Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

I'm not that impressed with Wesley's Captain Kirk, but I think it got better as the episode progressed. He just doesn't seem all that "Kirk-like." The scene where he gets in a rather childish fight with La'al over the device was almost comical. Not his fault-we can blame that on horrible direction. But a line that will probably go down as one of the worst ever uttered in the Star Trek universe was: "I've got to get back to my ship! My god, what have you done?" Sorry-not convincing at all!

So at first, I thought the episode was kind of tongue-in-cheek, but they did a good job of selling the rather subtle love story, and by the end, I was somewhat more engaged.

Nevertheless, I think that Christina Chong was an excellent casting choice for the show. I think she has some awesome acting chops and her scene at the end where she cried even had me tearing up. And I'm a grown-ass man.

One of the best with Action, Mystery, Romance , and drama - well written and well acted - the story moved and was fun on top of everything else - isn't that what entertainment is supposed to be - not trying to make critic review points - The Peoples Choice awards is more important to Studios , the Academy is more important to the Employee's ( Actors, Director etc ) - My favorite Star Trek was when the Enterprise crew went back to the 20 century to retrieve whales to save earth , and the Star Trek Voyager time travel to San Francisco to retrieve a time machine - those stories were fun - as was this one although one was a movie and the other had a several part episode - I would like to have seen a second episode with this format but perhaps for another time ( pun intended )

Time travel, with the need to correct an alternate timeline thrusts Chong together with Captain James T. Kirk (played by Paul Wesley) back in an alternate 21st Century on Earth in this imaginative and fun/suspenseful segment. Instead of the Strange New Worlds, we are thrust into variations on the future of our own almost-familiar planet.

It's a fine script, with quality clues and loads of surprises, while focusing on the two central characters. Early on the main issue of which timeline will ultimately survive is addressed, a significant philiosophical idea, as one's instant allegiance to good old Captain Kirk is not necessarily the correct answer, as his life history is presented as dystopian compared to the alternate history of Star Fleet and Chong's utopian future.

What a joy to see daredevil Kirk recklessly driving a high-horsepower Dodge Challenger in an impromptu action scene, and the scene changing to Vermont to inject ageless Carol Kane's character into the quest to thwart the evil time traveler's scheme.

The DuckDuckGo reference as reverse-nostalgia was a bit much (anti-Google sentiment is becoming pervasive in my time-line), but who could resist a romance developing between Kirk and Chong, only to divert us from a brilliant, poignant plot twist?

This episode of SNW presents us with one of the classic time travel episodes that we know all too well from the episodic Star Trek series.

Of course, a case-of-the-week format can't reinvent the wheel here, and so the development of the story remains linear and the quest is really mastered along the way.

What the episode does excel at, however, and this is where it ties in with the qualities of TOS, TNG or even VOY, is giving characters depth and letting us participate in the inner lives of its protagonists.

Meanwhile, the episode once again shows an understanding by the scriptwriters of the authoritative coolness and humor that characterizes the great captains of Star Trek and that otherwise Captain Pike brilliantly represents.

TLDR: A condensed story that leaves science and hurdles to the left to let its characters shine.

Strange New Worlds delivers again. Ever since TOS 'Tomorrow Is Yesterday' I've loved Star Trek time travel episodes (they are at the heart of Star Trek); some of my favorites are: 'Assignment: Earth,' 'The City on the Edge of Forever,' 'Past Tense,' and 'Trials and Tribble-ations.' Now I have another favorite with 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.'

La'an (Christina Chong) faces not so much a paradox, but a painful moral decision in an alternate timeline: her happiness vs doing the right thing. Chong plays La'an as a stone hard security officer with a deep, driven soul and Paul Wesley breaks through her shell.

Great episode!