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

[El Maestro]

Two things just really kept taking me out of the episode. First, the fact that the crew actually hear music coming from... apparently nowhere? Second, the dancing. Even the anomaly doesn't explain the crew doing dance numbers.

These are not even in the top 20 weird things to happen to a crew in Star Trek.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Btw, I was so afraid the episode was gonna be about some kind of trickster alien like Q forcing the crew to sing for his/her own amusement because that's the old cliche Star Trek thing (not the musical part, just the trickster alien tormenting the crew). I'm glad they DIDN'T do that and went with the plot device of a weird space anomaly causing people to sing and dance and then USING song and dance to save the galaxy from a living hell of an eternal musical. I mean, as funny as it would be, I imagine a lot of residents in the galaxy would just drop dead from sheer exhaustion alone! Singing and dancing takes a lot of energy! That being said, if that singing "virus" had reached the Delta Quadrant the idea of singing Borg would be so outrageous that I laugh just thinking about it.

I suspect the Borg, with the voices of untold multitudes echoing through the hive mind, would have discerned the solution far faster than Uhura's analysis and almost instantaneously destroyed the anomaly with a single, harmonic "Ohmmm!" across all octaves. It would have achieved the goal far fast than a mere 200 humans singing together.

 

[Farscape One]

These are not even in the top 20 weird things to happen to a crew in Star Trek.

Somewhat agreed, but none of the other weird things that have happened to any of the crews have taken me out of the episode before.

 

[Amaris]

I have watched the Klingon boy band scene about 50 times, and I want to keep watching it.

 

[Jedi Marso]

I really want an Uhura/Spock duet in a future episode. I feel like their voices would sound great together (reminiscent of Tara and Giles in Buffy) plus there’s precedent in TOS so it wouldn’t be contrived.

You sort of already got one in TOS, with Spock playing the Vulcan lyra and Uhura singing. (I think it was in Charlie X)

I know that's not what you meant, though.

 

[Jedman67]

I have to say, Chapel does not come off well here. She tells everyone else about her acceptance into the Korby fellowship... except Spock? That's kind of disrespectful, because she always had at least a fundamental respect for him and cared for him, and this just doesn't follow her previous motivations. No wonder he ends up going to full Vulcan mode by the time of TOS. The man has done everything he could to be understanding and helpful in the relationship... given space when needed, changing the subject Dak'Rah was going on because it was upsetting Chapel, etc. And you know he would be the first one to say 'go for the fellowship' and not guilt her to stay, because he's a good guy. I don't buy the excuse of the Boimler scene in the turbolift is her way of getting out of his way for his destiny... she was already on the fence of even being in a relationship in the very next episode after "Charades". Spock's line to Stonn in "AMOK TIME" about wanting and having a thing really carries extra weight because of Chapel... she's basically the living embodiment of that sentence.

Back in S1, she told Ortegas that she was awful at long term relationships, she was notoriously bad at commitments. So she pines for Spock, knowing that he's taken, then he's free and they sleep together, and suddenly she gets cold feet again.
Is it a dick move? Hell yeah. But also consistent with her character.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

I have watched the Klingon boy band scene about 50 times, and I want to keep watching it.

It's joined the pantheon of memorable Star Trek moments that are forever imbedded in my brain.

 

[Farscape One]

Back in S1, she told Ortegas that she was awful at long term relationships, she was notoriously bad at commitments. So she pines for Spock, knowing that he's taken, then he's free and they sleep together, and suddenly she gets cold feet again.
Is it a dick move? Hell yeah. But also consistent with her character.

Consistent, yes that is true. But she could have broke it off with him in a less disrespectful way. That goes against her established feelings and friendship with Spock.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

It's not: "I'm the X..."

It's: "I'm the Ex..." (as in Ex-Lover)

It's both.

In the closed captions it was "I'm the ex" the first time the line was sung and "I'm the X" thereafter.

 

[Jedman67]

Consistent, yes that is true. But she could have broke it off with him in a less disrespectful way. That goes against her established feelings and friendship with Spock.

They were already drifting last episode. I'm sure if it wasn't for the musical she would have been much nicer about breaking up with Spock.

 

[Farscape One]

They were already drifting last episode. I'm sure if it wasn't for the musical she would have been much nicer about breaking up with Spock.

Possibly, but we'll never know. This episode just paints her badly, though, because this is what ended up happening.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

Didn't the quantum probability field or whatever it is originate from DS9? The episode with the El-Aurian and his gambling device?

Seemed more Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to me.

 

[Jedman67]

Seemed more Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to me.

Improbability Field doesn't sound so bad coming from a Vulcan but there's no way that wasn't a little easter egg

 

[Mudd]

I think the point of the K-Pop was that we were all expecting opera. That's rather like my initial thoughts about the Vulcan crimelord in Discovery who I thought should have been Romulan. That they made him Vulcan was a bit less lazy.

I expected gangster rap.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

It would be kind of hilarious if it turns out that Klingon opera is actually just boy band/K-Pop. Watch DS9 now and think about that every time Worf waxes nostalgic for Klingon opera!!!

Im pretty certain everything about Klingons that we learn from Worf is wrong. He is essentially the Klingon version of Irish Americans who think all Irish people love traditional music and the Catholic church.

 

[fireproof78]

*looks at Irish American friends. *

You guys are doing it wrong.

 

[Tosk]

It's both.

In the closed captions it was "I'm the ex" the first time the line was sung and "I'm the X" thereafter.

And with good reason. The context of the lyrics tells us when it's Ex and when it's X.

For her I set aside
My need to analyze
Now I'm wrecked
And searching for why I'm the ex

Escaping this misery, you're breaking free
Not a possibility
I solved for Y
In my computation
But missed vital information
The variable so devastating
I'm the X

 

[J. Frank Doobie]

throwing this in is totally out character for Star Trek

--- Guy who just saw any random episode of Star Trek.

Its like remaking The Godfather as a musical.

If you think Star Trek is closer to The Godfather than to a musical, I don't know what show you're watching, but it's not Star Trek.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

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I think what makes that bit is Pike’s expression of, “well, that happened…”
Mek’leths used for a dance prop seems a brilliant choice.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

*looks at Irish American friends. *

You guys are doing it wrong.

Not all of them. Just a weird subset that think Ireland is still like The Quiet Man. At it's worst it's quite racist in its belief that Ireland is the kind of lovely, safe and white place worth retiring to.