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.
I thought this episode was fun, and you can tell they tried to not take it too seriously. Musicals always have those over-wrought moments and songs that are just a bit too slow or go on a bit too long. This episode had that too.
It takes a lot of courage to do a musical episode, and I honestly thought I’d never see one in Trek, ever. They pulled it off just fine.
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Don’t forget the Scrubs musical episode, with a few songs written by the folks who made “Avenue Q.”
Wasn’t a big Scrubs watcher so I’ve never seen their musical. Gotta check it out some day.
100 percent agree. The Buffy musical worked because the songs were good, and the lyrics were hilarious.
The songs in this episode were boring, and took themselves way too seriously. Humor was the only way to play this, and they blew it.
It was wacky and I loved it! I laughed my ass off with Klingons part
I love musicals, but this episode was a total dud.
The premise was absurd. In a universe where they have the Q, and other entities of absurd power, they could easily have made this episode about some creature using the crew as singing puppets for their amusement. The idea that this was natural phenomenon that follows the rules of musicals was just several orders of magnitude too stupid.
But the worse crime of this episode was that the music was just awful. Incredibly boring melodies, and the lyrics were equally dull.
I would have forgiven all other sins in this episode if the music had been great. But wow… I can’t believe they moved ahead with a musical episode with those songs. Just terrible.
100% lost it at Klingons doing K-Pop!
I loved it. When serious shows get a chance to let lose and not care too much about being serious it’s always good time for me. I’m so sick of every show being so dark and broody. This was a nice break from that.
