Amid its all-singing all-dancing musical spectacular, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds quietly drops a bombshell. Season 2, Episode 9 “Subspace Rhapsody,” follows up on the scorching chemistry between La’an Noonien-Singh and James Kirk, only to reveal why such a union is impossible. During the show’s timeline, Kirk is with Carol Marcus, whom he reveals is pregnant with their son David.Star Trek fans will instantly spot the reference to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, where Kirk grapples with the life he never led and a son who has grown up a stranger to him. In the process, “Subspace Rhapsody” sets up what becomes perhaps Kirk’s biggest personal mistake: letting Carol go in favor of his Starfleet career. It also puts his subsequent womanizing in a much different light and clarifies what The Wrath of Khan merely suggested. Indeed, La’an herself may end up having something to do with it.The Wrath of Khan has been described as “Kirk’s Midlife Crisis,” revealing a decorated admiral living in an empty home and finally acknowledging his advancing age. Director Nicholas Meyer was hired in part to break the franchise out of its complacency — The Original Series essentially exists as an interchangeable Möbius strip of endlessly repeating stand-alone episodes — and show the consequences of Captain Kirk’s wandering lifestyle. Carol Marcus becomes the woman he should have been with and wasn’t, and she makes it exceedingly clear why she never told David about him. “Were we together? Were we going to be? You had your world and I had mine. And I wanted him in mine, not chasing through the universe with his father.”RELATED: How Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Musical Episode Finally Came to Be
Amid its all-singing all-dancing musical spectacular, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds quietly drops a bombshell. Season 2, Episode 9 “Subspace Rhapsody,” follows up on the scorching chemistry between La’an Noonien-Singh and James Kirk, only to reveal why such a union is impossible. During the show’s timeline, Kirk is with Carol Marcus, whom he reveals is pregnant with their son David.
Star Trek fans will instantly spot the reference to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, where Kirk grapples with the life he never led and a son who has grown up a stranger to him. In the process, “Subspace Rhapsody” sets up what becomes perhaps Kirk’s biggest personal mistake: letting Carol go in favor of his Starfleet career. It also puts his subsequent womanizing in a much different light and clarifies what The Wrath of Khan merely suggested. Indeed, La’an herself may end up having something to do with it.
The Wrath of Khan has been described as “Kirk’s Midlife Crisis,” revealing a decorated admiral living in an empty home and finally acknowledging his advancing age. Director Nicholas Meyer was hired in part to break the franchise out of its complacency — The Original Series essentially exists as an interchangeable Möbius strip of endlessly repeating stand-alone episodes — and show the consequences of Captain Kirk’s wandering lifestyle. Carol Marcus becomes the woman he should have been with and wasn’t, and she makes it exceedingly clear why she never told David about him. “Were we together? Were we going to be? You had your world and I had mine. And I wanted him in mine, not chasing through the universe with his father.”
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