News Star Trek: Discovery Wilson Cruz Is (Jokingly) Upset That Star Trek: Discovery Didn’t Get a Musical Episode “I love them, but I was so enraged by that…” (Remember, he’s joking people.) By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 5, 2025 Credit: CBS / Paramount+ Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: CBS / Paramount+ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ “Subspace Rhapsody” broke ground as the first musical episode in Star Trek history. Strange New Worlds, however, was far from the first Star Trek series to try it. We know that showrunner Michael Chabon tried to make one happen for Picard, and even called up Lin-Manuel Miranda to try to make that happen. (It didn’t, thank the stars.) Ronald D. Moore also reportedly pitched one for Deep Space Nine and failed. And at this year’s STLV: Trek to Vegas convention, Star Trek: Discovery star Wilson Cruz confirmed that his show had considered a musical installment as well. During a panel with Cruz and his co-star (and former Rent performer) Anthony Rapp, Cruz (via TrekMovie) shared the following about his musical episode dreams being dashed: Season one, we’re sitting there with Aaron Harberts and Gretchen Berg and Alex Kurtzman and Akiva [Goldsman]. And someone says, “Well, what do you guys think about having a musical episode?” And we’re like, “Of course! That would be amazing.” So for the whole season, we’re like, “Next season, it is going to happen, right?” Didn’t happen season two. We’re like, “Okay. season three, right?” Nope. Was it during season four? It was either—season four was shooting [or] season four, after we had aired, and they announced this, and I… [long pause] I love them, but I was so enraged by that, and they did a fine job. It was fun. But I was mad. I don’t work for them anymore, so I can say it. It’s a shame Star Trek: Discovery didn’t get its chance to sing during its five-season run. We at least have these Carpool Karaoke clips of Rapp, Soniqua Martin-Green, Mary Wiseman, and Doug Jones singing, which lets us imagine what could have been. [end-mark] The post Wilson Cruz Is (Jokingly) Upset That <i>Star Trek: Discovery</i> Didn’t Get a Musical Episode appeared first on Reactor.