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

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David cgc said:
In the recent TrekMovie interview with Kay Hanley and Tom Polce, they actually talked about that line specifically.

H/T to Apple Podcast for the auto-transcription, which is also why there are typos and this is just one wall of text instead of attributing who said what:

Like all of these things, they will smartly, of course, they made us, you know, made us privy to, so that we could incorporate these things. And sometimes it was just so that we had a general feel, but other times, right, Kay, they would just be like, we want you to mention, for instance, like Hammer, and what happened, and we want to mention what happened to Uru's family. And, you know, I think the first time we hit them with a lyric, it was like, we were very on the nose with, I think instead of saying, it was something where, like, you know, instead of shards of light, it was like, you know, they blew up in the sky, you know.​
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Right, right, because I think, because in that specific example, the original lyric was shards of light, but then we were like, oh, that might be too, like, abstruse for like it. Because it's hard to know in television, like, you do have to be a lot more literal when you're writing for a script. When you're writing, when you're writing in the musical format, you know, you it's it's much more narrative.​
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And so it's sometimes it's hard to know when to like give like a really delicious metaphor, or just like say the shit, you know, yeah, sometimes it goes the other way.​
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Nice find! Thanks for sharing. I guess that at least explains why they felt the need to make it explicit that her family had died (out of fear the audience wouldn’t get that). But I’m still not sure why they made it sound like Uhura is waxing beautiful poetic imagery over the exact way they had perished. And I still think there’s an odd tonal mismatch between that line, how it’s sung and the mood of the music during that part. But I guess that’s also pretty subjective.

Listening to the songwriters I get the feeling we’re lucky there isn’t a bigger disconnect between the lyrics and the characters as we know them. I mean, I genuinely think they did a great job, especially considering that this is just for a one-off episode of a streaming show, but I get the feeling that they weren’t super deep into Trek or SNW lore when they worked on this, relying on the notes they got from the authors. That’s probably why something like “Once More, With Feeling” works so well, because the guy writing the lyrics is also the guy who came up with the characters.
 
the rendition of TOS theme after the final song Is either an archive recording or a really good recreation because it's spot on.

It's not part of the track, and also plays after the anomaly closes so no, it's probably not played in-universe for the characters to hear.
 
Tuskin38 said:
the rendition of TOS theme after the final song Is either an archive recording or a really good recreation because it's spot on.
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It's from the end of the first season of Discovery (and can be found on that soundtrack). It's very close to the concert arrangement Courage did for the Boston Pops. But it's absolutely a 2018 recording.

Tuskin38 said:
It's not part of the track, and also plays after the anomaly closes so no, it's probably not played in-universe for the characters to hear.
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Then what are they dancing to?
 
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