WTF IS THIS SINGING SHIT?!?!?!?!?!?!

Musical episodes have a history: Buffy, Xena, and so forth.

I thought the episode worked very well. They had a reason for the singing (yes, Star Trek technobabble, but this isn't the first, second, or 500th example)

We had serious character moments throughout. Una and Laan. Laan and Kirk. Uhura and Spock. Chapel and Spock. Pike and Batel.

Overall, a great episode and well worth watching.

Author of the Sodality Universe
The Road from Antioch
In the Markets of Tyre
Flight to Lystra
The Theater at Ephesus
The Council on Jerusalem (coming late 2023)

Utter dumpster fire and the people who defend it are laughable.

It's Star Trek so many weird things happen in space.

But that doesn't make it a good episode...It's currently the worst SNW episode ever written.

It is...different.

SNW is Scum Drek, not Star Trek and Drekkies are just obnoxious posers.

Oh that's easy. Bad writers always include a musical episode when they run out of ideas. Judging by how soon this cropped up, I'd say they didn't have many ideas to start with.

I'm amazed they haven't included a cheesy, "trapped in an asylum in my mind" story yet. That one has been done by several sci-fi and fantasy shows.

Some effing moron thought it was a good idea. I'm curious if anyone tried to step up and tell them not to do this.

Utter failure. I lasted five minutes.
They could have at least made it more plausible, say if the Enterprise ran into a god-like entity (like Trelane or Apollo) who likes musical theater and forces the crew to sing and dance.

Where did the music come from? Why did everyone know the same lyrics? How did they know the choreography? It would have been more acceptable if the crew members just sang what they were trying to say?

The writing for Season 2 has been worse than mediocre. No strange new worlds. No new life or new civilizations.

Why did these people decide to make a Star Trek show if they care nothing about Star Trek?