Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ Celia Rose Gooding looks back on how Star Trek‘s first-ever musical started off as a “joke” that brought the cast closer together. Directed by Dermot Downs and written by Kathryn Lyn and Bill Wolkoff, Strange New Worlds’ musical episode, “Subspace Rhapsody”, was a smash with critics and audiences. “Subspace Rhapsody’s” soundtrack of songs written and composed by Tom Polce and Kay Hanley from Letters to Cleo even topped the Apple streaming music charts.

The Wrap’s How I Did It interviewed Kay Hanley, Tom Polce, and Celia Rose Gooding about how Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ musical episode came to be. Gooding admitted she was nervous when she realized the Star Trek musical would be a real thing, and she discussed how the experience of singing together created a “pretty unbreakable bond” within the cast. Read her quotes below:

When I first heard about the musical episode, it started off as a joke. I thought it would be cool in theory – we have a lot of musical people, myself and Chrissy (Christina Chong) who plays La’an… Then, when I found out it was going to be an actual thing, it wasn’t just a joke anymore, I got really nervous.

I feel like there’s something intimate and special about singing in harmony with someone else. It just creates a bond that is pretty unbreakable. So the fact we got this moment together as a cast/family, we’re bonded in a way that I don’t know if many other Trek families are, truthfully.

The cast, songwriters, and executive producers of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ musical recently gathered for an FYC event in Los Angeles for a Q&A and singalong screening of “Subspace Rhapsody”. See photos below:

Source: The Wrap

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is streaming on Paramount+