History WMG / StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds

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* The Klingon-Pop will become its own song rather then be part of "We Are One", due to being ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]].''

* The Klingon-Pop will become its own song rather then be part of "We Are One", due being ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious]].''

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They have the same surname, and are about the same age, she might turn out to be his sister.

* Well, she's survived thus far, but she's infected with Gorn eggs and the episode ends with ToBeContinued

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* The version of the story where the fight broke out, and the ambassador was killed ''with his own knife'' (which the audience knows is in fact M'Benga's) preserves the Doctor's reputation as an innocent party, and allows the disgraced general to die in battle. If the ambassador killed himself, then claiming it was his knife all along also avoids implicating the Doctor, as there were not a lot of good reasons for him to have the knife other than to kill the ambassador or help him with his suicide.

* You mean a Lanthanite?

** Played with in "Lost in Translation" where he does beam aboard as the youngest first officer of the ''Farragut'' or any other Starfleet ship.

** Jossed when she returns to active duty one episode, the first of season two, later. The next time Kirk appears, He's the Farragut's first officer.

So those two MilitaryMaverick characters are about to be sent back and [[spoiler:mention that Tendi is the "Mistress of the Winter Constellations"]]. The Orion captain of the science vessel is taken aback and then flattered that Pike let his team take credit for the discovery of the Portal. He even gives the crew a gift of Orion delaq. This builds bridges between Orion and the Federation [[spoiler: and influences Tendi's grandmother to consider science.]] Tendi hearing about the discovery helped her become the CulturalRebel and join Starfleet.

** Played with in "Lost in Translation" where he does beam aboard as the ''Farragut''.

** Season 2 reveals that the Eugenics Wars were shifted from the 1990s to more like the 2030s due to time travel shenanigans.

She's not just a distant descendant of Khan, but an Augment from the same Eugenics War era. Like Khan's group, they set out on a sublight colony ship... which instead of being found by the ''Enterprise'' like the ''Botany Bay'' was, it was found by Gorn. Cue all the horrific things that happened to the crew, and La'an being the sole survivor. Like Julian Bashir a century later, she's [[DoWellButNotPerfect holding back]] to not draw attention and doesn't give details on just what is entailed by "colony ship" when talking about her past. Dr. M'Benga may be aware of it and is keeping it a secret as well.
* She is indeed descended from Noonien-Singh, and thereby partly "augmented". Which lead to tension when she discovered that her best friend and mentor, Una Chin-Riley [[DesignerBabies was genetically modified.]]
* Her status is pretty much confirmed 100 percent human as a) she is a known descendent of Noonien-Singh and b) any form of augmentation automatically barrs her from Federation service and is an automatic court-martial as seen with Una Chin-Riley. So she is not [[{{Jossed}} augmented in any fashion or degree.]]

Pike shows footage of the 2021 Capitol riot and implies it predates the Eugenics Wars (dated to the 1990s). This is not supposed to be an actual retcon from the writers, but an implication that the FutureImperfect trope is in play. Either the Eugenics Wars are initially thought to have happened later than they actually did (a mistake which gets corrected by the TOS timeframe), or the Capitol Riot is not actually a predecessor to the Second American Civil War, and the footage Pike used was mistakenly labeled as such.