doesn’t need any version of Kirk to succeed. (Not to mention, we already know she’s worried about whether her genetics are her destiny, and she’s somehow irrevocably doomed to become a monster herself.)Īs someone whose been fairly wary of Strange New Worlds’ decision to introduce a younger version of Kirk, I’ll admit to being pleasantly surprised by Wesley. She’s angry, she’s standoffish, she’s stubborn, afraid, and deeply lonely, convinced that few if any are capable of seeing her as anything other than the sum of her genetic parts. Kirk- once again playing a version of the character who technically doesn’t exist in the show’s primary timeline-this is really a true showcase episode for Christina Chong, who gets the chance to dig into La’an’s deeply complex layers. While this hour sees the return of Paul Wesley as James T.
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We’ve seen hints of this before-her anger when she discovered Una was genetically modified last season, and it came up during her trial last week-but “Tomorrow and Tomorrow Tomorrow” confronts the looming specter of Khan head-on, in more ways than one. Given that one of Star Trek: Strange New World’s main characters has the last name Noonien-Singh, it was inevitable that the show would have to find ways to address the legacy of La’an’s most famous family member and the lingering trauma of growing up in Khan’s shadow has had on her life.
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This Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review contains spoilers.
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