Giri hasnt been mentioned in previous Star Trek entries, so its hard to know exactly how she relates to Khan. It seems likely that shes one of the other Augments who followed after Khan, ruling as an absolute ruler without achieving any of the peace that marked his reign. However, Aloks description of sleeping for centuries with a small band of others recalls Khans experience on the Botany Bay.The more confusing element may be the basic timeline itself. Most of Trek history placed the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s, even as it put the world of Star Trek in an alternate reality instead of an extension of our own world. However, in the Strange New Worlds episode Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Kirk (of the Paul Wesley variety) and Laan found Khan as a child in 2012, well after he was supposed to have ruled a large portion of Earth as an adult. That episode puts Star Trek on a sliding timescale, suggesting that the Temporal Cold War seen in Enterprise and referenced in Discovery changed the exact dates of certain events. However, Aloks story clearly takes place on the original timeline.There are a few different ways of explaining this. Section 31 continues the story began in Discovery and, after Discos distinctive Klingons appeared in an incursion outside of the Prime Universe in the series finale of Lower Decks, some have suggested that the show takes place in a different timeline than the main Trek shows. Thus, the Temporal Cold War altered version of events in SNW might be in one universe, and Alok, Section 31, and Discovery in another.Others might point out that the Temporal Cold War created a sliding, unfixed timeline, which doesnt necessarily hold events at a certain point. And so, Alok may very well have fought with Khan in the 1990s and Kirk and Laan may have found kid Khan in 2012 without any contradiction.Finally, it might just be sloppy writing, which is pronounced in the very bad Section 31, but not necessarily unique to this movie. Worf taught us how to deal with canon contradictions in the great Deep Space Nine episode Trials and Tribble-lations, when his crewmates noticed the differences between smooth-headed TOS Klingons and ridge-headed Klingons like himself: We do not discuss it with outsiders. So instead of worrying about canon and dates, its probably better to just take the events at face value.Thats especially true because theres value to Aloks story. Weve heard a lot about Khan, but the Eugenics Wars raged across the entire planet and brought humanity to its low point, the point right before Zefram Cochrane created humanitys first warp-capable ship and caught the attention of the Vulcans, as seen in Star Trek: First Contact. But we dont spend enough time thinking about the people caught in the crossfire, the victims of the Eugenics Wars whose suffering made way for humanitys advancement.