Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 3.Traveling vast distances of space is literally what Star Trek is about, but along the way, the characters occasionally find themselves traveling across timelines and time periods. And during these travels, they sometimes make romantic connections that are unforgettable.
La’an is unable to convince Kirk that she’s from an alternate timeline, but then Kirk accidentally presses the button on the stranger’s device and the two of them land up in 21st-century Toronto. Their mission, they soon realize, is to prevent the Romulans, who have traveled to this time, from blowing up a cold fusion reactor that will decimate all of Toronto and change the course of history.
In "All Our Yesterdays," Spock and Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy wind up in the ice age of the planet Sarpeidon when they jump through a time portal device called the atavachron. In the past, Spock starts to lose control of his Vulcan emotions and falls in love with a cavewoman who helped them, Zarabeth . The atavachron requires users to be ‘prepared’ before traveling through time, and since Spock and McCoy weren’t prepped, they have only hours to live.
Cristóbal Rios was the outlier during his time on Star Trek: Picard. He finds love and family in the 21st Century with Dr. Teresa Ramirez and decides it is worth staying in the past. Rios had just got a new Starfleet commission, he was captain of the Stargazer, and he had friends he could turn to, but he has to give up the life he’d made in his present to be with his new love, which, honestly, is a complete departure from most of the temporal rules in the franchise.