I can’t believe snw beat Orville to a LARP and a musical ep
Ugh… why…!! Lets sing about this monster that eats children and farts fire lalalala. Ugh…
The show is good why fuck it up
You obviously feel very strongly about this.
Have you considered bursting into song to give your feelings full expression?
I had hope for this series, s01 was ok. Can’t watch it now.
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.
The Lower Decks crossover is bad enough, but this? No, just… no.
Wasn’t this supposed to be the spin off that took us back to star trek? After Dystopian trek and Geriatric Trek, we saw a little bit in season 1 of star treking.
This season, we’re going to have had: Spock’s comedy capers, a crossover with family guy and a high-school musical one-off.
We’ve gone from alien of the week to bad American TV genre of the week. Season finale is a mockumentary, The Office-syle, 4th wall breaking comedy. Cast members doing pieces to camera in fake interviews, Spock doing that look to the camera that whatever the attractive guy’s name was did.
Are you forgetting you’re talking about the series where:
- Humpback whales were a central plot point in one of the movies
- Dr. Crusher had a sexual relationship with a ghost
- Paris and Janeway were mutated into lizards, had sex with each other, and gave birth to babies
- It’s canonical that people need to clean up the bio-filters for holodecks (leave that one to the imagination)
- Data, a robot, manages to get laid a couple of times
- Q’s method of testing humanity is basically trolling the entire TNG crew every single time he appears
- SNW had a literal fantasy episode in S1
- Fucking James Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes was a recurring villain in TNG enough times to show up in Picard
Like… my guy, Stark Trek has always had an element of camp and being a goofy-ass series. It has a lot of thoughtful and contemporary dialogue in a lot of the episodes, yes, but you can’t say stuff like the SNWxLD crossover (which, as somebody who has never watched LD and grew up with TNG & DS9, I thought was pretty good) and the next couple of episodes are straying from Star Trek as a whole. Why do you think a lot of Trek fans would consider GalaxyQuest as an honorable Star Trek film?
Spock’s comedy capers was tonally different from data’s day… how?
You’re acting like goofy shit is not an intrinsic part of trek’s charm
Personally, I think SNW doing all this stuff is more Trek than we’ve seen in a while. Most inventive and creative live action series since Enterprise ended.
Yes, I too want the same old rehashes of 60s and 90s Trek plots so we can have full series burnout in record time.
Star Trek is a place to tell stories. Some of those stories involve weird shit. “Weird,” as Janeway says to Kim after he comes from a cloned version of the ship where everyone he knows and loves just died in a self-destruct explosion, “is part of the job.”
Kurtzman!
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. 😉
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.
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 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!
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.
Noooooo. I despise musicals and hate it when the shows I like do one, I guess I can skip this episode
Hell, you could even skip commenting. 🤣
