I certainly find more thought provoking in the Kurtzman era than I did with Voyager or ENTERPRISE.
Why the hate for Alex Kurtzman?
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I'll let Google's AI explain:
A "musical show don't tell" refers to a style of songwriting or musical theater where the story and emotions are conveyed through actions, imagery, and sensory details rather than explicitly stating them in the lyrics, allowing the audience to experience the feelings more deeply by actively interpreting the scene instead of being simply told what to feel; essentially applying the writing principle "show, don't tell" to music.
Now can either of you say SNW achieved that in the scene? Or was it Pike and Batel telling us their problems through lyrics?
But how does that relate to "scientific possibility? It's about turning one's self over to a "higher power" be it a religion, a political movement or a computer program. A metaphor. More about philosophy than hard science.
Passion often triumphs "logic" in Star Trek as illustrated in "Galileo Seven." Spock for all his logic goes with his gut. Kirk's speeches aren't about science, they're about feelings, emotions, passion and ideas. Those are Trek's "sweet spot."
Yes. because the actors conveyed that through their performance in conjunction with the lyrics.
How does Kirk overcome the spores?
Mudds androids?
Pike over the Talosians?
Was that science?
“You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.”
—James T. Kirk, “The Corbomite Maneuver”
Yes, said in a episode where the theme is two species finding common ground.
Both good episodes. I really prefer niether.
But...but...the comedy!!!!!
What about it?
And breaking into dance numbers along with the songs. Completely ludicrous. Takes you completely out of the episode and destroys any chance of suspension of disbelief.I don’t know, I hear a lot about how TOS was weird and wacky and, as someone who rewatches each episode every year, I feel that’s as much a mischaracterisation as the “Kirk drift”; the idea that Kirk is a hot-headed man whore. An episode like “Spock’s Brain” certainly dents my assertion, but generally, the writers made a real effort to create solid, serious science-fiction. It was far, far from, say, Lost in Space. TOS took itself quite seriously by and large.
For me, however, “Subspace Rhapsody” was just pure gimmick. If it had been the work of, say, a Q-like being, and if the musical numbers were a capella without the magical background instrumentation, I could maybe have bought it.
The SNW producers love boasting about how zany and off the wall they are but I wish they’d just rein it in a bit. That clip they released last year with the Vulcan transformation magic seriously made me doubt whether I’d even watch the next season.
SNW:
You're not a fan?
Nah. Why would one be more over the line than the other?
A fan of what?
Trek was meant to be a Wagon Train to the Stars very highbrow. Right?
Has no place in the Star Treks.
Well, not a wagon train, literally the show Wagon Train, only in SPAAAAACE! Neither it nor Star Trek was highbrow. No one is gonna mistake it for Opera or Ballet.
And they are only 'highbrow' in modern times cos rich people like em....Well, not a wagon train, literally the show Wagon Train, only in SPAAAAACE! Neither it nor Star Trek was highbrow. No one is gonna mistake it for Opera or Ballet.
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