An accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the U.S.S. 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.
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“It’s important to keep calling things with fairly straightforward neoliberal politics ‘woke’ in order to ensure the word has absolutely no meaning.” – The Onion
As for the episode itself, I've been tired of "We wish we were in Glee!" episodes since Glee! was still on the air, and this one did nothing to change that opinion. A bog-standard offering for the subgenre: terrible songwriting, and a weird mix of cast members who seemed a bit too into it, and cast members who were clearly wishing they weren't in it at all.
I suppose they do get a little bit of credit for actually dreaming up the thinnest of in-universe excuses for everyone breaking out in song, instead of just having them all pretend not to notice they're doing it.
I have just caught up with this musical episode and agree that it is not great - not the normal standard - I generally give 8 or 9 for Star Trek SNW eps but honestly Star Trek -The Musical?? could the writers not come up with a different effect from the sub-space fold - seen as they were clever enough to enviage and create a sub space fold concept in the first place which in itself is a collosal idea. Gave this ep 4
Absolute rubbish. Thank god for fast forward. Followed the plot (weak as it was) without having to put up with all that awful noise they call singing.
musical episodes are garbage.
This episode was bad, not because it was "woke", but because the idea was bad, and the execution was bad. As others have already pointed out, Trek has always been woke. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't been paying attention. But Trek has also had its share of bad episodes - check out last season's The Elysian Kingdom, or Spock’s Brain and The Way to Eden from the original series. Sometimes when writers want to try something outside established formulas, it doesn't work. Other times, it works brilliantly, as in The City on the Edge of Forever - which also happened to be pretty woke.
But for some, anything outside their narrow range of acceptable content is woke, even if they have no idea what woke means.
FYI (per Merriam Webster): woke (adjective)
1: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
2: politically liberal - as in matters of racial and social justice - especially in a way that is considered unreasonable or extreme
I didn't see anything about singing and dancing in there. But maybe that's because I'm a liberal snowflake.
Putting them in a Science Fiction Show it is.
just an awful episode in my book. This show has really slipped this year. It's not even being faithful to the original series any more