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SNW Musical Episode: Klingons’ Boy Band Number Was Almost an Opera

tvline.com Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Musical Episode: EPs Reveal the Klingons’ Boy Band Number Was Almost an Opera

Klingons have a brutal reputation as fearsome warriors, but this week’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds proved they could also be fierce singers and dancers. The usually gruff humanoids made a brief …

Arguably one of the best moments in the SNW Musical episode subspace rhapsody was Bruce Horak Cameo as the captain of the Klingon boy band. But there is a deleted scene of the opera version that while absolutly best scene won, would be fun to see released to fans

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- It wasn't just any kind of boy band.
  It was K-pop.
  I can understand their dishonor.
  
  K-Pop is best listened to in the original Klingon.
  
  In this case the K in K-pop stands for Klingon
  
  On Qo'nos they just call it pop
- There was just too little of it.
- It was also more in-line with the story - Klingon opera doesn't really belong in American-style musical theatre, while it's easier to slot this sort of pop into that style.

Really hope it can be released to fans maybe at a con then online

I ran Klingon fleets on STO for so long that part of me identifies as tlhIngan. I own a bat'leth. I thought it was the bomb. ;)

finally, best use of autotune tech

I thought the subtle change to the opening credits was great too. I noticed they did that on Those Old Scientists too, so I’m wondering if there were others I missed in this or prior seasons.

For those who need a Klingon opera fix sooner, DS9's "Playing God" had the Klingon restaurant owner singing opera with Jadzia. Just watched this episode yesterday in my series rewatch. Not sure how to clip to a timestamp but it's about halfway into the video below:
https://youtu.be/PTpPJm6fouE

God I fucking hate musical throwaway episodes
- No throwaway given the number of relationships that don’t seem likely to move forward after the episode.
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  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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