James Kirk and La’an Noonien Singh are a perfect couple in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
By Chad Porto
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds showed everyone how effective a romance between James Kirk and La’an Noonien Singh could be.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds released their third episode of season two this week, entitled “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”. In the episode, La’an Noonien Singh gets caught up in a time-travel assassination plot. After the death of a presumed agent from the Department of Temporal Investigations, La’an is given a teleporter that keeps her in flux with the timeline after it changed.
The new timeline she finds herself in features, James Kirk, as the captain of the United Earth Fleet ship Enterprise. She attempts to get Kirk to help her and after some bickering, ends up in 21st century Toronto. Throughout the episode, the two bond and travel around the past, looking for the event they’re supposed to stop, which would bring about the correct timeline that La’an is from.
Through some bonding, and his neverending charm, La’an is taken with Kirk, who ends up kissing the ancestor of his greatest adversary. The two’s chemistry is off the charts, and La’an starts trying to think of waves of saving Kirk when the timelines get corrected.
But a Romulan spy ends up killing the legendary captain, ending the hope that La’an had for a happy life.
James Kirk and La’an Noonien Singh will be Star Trek’s greatest romance that can never be
It’s heartbreaking to realize this, but as great of chemistry as La’an and Kirk had in the episode, no amount of temporal fixing will ever allow the two to be together. While Strange New Worlds and other Star Trek shows have taken liberties with shaking up the timeline, it’s fair to say that Kirk will forever end up alone.
The love of his life will leave him, his child will die, and he’ll be buried on a planet no one remembers, only for Section 31 to steal his remains.
No amount of wish fulfillment will ever get La’an and Kirk back together again, and that’s a heartache that won’t soon be forgotten.
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