Trek has a very, very long history of having weird shit happen to the crew because of space anomalies–
Once More With Feeling was in 2001, and Trek trying to follow in BTVS’s wake would have felt derivative at the time. The closest it came was The Doctor’s hallucinations… and that was hilarious.
If anyone can pull this off its the SNW crew.
The retro poster has a Once More With Feeling vibe. Hoping Subspace Rhapsody will approach (or even meet) the standard that Buffy set as far as TV show musical episodes go.
I was soooo skeptical when they advertised this Buffy episode first-run (yes, I’m old), but it was so well done and moving! I’m hoping SNW can also pull it off.
If the audience can roll with the Naked Time and the Naked Now, why not an ‘everyone breaks into song and dance’ episode?
Let’s face it: this isn’t even in the top five strangest things to happen to a Starfleet vessel. Arguable if it’s even in the top 10.
First a crossover with an animated comedy series, and now a musical episode? They have lost their minds over at SNW and I am so here for it.
For those who can’t read music, the song on the poster is (of course) the TOS theme, specifically the iconic part following the voiceover where “STAR TREK” appears on screen. In other words, what you expected it to be. 😉
And the TOS theme does have lyrics, though they’re terrible and Roddenberry just wrote them to unapologetically steal half of Courage’s royalties.
Ilia’s theme from TMP also had lyrics.
Pelia had better sing.
For those who don’t know, Carol Kane (though not particularly known as a singer) has sung on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and has appeared in the US tour of the musical Wicked as Madame Morrible.
This sounds ridiculous. And I’m so down for it.
Oh My.
I feel like this has happened before, but maybe I’m just remembering The Doctor singing about Tuvok going into pon farr
That was Picardo singing a parody of “La Donna e Mobile”, an aria in Verdi’s opera Rigoletto.
DS9 also had some episodes where they showed off their cast’s vocal chops, eg Avergy Brooks and James Darren singing “The Best is Yet to Come” and Nana Visitor singing “Fever”.
Don’t forget everyone’s favorite, allamaraine!
That will be coming in Lower Decks apparently.
I know this is a staple troupe that shows drag out but who actually enjoys these musical episodes. Like I get it, it’s novel but I’m not sure if I’m the demographic but since a lot of the shows I’ve watched has had these episodes I’m wondering if I’m not supposed to like them also… but the record I’m skipping this one. All the singing is cringe and gets in the way of the storytelling. I’m fine with zany antics but not with random song and dance escapades.
I guess I’m the target audience, since I like musical episodes (Xena and Buffy especially) … hell, even a bit of DS9 holosuite crooning is enjoyable.
I adore musical episodes, assuming the cast has the chops to pull it off. I’m genuinely saddened by some of the salty takes in here about it.
If you don’t like musicals, it’s likely best to pass on this one. Many of us do, and welcome them.
For me, the key factors are whether the main cast have the musical theatre chops to pull it off well and whether the music is written by people who know what they’re doing in that specific form.
In this case, there is an award winning Broadway musical performer and others who have significant experience in touring companies. Likewise, the songwriters are both experienced alt musicians but also have written musical episodes for DC. I expect the quality to be high.
Dan Abbnett managed to pull of a musical issue of his comic Lawless, a gritty space western set in the Judge Dreed-verse, with a recorded soundtrack to listen to while reading and it was dope. I reckon SNW can pull it off.
novel
its overplayed, so it cannot be novel
I get you but I meant for the show as in this specific series hasn’t done one yet but I agree with you that we don’t need another one
mhm
I generally love musical episodes (OMWF is my favorite Buffy episode and the musical episodes of the Magicians are always the best episodes of that show), but there are some stinkers (Fringe did it? Why?) and I’m really not at all sure that SNW is the right platform for this (It would work better on Lower Decks).
But I’ve been disappointed with SNW season 2 relative to season 1. I’m not sure SNW is going to keep me as a viewer
We’ll see… Can’t say I’m stoked, but maybe it’ll be better than I anticipate. I’m not really a fan of musicals in the first place. I could count the ones I find ‘acceptable’ on one hand, and can only think of two atm. If it turns out merely ‘acceptable’ I’ll be happy enough. Hopefully the actors had fun.
How much for just the planet?
Kurtzman!
i dont watch the trailer for, i hope, obvious reasons but i am hyped for the series in general so i want to see how this turns out ^^
I can’t believe snw beat Orville to a LARP and a musical ep
While I don’t mind the idea it has to be done right to work. And i don’t trust modern trek to do it right.
Strange New Worlds had been pretty consistent. I don’t mind the occasional flub, it’s better to go out on a limb occasionally than play it totally safe.
