It's true: Deep Space Nine (or, more accurately, one member of its writing staff) wanted to go all Cop Rock on us, and amazingly, the architect of the idea was none other than Ronald D. Moore (who, quite regrettably, chose not to carry the idea of a singing cabaret episode over to Battlestar Galactica). Even more remarkably, it seems Moore was very much emotionally invested in the idea and repeatedly tried to get the episode made. "There's just some tech virus that infects the crew and they can only communicate in song, you know? And just do it! And have a ball," went Moore's pitch, which was received just as unenthusiastically each time he tried to revisit it. "They fought against it and fought against it and fought against it," lamented Moore, seemingly unable to grasp why anyone would think this was a horrible idea. Unsurprisingly, Moore never managed to make any headway with his DS9-does-Chicago brainchild, and the world was spared two decades of internet arguments about whether Odo and Quark wearing straw boaters and singing "Hello My Ragtime Gal" constituted great science fiction or a desperate collective cry for psychiatric help on the part of the show's creative staff.
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