Pray for Future La’An.

This was a really good finale. It was well paced, the stakes for the crew felt strong, and it was a great timey wimey time travel sci fi story.

Regarding the stakes, one of my criticisms of prequels was that, as fans, the future is fixed, but here it felt a lot more tense. Even though we know scotty doesn’t die, I was half expecting one of the Uhuras to have to sacrifice themselves to save the other, which felt a substantial risk, and it really helped sell the episode.

CRG did great acting here, and did justice to “the same character but at different points in their life” - the confidence in future!uhura stood out.

I was very confused about the black hole / white hole’s scale - I was suprised at the final act when they’re basically right up against it, and the holes turn out to be roughly the same size as the enterprise itself. I think it could have been established a little better at the beginning, but that’s a minor annoyance.

The midwife aliens are the same being as DS9 prophets, I guess, they spoke to Uhura in song because they would know she can interpret that, where they knew to speak to bajorans in poetry and scripture.

I liked the little preview of future!enterprise’s looks, especially seeing a few background characters from different species.

Overall, great finale to an okay season. I hope the final season has loads of episodes just like this one.

Oh wow. An absolutely amazing end to this excellent season!

Oh and fuck Paramount, we need more Trek.

That was amazing!