Happy Canada Day from the good people at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
July 1 is our National Holiday up here in the Great White North and how awesome was it for me to tune into the latest episode of SNW and find it set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the not-to-distant future?
And that the episode featured Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Sing, one of my favourite actors and characters in the long history of Star Trek?
What a fantastic surprise.
Now, that's not to say it was a perfect episode. The Romulan spy found them just a little to easily and they travelled to Vermont and back just a little too quickly for my taste. I don't know why a Romulan, who has been trapped in Earth's gravity for 30 years, would be so much stronger than La'an, who has always been very powerful for a human.
I am still not sure how we reconcile the argument SNW makes that the name Noonien-Singh is infamous in the 22nd Century when, in TOS, Kirk and Spock have no idea who Khan Noonien-Singh is and make it clear that "most records from that period have been lost".
But... it was great to see the homage to Toronto's street hot dog vendors, to the futuristic-looking colourful Canadian banknotes and to the overall Canadian custom of kindness and serenity.
And it was also nice to get a chance to explore La'an as a character a little bit more. She's one of the more intriguing characters introduced in recent ST series and I enjoyed the chance to get to know her a little bit better.
SNW continues to impress. I look forward to more.
And, as I watched "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" filter to a quiet end, I wonder why the last second focus on the 21st century watch La'an brought back with her and, further, if we are going to find out that a little Kirk baby is on the way...
