First, I love time travel. ST has some of the best. City on the Edge of Forever, Tomorrow is Yesterday, Year of Hell, Past Tense. All great episodes. Now this one. Tremendous. But before I move on, let me be honest: I have a lot of trouble with the back story to what I feel is an alternate universe Star Trek. First, with Earth's fears, which they've passed on to the Federation (being a founding member has its privileges eh?) and it's fear of genetic manipulation, which even effects alien races like the Illyrians, how the hell did a descendant of Khan get into starfleet? Another is the size of the crews quarters. Ridiculous. On the original enterprise, one could fit ten officers in quarters the size of this ship. But, I'll let that go. It's a tie as to who should be arrested for stealing this episode, Christina or Paul. This is the first episode I've really liked Noonien-Singh (why didn't she change her name?) But again, the way they've misused the Gorn which they aren't supposed to know about until Kirk is in the center seat-is annoying. I'll let this go as an alternate universe, especially since Kirk drives like a pro. Paul is coming off as a great Kirk. He's not as bulky as shatner, but he has everything else down. I loved that the used the old UEF, United Earth Fleet from TOS. A great easter egg. But, Christina was also great. Especially the end when she contacts Lieutenant Kirk. Real, raw emotion. I'll call this a tie, but I took points off for, like Enterprise, giving the Romulans higher tech than they should have. Please don't tie this into the temporal cold war from Enterprise. That, along with the Xindi, were terrible ideas. As for the Romulan's having a lower tech than the Federation, go to Timescape in TNG. Their computers are behind the Federation. Over all the second best episode of the series and season. Bravo!
Review of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
