Probably still holding the title as the best monologue in science fiction this millennium so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYZ4IoyztIw
@ocdtrekkie As someone who was convinced his favorite franchise was permanently on the shelf for about a decade, I cannot. Get. Over how good new Star Trek is.
@mtomczak The writers room almost certainly had no qualms about there being a right side and a wrong side to the example they provided of the start of the conflict, but decided that not only didn't matter, but was detrimental to the speech.
@ocdtrekkie I'm incredibly impressed by the casting and the character chemistry. We didn't have a lot of narrative fixed points for Pike before they started telling new stories with him, but as for the ones we did... Yeah, this is a guy Spock would be willing to sacrifice his career and possibly life to bring to Big Head Retirement Planet And Health Spa when the time came.
(Also, they apparently lifted the "Captain Pike holds briefings over a kitchen table" idea from Anson Mount himself, because "creat[ing] consensus in his life over cooking" is a thing he does IRL). 😛
@mtomczak I think one of the things that gets me about this speech in particular is that despite the fact that Star Trek is unapologetically liberal, the writers chose to speak of one of the most polarizing incidents of the last couple years with an entirely nonpartisan bent.
To describe January 6th as being about "competing definitions of liberty" is an incredibly bold choice that adds an insane amount of gravitas to the scene.