STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Teases First Ever Musical Themed Episode In Franchise History

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Teases First Ever Musical Themed Episode In Franchise History

The Star Trek panel at SDCC featured exciting announcements for Strange New Worlds, including an early drop of the Lower Decks crossover episode and a teaser for the franchise's first-ever musical episode.

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By MattIsForReal - Jul 22, 2023 06:07 PM EST
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The Star Trek franchise has been around for decades. There have been 12 different television series along with films, video games, novels and comic books. With all of that, can you believe that there has never been a musical-themed episode in the franchise's 57-year history? Well, that's about to change.

Paramount+ revealed today that the upcoming ninth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will be a musical. The Season 2 episode, appropriately titled "Subspace Rhapsody," was teased during the Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con. Check out the trailer below.

While there have been musical scenes in previous Star Trek television series, this is the first full-fledged musical episode. It will feature 10 original songs plus a musical version of the series' main title. The music and lyrics for the episode were written by Kay Hanley (Letters to Cleo) and Tom Polce (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend). Musical episodes can often be hit or miss for television series, but I absolutely love the creative direction the showrunners so often take with Strange New Worlds.

Details for the episode were not revealed, but it appears that the crew of the Enterprise will get zapped by some space anomaly that will make them break out into song and dance. "Subspace Rhapsody" -- Season 2, Episode 9 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds -- will premiere on Paramount+ on August 3.

That wasn't the only exciting news to emerge from today's panel. In addition to the advanced screening of Episode 7 -- the highly anticipated Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Lower Decks special crossover episode -- was released early. The episode will be available to stream today, July 22, starting at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on Paramount+ in the U.S. Here's the release schedule for the remaining episodes of Season 2:

●    Saturday, July 22 - Episode 207, “Those Old Scientists”
●    Thursday, July 27 - Episode 208, “Under the Cloak of War”
●    Thursday, August 3 - Episode 209, “Subspace Rhapsody”
●    Thursday, August 10 - Episode 210 (Season Finale), “Hegemony”

Speaking of Star Trek: Lower Decks, we also got the official trailer for Season 4 which begins streaming on September 7 on Paramount+.

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marvel72
marvel72 - 7/22/2023, 6:34 PM
Musical themed episode?
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 7/22/2023, 6:37 PM
I love it when Star Trek goes off the rails and becomes silly. Deep Space Nine did this perfectly with Take me out to the Holosuite and The Magnificent Ferengi.


I'm sure the usual crowd will be very upset about this.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 7/22/2023, 6:44 PM


While I do generally hate this idea...I am all in. I have enjoyed every episode of every Star Trek show, every movie(Except Star Trek 5 -UGH!!), and every comic book run.

I hope they make this so over the top stupid and goofy that I just cringe and laugh every moment for the whole hour.

The world needs some more idiocy, and even I can't provide it for the whole world all the time.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 7/22/2023, 7:00 PM
@DocSpock - I commend you for completing and enjoying Discovery, and Picard seasons 1 and 2. Props lol I love everything else! Except Star Trek Insurrection
Batmangina
Batmangina - 7/22/2023, 7:12 PM
@DocSpock - I don't HATE ST5 and I think if they hadn't hamstrung Shatner at every turn, it might have been the epic Kirkest of Kirks extravaganza of all time and I absolutely LOVE ST6 even though the cast is a combined 2300 years old.

Picard S3 restored my faith in humanity but the rest of NuTrek TV is killing it again...
DocSpock
DocSpock - 7/22/2023, 9:24 PM
@bobevanz -

I didn't think Insurrection was great nor bad. I liked it okay. It just felt too small to me. Worthy of a TV episode, not a full blown motion picture.

I watched the first epi of Star Trek with my Dad on my 9th birthday in 1966.

DocSpock
DocSpock - 7/22/2023, 9:28 PM
@Batmangina -

Some of the movies & TV shows have not been as good as others, yet Star Trek has endured since 1966. I eat it all up with the joy I remembered back in 1966.
Batmangina
Batmangina - 7/22/2023, 11:02 PM
@DocSpock - I came along a little later and after school 70s reruns of TOS are burned into my DNA along with Adam West and 60s Marvel Cartoons.

I initially thought TNG was blasphemy and didn't come around on it until way later - same with the other shows.

I've often loved the IDEA of Star Trek more than ACTUAL Star Trek outside of TOS and the first set of films.

Seeing Wrath of Khan in theaters at 13 was monumental and I still get squishy at the end.

I loved the idea of Captain Pike being the focus but the new Spock and Kirk in trailers left me cold.

Having said all of that, Picard S3 left me wanting the [frick] out of Captain 7 of 9 and crew - I also would have liked more of the Captain of the Titan - that guy was [frick]ing awesome.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 7/22/2023, 11:52 PM
@Batmangina -

You have your likes, dislikes, & favorites of the shows and movies like we all do. This sort of discussion and your 50 years of thought regarding Star Trek illustrate the essence of the whole thing.

Live long and prosper man. And Wrath of Khan is one of the greatest movies of all time.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/23/2023, 5:07 AM
@DocSpock - Star Trek V went musical too!

