Wow ok. I wasn’t really feeling the episode all that much until Uhura sang. I guess I wasn’t vibing with the songs. Plus the sound felt weird. I’m not sure if they recorded the songs in a sound studio and it was essentially dubbed, or if it just sounded a bit disconnected because of the dubbed in background music.

Anyway Uhura’s solo was wow. That hit. Could really feel the heart in it. Her smile is infectious I swear. The way she can light up the room.

I laughed so hard with the Klingons 🤣 I thought they were going to rap or something but then it was like hello Barbie. No wonder they felt so dishonoured. The high pitch alone. Considering that the music targets emotions not willingly expressed it actually makes more sense than some kind of war chant or something. The music pulls from them what they don’t want to share.

The way Uhura hummed at the end and freaked everyone out and they are looked at her, and she flashed that cute smile and said “earworm”. Although like the others weren’t into it a bit. I mean c’mon Pike it had exploded, it was all over, and he still did a little dance with Pelia – that was all him, not space anomaly induced 😁

Anyway I would deffo listen to Uhura’s solo over and over. Maybe La’an’s as well. Not so sure about the rest.

As ‘fun’ episodes go I still prefer The Elysian Kingdom (if we can call that fun given what happened with M’Benga’s daughter 😢) but this musical wasn’t bad.