10 Modern Star Trek Plots That Are The Same
8. Pelia/Guinan
Star Trek: Picard's second season sees Picard meeting Guinan in the past - specifically, the 21st century, down in LA, where she is tending bar. Though they have, of course, already met several times - this being the second time from Guinan's point of view, after San Francisco, there are many rules around time travel that must be observed.
Almost concurrently, La'an Noonian-Singh and James T. Kirk are traipsing from Toronto to Vermont to meet Pelia, a similarly long-lived being, building her huge collection of antiques, hoping for her help. The Strange New Worlds episode Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow depicts these two officers, both from different futures, being flung back into their common past - in 2023.
The fact that there are two alien women on planet Earth at the same time is hardly the shocker here. It's the fact that these two alien women, both of whom will still be alive in the 23rd and 24th centuries, are the sole means of help for our stranded time travelers. It's a little too similar not to notice, no matter how much fun it is to see them in the past.