I feel like I’ve heard more people complaining about people complaining about this episode than I actually heard complaining about this episode. Feels sort of preemptive.
The Trouble With Edward is indeed canon. Somewhere in the Federation, there’s Tribbles cereal, and someone who believes in it enough to make commercials for it.
I don’t understand that dude, needling the dude with no memory who was beating on him, then acting all surprised when that same dude puts a gun on him. Like, what was he trying to do? It seemed like he was trying to get Pike to kill him, but then he wasn’t. Wtf?