"World Enough and Time" continues the success of Star Trek New Voyages into well deserved, award winning territory. Excellent direction leads an accomplished cast and talented guests along a script ripe with insight, quality, professionalism, and most important that human element found in TOS. This is a labor of love and it shows, down to the fond dedication to Ray Bradbury.
Romulans attack Enterprise attempting a rescue using a weapon to induce parallel-hyper-dimensional technobabble fields. Chekov's shooting destroys the attack force leaving Enterprise trapped in the gooey field, unable to map a way out. Sulu and "Romulan computer expert" Dr. Chandris shuttle to a Romulan wreck that explodes right as they discover the necessary escape data. Scott struggles to transport the landing party back. Sulu wavers yet finally emerges drastically changed, a much older and heavily bladed warrior. With the help of "stabilizing rods" Scott manages to joggle what's left of Lisa's pattern into Alana Sulu, the helmsman's daughter from their parallel life on the planet Caliban. There their rescuers were assumed destroyed (though hoping on Kirk is a nice touch!).
Trapped within the rods Alana can only observe and interrogate, aware yet ethereal. She shares her best moment ever walking decks with Kirk. Sulu cannot remember the data even under mindmeld and Spock's "Plan B" is to transporter-reconstitute Sulu as he was, with the path fresh in his mind but no recall of his wife or daughter. Savage twists of circumstance require the field's release to preserve either the ship or Alana. Afterwards at Sulu's decision Spock "remembers" their mindmeld restoring anguished experience. The episode bookends aboard Excelsior as Sulu in a moment of reverie greets his this-universe daughter and new granddaughter (Alana).
George Takei is magnificent both as refined Captain and Hikaru gone wild. Lia Johnson endears Lisa Chandris with space sickness then too soon dies off screen. Newcomer Christina Moses shines literally as Alana Sulu in an outstanding performance. James Cawley and Jeff Quinn are inseparable from Kirk and Spock (not yet anyway), similarly in character John Kelley, Charles Root, John Lim, Andy Bray, and Julienne Irons (woot! Ron Boyd). And it's always great to see Grace Lee Whitney again!
The mindblowing special effects involve trips inside Enterprise's hangar and subtly improved shuttle sequacious with STNV style. Other delights include those brightly-colored EVA suits, improved Romulan ships, McCoy+Sulu+cordrazine, and Majel Barrett's voice! "The Tempest" is anviliciously summoned (better subtle clues like Bellerophon and Altair!) but this Trek needs no excuses. Make time in your world for it.