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Pike: Your last name sounds familiar... Hmm. Your ancestor was a World War 3 era leader wasn't he?

La'an: No, maybe you're thinking of Colonel Green. Look up figures in Earth's 1990s.

(later while Pike is at his computer)

Pike: Hmm... Zhang Zemin, Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, Nelson Mandela, Helmut Kohl, Jacques Chirac, John Major... Just what 1990s figure is La'an related to?

(looks at the camera in confusion)

Later:
La'an: (laughs to herself) Little does he know, records from the 1990s are fragmentary. He'll never find it.
 
Of course they'll use it. That's why they put it in there.
There will be an episode where the Enterprise discovers the Botany Bay and revives Khan, who soon recognizes that La'an is his progeny. He spends months reviewing the technical plans. When she resists his attempt to take over the ship, Khan asks to be put back on the BB in suspended animation, to await the next ship that will rescue him. Imagine his luck when.... This also explains why he was able to so quickly learn his way around the E -- he was just skimming to refresh his genetically-engineered memory! McCoy has egg on his face.

Spock is -- yet again -- sworn to never disclosing these events again, under penalty of death. This is why he never reveals anything about his past or family. He'll be killed if he mentioned pretty much anything.
 
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There will be an episode where the Enterprise discovers the Botany Bay and revives Khan, who soon recognizes that La'an is his progeny. He spends months reviewing the technical plans. When she resists his attempt to take over the ship, Khan asks to be put back on the BB in suspended animation, to await the next ship that will rescue him. Imagine his luck when.... This also explains why he was able to so quickly learn his way around the E -- he was just skimming to refresh his genetically-engineered memory! McCoy has egg on his face.
If Pike provides the same level of detail to Fleet Command that we saw in the file on Talos IV … well, you might be on to something.
 
The actress who plays La'an was raised in England, I wonder if she'll use her natural accent.

I've only seen her in one other production, Doctor Who back in 2011. Lorna Bucket, she was the soldier who made the 'prayer leaf' for Amy to give to baby River/Melody
 
The actress who plays La'an was raised in England, I wonder if she'll use her natural accent.

I've only seen her in one other production, Doctor Who back in 2011. Lorna Bucket, she was the soldier who made the 'prayer leaf' for Amy to give to baby River/Melody
Christina Chong had a major role in the first season of the buddy cop drama Bulletproof and was excellent (before being well and truly fridged in the season finale). I'm looking forward to seeing her again in this.
 
Well, genetically speaking, unless she was born in a group of hold out augments all breeding with each other, she probably wouldn't have many of the 'superior' traits left in her.

She might be slightly superior than a baseline human, but not as much as a pure augment from the 90s..
 
La'an could be closer in capability to Julian Bashir than Khan. Less of a superhuman and more of being a bit better than average in a couple of skill sets, IMO. Things that could still be attainable by a regular human with years or decades of dedicated practice maybe...
 
Amanda was very much all about Spock having and acknowledging his emotions,.
So to her, the fact that her husband and son were not communicating regularly on a familial level was dreadful.

I wouldn't go that far....I mean, Amanda had to have known that Vulcans don't express their emotions, otherwise why would she have married Sarek in the first place?

Although to see Sarek and Spock estranged for so long, would indeed have caused her a lot of pain.
 
I doubt she would have married Sarek if he hadn't shown her some emotion during their courtship.

In the privacy of their home, he was probably no where near as stubbornly stoic as he projected in public.
Though I don't doubt he teased her often with it. :techman:
 
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What do you mean?
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Please don't ask: they're libel to answer.

Liable - l-i-a-b-l-e. Liable.
 
But, how did that movie change everything about Star Trek in the real world, as you stated?

Because when the producers developed the next Star Trek TV series, Star Trek: Enterprise, they based it on the events shown in First Contact. They've described themselves as thinking about how the Trek Universe got from Cochrane meeting the Vulcans to where we picked it up in TOS. And the events shown in First Contact did not exist canonically prior to that movie - Cochrane had appeared once on TOS in a different and limited form (see: Zefram Cochrane: Rewriting the Character).

The Trek movies and TV shows that have followed have incorporated and referred to specifics of the First Contact/Star Trek: Enterprise version of continuity, which differs in detail from previous assumptions that had been incorporated into supporting material for the Trek productions (although not into onscreen continuity).

Star Trek going forward from 1996 has worked from variant assumptions and a reset continuity.
 
Because when the producers developed the next Star Trek TV series, Star Trek: Enterprise, they based it on the events shown in First Contact. They've described themselves as thinking about how the Trek Universe got from Cochrane meeting the Vulcans to where we picked it up in TOS. And the events shown in First Contact did not exist canonically prior to that movie - Cochrane had appeared once on TOS in a different and limited form (see: Zefram Cochrane: Rewriting the Character).

The Trek movies and TV shows that have followed have incorporated and referred to specifics of the First Contact/Star Trek: Enterprise version of continuity, which differs in detail from previous assumptions that had been incorporated into supporting material for the Trek productions (although not into onscreen continuity).

Star Trek going forward from 1996 has worked from variant assumptions and a reset continuity.
I've always been against the "First Contact" changed the timeline thing, but after seeing Short Trek Q&A, Discovery, and the Cage again, short of my pet theory of Cage uniforms being dress uniforms and the Cage bridge being a temporary bridge module, I might have to concede that First Contact possibly at least changed the look of Pike's Enterprise. It looked like Cage before First Contact, then for some reason looked like Q&A/Disco style after First Contact's "timeline change". I still say TOS can be left alone as there was probably a full refit between Pike and Kirk.
 
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