History Recap / StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E03TomorrowAndTomorrowAndTomorrow

* WouldHurtAChild: To change the future, Sera intends to kill a very young Khan. The initial plan was to detonate the reactor and wipe out Toronto, taking him with it, but she goes the personal route when Kirk derails the first plan.
* YourUniverseOrMine: Kirk and La'an share a kiss, but they're from different timelines, so it wouldn't have lasted. (Unless the time travel device lets him stay with her, but he says that the universe probably couldn't handle two of him. He's not wrong.)

* DressesTheSame: When Kirk and La'an are at Roots picking out clothes to shoplift, they emerge from the dressing rooms wearing the exact same outfit. When they see each other, they share A Look, and Kirk visibly deflates and goes to pick something else.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Season two of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' established the existence of Supervisors like Tallinn active on Earth during the 2020s with the explicit mission of safeguarding the integrity of the timeline. You would think such an organisation would be very interested in Romulans travelling to the past to assassinate Khan Noonien-Singh and change the course of history. Granted, they're not always ''effective'', hence the Temporal Wars.

* ContinuitySnarl: Season two of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' established the existence of Supervisors like Tallinn active on Earth during the 2020s with the explicit mission of safeguarding the integrity of the timeline. You would think such an organisation would be very interested in Romulans travelling to the past to assassinate Khan Noonien-Singh and change the course of history. Granted, they're not always ''effective'', hence the Temporal Wars.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Most of the urban geography is pretty solid: all the real-world locations visited in Toronto are roughly where they ought to be and correctly depicted as walkable. However, the episode features a giant bridge crossing Lake Ontario ending in Toronto. We're never quite told where the other end is, only that it's one of the largest bridges in the world. The thing is, a mega bridge ending in Toronto doesn't really make sense. All major cities on the Canadian side of the border around the lake have a straight path to Toronto that a bridge wouldn't shorten. The only destination that doesn't is Niagara-on-the-Lake, which is a rather small population center for such a mega bridge. If we assume (as implied by Sera's claim it symbolises international co-operation) the bridge crosses the border into the USA, then that makes the biggest destination across the lake be Rochester, which while large is still a rather small population center for such a mega bridge to Toronto. [[https://twitter.com/djb_art/status/1674549626328993792?s=46&t=hXmcBRNjBKh7JTw61FhuUA A tweet from the bridge's designer]] calls the bridge the Toronto-Niagara Bridge, suggesting it goes over Lake Ontario and around Niagara-on-the-Lake, which is near the Canadian/US border.

** La'an sees the name of the building where the fusion reactor is kept: the Noonien-Singh Institute. And if that wasn't enough, there's a small room that has one familiar name on the door... '''KHAN'''. And when La'an comes face-to-face with her notorious ancestor...he's just a scared little boy, not the genocidal dictator that he's destined to become.

** La'an sees the name of the building where the fusion reactor is kept: the Noonien-Singh Institute. And if that wasn't enough, there's a small room that has one familiar name on the door... '''KHAN'''.

-->''"Sam's alive?"''

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Most of the urban geography is pretty solid: all the real-world locations visited in Toronto are roughly where they ought to be and correctly depicted as walkable. However, the episode features a giant bridge crossing Lake Ontario ending in Toronto. We're never quite told where the other end is, only that it's one of the largest bridges in the world. The thing is, a mega bridge ending in Toronto doesn't really make sense. All major cities on the Canadian side of the border around the lake have a straight path to Toronto that a bridge wouldn't shorten. The only destination that doesn't is Niagara-on-the-Lake, which is a rather small population center for such a mega bridge. If we assume the bridge crosses the border into the USA, then that makes the biggest destination across the lake be Rochester, which while large is still a rather small population center for such a mega bridge to Toronto. [[https://twitter.com/djb_art/status/1674549626328993792?s=46&t=hXmcBRNjBKh7JTw61FhuUA A tweet from the bridge's designer]] calls the bridge the Toronto-Niagara Bridge, suggesting it goes over Lake Ontario and around Niagara-on-the-Lake, which is near the Canadian/US border.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Kirk stops protesting his timeline's destruction when La'an offhandedly uses the present tense to refer to Sam Kirk.

** Kirk and La'an manage to cross the American border, by road, into Vermont to visit Pelia, then go back into Canada, despite not having passports ''or even identities'' in this time period. There's a throwaway line about bribing a guard, but anyone who's been through the [=US=]-Canada border in the last twenty years or so will raise an eyebrow at this singular lack of difficulty, especially since there was a ''terrorist attack'' less than a day ago. (There's not even a Doylist reason this is required-- they could simply have established Pelia's bunker as being in Quebec, for example.)

* AlternateTimeline: Thanks to temporal meddling, a new timeline is created where the Federation never comes to be, Earth is destroyed, and the humanity (now living in lunar colonies) instead forms the United Earth Fleet. The Romulans are on their way to conquering Vulcan, and Earth forces are implied to be on the losing side of their war with them as well. It turns out that this is what happened when humanity never had Khan Noonien-Singh around to start the Eugenics Wars, as his plunging of humanity into another Dark Age and starting World War III was the kick to the rear that Earth needed to get its act together.

* AlternateTimeline: Thanks to temporal meddling, a new timeline is created where the Federation never comes to be, Earth is destroyed, and Earth instead forms the United Earth Fleet. The Romulans are on their way to conquering Vulcan, and Earth forces are implied to be on the losing side of their war with them as well. It turns out that this is what happened when humanity never had Khan Noonien-Singh around to start the Eugenics Wars, as his plunging of humanity into another Dark Age and starting World War III was the kick to the rear that Earth needed to get its act together.

