I hated the "racing" storyline,
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I don't think I've ran into that one yet, though I'm a bit behind. Too much time discussing Star Trek to actually experience it!
Brief Starfleet budget increases in 2269. 
There are several attachments. All sold separatelyI want to know where the extra device that is on the scanner came from!
Because there is money in Star Trek.
But not money. Just...money. Without the name on it. Unless it's a different name.
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I have never watched BUFFY, and definitely have never seen their musical, so I can't comment on it. But I agree otherwise... there's no such thing as a good musical episode. My suspension of disbelief is just eliminated when I see actors and actresses jump into song and prance around. Just doesn't work for me.
(To be fair, I just can't stand musicals, so my opinion is colored by my dislike of that genre.)
They did, it's just 'a nebula is making us sing and dance and unwillingly express our innermost thoughts in many specific styles because technobabble' is such an awkward, unconvincing and unengaging thing to drive the plot of a musical. The effects are way too varied, specific and personal to be the result of simple physical phenomena responding to stimuli. And the resolution is pure rote, unfulfilling technobabble. It needed to be something at least partially intelligent. Something to be reasoned with.
They should have just stuck to the tried and true classic of 'a wizard did it'. Star Trek has always had plenty of wizards to choose from.
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Honestly, if I was ranking every Trek episode by "How much do I believe that these events could happen in the Star Trek universe", Subspace Rhapsody would be down somewhere around the Very Short Treks, and just above Ephraim and Dot.
It would have been more believable to say a being like Trelane, Q, etc. did it.
I still wouldn't like the episode, but I could at least buy that a super powerful being was having fun with the crew.
I still wouldn't like the episode, but I could at least buy that a super powerful being was having fun with the crew.
Or the devil did it, since Lucifer exists in an alternate magic dimension.
Every story in TOS is what actually happened.
Every story in TAS is a tall tale told by a drunk Arex who was trying to impress a green girl he met in a bar. Then later she retold it to another guy who makes cartoons, except she couldn't remember the details and he just makes up absolute rubbish anyway.
An interesting, if arbitrary distinction.
Kirk: Chris, was that really you on the screen? (flash) That's impossible. Mister Spock, no vessel makes record tapes in that detail, that perfect. What were we watching?
TOS: Captain's log, we've encountered a godlike being who grabbed our ship, one of my teachers semi-accidentally inspired an alien world to become Nazis, and Spock's brain was taken as a CPU. Space can be a little weird sometimes.
TAS: Captain's log, we found a fifty-foot tall clone of Spock, entered a reality where we can perceive time going backwards and angered Lucifer by going to the centre of the universe and learning literal magic. Nothing makes any sense any more. PS. I've turned into a fish.
The fun part is still to make the wizard less wizardy and it was the sixties... Unless it's the Halloween episode, but "Catspaw" wasn't TOS's finest hour either. And on the other extreme, which tries to be "intelligent" in regards to "ghosts", there's TNG's (here it comes) "Sub Rosa" where they went over backwards to de-wizard the "anaphasic" lifeform and that didn't work too well beyond the way of demystifying/deconstructing ghosts because nobody could believe or buy into it as they were too busy laughing at it. Granted, "Schisms" where aliens are now bodysnatching people from starships wasn't much better either. That said, Trelane was said to have had machinery, it got rekd or whatever, and he still had other powers and nobody batted an eyelash. Trek, especially the 60s original*, is loaded with critters that can do seemingly a lot, but still within a set of self-imposed rules. Apart from Charlie X and even then he was still restrained. Magical or scientifically explained, neither alone makes a plot.
* In the age of innocents and peppermints, a new show finding its own way and having a huge fanbase despite what was being looked for at the time... and definitely showed the color of time with all that RGB goodness...
Musicals have and do work. The best example is "The Way to Eden", unless one prefers 4th wall antics. Would have been cool if the K-Pop fluff from SNW was done in the original Klingon, too... Until then, there's always this:
Clever.
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