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Scary_le_Poo ,
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God I fucking hate musical throwaway episodes

StillPaisleyCat ,
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No throwaway given the number of relationships that don’t seem likely to move forward after the episode.

Scary_le_Poo , (edited )
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Made it 15 minutes. Fucking waste of time. Also, there is a reason that it’s score is in the 40% range where every single other episode is in the 80% range.

I didn’t sign up to watch Star Trek: the shitty ass musical.

StillPaisleyCat ,
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YMMV, glad you tried it.

I am sceptical of your assertion that this episode has a very negative score though. I don’t see a rating for this episode that low on any aggregator.

IMDb currently has the episode rated audience reviews at 7.0. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 100% fresh for pro reviews.

The score is lower on IMDb than other for episodes because there are folks brigading against it. A distribution that is clustered at 8, 9, and 10 then flat though the middle and spiked with a high number of 1s is fairly good evidence of a campaign to gatekeep against certain kinds of things.

IDIC, let others enjoy what they enjoy, not every episode need to be made for your preferences.

Scary_le_Poo ,
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I made a mistake, TMDB not IMDb. TMDB is what is linked up with Plex servers (mine anyway) and I assume jellyfin servers as well.

For anyone wondering, here is a full synopsis (honestly you didn’t miss anything particularly important): startrek.com/…/recap-209-subspace-rhapsody-strang…

StillPaisleyCat ,
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TMDB is even less representative than IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes (which already skew older, male and are very American in representation).

It’s fine if you subscribe to a group that aligns with your own views, but don’t take the self-selected non statistically valid outcome as anything but a reflection of the subgroup that subscribes.

Paramount+ on the other hand needs to draw in a large and demographically diverse audience to maintain a subscription base. The episode wasn’t a hit with your niche, but other ones will be. It definitely was a hit in our household.

NuPNuA ,

Great, but this episode actually moved forward lots of character arcs via it’s songs. It was a cleaver way to do it as characters can just belt out their emotions in song under “musical rules” so they could pack the episode.

Hogger85b OP ,

But it felt packed and so became a chore of too much of a thing...the fact each of 5 main character needed their own 5mintues of it

I know musicals breaks the show don't tell a bit as you can sing not show......but they seemed to use that excuse to get right back round to tell tell tell even in song form

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