It’s About Time for Star Trek: The Musical
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I’d watch it. It could be a lot of fun. Canon be damned (as always).
Well, it's not necessarily something I would want to see in canon, but simply as a theoretical thought experiment, how could this work?
Perhaps there's a race that communicates entirely in musical verse, such as how the
Tamarians are always speaking in metaphor.
You can open with a Holodeck sequence in which the crew is training / rehearsing for their meeting with the leaders of this alien race in order to establish the premise.
Of course, once the away team hits the surface, the shit hits the fan for whatever reason and they are cut off from the ship and have to communicate and work with the locals to solve whatever crisis has reared its ugly head on the surface.
Of course, if you ever cut back to the ship, the gimmick wouldn't be necessary unless they're trying to communicate with the surface themselves.
It's more "Shades of Grey" than "The Best of Both Worlds", but at least no one is turned into a salamander.
Perhaps there's a race that communicates entirely in musical verse, such as how the
Tamarians are always speaking in metaphor.
You can open with a Holodeck sequence in which the crew is training / rehearsing for their meeting with the leaders of this alien race in order to establish the premise.
Of course, once the away team hits the surface, the shit hits the fan for whatever reason and they are cut off from the ship and have to communicate and work with the locals to solve whatever crisis has reared its ugly head on the surface.
Of course, if you ever cut back to the ship, the gimmick wouldn't be necessary unless they're trying to communicate with the surface themselves.
It's more "Shades of Grey" than "The Best of Both Worlds", but at least no one is turned into a salamander.
Fine. Throw in a salamander. In for a penny in for a pound.I've lost interest.
Honestly, I absolutely hate how seemingly every genre show eventually decides they have to do a musical episode. It fit on Hercules, which was always tongue in cheek; it fit on Buffy, where it was an actual mover-forward of the plot. Almost everywhere else, it’s strained, silly and pointless.
The actors get to step out of the boring routine and have a lot of fun. That's not pointless.
The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? by the Coen Brothers I think is a great example of a musical that exists within a reality that, while fantastical, is never fantastical in the way music is used to tell the story. The music is organic and differs from a traditional stage musical in that doesn’t take the characters or viewers out of the storyline.
I think there are many ways that they could incorporate song and dance into the story of Star Trek that aren't forced, or overly cliched.
Kurtzman mentioned it first when Short Treks was nominated for an Emmy:
…and then again back on last year’s June 14th episode of the official Trek podcast The Pod Directive:
I hope he gets a chance to make it happen at some point.
I think there are many ways that they could incorporate song and dance into the story of Star Trek that aren't forced, or overly cliched.
Kurtzman mentioned it first when Short Treks was nominated for an Emmy:
Alex Kurtzman via The Gold Derby said:
…and then again back on last year’s June 14th episode of the official Trek podcast The Pod Directive:
Alex Kurtzman via The Pod Directive said:
I hope he gets a chance to make it happen at some point.
I've watched Star Trek. Holodecks do not work very well.
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And if you go by TNG S1 " The Big Goodbye", any major loss of power, or computer glitch that requires a hard reboot of the Holodeck can be absolutely deadly (read disintegrated by the Hoodeck matter creation technoogy) to any living beings making use of it at the time.I've watched Star Trek. Holodecks do not work very well.
This is surprisingly more workable than I would have thought...
Do we have any idea of the musical talents of the current Trek casts?
A few of the DISCO cast are Broadway vets.
Discovery has Wilson Cruz and Anthony Rapp, original cast members of Rent.
Prodigy is getting Daveed Diggs and Jason Alexander, from Hamilton and The Producers.
Picard has Isa Briones from Hamilton.
Tawny Newsome from Lower Decks is a singer/songwriter/musician in the band Four Lost Souls on top of comedian and actor.
And finally, Strange New Worlds has Celia Rose Gooding, who debuted on Broadway in Jagged Little Pill before the pandemic and was nominated for a Tony and won a Grammy for it. Also, her mother is Broadway vet, Tony winner and living legend, LaChanze.
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