Strange New Worlds season 2 - SPOILERS

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Yep. She made a comment about being there something like 30 years. That would make it more likely she‘d simply fire and be done with it, not less likely.

If I were to speculate, I think she was pretty isolated and frustrated and needed to talk to someone that can even follow her rants, even if it's an enemy.
She was kinda venting about how she has no way to predict the outcome of stuff she does, she has to rely on computer simulations, and she has been doing this for way too long with insufficient results to show for it. And she usually only interacts with people that don't know about the Romulans, the Federation or time travel.

 

[MarkB]

So, thinking about that Noonien-Singh institute and the genetic marker allowing La'an access - why did that work, exactly?

It wasn't because she shared Khan's DNA - he wasn't in charge there, he was locked up in one tiny room, why would his genetic markers unlock the same doors that were locking him in?

So who was in charge, who was running an institute that's pioneering cold fusion and genetic engineering in the same building?

Maybe the genetic experiments weren't delayed 30 years. Maybe they went ahead back in the day, and all that got changed with the timeline meddling between this event and Picard and other time travel shenanigans was that the person who was Khan in the original timeline decided to take a more circumspect approach, build up a powerbase quietly rather than trying to rule the world immediately. Maybe the kid we saw in this episode was Khan junior.

 

[Zaukrie]

So, thinking about that Noonien-Singh institute and the genetic marker allowing La'an access - why did that work, exactly?

It wasn't because she shared Khan's DNA - he wasn't in charge there, he was locked up in one tiny room, why would his genetic markers unlock the same doors that were locking him in?

So who was in charge, who was running an institute that's pioneering cold fusion and genetic engineering in the same building?

Maybe the genetic experiments weren't delayed 30 years. Maybe they went ahead back in the day, and all that got changed with the timeline meddling between this event and Picard and other time travel shenanigans was that the person who was Khan in the original timeline decided to take a more circumspect approach, build up a powerbase quietly rather than trying to rule the world immediately. Maybe the kid we saw in this episode was Khan junior.

Maybe his "father" shares their DNA....though having a lock that Khan can open seems like sketchy security to me.

 

[billd91]

So, thinking about that Noonien-Singh institute and the genetic marker allowing La'an access - why did that work, exactly?

It wasn't because she shared Khan's DNA - he wasn't in charge there, he was locked up in one tiny room, why would his genetic markers unlock the same doors that were locking him in?

So who was in charge, who was running an institute that's pioneering cold fusion and genetic engineering in the same building?

That would be Khan, senior. It's a little known fact that Khan Noonien-Singh was once known as junior...

 

[MarkB]

That would be Khan, senior. It's a little known fact that Khan Noonien-Signh was once known as junior...

Maybe, but my point is that the institute already seems to be running projects that are in the realm of "superior intellect". Is Khan senior genetically modified, or are they spinning off technologies from kid-Khan's brain, or was a working cold-fusion reactor something that was just in the works based upon regular old human advancement at this point?

 

[Ryujin]

I literally said I care about good stories.... So, wut are you talking about? We disagree on the importance of canon across fifty years of lightly connected tv shows. It sure didn't hurt James Bond to start over again.... You care about whether a fictional war took place in the nineties or fifty years later. I don't. Neither of us is wrong, it's preference over fiction.

I've always just hand-waved it using Spock's original comments in TOS about records from the Eugenics War being "fragmentary." The timetable could be all over the place.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

So, thinking about that Noonien-Singh institute and the genetic marker allowing La'an access - why did that work, exactly?

It wasn't because she shared Khan's DNA - he wasn't in charge there, he was locked up in one tiny room, why would his genetic markers unlock the same doors that were locking him in?

So who was in charge, who was running an institute that's pioneering cold fusion and genetic engineering in the same building?

My money, based on how Star Trek tends to go, is on it all being run by evil future La'an, or a somehow alive evil future version of one of her family members.

Which is not to say that that is necessarily currently planned to be the explanation. Rather I think that they left some threads open here for exploration in a future season with no firm plan for how it ties together, but that when it comes time to return to it, the lure of giving Christina Chong a double role or a dramatic showdown with one of her own tragically lost family members will be too great to resist, no matter how much techno-nonsense they have to spin to make it happen.

 

[Maxperson]

I really enjoyed the 3rd episode. I have a soft spot for Trek time travel tales (except Picard Season2.) There was chemistry between the actors and I felt Kirk was portrayed very well. Bonus points for taking place in Canada!

And Vermont! A state I hear about less often than the Dakotas or Maine.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Wouldn't have happened at all if it wasn't being shot in Canada, where people just know that we can recognize American's on sight

We can generally spot them in London.

 

[Zardnaar]

Skipped to bottom.

3 episodes of season 2 are available to watch on Freeview.