29. Once More With Phasers

We’re feeling a bit musical in today’s episode of Casual Trek. Charlie’s been eager to crowbar in a musical episode after realising it’ll get another episode of Picard ticked off our list, then Strange New Worlds provided us with the perfect opportunity to talk music! We’ve got three episodes all about music. First up is Voyager with a classic Hubris of The Doctor episode where some Space Karens get fascinated with his singing, but do they love him for him, or just his programming? We also end up talking about AI art and the content slurry of it all Then we’re over to Picard in heist mode as the gang need to get JL to give an inspirational speech to his ancestor to save all of time. What’s the best distraction? Music! Finally we’ve got the main event of the episode, Strange New Worlds doing a dedicated musical episode. We’ve got singing, dancing, a fairly thin plot but who cares when you can belt it out like these actors! Timecodes:<br /> 12:01 VOY: Virtuoso<br /> 34:54 PIC: Two of One<br /> 53:32 SNW: Subspace Rhapsody Talking points include: Hawkwind, the Eurovision Song Contest, Subwoolfer, the new Babylon 5 cartoon, The Poseidon Adventure, The Silt Verses (podcast & RPG), The Manics covering the MASH theme tune, Britpop, Miles’ poor taste Burroughs joke, Bono’s smugness, The Doctor being the third Crane brother, AI art, Paul Williams’ oeuvre, Neelix being a Phil Spector and/or a Del Boy of space, Only Fools & Horses, using Coldplay as white noise, The Borg Queen rips off Scorpius’ bit, an alternate casting choice for Professor X from the TNG cast, that time Professor X enslaved a sentient Danger Room, the Metropolis remake, Scott Pilgrim, Buffy, The Magicians, Riverdale, Dr Who’s musical audio episode, Macross, modern musicals, Across the Spider-Verse, Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Chuck Austen run of Charlie’s X-Men marathon. Oh, and occasionally Star Trek. Pedants Corner: James Newman was the “just some bloke” who the UK sent to Eurovision in 2021. Miles is not a Eurovision expert so he doesn’t know Wales don’t compete (although it’d be good if they did) and we’d gone on about Eurovision for long enough I didn’t want to go back and correct him. Where’s all the Taylor Swift in episodes we’ve covered? Literally episode two when we covered Discovery’s pilot and also episode twelve in the Borg episode Pelia suggests the idea of beaming in a song to Uhura [ Additional Show Notes ] Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog. [ Support this show on Ko-fi ] Subscribe to this Podcast: