Katie Mack: My book about the end of the universe inspired an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! 🖖😃🚀 screenrant.com/star-trek-st... (hat tip to @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, whose research paper I was quoting in the book)

My book about the end of the universe inspired an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! 🖖😃🚀 screenrant.com/star-trek-st... (hat tip to @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, whose research paper I was quoting in the book)

Yes, Strange New Worlds Has A Scientific Explanation For Star Trek’s Musical Episodescreenrant.com A musical reality is scientifically possible.

Yeah, that's all easy, but now explain Pike's hair

Gravitational waves.

Bryll Planet

Specially-made quadrotriticale conditioner.

Regular blood worm slime also adds a sheen

Maybe he’s born with it - maybe it’s Shelliak.

Instead of pounding the soundtrack at us so we know it's time to feel things, Pike's hair is a visual placeholder for emotional stakes for people who couldn't take all the crying on Discovery.

I'm convinced it's an in-joke on set, they're just making a lil bit *more* every episode. By the end of an eight-season run, it will have achieved its final magnificence.

In honor of his great-great-grandfather, who never got a chance to go to space.

Starfleet has had anti-gravity technology for ages!

Majestic. I think that explains it.

His hair has its own life goal of being a wig. One day. One day.

Heh!

Katie no offense but this is your most important achievement to date

I see it as an honor and I am very proud

Wow 😮

You are worthy!!! This is justified pride, so good. Much excellence.

omfg

Oh my goodness Katie

I’m so happy about this!

I’m extremely excited that I can, in a circuitous way, thank you for the Klingon boy band

i fkn loved the singing klingons

i thought the main one was weird al at first

It was Hemmer with different makeup, weirded me out when I worked it out

The Klingons absolutely killed it

This is true of most things Klingons interact with.

That episode was awesome. Good work.

Thank you! I had no idea until a couple days ago that I had anything to do with it!

That episode captures a certain campy spirit of TOS that is beyond the ken of so many “nuTrek” haters. Thank you for whatever (unintended) inspiration you may have provided.

Well, you are pretty busy moving forward. A nice surprise!

Katie, you continue to amaze us!

I have a lot of favorite things about you but this may displace many of them.

The Klingons...

this is amazing

Yesssssss

wow! Coming up with a scientific explanation for the Star Trek musical episode reminds me a bit about how the Scrubs musical episode was justified by a case report about a real-life patient who experienced musical hallucinations as the result of a brain aneurysm

Okay this makes one of my favorite eps even better

That’s so great! I LOVED that episode. I mean to be fair I have loved Strange New Worlds in its entirety. But that episode was so much fun.

That is outstanding! I've loved Trek since the '60s, when I'd watch it with my mom. "Your" episode is to me one of the most innovative, surprising bits of television. You're a communicator; they saw, did something great. Good job all the way around.

So cool! I still have to catch up and see this ep

I really enjoyed this episode. The [REDACTED] coming in out of nowhere with a completely different sound. I cackled.

this is the coolest thing ever!

Oh wow, that’s so cool!

Hell yeah!

A Boltzmann Musical?

This is just too wonderful and cool!!

That was one of the best episodes of Star Trek ever, of any iteration, so absolutely fair play.

OMG that’s amazing!

Wow! LOVED that episode, so thank you!

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