After knocking it out of the park with "Ad Aspera Per Aspera," which is being widely lauded as one of the best episodes of the series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds does it again with "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow." The third episode of Season 2, written by David Reed and directed by Amanda Row, delivers a story that is both humorous and heartbreaking.
La'an is walking alone through the halls of the ship when a man dressed in 21st-century attire stumbles seemingly out of thin air and asks for her help as he collapses to the ground. The man is suffering from a gunshot wound, and he tells her that she has to stop an attack in the past. He gives her a temporal device and tells her that she needs to get to the bridge before a force moves through the ship and he disappears.
'Strange New Worlds' Season 2 Sends Kirk and La'an Through Time Once they've been delivered to the turning point in history that they're meant to fix, the device refuses to send them back to the future. While Kirk immediately wants to find a way back to his ship, La'an is already twelve steps ahead of him explaining that they have no choice but to complete the mission she was given.
The next morning La'an is writing down what she remembers of 21st-century history while Kirk marvels over water showers and minibars. La'an's urgency is rooted in rescuing her timeline, whereas Kirk has virtually no interest in completing this mission because if they do, his timeline won't exist.
While it'd be easy to mark her down as a crazy person, Kirk plays into it and tells her that his "wife," gesturing to La'an, was actually abducted by aliens and that she's seen things. He laces what they tell Zera with a little bit of truth, revealing that the bridge was blown up with a photonic bomb.
Back in Toronto, La'an and Kirk flirt as they walk through the city looking for any signs of the reactor. Their levity quickly gives way to vulnerability as she thanks him for saving her life, and he tells her that her timeline is far more worthy of saving than his. Having grown attached to him in a way that she doesn't let herself get attached to people, La'an suggests that perhaps she can bring him back with her when they go to the future.