This isn’t just an amusing musical interlude, it’s a security threat. Once her impressive solo is done, the security officer makes a beeline to the captain to reveal that the songs people sing are disclosing highly personal emotional information. Kirk, dead in another timeline, and how maybe it’s time (or is it?) for her to let go of her strict control and find some of her own happiness and freedom. Others watch bemused as Kirk and Una ballroom dance down a corridor, but La’an is concerned and goes off to her quarters to launch into her own little torch song over her James T. But soon enough they start talking about command styles, and here comes the music again as Una has some advice for young Kirk in a jaunty tune about connecting to his truth and to his crew, as she has decided to move away from her more distant style. While Spock and Uhura are tasked for finding the right frequency, Una and Kirk start connecting the shields and Heisenberg compensators to the deflector dish, as if this was just another Star Trek episode. Spock explains that sending the song into the fold has created a “quantum improbability field” and they are now tethered to the fold and a new “musical reality.” Got that? The analogy of the week is this reality has torn open like a zipper and the plan is to zip it back up by teching a lot of tech. So that happened, and Captain Pike wants answers about why there are musical outbreaks across his ship. Even the captain joins in asking the question on all of our minds… “But why are we singing?” Cue the new choral opening credits, we are in for a musical journey. Spock complies, reporting that all systems are stable… except he is singing, and soon enough, others across the ship are doing the same: Pike gets updates from everyone on how “all is okay” – but in song, along with some nice harmonies. The musical signal sent into the fold results in a pulse of energy that ripples through the ship, so Pike demands a status report. Uhura is inspired by the idea and chooses a classic Cole Porter song for the experiment. He sees merit in a suggestion from Pelia to try using music, since the fundamental harmonics might work within the fold’s different laws of physics. Oblivious to this impending separation, the Vulcan is having trouble figuring out how to tap into the hypothesized super-communication capability of this subspace fold. Roger Korby that is going to take her off the ship for a while… and away from Spock. In sickbay, Chapel finally gets some good news with an acceptance letter to a prestigious fellowship with Dr. Kirk, who’s beaming on board for some first officer training with Una. Elsewhere, we see Pike and Captain Batel arguing over their upcoming vacation and La’an struggling to keep her cool as she welcomes James T. His experiment is tying up the computer, so Uhura has to go old school, channeling her inner Ernestine to keep the ship connected. The Enterprise is at the edge of the Alpha Quadrant studying a subspace fold Spock thinks can triple communication speed. WARNING: Spoilers below! RECAP “We appear to be singing.” I may be an ensign, but none of this works without me.
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