Sevrin’s “space hippies.”īut some episodes that don’t feature any singing would have made fine musical theater productions. Spock and Kirk are telepathically forced to sing and dance in “Plato’s Stepchildren.” And “The Way to Eden” is another strong contender for the title of Star Trek’s first musical episode, thanks to the groovy jam sessions of Dr. Kevin Riley sings “I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen”-several times-in “The Naked Time” (even inspiring another crewman to sing a version of it to Janice Rand). Nor was Uhura the only original series character to sing. How could they not, with the gloriously talented and trailblazing Nichelle Nichols in the cast? As the original Uhura, Nichols sang in the first-season episodes “Charlie X” and “The Conscience of the King,” and briefly sings in the second-season episode “The Changeling.” (And, yes, Uhura canonically sings in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, although the voice we hear isn’t Nichelle Nichols.) The original series’ creative team knew it, too. (Arguably, DS9 ended up getting one anyway with the sixth-season episode “His Way.”) But I submit Star Trek had first-rate material for a musical even farther back, during the first run of the original series. Moore wanted to do a musical episode of Star Trek as far back as the days of Deep Space Nine. ![]() Many Star Trek fans have noted that Ronald D. ![]() Sure, not everyone thought Star Trek could pull off song-and-dance showstoppers, but I think “Subspace Rhapsody” proves (to paraphrase Captain Picard at the end of “All Good Things”) the franchise should have done a Star Trek musical episode years ago. Three weeks after it debuted, “Subspace Rhapsody”-the musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2-continues to leave large swaths of fandom singing its praises. ![]() Several classic adventures would make memorable Star Trek musical episodes.
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