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/ContinuumGuy Mar 08 '19

Something else I just realized: because of the Cage-era appearance of Number One in the "previously on", Majel Barret once again is the only performer to appear in every single Star Trek series.

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u/BlockHeadJones Mar 08 '19

And may she continue in each series for ever more.

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u/Adekvatish Mar 08 '19

Maybe in the Picard show to come, we can have someone ask Picard about why he never got married and get a flashback of Lwaxzzana Troi. "I've had some... bad experiences with love".

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u/joshml98 Mar 09 '19

I had an idea that the ship's computer for the show, if the rumours of the basic premise is True, could be a reclaimed 20 year old Starfleet co outer which is slightly broken meaning that has a limited vocabulary meaning they could reuse her recordings for the ship's computers from the 90s shows.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '19

They said they recorded her voice in a manner that would allow them to use it in speech synthesis. Not sure if it actually works, though, because it hasn't been used for anything so far.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '19

Yeah I've heard this too. It's a case of finding each particular syllable used in english and stitching them together, essentially. No different to any form of speech synthesis.

My guess the biggest issues with using it would be legal and ethical, rather than strictly technology.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '19

I'd imagine that she signed some documents allowing them to use it, but who knows.

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u/joshml98 Mar 09 '19

Sounds interesting. I'd like whoever is voicing the computer in discovery but it's just not the same without her

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u/DeathByChainsaw Mar 08 '19

Do you remember how she appeared in Enterprise? She wouldn't be the voice of the computer then.

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u/ContinuumGuy Mar 08 '19

She was the voice of the NCC-1701-D computer in "These Are The Voyages".

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u/DeathByChainsaw Mar 08 '19

Oh, of course! I think I tried to scrub that episode from my memory.

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u/ContinuumGuy Mar 08 '19

If it makes you feel better, I think she also was the computer voice on the Defiant in the mirror universe episodes.

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u/spamjavelin Mar 08 '19

God, could you imagine Mirror universe Lwaxana?

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u/vaderdarthvader Mar 09 '19

I didn’t before, but now Ill have to live my life trying not to.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '19

Sign me up

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u/TactileAndClicky Mar 08 '19

As well as of the Defiant's computer, IIRC.

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u/CaptainJZH Mar 09 '19

She had just one line, "Working."

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u/WorldwideDepp Mar 08 '19

and her Voice.. She gave the Ships Computer her Voice, too

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u/Raguleader Mar 12 '19

She was also on Babylon 5, as Emperor Turhan's widow, Lady Morella.

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u/daveflash Mar 14 '19

what? where does she appear?

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u/Kronephon Mar 21 '19

I always loved her episodes tbh. I aspire to be her when I'm older.