I definitely will be skipping this episode....
Damn, it does look like they are gonna fridge La'an at some point as motivation for Kirk. He certainly had plenty of exes in TOS but this feels like they are building to something more, maybe a stand-in for Carol Marcus?
But for God's sake stop giving these men sons just to kill them. I think Sisko was the only one to have a son survive (maybe Wesley if we count him, it seems like he is dead in Picard s3, did he f off and join Q or something?)