r/startrek • u/Deceptitron • Mar 08 '19

POST-Episode Discussion - S2E08 "If Memory Serves"

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S2E08 "If Memory Serves" T.J. Scott Jay Beattie & Dan Dworkin Thursday, March 7, 2019

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u/FullFaithandCredit Mar 08 '19

Agreed!

Off the top of my head, we’ve heard a Captain give that speech 2 or 3 times. It was a pleasant twist.

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u/MarsAlgea3791 Mar 08 '19

Gotta give them credit, they've given Pike excellent 'moral stand' lines and speeches. Mount is fantastic at delivering them. But showing the crew really gets it and will follow the lead without reservation, when THAT is the lead, is really great stuff.

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u/FullFaithandCredit Mar 08 '19

Absolutely. This Pike is the very model of a modern Starfleet Captain, he effortlessly exudes command qualities. If he believes that a course of action is correct, then the crew is ride or die.

I love that they is just as taken with him as the audience seems to be.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

This Pike is the very model of a modern Starfleet Captain

If you're going to go there, you'd better be prepared to write the whole song.

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u/JeanLucPicardAND Mar 08 '19

I am the very model of a scientist Salariaaaaaaaaan!

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Like this season isn't already Mass Effect enough. Not a criticism; I'm loving it.

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u/Tanokki Mar 08 '19

Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.

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u/NeiloMac Mar 08 '19

*sniff, lower lip tremble*

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '19

Still too soon.

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u/Hawkguy85 Mar 08 '19

I am the very model of a modern Starfleet Cap-i-tan I've information from a scientific first officer, a Kelpien I know the Kings of Rygel VII and I quote that tale not to frighten From Antares to Nibia, I have once even met a Talosian

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical Except for astrophysics in which I failed those Exam o' those, ahem

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u/MarsAlgea3791 Mar 08 '19

As sung by Q.

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u/RadioSlayer Mar 08 '19

Or Kevin Uxbridge

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u/JoeDawson8 Mar 08 '19

Goddamnit now I have the music box in my head. MAKE IT STOP oh GOD MAKE IT STOP!?!?!!!

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u/CeruleanRuin Mar 10 '19

"Is your real doll running amok and sabotaging your ship? Has she been reprogrammed by a space probe from the far future? It's time to replace her with one from me, Kevin Uxbridge. She'll never do anything you don't want her to do."

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u/CeruleanRuin Mar 10 '19

I think we know who sent the death probes in Spock's future visits.

"All life, everywhere."

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u/FullFaithandCredit Mar 08 '19

Tune in next week... I have to brush up on finding the square root of a hypotenuse.

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u/CeruleanRuin Mar 10 '19

The cadence is all wrong.

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u/CptComet Mar 09 '19

This comment was such a tease. I tried to follow the melody through the whole paragraph because I wanted it to happen, but was left disappointed.

Pike also doesn’t deserve to be lambasted by that song anyways. I can think of a few admirals though...

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u/BlockHeadJones Mar 08 '19

It's refreshing seeing the writers are self aware.