** As in "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E17APieceOfTheAction A Piece of the Action]]", Kirk's ability to drive leaves something to be desired. Amusingly, this episode vaguely hints toward "A Piece of the Action" specifically-- in "A Piece of the Action", the car Kirk is having trouble with is an (Iotian replica) vintage tourer with a manual transmission. The Dodge Challenger in this episode is an automatic. Maybe he just doesn't know how to drive stick!

** At the end of the episode, La'an gets a visit from the [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations Department of Temporal Investigations]] to retrieve the time travel device and tell her to keep quiet about the events of the episode. They still haven't been formed yet, and presumably won't be until the encounter with the Guardian of Forever.

** Sera mentions the concept of time itself "fighting back" against time travelers, a property originally brought up by Annorax in [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E8YearOfHell VGR: "Year of Hell"]].

-->''"You know, maple leaves, politeness, poutine..."''
** Kirk later tries and gushes about Poutine.

** Sera commits suicide similar to the Zhat Vash assassins in ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', only with an implant in her neck instead of biting a capsule.

*** Kirk and La'an manage to cross the American border, by road, into Vermont to visit Pelia, then go back into Canada, despite not having passports ''or even identities'' in this time period. There's a throwaway line about bribing a guard, but anyone who's been through the [=US=]-Canada border in the last twenty years or so will raise an eyebrow at this singular lack of difficulty, especially since there was a ''terrorist attack'' less than a day ago. (There's not even a Doylist reason this is required-- they could simply have established Pelia's bunker as being in Quebec, for example.)

* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: Despite stereotypical Canadian politeness, the local police are ''not'' going to let a public safety threat like Kirk off with a ''warning'', regardless of Sera's nagging and the radio dispatcher insisting that maximum police presence is needed to deal with the explosion.

* CanadaEh:
** The first ever ''Star Trek'' production with scenes set in Canada[[note]]although many scenes from ''SNW'' and ''Discovery'' have been filmed in and around Toronto[[/note]], or indeed with more than a passing reference to it (aired two days before Canada Day!). When explaining to a Kirk who's never been on Earth what Canada is, La'an goes through several stereotypical Canadian things.

** Kirk later gushes about Poutine.

* StableTimeLoop: Implied in regards to Pelia. La'an seeks her out because she knowns Pelia as an engineer and knows she's alive in the 21st Century, only for 2022 Pelia to reveal she's not done any math since "Pythagoras invented the damn thing" let alone engineering. Still in the end she helps and La'an tells her that she's more of an engineer than she thinks, and Pelia remarks that maybe she missed her calling. and that having an honest job as an Engineer would be nice. Implying this interaction would kickstart her interest in engineering and leading to be the Engineer we know with over 100 years of service at Starfleet by the 23rd century.

* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement:
** Despite stereotypical Canadian politeness, the local police are ''not'' going to let a public safety threat like Kirk off with a ''warning'', regardless of Sera's nagging and the radio dispatcher insisting that maximum police presence is needed to deal with the explosion.

** Kirk and La'an manage to cross the American border into Vermont to visit Pelia, then go back into Canada, despite not having passports ''or even identities'' in this time period. There's a throwaway line about bribing a guard, but anyone who's been through the [=US=]-Canada border in the last twenty years or so will raise an eyebrow at this singular lack of difficulty, especially since there was a ''terrorist attack'' less than a day ago. (There's not even a Doylist reason this is required-- they could simply have established Pelia's bunker as being in Quebec, for example.)

* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: **Despite stereotypical Canadian politeness, the local police are ''not'' going to let a public safety threat like Kirk off with a ''warning'', regardless of Sera's nagging and the radio dispatcher insisting that maximum police presence is needed to deal with the explosion.

* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: Despite stereotypical Canadian politeness, the local police are ''not'' going to let a public safety threat like Kirk off with a ''warning'', regardless of Sera's nagging and the radio dispatcher insisting that maximum police presence is needed to deal with the explosion. Similarly, a simple bribe isn't getting one past a border guard.

* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: Despite stereotypical Canadian politeness, the local police are ''not'' going to let a public safety threat like Kirk off with a ''warning'', regardless of Sera's nagging and the radio dispatcher insisting that maximum police presence is needed to deal with the explosion. Similarly, as noted in EasyLogistics, a simple bribe isn't getting one past a border guard.

* EasyLogistics: Kirk and La'an manage to cross the American border into Vermont to visit Pelia, then go back into Canada, despite not having passports ''or even identities'' in this time period. There's a throwaway line about bribing a guard, but anyone who's been through the [=US=]-Canada border in the last twenty years or so will raise an eyebrow at this singular lack of difficulty, especially since there was a ''terrorist attack'' less than a day ago. (There's not even a Doylist reason this is required-- they could simply have established Pelia's bunker as being in Quebec, for example.)

** The comical business of Kirk failing to recognize Toronto (despite the [[FailedASpotCheck giant signs saying "Toronto"]]) will get a [[FridgeHorror pretty grim explanation]] later in the episode: not only is Earth in general an abandoned wasteland in his timeline, but Toronto specifically was annihilated hundreds of years ago-- and they arrived just a few days before the event.

* CanadaEh: The first ever ''Star Trek'' production with scenes set in Canada[[note]]although many scenes from ''SNW'' and ''Discovery'' have been filmed in and around Toronto[[/note]], or indeed with more than a passing reference to it (aired two days before Canada Day!). When explaining to a Kirk who's never been on Earth what Canada is, La'an goes through several stereotypical Canadian things.

* ShirtlessScene: When Kirk is changing in the Roots dressing room, his shirt rides up. La'an glimpses this through a gap in the curtain and is [[EatingTheEyeCandy rather distracted]]. (If that little bit of Kirk torso gets her that riled up, she's obviously never [[WalkingShirtlessScene watched ''TOS''.]])