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[–] Cybrpwca@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Continuumguy@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] SamHandwich@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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. 😉

[–] transwarp@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] lxskllr@mastodon.world 1 points 1 year ago

@ValueSubtracted

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.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I can't believe snw beat Orville to a LARP and a musical ep

[–] concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they going to explain why everyone is suddenly singing and dancing (like some kind of subspace interference that causes the crew to break into songs) or are they treating it as artistic license for this episode?

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It will likely be similar to TOS S01E04 & TNG S01E03.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like this has happened before, but maybe I’m just remembering The Doctor singing about Tuvok going into pon farr

[–] Prouvaire@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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".

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget everyone’s favorite, allamaraine!

[–] doleo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Lockely@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

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."

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

[–] michaelgemar@mstdn.ca 1 points 1 year ago

@doleo TOS had a gangsters comedic episode, and a cutesy animals comedic episode.

[–] G59@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Umm... what. Is there an overlap between Star Trek fans and musical episode fans that I didn't know about? 😅

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] teft@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Computer, play Nightbird.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Prouvaire@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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. 🤣

[–] hivemind@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Prouvaire@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] oocdc2@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This will either be really fun or total nonsense. I like that they're trying new things instead of only recycling old Trek tropes with aliens that have a different kind of bump on the forehead.

[–] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I think the word you’re looking for is “and.”

[–] Gh05t@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] LucyLastic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ashyr@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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