It would be hard to guess where “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” is headed from its opening scenes, which play a bit like theBy the episode’s end, we’ve had time travel, scenes of a budding romance , and a variation on a classic moral dilemma. But first, the episode offers a glimpse of La’an Noonien-Singh’s everyday duties as Chief of Security.
finds some fun twists on the device. Kirk’s never been to Earth at all , so it’s more than just time travel that throws him off. But he’s pretty good at shoplifting and he’sgood at chess, which allows them to pick up enough pocket money to keep the hot dogs flowing and to pay for a nice hotel room. Their mission might be urgent, but they need their rest.
La’an suggests their new friend is “unhinged,” but when she shows them what appears to be a legit picture of an alien spacecraft that Kirk recognizes as Romulan. And it’s this detail that allows them to figure out what they have to change. In Kirk’s timeline, Romulans destroy an experimental cold fusion reactor, wiping out Toronto. In La’an’s, none of this happens. Time to save the reactor!
Putting duty first, they sneak into the building housing the reactor. There they discover the headquarters of the Noonien-Singh Institute. But before they can step inside, they’re confronted by Veronica, who’s, it turns out, a paranoid conspiracy theorist but a Romulan from the future sent to keep them from altering the timeline. She means business.
In her quarters, she’s visited by Agent Ymalay , an agent from the Department of Temporal Investigations. Ymalay swears La’an to secrecy, retrieves her device, and disappears, leaving a shaken La’an behind and still wearing her ’80s watch. This inspires her to reach out to Kirk with the flimsy excuse of needing to know Sam’s place of birth. After a brief conversation, La’an breaks down. What she just experienced never happened, but it still left its mark.