Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Thursdays on Paramount+Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 9: "Subspace Rhapsody" Quotes
Chapel: What if it’s another rejection?
Ortegas: Forget those Vulcans and their Science Academy. They don’t deserve you.
Chapel: But this fellowship is different. Dr. Korby’s a genius.
Ortegas: I’m supposed to know who that is?
M’Benga: He’s the Louis Pasteur of archeological medicine.
Ortegas: Yeah, no. Still means nothing.
Pelia: Have you tried sending music through?
Spock: We have not. Do you believe music may yield a different result?
Pelia: Well, you are trying to communicate through a medium with different laws of physics so perhaps fundamental harmonics are the answer.
Pike: So… That happened.
La’an: Reports of musical outbreaks have come in from every deck.
James Kirk: Honestly, I thought it was something you had all rehearsed, but I sang too.
M’Benga: So did I. And I do not sing.
Spock: Imagine an area of space where quantum uncertainties collapse so rapidly and randomly that new realities are created. In one such reality, people sing… uncontrollably.
Pelia: A musical reality.
Spock: Indeed.
La’an: So what’s next? More improbability? Or will we just suddenly poof into bunnies.
M’Benga: I would prefer not to be a bunny either.
Mr. Spock, you explained that very well. I almost understood it.
James Kirk
James Kirk: Y’know, my brother, he always described you as the First Officer that I thought I should be like. Someone who keeps a necessary distance from her crew because she knows she has to make hard decisions.
Una: I’m aware of the reputation I’ve had on this ship. But recently, I’m trying a new approach. More hands-on.
James Kirk: My last First Officer definitely kept his distance. And no one questioned him.
Una: I call that style of command a first mistake. The kind that makes my head shake. And my heart break.
James Kirk: We’re singing again.
Una: We’re singing again, and it’s making me confess things I’d never express.
La’an: When people sing, they are confessing highly personal, emotional information.
Pike: Lieutenant, are you telling me our emotions constitute a security threat?
Admiral April’s last message confirmed that the improbability field has now spread to twelve Federation ships. He let me know in a surprisingly beautiful baritone that he wants us to stop this now, by the way.
Una
Uhura: I have a theory. I think since we’re in a musical reality, we actually following the rules of musicals.
Pike: So when do characters in musicals usually begin to sing?
Una: When their emotions are so heightened, that words won’t suffice.
Secrets I keep safe inside / A skill I perfected so I could survive / It worked before / It doesn’t serve me anymore / I wish I never learned how to be / So good at keeping secrets.
Una
Firing on the field would be devastating. As you can see in this simulation, the explosion would propagate through the entire Federation subspace network, destroying everything. It would be like soaking the improbability field in kerosene and holding a match to it.
Spock
