Submitted 1 year ago by ValueSubtracted@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website
An accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike.
Written by Dana Horgan & Bill Wolkoff
Directed by Dermott Downs
I don’t like musicals… at all. But I really enjoyed this episode, and found it quite fun. The whole cast is so good. I hope this series goes on for many years.
I am just the opposite. I love musicals and I love Star Trek, but this one was my least favorite of the season. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate them trying something innovative for the Trek series. I enjoyed seeing the actors working outside the box. But overall it didn’t give me the joy that the other episodes have.
We felt like this was painful and nearly unwatchable. Individual performance aside…please no moreQ
One day they’ll do a proper adaptation of “How Much For Just the Planet?” and I can die happy.
Yes! That would work incredibly well with the SNW crew! Writers, please do that! I love that book!
Is there somewhere a list of the songs that Ford was parodying in How Much For Just The Planet? Even though I'm a huge musical theatre nerd, I didn't get some of the references in the book and it always bugged me.
(And speaking of John M Ford: Personally I still regret that the Klingon culture that the franchise developed through TNG and subsequent shows differed so much from the one Ford created in The Final Reflection.)
What. The. Heck. Just. Happened. I always hated musicals but this was incredible! This show is KILLING it. OMG
I hated musicals until the structure and theory was explained to me. Maybe you liked this episode because it directly addressed the plot conventions it was hitting and the structure of musicals. Check out the channel Sideways on youtube, he does a great job explaining musical theory in cinema, including musicals and nonmusicals.
I think Strange New Worlds is the best Star Trek show made so far. Every season they seem to have 9 amazing episodes and one so cringe I end up fast forwarding through the whole thing. This musical one was the low point of the season and the series, just like that word fantasy ones they did in season 1.
Bleh.
@ValueSubtracted Delightful episode. I laughed, I cried, I (would have) bought the t-shirt. I have really enjoyed some of the risks they've taken this season, this one and the Mashup with Lower Decks and punctuating with the powerful war episode. I've looked forward to Thursdays.
10 minutes in, Oh I like it!
46minutes, kind of over it. Would love to hear a Klingon song
If there was a klingon-side spinoff, this episode would be entitled:
Bat’leth of the Bands
Now I really wanna see an episode where they poof into bunnies!!!
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I thought it was fun but borrowed a little too much from Buffy’s Once More With Feeling. The whole, the songs are making us spill out feelings. Although the bunny reference was a nice touch.
I didn’t even register the bunny reference! Oh, that was epic…
I also appreciated that they added vocals to the intro, but not over the top, just enough.
I loved the bunnies reference until I realised that in that moment they were talking about alternate realities. A better Buffy reference might have been to mention the reality where everything was shrimp 😆
🎵 They got the mustard uncertainty out! 🎵
Nope, can’t do it. I was afraid of the LF crossover but I got through it. But this, I can’t watch it. I got through a couple minutes and had to turn it off.
Hmm, it looks like we’re not allowed to dislike the musical episode here… Regardless, I’m with you.
With rare exceptions, I just can’t stand musicals. The forced jauntiness, hollow/forced emotion, and in this case autotuned singing. Ugh! Give me normal acting or give me death (today is a good day for it).
russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 year ago
I don’t generally enjoy musicals (or rather, shows that aren’t musicals but then do a random episode as a musical) but SNW definitely did it right! And I’m glad I didn’t skip it since I considered doing so.