So, I take it you disliked the TOS episodes where Uhura belted out a song in the Recreation Room for the assembled crewmember?Some would have. I've never been a fan of musicals, in any form. Which I know makes me a monster, but it is what it is.![]()
So, I take it you disliked the TOS episodes where Uhura belted out a song in the Recreation Room for the assembled crewmember?Some would have. I've never been a fan of musicals, in any form. Which I know makes me a monster, but it is what it is.![]()
So, I take it you disliked the TOS episodes where Uhura belted out a song in the Recreation Room for the assembled crewmember?
That seems an unfair comparison.So, I take it you disliked the TOS episodes where Uhura belted out a song in the Recreation Room for the assembled crewmember?
So, I take it you disliked the TOS episodes where Uhura belted out a song in the Recreation Room for the assembled crewmember?
That seems an unfair comparison.
It's more like anytime the crew goes weird because of a virus, an anomaly or some alien device.
The Naked Now, but expressed through song and dance.That seems an unfair comparison.
It's more like anytime the crew goes weird because of a virus, an anomaly or some alien device.
I'll go a step further and guarantee that Subspace Rhapsody could be the exact same episode that we've seen, but if the credits for the episode had "Written By Terry Matalas" everyone who currently hates the episode would instead be madly in love with it.If a similar plot had been done in TOS (in inimitable TOS fashion), would fans have liked it more or less?
I can easily see a musical episode with that technical explanation happening on Stargate.If you asked people to guess what show that technobabble explanation was from, and made it easier for them by giving them just two groups to pick from, which group would they choose?
Group A:
For All Mankind, Strange New Words, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, The Expanse.
Stargate and SNW do not belong in group A. No Trek show belongs in Group A.I'll go a step further and guarantee that Subspace Rhapsody could be the exact same episode that we've seen, but if the credits for the episode had "Written By Terry Matalas" everyone who currently hates the episode would instead be madly in love with it.
I can easily see a musical episode with that technical explanation happening on Stargate.
I guess its only acceptable if a plot device makes the entire crew horny or violent... But not singing.So, I take it you disliked the TOS episodes where Uhura belted out a song in the Recreation Room for the assembled crewmember?
Why won't this show respect the hard serious drama of Star Trek? You know Vulcans playing baseball, cross-dressing Ferrengi's, or horny crewmembers getting their rocks off in a holodeck?Leaning into absurdity? Like Alice and the White rabbit? Abraham Lincoln in space, sitting in a chair no less? A giant god hand holding the Enterprise in place? Michael Forest in a skirt?
Insert *the line must be drawn here* meme here.I guess its only acceptable if a plot device makes the entire crew horny or violent... But not singing.
The science might be more sound than a lot of Trek episodes.People are free to hate the musical episode as much as they want but it's silly to act like it's an insult to the hard sci-fi sanctity of the Star Trek franchise when stuff like Spock's Brain and Threshold and a hundred other incredibly stupid unscientific episode premises exist. I feel like you need to be able to laugh at the stuff you think is stupid and move on.
It wasn't an anomaly that made people play baseball, they just wanted to play baseball. I'm fine with science fiction where people do stuff because they want to.Why won't this show respect the hard serious drama of Star Trek? You know Vulcans playing baseball, cross-dressing Ferrengi's, or horny crewmembers getting their rocks off in a holodeck?
*the line must be drawn he-YAH*Insert *the line must be drawn here* meme here.
That was aimed toward comedy episodes not anomaly episodes.It wasn't an anomaly that made people play baseball, they just wanted to play baseball. I'm fine with science fiction where people do stuff because they want to.
Insert *the line must be drawn here* meme here.
This is the scene you guys are talking about, right?*the line must be drawn he-YAH*
Don't forget Androids as sex toys...Why won't this show respect the hard serious drama of Star Trek? You know Vulcans playing baseball, cross-dressing Ferrengi's, or horny crewmembers getting their rocks off in a holodeck?
And Chinese Finger Traps.Don't forget Androids as sex toys...![]()
Yep.People are free to hate the musical episode as much as they want but it's silly to act like it's an insult to the hard sci-fi sanctity of the Star Trek franchise when stuff like Spock's Brain and Threshold and a hundred other incredibly stupid unscientific episode premises exist. I feel like you need to be able to laugh at the stuff you think is stupid and move on.