When it comes to musical episodes of television, few have done it better thanBuffy the Vampire Slayer.
“It was done very well.
It’s really smart and thoughtful.
The ‘Star Trek’ team set ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ as the bar for their musical episode on ‘Strange New Worlds’.Warner Bros.; Paramount+
It has big heart.
That was our bar.”
Enterprise breaking out into musical numbers after an encounter with a quantum probability field.
Carol Kane, Christina Chong, and Ethan Peck feature in ‘Subspace Rhapsody,’ the musical episode of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ season 2.Paramount+
The problem gets bigger when it starts spreading to other spaceships.
Myers had worked on musical episodes ofUgly BettyandThe Magicians, but Goldsman was coming in fresh.
“When we started on season 2, a small voice, like a gremlin kept going, ‘Music.
Celia Rose Gooding joins Anson Mount and the cast of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ for the finale number to ‘Subspace Rhapsody’.Paramount+
And Henry kept going, ‘Not yet.
Not yet,'” he continues.
We should surprise them and have it be gut-wrenching and emotional."
Some of that can be credited to Gooding.
It was clear to everyone from the start of the show that their Uhura actress had some pipes.
An early episode ofStrange New Worldsseason 1 saw her singing out tones to activate a piece of alien tech.
“What we do like to do is write to our cast,” Goldsman remarks.
The universe was conspiring to get us to throw down in that way."
Now that it’s all come together, it almost feels like a miracle that it even happened.
“All I remember was people being like, ‘Okay, sure,'” he recalls.
Subtext: ‘c’mon don’t f— it up.'"
And so they did.
