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[-] Continuumguy@startrek.website 17 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.

[-] flamingmongoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago

This sounds ridiculous. And I'm so down for it.

[-] hivemind@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

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 8 points 1 year ago

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.

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If the audience can roll with the Naked Time and the Naked Now, why not an ‘everyone breaks into song and dance’ episode?

[-] Hypersapien@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

There was also a musical episode of Xena. I forget which came first.

[-] GeekFTW@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] G59@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] michaelmelanson@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Hi, I didn’t know it until I heard about this episode but apparently I’m that overlap.

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I'm actually not a huge musical fan, but I do enjoy it when it's worked into something I already enjoy like Trek, as long as the song writing is good, I'm hyped.

[-] UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago
[-] Prouvaire@kbin.social 11 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.

[-] Cybrpwca@beehaw.org 10 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.

[-] SamHandwich@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

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 2 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.

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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 9 points 1 year ago

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 10 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget everyone’s favorite, allamaraine!

That will be coming in Lower Decks apparently.

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[-] lxskllr@mastodon.world 6 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.

[-] concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for Lower Decks to parody this episode.

[-] HR_Pufnstuf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

[-] Little8Lost@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

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 ^^

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Noooooo. I despise musicals and hate it when the shows I like do one, I guess I can skip this episode

[-] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Hell, you could even skip commenting. 🤣

[-] HR_Pufnstuf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I love musicals, but not on my TV shows.

[-] concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

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?

They appear to get hit with some Strange Energies in the trailer.

[-] concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Hmm... Hope those strange energies make Spock sing better. As I recall he can't sing in tune.

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[-] evdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

How much for just the planet?

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