Logline
An accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike.
Written by Dana Horgan & Bill Wolkoff
Directed by Dermott Downs
Can we talk about how great it is that they keep tinkering with the opening credits for the special episodes? Because I love it every time they do. Fukkin acapella man.
I’m a huge sucker for altered opening credits. Enterprise still wins for the best one of these with its mirror universe episode.
Oh yeah, great idea. Kinda like the Simpsons gag or so:
- If they ever have a mirror episode, the opening credits should be horizontally mirrored
- If they ever have a time travel episode, the opening credits should go backwards
- Another cross-over episode? DS9 or some other ship better appear in there! etc.
It could be bunnies
I will be incredibly disappointed if in season 6 or something they don’t bring that back and have it be bunnies.
Bunnies aren’t just cute like everybody supposes!
They’ve got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses!
And what’s with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies!
Bunnies!
It must be bunnies!
Did I hear a bit of the music from Once More With Feeling in engineering near the start?
Or maybe midgets.
Yeah, I heard that too during the moment where Pelia suggests sending music through the rift. I think it’s part of that song where Dawn dances at the Bronze.
Serious props to whoever dropped that reference in. That’s a lovely homage to the OG musical episode.
I don’t generally enjoy musicals (or rather, shows that aren’t musicals but then do a random episode as a musical) but SNW definitely did it right! And I’m glad I didn’t skip it since I considered doing so.
What the heck, this episode must have taken so much effort like 20+ minutes of singing + music (and the writing of the songs as well), and in a good half of those requires choreographed dancing as well, the a capella version of the intro, and a few orchestra versions in the credits
I was grinning almost the entire time for this episode, it was just…fun! And it moved the plot along too! (Although you kinda need to with so few episodes in a season)
The Klingon breakdown in the final song about had me laughing so hard I was almost in tears. I appreciate using the songs to move various character storylines forward. It feels like everyone ended the episode in a much better place, outside of Spock. …and maybe M’Benga…he didn’t seem thrilled with the singing, though he certainly had some fancy footwork during the final song.
I feel like poor La’an is in a worse place now. She just doesn’t get a break. :(
On the other hand, she made a breakthrough in actually opening up to Kirk, and he didn’t reject her for it. If anything, him being unavailable for other reasons may be a relief to La’an, releasing her to focus on other things now that she knows that door is closed to her (at least for now).
