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.
Can’t wait for Lower Decks to parody this episode.
This sounds ridiculous. And I’m so down for it.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!
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.
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.
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.
I think the word you’re looking for is “and.”
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.
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.
Hmm… Hope those strange energies make Spock sing better. As I recall he can’t sing in tune.
He was fine singing Gilbert and Sullivan in the Short Trek Q&A. So was Number One.
It will likely be similar to TOS S01E04 & TNG S01E03.
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.
Oh My.
Kurtzman!
Umm… what. Is there an overlap between Star Trek fans and musical episode fans that I didn’t know about? 😅
YES
Computer, play Nightbird.
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.
