With Season 2 of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" having had a cartoon-crossover episode with "Star Trek: Lower Decks," I guess it was only natural that the next step would be to have an episode done up as a musical. Dave Cullen sees all of this as the absolute nadir of Star Trek, and he may be on to something. Trek started off, in the 60s, as an attempt at campy-but-often-serious sci-fi, but the writers of "Strange New Worlds" don't seem to have any sense of that. Instead, they see this show as a lab in which to perform wacky experiments in style, tone, and format, which is how you end up with Season 2 Spock emoting like a teenaged human and being the butt of every other joke. I haven't bothered watching any of Season 2, and I think that's for the better. Season 1 was okay, and I guess I can just rewatch that over and over. Aside from Season 3 of "Picard," Trek has been dead to me for a while. Hollywood is intent on ruining almost everything from my childhood these days, which is a sign from God I should get back to nerding out on books.
Meanwhile, here's Dave in full-on rant mode:
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