Well, here it comes: the Trek musical

[Bob Jersey]

There've been musical scenes across the franchise, but never a full episode... but Strange New Worlds will go there in season two... a "space anomaly" zaps the Enterprise (well, of course)... the Comic-Con panel where this was announced also touted an SNW/Lower Decks crossover, and showed a taste of the fifth season opener for Discovery...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-musical-episode-1235541620/ (link, with two 'toobs and a link to the third)

B

[Diner]

As usual, Mad Magazine was there first.

http://mystartrekscrapbook.blogspot.com/2008/11/1976-mad-star-trek-spoof.html

[Kevin M.]

The crossover episode is as about as good as modern Trek gets, though you’d have to be a fan of both shows to fully appreciate it.

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[Kevin M.]

Just watched the Star Trek musical episode. As a musical, it wasn’t great but could have been worse. I’d rank it better than the Buffy musical but not as good as the Scrubs musical. 

But this was probably the closest we will ever get to a Star Trek/Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy crossover. They basically stumbled upon an infinite improbability drive floating around in space. The references were too blatant to have been coincidental or unintentional. 

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[Jim Ellwanger]

I noticed the same thing, and I should have gone back to see if the stardate had a "42" in it.

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[M-D November]

Anyone else think the joke about 'a universe where we turn into bunnies' was a reference to Buffy's "Once More with Feeling"?

Without spoiling too much...as both a Trek fan and a lover of musical theater, I think they managed to find a sweet spot between the two genres.  The songs were above average for a 'very special' musical episode, and all of them did something to move the overarching theme of 'connection' forward in some way. 

Kevin - I don't know if it's fair to compare "Subspace Rhapsody" to "My Musical", only because the setups are very different.  SNW's characters are aware they're singing, so the songs (and how they're handled in-story) are more meta (and in multiple cases, Uhura prompts a song into being vs. it happening organically); by contrast, the songs in "My Musical" are taking place inside the head of a patient (Stephanie D'Abruzzo), so the characters have to commit to the musical theater convention of randomly singing when the mood strikes because that's how the observer is interpreting it. "Once More with Feeling" is arguably more analogous to "Subspace Rhapsody", although it does share the "make the music go away event" convention with "My Musical" (as opposed to OMWF, which actually ends on a song).

M-D

Although part of me wonders what would have happened if Uhura had blasted some Sondheim into the subspace fold.