Canon Connections: Strange New Worlds 2x03 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

I don't know if it's a canon connection to Star Trek in particular, but I loved the nod to the trope of using Toronto for NYC/Chicago/wherever.
- Yeah, that was a good bit. One of my favourite moments of the episode.

Thank you @USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website for this post. Your Cannon Connections posts on Reddit were a joy to read and I’m happy you are here on Lemmy now.

This isn't exactly a canon reference, but the "Noonien-Singh Center" was clearly filmed at the Royal Ontario Museum - both the interior and exterior. It's such a distinct building that it really stood out.
- That was the Royal Conservatory next door. https://www.kpmb.com/project/royal-conservatory-telus-centre-for-performance-and-learning/

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Kirk’s middle name, Tiberius, was established in the TAS episode, “Bem”. Prior to that, the only indication of what his middle name might be was in the second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before” when Gary Mitchell created a tombstone reading ”James R. Kirk”.
While David Gerrold canonised the "T" as standing for "Tiberius" in "Bem", we did know that his middle name started with the letter "T" as far back as "Mudd's Women" IIRC. You undoubtedly already knew this, but the way this particular connection was worded suggested that the "T" also first appeared in "Bem", when it had been established early in TOS.
Incidentally, but non-canonically, in Gene Roddenberry's novelisation of The Motion Picture, he has Kirk write, in "Admiral Kirk's preface" to the novel, that:
Tiberius, as I am forever tired of explaining, was the Roman emperor whose life for some unfathomable reason fascinated my grandfather Samuel.
And quoting from that same preface just for shits and giggles and to proffer today's insight into the mind of Eugene Wesley Roddenberry:
I received James because it was both the name of my father's beloved brother as well as that of my mother's first love instructor.
- "love instructor"
  shudder
- While David Gerrold canonised the “T” as standing for “Tiberius” in “Bem”, we did know that his middle name started with the letter “T” as far back as “Mudd’s Women” IIRC. You undoubtedly already knew this
  I actually was not aware of that! Interesting that “Where No Man Has Gone Before” and “Mudd’s Women” had different middle initials for Kirk considering the later was originally conceived as possible second pilot as well. Too bad “The Omega Glory” didn’t also get in on the game.

The $20 bills we see appear to all still feature Queen Elizabeth II’s portrait, despite the fact that this episode presumably takes place after 2024. Which would seem to indicate that the process of replacing the queen’s portrait with that of King Chuck III is really dragging, and not that this episode was filmed on location seven months before the queen’s passing in 2022.
Sera mentions at the Singh Institute that Khan's assassination was supposed to happen in 1992, that time keeps pushing back, and that this is the first opportunity she's had in 30 years to kill him. So this episode could have happened before 2024.
- So this episode could have happened before 2024.
  The bridge that the Romulans attacked does not exist and is not in construction. Granted, Star Trek is not real, but the contemporary episodes are at least intended to mirror reality.
  I'm assuming Sera was generalizing when she said it had been 30 years, but it's entirely possible that I'm wrong.

Great as always. Especially love the escalation of things you show with "stuff that Kirk is good enough at chess to win money for"

Playing the lute is a euphemism for what? Vulcan masturbation?
- Well, VOY would never be so crass as to explicitly say so, but “Body and Soul” is the episode where the subject of Tuvok’s pon farr comes up.
  And on Vulcan they just call it masturbation.
- I hope Vulcan ships have good sound insulation
  
  Yeah how loud are they being while masturbating?? Do they think keeping it down would be illogical?

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Too bad “The Omega Glory” didn’t also get in on the game.
That would have been funny.
The difference is that "James T" is actually spoken in "Mudd's Women" (also "The Conscience of the King", "Court Martial", "Tomorrow is Yesterday", "A Taste of Armageddon" and "Errand of Mercy" in the first season) , whereas "James R" only appears visually on the tombstone in "Where No Man..."
I'd guess the real world reason for the discrepancy is that the tombstone was a mistake by the props people that slipped past Justman or Roddenberry. But fan theories that used to go around included that the "R" referred to a private joke or nickname between Mitchell and Kirk, or that the events of "Where No Man..." took place in an alternate reality. (IIRC one of the novels ran with this one.)
Interestingly the "T" middle initial goes back all the way back to Roddenberry's original outline in the early 60s, when the name of the captain was "Robert T. April". Other notable Captains with "T" middle initials include "William T. Riker", "Captain J. T. Esteban" and.... err... I thought there was at least one more, but am drawing a blank.
edit: The other person I was thinking of was "Leland T. Lynch", but he wasn't a captain.

When did they cross the border? Pelia was in Vancouver
- Pelia was in Vermont, and La’an specifically says they had to bribe a border cop to cross into the States.
  If she was in Vancouver, they would have had to have taken a plane each way.