Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x9 aka the musical episode is here!

[silverstarry]

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2x9: Subspace Rhapsody
An accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the U.S.S. 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.

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[tillychar]

i won't be able to watch until after work, but as a lover of both musicals and sci-fi i am ready

also laughing at how many people i've seen who are mad about this

[fauxkaren]

Yeah I have to wait until after work too. :(

I am not in many Trek spaces so I haven't seen any reactions to the episode. Why are ppl mad???

[arabian]

Oh, they are being such big babies about the fact that it's a musical. So stupid.

It was really fun and nicely done.

[fauxkaren]

lolllll what? ppl who are complaining about a musical episode need to rewatch like... almost any of the holodeck silliness episodes from TNG or VOY.

Slightly silly high concept episodes are some of my favorite Trek episodes!!

[silverstarry]

I love musicals so I was excited about this, but due to some of the bad musical episodes I have seen (the Seventh Heaven one was a million years ago and I still remember how bad it was), I was cautiously optimistic.

Thankfully the cast has a lot of good singers and the songs had some lovely melodies. I really enjoyed this episode!

[beesknees7]

Stream of consciousness incoherence incoming...

The Klingons!!! I fucking died. 😭 They could not have made a better choice with that.

La'an's line about wanting to tell Jim before it ended up coming out as a 17th century sea shanty. 😭

Chapel's song was probably my favorite overall. That shit slapped.

Celia's voice is so gorgeous! And I loved the very beginning where she was handling the comms like a conductor would an orchestra.

La'an increasing willingness to open herself up and risk heartbreak vs Spock becoming more closed off and Vulcanesque as a result of his heartbreak.

Carol Kane & Anson Mount's little dance together at the end was so freaking cute.

The one thing that read a little off was Carol's line suggesting that Uhura use music as a language to communicate, like we already had an episode last season with her doing exactly that.

pregnant Carol Marcus reference!

[silverstarry]

The Klingons singing and dancing was hilarious!

[beesknees7]

Pike's stunned reaction was too much!

eta: wait, i figured out what it reminded me of

[silverstarry]

I know someone who went to high school with Rebecca Romijn and they said she was in a bunch of musicals then. I'm surprised that she hasn't been on Broadway (especially considering how many celebs have done stints in Broadway musicals).

[yurasama_love]

I am really behind but I do not like the Spock/Chapel thing that's happening

[xpirate_queenx]

I really wish Nu!Trek would stop trying to pair Spock up with people. It's not necessary.

[misscrystal25]

I love it.