Giri hasn’t been talked about in earlier Star Trek entries, so it’s exhausting to know precisely how she pertains to Khan. It appears probably that she’s one of many different Augments who adopted after Khan, ruling as an absolute ruler with out attaining any of the peace that marked his reign. Nevertheless, Alok’s description of sleeping for hundreds of years with a small band of others remembers Khan’s expertise on the Botany Bay.
The extra complicated factor often is the fundamental timeline itself. Most of Trek historical past positioned the Eugenics Wars within the Nineties, even because it put the world of Star Trek in an alternate actuality as an alternative of an extension of our personal world. Nevertheless, within the Unusual New Worlds episode “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” Kirk (of the Paul Wesley selection) and La’an discovered Khan as a toddler in 2012, properly after he was purported to have dominated a big portion of Earth as an grownup. That episode places Star Trek on a sliding timescale, suggesting that the Temporal Chilly Struggle seen in Enterprise and referenced in Discovery modified the precise dates of sure occasions. Nevertheless, Alok’s story clearly takes place on the unique timeline.
There are a number of alternative ways of explaining this. Part 31 continues the story started in Discovery and, after Disco‘s distinctive Klingons appeared in an incursion exterior of the Prime Universe within the sequence finale of Decrease Decks, some have urged that the present takes place in a unique timeline than the primary Trek reveals. Thus, the Temporal Chilly Struggle altered model of occasions in SNW may be in a single universe, and Alok, Part 31, and Discovery in one other.
Others may level out that the Temporal Chilly Struggle created a sliding, unfixed timeline, which doesn’t essentially maintain occasions at a sure level. And so, Alok might very properly have fought with Khan within the Nineties and Kirk and La’an might have discovered child Khan in 2012 with none contradiction.
Lastly, it would simply be sloppy writing, which is pronounced within the very unhealthy Part 31, however not essentially distinctive to this film. Worf taught us how one can cope with canon contradictions within the nice Deep House 9 episode “Trials and Tribble-lations,” when his crewmates seen the variations between smooth-headed TOS Klingons and ridge-headed Klingons like himself: “We don’t focus on it with outsiders.” So as an alternative of worrying about canon and dates, it’s most likely higher to simply take the occasions at face worth.
That’s very true as a result of there’s worth to Alok’s story. We’ve heard so much about Khan, however the Eugenics Wars raged throughout all the planet and introduced humanity to its low level, the purpose proper earlier than Zefram Cochrane created humanity’s first warp-capable ship and caught the eye of the Vulcans, as seen in Star Trek: First Contact. However we don’t spend sufficient time eager about the folks caught within the crossfire, the victims of the Eugenics Wars whose struggling made approach for humanity’s development.
