Final Thoughts on Subspace Rhapsody.

Ever since I was a nerdy theater kid so many decades ago, I have been hoping for something like this. It hit me in all the feels.

During the final number, when they were monitoring the Improbability Levels, it definitely reminded me of the Improbability Drive from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It seemed just as silly, in the best way possible.

The brief interlude in the finale with rapping Klingons was just chef's kiss.

I loved that Uhura really got to shine in this episode, since she was the most musical character in the Original Series.

On the negative side, I still really wish they wouldn't kept shoehorning Jim Kirk into this season. I have no problem with his characterization or the actor, but his presence seems unnecessary, and just a silly (not in a good way) attempt to connect it to TOS more than is necessary.

But, all in all, I absolutely loved this episode, so very much.

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Celia Rose Gooding is so impressive. Uhura's solo number is so beautiful, touching, moving, emotional, and brilliantly sung.

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"Nobody wants a singing Klingon"

You have no idea how much I want a singing Klingon. Preferably Kor. I really would've liked Kor to show up singing.

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I don't have any particular sensory issues and it really bothered me too. I was watching with headphones and I had to take them off whenever the tinnitus started back up.

I think the sound designer made a really bad choice there.

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They've got to stop doing weird time travel episodes as an excuse to shoehorn Kirk into the series. The series can stand on its own without constantly hearkening forward to the Original Series.

Also, she went back to the 21st century? Looks like about our time. And Khan was just a little boy? He was an adult conquering nations in the 90s, but he's a little boy in the 2020s?

They don't really care about the established timeline at all, do they?

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I honestly didn't think it would be the Borg. I am legitimately confused because last season, it seemed like Borg-Jurati had made peace with the Federation. I thought that Jurati as the Borg Queen would mean no more Borg conflicts.

I was kind of hoping it would be Pah-Wraiths.

And the Borg/Changeling alliance makes so little sense.

As a side note, Data definitely still has some Lore left in him. When he semi-jokingly says to Geordi, "I hope we die quickly", that definitely felt more like Lore than Data.

And Geordi restoring the Enterprise-D in his garage for the last twenty years makes so much sense. That was beautiful.

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I had a weird thought this morning.

In #StarTrek #Picard, all the promo material for this season made us think that Brent Spiner was playing Lore, only for us to learn that he's actually a Lore/Data split personality thing. It was pretty well done, in my opinion, and is turning out to be interesting for the plot.

In last week's episode of #QuantumLeap, they revealed at the end that Ziggy herself is the mole in the project. What if the same thing is happening to Ziggy that's happening to Data? What if that's not just Ziggy, but someone got a hold of Lothos, and incorporated Lothos's programming into Ziggy, and now she's fighting with herself?

It was also implied that Lothos had more control over the leaps in the Evil Leaper Project than Ziggy had in Project Quantum Leap. So, if Ziggy has incorporated Lothos, she might be actually controlling Ben's leaps.

I doubt they're going to do this. They did mention the evil leapers, but it doesn't seem like they really want to get into it, but then again, why mention it if they didn't want to incorporate them more into the story?

This is what I get for watching the episode before I start work in the morning. I think I'm going to need to take a personal day to emotionally recover from that.

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Do you remember that show, Chuck, from the mid naughties? Chuck was a regular guy who had information stuffed into his brain, and then after a couple seasons, he also had fighting techniques stuffed in. That's what I'm getting from Jack's flashes right now.

To be honest, that was the part of this episode that I didn't like.

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I had a feeling Ro Laren would come back. But, I didn't expect her to die.

This is an emotionally exhausting episode, but it's dang good #StarTrek.

I knew he wasn't really dead, but even still. When Worf fell and said, "Today was a good day to die", I actually shouted out "No!!"

I don't think I breathed until he got back up.

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