Row, row, row your boat...
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 7/23/2023, 7:40 AM
@ObserverIO - Don't forget about Uhura singing and dancing in the sand dunes as a distraction. I actually love ST5 it has some of the best interactions between Spock, Kirk and McCoy in any of the films or movies. I wish it was better though of course.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 7/23/2023, 8:37 AM
@WarMonkey - It's got some great moments.
Batmangina
Batmangina - 7/23/2023, 2:17 PM
@ObserverIO - Cheated by The Oscars
Batmangina
Batmangina - 7/23/2023, 2:20 PM
@DocSpock - "It may not be scientific, but if DocSpock thinks it happens then it must be logical."

With all apologies to Commander Montgomery Scott 😁
DocSpock
DocSpock - 7/23/2023, 2:34 PM
@Batmangina - ObserverIO - @bobevanz - WarMonkey -

Top 3 great Star Trek Quote: That green-blooded son of a b!tch! It's his revenge for all the arguments he lost!
Batmangina
Batmangina - 7/23/2023, 2:42 PM
@DocSpock - I LOVED salty McCoy as kid when the movies came out - he finally got cut loose!
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 7/22/2023, 6:45 PM
Cobrai Kai
Picard
MCU on Disney+
Discovery
Star Wads on Disney*

Some better than others.

But…

ST: Strange New Worlds…Excels over them all.
CoHost
CoHost - 7/22/2023, 6:49 PM
"the crew of the Enterprise will get zapped by some space anomaly that will make them break out into song and dance"

It wasn't hard to come to that conclusion.
grif
grif - 7/22/2023, 6:53 PM
shit show
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/22/2023, 7:00 PM
Post picard s3 especially, this show just keeps getting worse.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 7/22/2023, 7:02 PM
@McMurdo - Wym post Picard? This is post picard lol, you're phrasing it like there has been years and seasons, and different shows since them. Its great!
McMurdo
McMurdo - 7/23/2023, 12:32 PM
@bobevanz - picard s3 set a new bar for modern trek. This show comes after picard s3. I'm talking release date not canonical
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 7/22/2023, 7:38 PM
The writer of this episode:
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 7/22/2023, 7:48 PM
Some people are so anal. It’s one episode people. They get “zapped” by an alien or something of that nature. So it makes perfect “Star Trek” sense.
I’m enjoying the season so far. Yes there’s things that I could complain about but it’s a tv show. Some episodes are going to be better than others. At least this is a tv series that has 16-18 episodes not 6.
TheIronDuck
TheIronDuck - 7/22/2023, 8:13 PM
@CAPTAINPINKEYE - this season has 10 episodes.
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 7/22/2023, 8:58 PM
@TheIronDuck - now I’m sad.
blitzkreg
blitzkreg - 7/22/2023, 8:19 PM
HUGE FAN OF THE SHOW AND THIS LOOKS GREAT ! LET THE HATERS HATE ! JUST DON'T WATCH.
HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 7/22/2023, 8:56 PM
It looks like even though season one was pretty good, they stupidly imported many of the awful STD writers to this show.

Now, the back talk to superior officers mirrors that on STD. The crew squabbles like the STD crew. It's all about FEEEEEEEELINGS.

This is awful. What a shame, because season one was good.

Paramount needs to give Star Trek to Malalas, because Kurtzman continues to ruin the franchise.
AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 7/22/2023, 9:34 PM
Tried getting into this show but I just can’t. Not gonna complain about a musical episode since one of my all time favorite episodes of TNG is the Robin Hood episode.👍🤣
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 7/22/2023, 11:00 PM
I never watch Star Trek when it originally airs. I always binge watch them years after they are done, so I'll likely have forgotten about this by the time I eventually watch it in like 2027. I love Anson Mount so I've been wanting to watch this, but I just know personally from experience that Trek is better experienced in chunks, not weekly episodes. I've found that to be the case with a lot of shows.
TheNewYorker
TheNewYorker - 7/23/2023, 12:47 AM
It’s a great show. I’ll give it a chance
IAmIronGland
IAmIronGland - 7/23/2023, 1:28 AM
Strange New Worlds and Picard season 3 show me they can do Nu Trek correctly, after all. The reimagined version of the old Enterprise is beautiful and is now my favorite ship ever. Really hope they give Terry Matalis that Star Trek Legacy spinoff. Discovery has just been a grim downer full of sad people on a dark ship. I hear the final season will be much lighter. Hope so but I still like it better than most of Enterprise. Lol.
Tasmaniac
Tasmaniac - 7/23/2023, 1:32 AM
Man, I’m getting worried: S1 was mostly great, but this season has been seriously uneven. The forgetting asteroids thing was just plain [frick]ing stupid, making zero sense if you thought about it for even 5 seconds, and now this shit? What the hell is going on? This show was supposed to be ST redemption after the turds that were seasons 1 & 2 of Picard and the mess that Discovery devolved into. Jesus, I’m almost out. Not [frick]ing happy, Jan.
IAmIronGland
IAmIronGland - 7/23/2023, 1:59 AM
@Tasmaniac - Sorry to hear your not in. I've thought S2 has been pretty fun. No issues with the weird plots for me. It is called STRANGE New Worlds after all and is the most like the original series. That show had gangster planets, Halloween planets, old west planets and an episode where Spock's Brain got stolen. This all seems par for the course in that regard. 🤷‍♂️ Extra points for the Brady Bunch reference.
TheLight
TheLight - 7/23/2023, 4:44 PM
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