Some of the weirder goings-on that the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise have encountered over the years may have seemed a bit quirky and bewilderingly high-concept on paper. In Season 2, a crossover episode with the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks had characters appear as cartoons. Fan favourite Subspace Rhapsody, also in the second season, offered the somewhat alarming spectacle of Capt. Pike, Spock, and their crewmates spontaneously burst into song after an accident involving a quantum probability field, which had them expressing themselves and acting out their duties through elaborate musical numbers. Early on, there was a time when Mount would approach showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers after receiving an unorthodox script and ask, “Are you sure this is going to work?” Eventually, he stopped.
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