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

[Nerys Myk]

My layers are grayer.

 

[cooleddie74]

Mine, too. They're overcompensating in lack of pigmentation for the general lack of keratin.

 

[shakham]

I think the only genre I dislike is Saw style horror.

I do wonder if Gooding’s background as a singer was a factor in casting her as Uhura, since the character (and original actress) was a singer.

That would depend on if she sings again, in future episodes. Come to think of it, it may make sense as a casting criteria, as Nichele Nichols could sing and sang in episodes.

I'm just waiting for Mr. Tambourine Man by Paul Wesley while we are at it .

 

[Nerys Myk]

That would depend on if she sings again, in future episodes. Come to think of it, it may make sense as a casting criteria, as Nichele Nichols could sing and sang in episodes.

I'm just waiting for Mr. Tambourine Man by Paul Wesley while we are at it .

"Children of the Comet" was built around her singing. And I think she's done a little in other episodes as well.

 

[Jack Wolfe]

This is my fifth(?) watch-through of "Subspace Rhapsody", and La'an's big song, "How Would That Feel", lays bare the very fabric of her character. It's exquisite. This is the power of the musical. I know her now. I didn't before. I had glimpses. I had inferences. Now I know her.

 

[Mudd]

La'An and Spock. Who expected that out of Spock, after all these decades?

 

[Tallguy]

This is my fifth(?) watch-through of "Subspace Rhapsody", and La'an's big song, "How Would That Feel", lays bare the very fabric of her character. It's exquisite. This is the power of the musical. I know her now. I didn't before. I had glimpses. I had inferences. Now I know her.

La'An and Spock. Who expected that out of Spock, after all these decades?

Still saying: Keeping Secrets is underrated.

I gather now that there was an aerial dance sequence in keeping secrets that was cut before it was filmed. I'm assuming that this is the middle verses of the song that got cut with it. Which removes the 1-2-3 structure of the song. Set up, change, payoff. Well as aired the song just has the one verse and then goes straight to the end.

It lays out the journey that Una has taken between Ghosts of Illyria and Ad Astra per Aspera. And passes it along to La'an.

 

[thribs]

I don't know if this has been said but the scene at the beginning where Ortegas starts singing and Pike steps back from his chair is the most Kirk/Shatner thing Anson has done so far.

 

[StarMan]

My mother over the weekend:

"I see there's a Star Trek the new generation musical."

 

[Commander Troi]

Still saying: Keeping Secrets is underrated.

That's been my earworm for the past week.

 

[pgbka]

I was disappointed we didn't get more serious singing from the Klingons. I was expecting some opera.

 

[urbandefault]

One of the best episodes from any series, but why did they have to ruin it by Uhura saying Sato could speak 63 languages? The character wasn't convincing to speak more than a handful of languages.

Maybe this should be another thread, but what is up with ST and polyglottery in the recent series? There were episodes in Enterprise where Sato hears a few phrases and is suddenly able to speak fluently. No, that's not how language works. It's ridiculous that Uhura at her age in SNW could speak 37 languages and it's not believable for her character. Then there's Saru in Discovery. I get the idea that no one writing any of this has ever met a polyglot, nor knows anything about it.

It's imaginary, just a tv show. Don't sweat the small stuff.

 

[pgbka]

I am a musically oriented person. Music is my life. I hear harmonies in all things.

This episode was flawless.
Flawless.

Also, I just about pissed myself when the Klingons showed up on screen.

Fucking flawless.

Really? The bass (which is brilliant!) comes in a second or two off in "Private Conversation".

I would really have loved to hear a much longer "Private Conversation".

 

[Mudd]

One of the best episodes from any series, but why did they have to ruin it by Uhura saying Sato could speak 63 languages? The character wasn't convincing to speak more than a handful of languages.

This is what ruins things, now?

 

[cooleddie74]

It's fictional spaceship officers who are living 150 to 250 years from now. They can know 100 languages each and it won't ruin my enjoyment of the episode or movie.

 

[Tallguy]

This is what ruins things, now?

No no no. It's having Uhura read Klingon from a book that's bigger than the dictionary I used to use as a booster seat at the dinner table at Grandma's house that ruins things now.

 

[Mudd]

No no no. It's having Uhura read Klingon from a book that's bigger than the dictionary I used to use as a booster seat at the dinner table at Grandma's house that ruins things now.

Original Uhura was a radio operator.

 

[pgbka]

This is what ruins things, now?

Sorry, posted in the wrong episode, it was the previous one, also one of my favorites. But yes, absolutely! It seems that the detail for things like this has gone down in recent series. Maybe I'm wrong, but TOS/TNG/DS9 seemed to have more accurate references to science, other cultural things like music, chess, etc. Or at least more of a focus on it.

 

[Amaris]

Really? The bass (which is brilliant!) comes in a second or two off in "Private Conversation".

I would really have loved to hear a much longer "Private Conversation".

It doesn't, no. Just in case I was wrong, I hooked up my nice, big studio headphones and cranked it up. The bass comes in at the correct time.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Sorry, posted in the wrong episode, it was the previous one, also one of my favorites. But yes, absolutely! It seems that the detail for things like this has gone down in recent series. Maybe I'm wrong, but TOS/TNG/DS9 seemed to have more accurate references to science, other cultural things like music, chess, etc. Or at least more of a focus on it.

Yeah, no.
Right off the bat TOS had human/alien hybrids and ESP.