Well, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues not to disappoint, with a strong episode 2.3 that serves up time travel ala "City on the Edge of Forever" and "Assignment Earth", two of the very best episodes of the original series.
[Spoilers ahead ... ]
Not only that kind of time travel, but SNW 2.3 also brings back Captain James T. Kirk, as La'an Noonien-Singh finds herself in alternate universe with the Federation having a different name and Earth on the edge of destruction. Her job of course is to make sure that does not happen, and in a story that is both tender and tough she cannot bring herself to do anything but protect the boy who will become Khan in our Star Trek universe, while she also must endure Kirk dying, even as she may be starting to fall in love with him. (Apparently James T. Kirk is irresistible in all universes.)
The episode is capped off with the revelation that there are time-cops in our universe, whose job is to make sure the timelines stay put. This is a nice call out to Asimov's The End of Eternity, and a welcome staple in any time travel story done right.
Which this one is. Strange New Worlds continues to mine the tropes of Star Trek in every episode, and that's very good to see, since those tropes are still the best things going in any science fiction in outer space story. It may well be that this season may do nothing but that, but that's more than ok.
See you back next week with my next review.
See also Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2.1: Nurse Chapel ... 2.2: Racism and Sexism in the Courtroom
And see also Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1.1-1.2: Great Characters, Actors, Stories ... 1.3: "Instead of terraforming planets, we modify ourselves ..." ... 1.4: The Gorn and the Wub ... 1.5 Going to the Chapel ... 1.6: Two Stories ... 1.7: The Kiss ... 1.8: Ends of the Continuum ... 1.9: Momentous! ... 1.10: Everything!
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