History Fridge / StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds

* Boimler created both a StableTimeLoop and a ShipSink when he asked Christine if he'd 'broken' Spock--he told her he knew *everything* about Spock, but clearly didn't know who Christine was, which caused her to realize that whatever Spock's future held, she wasn't going to be in it. This causes her to withdraw emotionally from the relationship and eventually dump Spock.

* The events of "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" very easily explain why La'an wouldn't stick around on the Enterprise when Kirk takes command - not just her being ordered not to speak of her visit to the past, but also in the fact that she almost certainly wouldn't want to be serving on the same vessel as him, knowing that they certainly can't be what they'd been becoming in that timeline. "Subspace Rhapsody" further reinforces this, as La'an decides to confess her feelings to Kirk and gets gently shut down when Kirk reveals that he already has a pregnant girlfriend.

* Boimler mentions that Mariner was the first in the door to the Fleet Museum, which she denies. We also know she's a big fan of Uhura, and which ship is displayed there? The ''U.S.S. Leondegrance'', which was Uhura's command prior to her retirement, and is one of only three ships commanded by the original ''Enterprise'' crew besides the ''Enterprise''-A and the ''Excelsior''. Although it wasn't seen in ''Picard'', the ''Leondegrance'' is there based on a placard about the ship in that show's second season confirming its display at the Museum. No wonder Mariner was in such a hurry to get inside.

*** Not only that, but as part of Pike not being insane or cruel, Kirk is following Starfleet protocol - in Voyager's [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E25S6E1Equinox Equinox]], Starfleet procedure states that in combat situations, the vessel with superior firepower has superiority. Likewise, after the Farragut is taken out of commission, Kirk is simply a guest on Pike's vessel, rather than in command - he can suggest ideas and be involved in strategy, but he is not calling the shots. While many people try to frame Kirk as a maverick, that reputation only built up as a result of his actions in the movies, and the extraordinary situations there, while in the Original Series itself, Kirk very much followed Starfleet rules and protocol, at least as long as they were established for the situation he was in.

* In "The Broken Circle", Chapel asks M'Benga if he wants to use a drug, which we later learn is called Protocol 12 again, to which he responds with no, and after they inject themselves with it, proceed to decimate a group of Klingons. We learn more about it and their past in Under the Cloak of War, when M'Benga is asked to produce more of it, and uses it to help in his task of assassinating J'Gal, and he gives Chapel a vial to use if she needs help with the evacuation. Given their dialog, and both of them being experienced in combat against Klingons, looks like Chapel was forced to use Protocol 12 in order to escape.

** And as for the uncontrollable singing, someone could have easily confessed something seriously damaging -- M'Benga, for example and in the wake of the previous episode, could have admitted that he was the real Butcher of J'Gal. (This one does get addressed InUniverse, as La'an decides to come clean to Jim Kirk about her brief encounter with his alternate self rather than letting it come out as a 17th century sea shanty.)

** Kodos never apologies because he fully, entirely grasps that what he did left him BeyondRedemption. Dak'Rah makes a big show contrition, always talks about how he was shown what he'd done was wrong, but isn't ''truly'' sorry (he never apologies to M'Benga for the conditions on J'gal that were his fault, for one). Kodos buried his past because it was the only way he could live with himself after what he'd done; Dak'Rah pridefully boasts about how different he is now than he was before.

* In The Broken Circle, Chapel asks M'Benga if he wants to use a drug, which we later learn is called Protocol 12 again, to which he responds with no, and after they inject themselves with it, proceed to decimate a group of Klingons. We learn more about it and their past in Under the Cloak of War, when M'Benga is asked to produce more of it, and uses it to help in his task of assassinating J'Gal, and he gives Chapel a vial to use if she needs help with the evacuation. Given their dialog, and both of them being experienced in combat against Klingons, looks like Chapel was forced to use Protocol 12 in order to escape.

* In The Broken Circle, Chapel ask's M'Benga if he want's to use a drug, which we later learn is called Protocol 12 again, to which he responds with no, and after they inject themselves with it, proceed to decimate a group of Klingons. We learn more about it and their past in Under the Cloak of War, when M'Benga is asked to produce more of it, and uses it to help in his task of assassinating J'Gal, and he gives Chapel a vial to use if she needs help with the evacuation. Given their dialog, and both of them being experienced in combat against Klingons, looks like Chapel was forced to use Protocol 12 in order to escape.

* In "Amok Time", Spock does warn Stonn that "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." After seeing his [[ObnoxiousInLaws would-be-mother-in-law]], it's clear that he wasn't talking T'Pring in that moment. True, she would have been more approving of Stonn, but seeing how picky she is about her daughter's romantic prospects, Stonn may have come to regret that decision.

* There are hints that some progress has been made. Bashir was allowed to remain in Starfleet after the truth about his modifications came out, and Dal R'El was granted an exception that would allow him to join Starfleet, implying that while the ban still exists, it is reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

** Uhura's song is about how, despite her own considerable pain, she is always there for her friends so they have someone to share their pain with and not suffer alone. And what happens right before this song? Spock waiting until he was alone with Uhura to sing about his heartbreak, allowing him to share his pain with someone without the humiliation of singing to everyone in the galley. In fact, Uhura notices Spock being upset in the middle of being in the throes of Chapel's happy song about being accepted by the fellowship and breaking up with Spock.

* The events of "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" very easily explain why La'an wouldn't stick around on the Enterprise when Kirk takes command - not just her being ordered not to speak of her visit to the past, but also in the fact that she almost certainly wouldn't want to be serving on the same vessel as him, knowing that they certainly can't be what they'd been becoming in that timeline.

** The first song of the musical, "Status Report," also serves the function of introducing the major players of the story, with Uhura and Pike cueing up the singers. This also serves to establish Pike as TheCaptain and Uhura as The CommunicationsOfficer.

** The first song of the musical, "Status Report," also serves the function of introducing the major players of the story, with Uhura and Pike cueing up the singers. This also serves to establish Pike as TheCaptain and Uhura as TheCommunicationsOfficer.