Summary

  • The cast and crew of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds praise the musical episode, "Subspace Rhapsody."
  • Original songs written by Tom Polce and Kay Hanley reached Top 10 in Apple's music charts.
  • A new interview in Emmy Magazine delves into behind-the-scenes details of each song with the team.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' cast, executive producers, and song composers sing the praises of Star Trek's first-ever musical episode in a new interview - including their hopes to bring "Subspace Rhapsody" to Broadway. Written by Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff, Strange New Worlds' musical episode was directed by Dermot Downs, with original songs written and composed by Letters to Cleo's Tom Polce and Kay Hanley. "Subspace Rhapsody" was an acclaimed highlight of Strange New Worlds season 2, and the soundtrack to the groundbreaking Star Trek episode even hit the Top 10 in Apple's streaming music charts.

Bill Wolkoff (@flying_lobster), the Hugo Award-nominated co-writer of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' musical episode, shared a new interview in Emmy Magazine about "Subspace Rhapsody." The cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, including Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Celia Rose Gooding, and Christina Chong, as well as director Dermot Downs, executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, and Henry Alonso Myers, composers Kay Haney and Tom Polce, and co-writer Dana Horgan break down each song with behind-the-scenes details. Check out the interview in Wolkoff's X post below:

Subspace Rhapsody artwork
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"It's a no-brainer!" says Christina Chong

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds takes pride in taking "big swings" with their episodic storytelling, but Star Trek's first-ever musical is arguably the biggest risk they have ever taken. Yet it paid off as "Subspace Rhapsody" is already a classic Star Trek episode with an incredibly popular soundtrack. In their Emmy Magazine interview, Strange New Worlds' co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman shared his dream to take "Subspace Rhapsody" to Broadway, and Alex Kurtzman, Bill Wolkoff, Celia Rose Gooding, and Christina Chong agreed:

Akiva Goldsman: I keep trying to convince Alex we should take it to Broadway. There, I said it.

Alex Kurtzman: It's a great idea. I would not rule it out.

Celia Rose Gooding: A limited run, with ambitious choreography.

Bill Wolkoff: We could include a tap-dance number on the transporter pads.

Christina Chong: It's a no-brainer!

There is a precedent for taking a popular musical from a TV show and making it a real-life stage production. Marvel Studios made "Rogers: The Musical" a real-life performance after it got a lot of buzz in the Disney+ series Hawkeye. Right now, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' musical on Broadway is just a flight of fancy, although it sounds like at least some of the cast with musical theater backgrounds like Celia Rose Gooding and Christina Chong would be interested in starring in a Broadway version of "Subspace Rhapsody." However, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has to finish filming season 3 and soon, season 4 as well. But fingers are crossed that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' musical on Broadway could actually happen.

Source: Emmy Magazine, X

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is streaming on Paramount+