{"id":12065,"date":"2023-08-20T22:17:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T02:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12065"},"modified":"2023-08-20T22:17:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T02:17:03","slug":"subspace-rhapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12065","title":{"rendered":"Subspace Rhapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even before I began watching the penultimate episode of the current season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/em>, I already considered this series, more than any other “Trek”, a true successor of TOS, The Original Series (or Those Old Scientists, the in-universe meaning of the acronym as revealed in the Lower Decks<\/em> crossover episode.)<\/p>\n

Then came this. A musical.<\/p>\n

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A bleeping musical! That they had the guts!<\/p>\n

And they pulled it off. They actually pulled it off, without turning it into a farce, a ridiculous caricature.<\/p>\n

In fact, the episode was actually… good<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yes, perhaps it was unnecessary. One critic even called it “vapid” I think, though I certainly don’t think that’s accurate. Silly? Yes, but think The Trouble with Tribbles<\/em>. Or even The Squire of Gothos<\/em>. Silly is permissible in Star Trek. It doesn’t have to be all-serious, all the time. Not everything that happens in space on a 23rd century starship is about the future of humanity if not all life in the galaxy. Sometimes it’s about just… singing. (Or saving the galaxy from a subspace improbability quantum whatever event that all this singing was about.)<\/p>\n

Sure, Subspace Rhapsody<\/em> is by no means the best of Strange New Worlds<\/em>. But the fact that they had the guts to make this episode and the talent to pull it off… I think that cements SNW as perhaps the best Star Trek series ever (at least to date), certainly the best since TOS.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even before I began watching the penultimate episode of the current season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, I already considered this series, more than any other “Trek”, a true successor of TOS, The Original Series (or Those Old Scientists, the in-universe meaning of the acronym as revealed in the Lower Decks crossover episode.) Then […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","category-28-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12068,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions\/12068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}