So I finally got round to watching the second round of Short Treks, when number one tells Spock to "keep his freaky hidden" - she says she knows how that feels and breaks into song. What is "freaky" about liking to sing?
Ha! Yes, fair question. That said, the performance was a little on the freaky side! I would guess she is being liberal with the definition of 'freaky', meaning 'unusual for officers to display a love of patter songs from comic operas of the 1800s'. Which is fair, because eccentricity is part of the definition of the word 'freaky'. I just allowed myself to roll with it, because Q&A is so good. One of my favourite few scenes in Star Trek, actually.
It was probably uncharacteristic for her to perform in front of a colleague, in uniform, on duty. Freaky doesn't have to be negative - it's the special spark in all nerds, geeks, etc.
I'm old enough to have instantly thought of the breakfast ceral. But the wrong age to have actually eaten the stuff. And I had to run through that line multiple times, watching the DVD, because I (to paraphrase Spock in "The Trouble with Tribbles") could not believe my ears. And yes, as a matter of fact, I did know some performing arts majors in high school. I even had an utterly unrequited head-over-heels crush on one of them. For my entire junior year, not being an early-riser, I even shared a section of U.S. History with most or all of the junior performing arts majors. But I was geekier yet: I was a computer geek, a video production geek, and an A/V equipment geek. As to Number One's rendition of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General," I've heard better.
Yeah, but a rendition that's nothing but barking isn't going elicit the playfulness of that song. I mean, it's no Doggy Jingle Bells.... ...Oh, wait -- you meant Rebecca Romijn's Number One? Sorry...Never mind.
Number One: Picard's Pitbull Pooch. https://www.startrek.com/news/sir-patrick-stewart-on-why-number-one-is-the-best-good-boy
At any rate, I didn't mean Majel, since she's no longer with us, and never sang in that (or, to the best of my recollection, any other) Star Trek role.
Yes, and "A British Tar" (from "that infernal nonsense" Pinafore) was rather pivotal in Insurrection.
From The West Wing: Lionel Tribbey: "It's from Penzance or Iolanthe... one of the ones about duty." Ainsley Hayes: "They're all about duty."
I think Number One was joking. But singing is a textbook expression of emotion, and emotion is taboo on Vulcan, so maybe for Vulcans it is "freaky". Or this.
"Freaky" -- Me being conned into karaoke singing REO Speedwagon's I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore, last Thanksgiving, at a family get-together in front of my father and his girlfriend. Thank God no one recorded it.