I use to be able to walk in to Canada from a national park.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x03 - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
- Thread starter Commander Richard
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Not sure about today but just within a few years ago, The US/Canada border between Stanstead Quebec, and Derbyline Vermont was separated literally by a sidewalk and a row of potted plants. No Joke.
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That was a discussed and presumed solution, but never stated on screen. If it was, the discussion wouldn't have happened, because it would have had an easy answer.
Sometime between when the NYT 2018 picture and Sept 2024 they added some pedestals to put the potted plants on.
Google maps street view looking up Church Street from Derby Line, VT to Stanstead, Quebec.
Come to think of it , it would of been HILLARIOUS if this was where Kirk and La'an chose to cross into Vermont.
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La'an and Kirk literally talk about bribing the border guard in the first scene set in Vermont. Indeed, you even said you "rolled your eyes" over that line back in July 2023:
Well then I 1000% have misremembered. Thank you for the correction. Total "mandela effect" moment for me mentally right now - i remember being dumbfounded that they got across the border easily but must have completely forgotten the details. Wow. Seriously, thank you for pointing that out. Both are unrealistic (i live an hour from the niagara border and know how hard it is) but I completely jumbled which way it went. Funny what the mind is capable of assuming over the span of a couple years. :O lol.
If you’re looking for a serious real world answer (not that one is remotely necessary), I can assure you that if I were so inclined, I could cross the border each way without going through official stations without too much trouble almost anywhere between St-Armand and East Hereford, QC, which would take me to northern Vermont. (My dissertation is heavily focused on that stretch of border during the Prohibition era and I have visited just about the entire stretch of that border in the past 50 years). It’s not as easy as it used to be but it’s still not that difficult.
I think what makes it a bit a stretch for me as they had to pull it off both ways. Was it said they bribed the guards both ways? Coming in and out.? It's not a biggie though. Personally, though with all the fish out of water stuff they did, this would warrant seeing the scenes. Even if it was whimsical. Minor nitpick though and I didn't realize it was mentioned in the dialog (bribing the border guards at least one way) until it was pointed out here. Missed that on my viewing
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Considering that Sera was a deep cover Romulan agent trailing La'an and alt-Kirk, knew they were from the future, and knew that their capture and interrogation would muck everything up, I wouldn't be surprised if she secretly aided the ease with which they bribed border guards or however they crossed borders. Sera's been on Earth for over 30 years and likely had all sorts of hidden power at play at her disposal.
Her Romulan tricoder, if it's batteries had not run dry, would have gone "Ping!" when it noticed them beaming in from the future.
Would Sera have been happier if she had found the wrong Romulans, instead of Kirk?
