Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[KAB]

Glad you agree, the dancing Klingons was too much for me.

What I understood was it make people break out in song ( lyrics), got that, but where did the underlining music come from.

If I was Joss Wheadon, I'd sue!

 

[SamCdbs]

What I object to is there is only so much Star Trek I get to watch, and they took 1/10th of what I get this year and made THIS. They could have made an episode about anything. Tribbles, time travel, Romulans, Gorn, Q, Spock's troubled psyche, Kirk's libido, resetting the warp array, or, and this would be really something, an actual new idea without Easter egg references only ComiCon attenders get, or care about.

But no, they wasted 1/10th of the money I pay them to make ST and made a musical.

Star Trek is not a musical.

 

[Bruce]

If I was Joss Wheadon, I'd sue!

It was almost a copy and paste job, even down to the songs reveal their actual feelings , which is what the Buffy musical was about.

 

[TheKrell]

Agree with all. This episode was just silly. What a disappointment.

I never watched Buffy and now I never will!

 

[Bruce]

This episode was just silly. I never watched Buffy and now I never will!

Buffy was great and their musical episode felt original, again, this was a rip off .

Buffy‘s episode did not happen till the show was into it’s 6th season and 100 episodes in, not the 19th and barely 2 seasons.

 

[KAB]

Agree with all. This episode was just silly. What a disappointment.

I never watched Buffy and now I never will!

Buffy did it right. "Once More With Feeling" was critically acclaimed and was nominated for an Emmy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_More,_with_Feeling_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)

 

[TheKrell]

Well, I happen to think most musicals are silly. Who busts out in song all of a sudden, complete with orchestral accompaniment? About the only movie where this made sense was The Sound of Music.

 

[Keith Brannen]

Yikes! That was extremely painful to watch. Yet another disappointing episode in a fairly disappointing season (certainly had higher hopes for this season). Shame.

 

[Stuart Sweet]

First of all this episode was a HUGE swing and kudos for them even trying it. After hundreds of episodes of Trek they found a way to do something they’d never done before.

Also I continue to be blown away by the sets. They keep finding little ways to call back to TOS while doing amazing things.

Overall I … liked it a lot. I wanted to love, love, love it and I didn’t. It needed a little more up and down… the middle just seemed like every character singing about the same thing. But it started strong and ended even stronger.

I was a little put off by even more Kirk. But in the end it didn’t bother me.

One last thing… a lot of folks have criticized this show for not exploring enough strange new worlds. But maybe those people are being too literal. Maybe it’s not about the crew going where no one has gone before. Maybe it’s about Trek going where the show has never gone before. And I’m here for it.

 

[Stuart Sweet]

Who busts out in song all of a sudden, complete with orchestral accompaniment?

If I could I would.

 

[KAB]

The show is going to have to do a HARD reverse in the last episode to even get close to saving the season as a whole.

 

[Bruce]

The show is going to have to do a HARD reverse in the last episode to even get close to saving the season as a whole.

And that is what is wrong, the up and down of this season, not bad episodes, just in how they (writers/show runners) treat and pace the show, comedy of the Lower Deck crossover (and I loved the episode) to the hell of war, to the musical to, my guess, balls to the wall action in the finale.

If they were going to do the musical, should have been after the crew has been together for years, that is why the Buffy musical they copied worked so well.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Having never seen Buffy, I can't comment on the aspect of that copying it.

All I can say is that I enjoyed it. Sure, it was a tad campy, it was a "bottle" episode that they turned into a Broadway musical. But, almost every incarnation of Trek (except for Enterprise) has had one (or more) episodes with a music scene in it. Not a entire episode, but at least a scene.

After a little research, I found this:

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-musical-sequence-singing-explained-every/

My point being, to sum up my post, is that yeah, it was odd, unexpected, out-of-the-ordinary, but then isn't that what Trek is all about? In a time when people are stressed-out, angry and sad, I say hey, let's lighten up a little and have some fun. This episode did just that and I applaud them for going out on a limb and trying it (and besides that, some of the music was quite good).

 

[N6BY]

For the first time I watched a small portion of Season 1 Episode 1 last night. I turned it off when Spock and his girlfriend were talking on their date and prefaced everything with "Query" and "Response".

The tedium of listening to that conversation was enough to make me turn it off. It seemed like they were going out of their way to be weird. Does the series get better after that?

 

[Bruce]

For the first time I watched a small portion of Season 1 Episode 1 last night. I turned it off when Spock and his girlfriend were talking on their date and prefaced everything with "Query" and "Response".

The tedium of listening to that conversation was enough to make me turn it off. It seemed like they were going out of their way to be weird.

Just how Vulcans talk, using those terms instead of emotional responses during a conversation.

Does the series get better after that?

Show was great that entire first season, mostly great until yesterday, have high hopes for next week.

 

[Bruce]

Having never seen Buffy, I can't comment on the aspect of that copying it.

If you did, you would understand why some are peeved, it was a copy and paste job.

But the Buffy musical only makes sense if you watch all 5 Seasons and the episodes in the 6th season before it.

 

[primestar31]

Well guys, from what I've been reading all day, the "average" person on Facebook and other forums LOVED this episode! Many people claim they are watching it multiple times, because "it was so good!".

SatGuys is the ONLY forum and thread I've found so far where posters are saying this episode was terrible, and they think the show has jumped the shark...

 

[Bruce]

Well guys, from what I've been reading all day, the "average" person on Facebook and other forums LOVED this episode! Many people claim they are watching it multiple times, because "it was so good!".

SatGuys is the ONLY forum and thread I've found so far where posters are saying this episode was terrible, and they think the show has jumped the shark...

One answer to that, Klingons were dancing like they were in a Micheal Jackson video.

 

[Stuart Sweet]

Look, the Backstreet Klingons were a bit much. But they came and went quickly. Honestly they were barely there long enough to be laughed at. And it’s not like the series has never used Klingons as comedy relief.

Also, “I doubt we will be bunnies.” Absolutely classic.

 

[long_time_DNC]

One answer to that, Klingons were dancing like they were in a Micheal Jackson video.

Yeah, the Klingons dancing like that definitely was the jump-the-shark moment of the episode. I did an eye-roll and then laughed when Pike turned around and pretty much did an eye-roll too.

Watch it more than once??? Um, no, I wouldn't do that. Yes, it was unique and never-been-done in Trek before, but at 62 min, I wouldn't watch it again. Not even at at 40 min. Once was enough...