Subspace Rhapsody

The concept is great fun and it's fair to commend the writers, cast and crew for putting their hearts into a Star Trek musical.

I am not a big fan of musicals, but for me the songs are the highlight of this episode. They are pretty well written, performed, and choreographed, with all the cast getting an opportunity to shine.

It is a gimmick and there are moments where the novelty wears thin, but it builds to a feel-good finish that makes me smile. The theme of unity is very positive and one moment involving the Klingons is hilarious.

I am unsure how many of the cast are actually singing, but their body language and physical performances are all excellent. Jess Bush looks very comfortable doing these types of scenes and you would be forgiven for thinking her spectacular (for Star Trek) number is an actual music video.

The technobabble explanation for everything happening is silly, but no more so than numerous other explanations heard in the franchise for random events. Importantly the writers use the plot and songs to develop characters like Spock, Chapel, and Kirk in a way that links well to the original series.

Visually it excellent as always.

I can see, as always, reactions are either overly positive or full of hate-filled distain. For me the truth is rarely ever this extreme and is always in the eye of the beholder. My opinion is that it is a well made episode and I enjoyed it, but it is not up there with the very best of the franchise.

It's a 7.5/10 for me but I round upwards.

Brilliant and fun experiment. You can tell that the producers enjoy and have creative freedom. It is surprising how well many of the actors sing. Recovering the episodic format has been a success in this new-old version of Star Trek. More than recommended series.

I must add that I am not a fan of musicals at all, on the contrary: I hate them and I didn't even like "La La Land" and stopped watching it after five minutes, but this episode of ST:SNW manages to excite and amuse. The plot is no more absurd for being an episode based on a musical because, after all, in Star Trek they spend their time discovering strange things and suffering attacks from unknown entities. The difference is that this episode is very original and funny. It reminded me of one of many years ago from "Fringe" that ended a season, in which the protagonists lived in a crime novel.

I typically love SNW and like how it doesn't take itself too seriously (ahem, Discovery!) - although I couldn't make it through the Elysian Kingdom episode last season... This Subspace Rhapsody was SO much fun though! I laughed, I emoted, I smiled almost endlessly throughout the episode. I know many purists will hate what they've done with this episode but as a one-off bit of musical fun, it was terrific. Favourite moment - let's just say it was when they hailed a nearby ship! Great work, SNW team! I hope that next season will continue to explore new ways of telling us great stories like this!

This is a pretty bold thing to do for a franchise that, as far as I know, has never broached the subject of musicals. While I don't think it's the best episode or worthy of a 10, it's not a 1/10 and DEFINITELY not the worst Star Trek episode of all time as some people are claiming.

Have you people seen any Star Trek in your life? You think this was the worst of all time? Really? Please, be real for a second. It's not. I'd honestly say this is above average. The plot reasoning behind the spontaneous singing could be better, but it's certainly not bad.

There's some pretty good singing on display here from various actors, some of it you can tell has autotune but several of them were also just belting it out with their own voices. I just think it's impressive how they pulled this off. There are issues, and ultimately I think it will boil down to if you can't stand musicals or not; but I really liked this. I was particularly fond of the Uhura focus towards the end of the episode, considering in the past of this show we got an Uhura focused episode where she was communicating with aliens through harmony. This felt like a spiritual callback to that.

I saw a review saying something along the lines of "what scifi fan would want a musical?" ME! I do, I think it's a neat idea. Based on the numerous other high reviews, clearly a lot of people liked the idea too. Going into it, I was worried it would make me cringe based on how they'd handle the singing but it really didn't. Uhura's actress stands out having great vocals, but she's not the only one. Apparently some of the actors have experience singing in the past and you could definitely tell.

I don't know, I can't justify giving this episode a 1/10. I could maybe understand if you gave it a 3, 4, 6, whatever. But a 1? Come on now. You're just lying to yourself if you've seen other Trek and are calling this the worst of all time. I love Star Trek, and there have been some absolutely awful episodes before that this episode comes nowhere close to being as bad. I knew this one would be divisive but I'm glad to see so many people who agree this episode is solid.

I didn't want to enjoy this. Not a musical person but if SNW is a show you watch to escape reality for a moment, then this episode did its job. Entertainingly different, 🤷‍♂️ enjoyable in a different way to the last dark episode. The last x3 episodes have all been entertaining in such different ways. Some talented writers in this show. Looking forward to see where it goes. And actually love the growing complexities of the characters. Each is unique, deep, likeable. It's is getting back to the feel good, story per episode of Star Trek old. I'm enjoying it immensely. But have to admit Nurse Chappell is my favourite.