Author Chris Snellgrove
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When Star Trek: Wonderful New Worlds showed his music section “Subspace Rhapsody,” it was impossible for many fans of the genre not to compare it. Buffy the Vampire Slayerthe masterpiece “Once More With Feeling.” That Buffy The episode managed to combine ear-catching music with a crowd-driven visual, making it the gold standard for music episodes. If we’re being honest, the musical aspect of Star Trek is a bit underwhelming Buffy‘s in almost every way except one: “Subspace Rhapsody” is the most popular of all major songs while “One More Time With a Feeling” featured two members refusing to sing.

Buffy’s Musical Misstep

Before the Star Trek soundtrack, Buffy‘s “Once More With Feeling” provided almost all of his songs. Buffy looks at pop stars while singing about being there, Giles exercises by stopping her, Spike becomes a rockstar to hear about his feelings for Slayer, and so on. However, Hannigan’s Willow has no music of its own. Instead, they only have two lines of music, including the hilarious meta quote, “I think this line is too full.”

As for why Willow doesn’t appear much in musicals, showrunner Joss Whedon says Hannigan, “she begged me on her knees to sing as little as possible.” She accepted the request, which is why Tara sings all the love songs of “Under Your Spell”. Meanwhile, another main member who does not sing is Michelle Trachtenbergbecause he asked to use his ballet training and dance in sequence.

Star Trek’s Musical Masterstroke

As we said before, the music part of Star Trek is unmatched Buffyin many ways. The music is not as effective, the emotional impact is not as strong, and some of the ideas sometimes fall flat. However, there is exactly one place Star Trek than Buffy in the music department: all great musicians. Of course, some voices are stronger than others, but it’s not surprising that none of them came back, especially considering that Trek had never done music before and that the expectations were going to be very high.

After Star Trek: New Alien Worlds They brought us the imperfect “Subspace Rhapsody”, presenters Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman spoke to Variety where they discussed what surprised them all that the singers sang. According to Goldsman, “We had a really good cast,” and he expected a “professional crowd” who couldn’t even sing. Instead, he concluded that “it was as if they had both secretly admired the idea of ​​music all their lives,” making filming this scene easy.

Spock is singing

It also helped that these Star Trek presenters had a different problem Buffythe producers were. Instead of finding someone like Hannigan who wasn’t comfortable with singing on screen, they found one of their biggest stars who was an underground musician. In conversation Spock actor Ethan Peck, Goldsman said, “I didn’t know Ethan could sing until I went, ‘Holy f***, Ethan can sing!’ , “Wait, Spock is singing now?”

As it is, the first episode of Star Trek’s soundtrack is not very popular Buffyit’s a good reason. At the end of the day, the songs sung by the Enterprise crew are not as catchy or interesting as those sung by the Scooby Gang of Sunnydale. However, Wonderful New Worlds he can boast that all his actors stepped up to sing from the heart Buffy prevented two of the actors from entering the scene (albeit of their own volition). And that’s something worth singing about, I feel. Even those thoughts are, as Spock would remind us, not entirely plausible.

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