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Fire up the inertial dampeners, retract all moorings and clear space dock. It's time to boldy go where no one has gone before!

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An accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding & beginning to impact other ships - allies & enemies alike.

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[–] remotelove 3 points 1 year ago

The premise was absurd.

Hell yeah it was! Strangely enough, I found it absurd enough to be enjoyable. It was a decent one-off, IMHO.

the music was just awful.

Some of it was, for sure. The worst parts of it for you, I would speculate, were the songs that leaned really hard into the Disney'esq style where auto tune was also grossly abused.

I found Chapels and Spocks songs to be on the better side, as well as the opener. A duet of Chapel and M'Benga should really be explored much more, I thinks.

To someone else's point, I do have a healthy respect for musicals as I grew up in a fairly musical family. I was treated to some of the classics as a kid: Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, etc... I still need to see The Book of Mormon though.

But yeah, I can see where someone would find this very annoying. Especially the Klingon scene, which made me chortle a little.

In summary, I believe the plot was bad but it was still a playful episode and could have been much, much worse.