Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x09 - "Subspace Rhapsody"

[Greg Cox]

What a weird episode. I kind of loved it. But I also kinda feel that Star Treks somehow jumped the shark. Conflicted I am.

If Star Trek survived the space hippies, Uhura's fan dance, a couple of lackluster TNG movies, plenty of wacky Ferengi comedies and holodeck eps, and any number of oddball, offbeat episodes (of varying degrees of quality), it can survive a musical ep.

Trek is nothing if not resilient.

 

[DaveyNY]

SPOCK'S BRAIN was the initial launch, SUBSPACE RHAPSODY is just the show landing on the other ramp.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Fonzie is still on the beach.

 

[DaveyNY]

Fonzie is still on the beach.

Fonzie is the shark.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Fonzie is the shark.

 

[Australis]

If only it had been titled 2020.

 

[Amaris]

If Star Trek survived the space hippies, Uhura's fan dance, a couple of lackluster TNG movies, plenty of wacky Ferengi comedies and holodeck eps, and any number of oddball, offbeat episodes (of varying degrees of quality), it can survive a musical ep.

Trek is nothing if not resilient.

I don't care what anybody says, I loved Uhura's fan dance. I still lament that we never got to hear her actually singing the full "The Moon Is A Window to Heaven" on the soundtrack, as fine a job as Hiroshima did with it.

 

[passinglurker]

holodeck eps

oh right there's a point. We don't have those (yet) so we gotta get in our jollies with improbability anomalies, and parallel earths. I now demand a strange new world who's culture revolved around the intercepted transmissions of a classic earth show called Captain Proton: Phase II.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Let's also not forget all the terrible eps in which the Transporter and its malfunctions were the main plot device.

 

[Chovak]

It's really hard for me to put a finger on this episode. I wanted to like it. I'm a hobby musician, but I don't like musicals. I'm more of a classic rock, metal with sung vocals, blues, funk, jazz sort of listener.

Similarly to other people here, I thought that in contrast to the producers' apparent intent to have Gooding as the star, for me Chong had the far better voice. I listened to Gooding's live performances on Youtube way before this episode, and she blew me away (as had her mom), but in Subspace Rhapsody they made her go falsetto for her high parts and I hated that, because I'd heard that she can belt those ranges out. Chong on the other hand had free reign in her highs and it was glorious. I don't know whose choice it was to have them sing this way. This was the musician's rant part.

I would have preferred to have the emotional arcs to play out in normal episodes instead of these *fun* ones of 7 and 9.

I appreciate the risktaking and I still love SNW especially opposed to the bleakness of DIS.

Dunno... undefined or middle of the road for me. Wouldn't rewatch it, apart from some non-sung parts.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Did I mention that it fucking sucks to be Spock? I kinda feel Christine realised wanting something forbidden was a lot more exciting than having it.

 

[Uhura's Song]

Despite my initial struggles with the episode, I did not think it horrible, and certainly feel than an anomaly/virus/alien that makes everyone act strangely is a Trek staple. From Naked Now (with signing!) to Subspace Rhapsody.

And while I think Chong & Gooding obviously stole the show, I thought Romjin, Bush, & Peck were also good. Particularly Romjin.

 

[Jedi Marso]

And while I think Chong & Gooding obviously stole the show, I thought Romjin, Bush, & Peck were also good. Particularly Romjin.

Yeah, Number One could definitely belt out a tune.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Did I mention that it fucking sucks to be Spock? I kinda feel Christine realised wanting something forbidden was a lot more exciting than having it.

That's always been his lot.

 

[Trekker4747]

If Star Trek survived the space hippies, Uhura's fan dance, a couple of lackluster TNG movies, plenty of wacky Ferengi comedies and holodeck eps, and any number of oddball, offbeat episodes (of varying degrees of quality), it can survive a musical ep.

Trek is nothing if not resilient.

It survived doing a grocery-store erotica novella episode.

 

[Therin of Andor]

And let's not be too dismissive of "fun." Star Trek's supposed to be fun and entertaining, as well as high-minded and inspirational. Going all the way back to TOS.

Leonard Nimoy in 2009: Open your mind! Be a 'Star Trek' fan and open your mind and say, “Where does ‘Star Trek’ want to take me now?”

 

[Noname Given]

Did I mention that it fucking sucks to be Spock? I kinda feel Christine realised wanting something forbidden was a lot more exciting than having it.

Spock: "...After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."

 

[cooleddie74]

Spock begins life as a Vulcan-human hybrid who is unaccepted by his peers in school and even his father until later in life. He ends his life in an alternate timeline having lost every friend he ever had but still fighting for what's right and to save what's left of his civilization.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Spock begins life as a Vulcan-human hybrid who is unaccepted by his peers in school and even his father until later in life. He ends his life in an alternate timeline having lost every friend he ever had but still fighting for what's right and to save what's left of his civilization.

It's a hard Spock life...

 

[cooleddie74]

Pon Near, Pon Farr. Pon Wherever You Are.