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Nichelle Nichols was the truly talented singer in the original Star Trek crew

It is a well-known fact among pop culture trivia addicts that original Star Trek crewmates William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy both stubbornly pursued musical careers in the 1960s and 1970s, despite a notable lack of encouragement. Shatner released his infamous, histrionic The Transformed Man LP in 1968, plus a live album in 1977. (A follow-up, Has Been , wouldn’t be released until 2004.) Nimoy released roughly a half-dozen albums, including repackages of old material, between 1968 and 1976 on at least four different labels. The recordings of Shatner and Nimoy have become camp classics, turning up on novelty compilations like Rhino’s Golden Throats . But the bridge of the Enterprise did contain at least one performer with actual singing chops: Nichelle “Lt. Uhura” Nichols. Over at Dangerous Minds , Ron Kretsch has assembled a mini-history of Nichols’ singing career , which included performing with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, plus a handful of albums of her own, released between 1986 and 1991. Nichols also put her vibrato-heavy voice to good use in the Trek episode “Conscience Of The King,” in which she serenades a doomed crew member with a little number called “Beyond Antares.”

Like Nimoy, who occasionally sang in character as Mr. Spock , Nichols referenced her television fame in her recordings. Her albums had titles like Down To Earth and Out Of This World , and in 1986 she released the obscure, cassette-only Uhura Sings , containing nine songs and poetic verses. Among her strangest, most ill-advised tracks was a disco-style remake of the Star Trek theme with lyrics.

But there are much, much cooler songs in Nichols’ discography. Take, for instance, her sultry 1967 waxing of “Know What I Mean.” Sample lyrics: “I’ve got honey muffins anytime that you want some / Know what I mean? / Know what I mean?”

Nichols took on the standards, too. Here she is, belting out “The Lady Is A Tramp,” a Rodgers & Hart composition from 1937:

But, even though Nichols’ musical allegiance was to jazz, she did not disappoint her Trek fans when it came to recording sci-fi-related material. She even revisited “Beyond Antares”:

When people think about music made by Star Trek veterans, they probably imagine Shatner screaming the lyrics of “Mr. Tambourine Man” or Nimoy croaking out “Proud Mary.” But Nichols’ recordings prove there are other, less obvious musical galaxies to explore, too.

Full song: Nichelle Nichols sings Beyond Antares

By rachel carrington | apr 2, 2021.

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 28: Producer Steven Fawcette, actress Nichelle Nichols and actress Angelique Fawcette arrive for Nichelle Nichols' 85th Birthday Celebration held at La Piazza/The Grove on December 28, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)

There is no denying that Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed Lt. Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series ,  has a beautiful voice. Unfortunately, she didn’t get to showcase it that often on the show. She was given two opportunities to sing Beyond Antares, a song written by Wilbur Hatch with lyrics by Gene L. Coon. She sang it once on The Conscience of the King, and the other on The Changeling which wasn’t a very long version of the ethereal song.

Fortunately, not only was a full-length version released by GNP Crescendo Records in 1991, a full album of Nichols’ songs was made available. But this song in particular is so hauntingly beautiful that it’s easy to close your eyes and imagine you’re aboard the Enterprise or at least somewhere in the galaxy.

Also included on the 1991 album, which you can still buy from Amazon , is Hauntingly and a wonderful tribute to Gene Roddenberry entitled “Gene.”  Nichols also sings the Star Trek Theme with her gorgeous voice. Unfortunately, this was the last album Nichols released.

In 1967, while Star Trek was still airing, Nichols released Down to Earth, which included such songs as  Feelin’ Good; Tenderly; Sunday Kind of Love; One Life to Live; and The Lady Is a Tramp. You can find this one on Amazon , too.

Though there might not have been a lot of reasons to use music aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Original Series, it’s a shame that more opportunities weren’t made available for Trekkies to hear Nichelle Nichols’ astonishing voice. Everything about it fits with the “out of this world” theme, and is something that could have made an even more powerful addition to Star Trek.

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The Unheard Words of the Star Trek Theme Song

October 17, 2022 Dan Lewis Uncategorized 0

Star Trek, the original series, ran from September 8, 1966, to June 3, 1969, with fans treated to a total of 79 episodes. The franchise now has millions of passionate fans, and even if you didn’t include yourself among that group, you are probably somewhat familiar with the voiceover that each episode starts with. Each episode’s intro, which you can watch here , features the voiceover of Captain James T. Kirk, played by William Shatner, saying, “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise . It’s five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” After that, the open credits roll as the theme song — vocals and instrumentals, but no words — plays. The opening theme is only about 30 seconds long, but fans got to hear a longer version — about a minute long — during the closing credits, which you can watch  here . Like the show itself, the theme song — officially titled “Theme from Star Trek” — is iconic. The lyrics, however, are not. They can’t be, because no matter how hard you try, you can’t hear them. The lyrics don’t appear on either of those clips or, for that matter, in any of the 79 episodes of the original series. That makes sense because the lyrics to the Theme from Star Trek were never recorded for the show, or for that matter, for anything else. And yet, they exist. If you’re a Trekkie, you already know the name Gene Roddenberry. The creator of Star Trek, Roddenberry achieved fame and wealth that probably went beyond his wildest dreams, but that outcome is only known through the benefit of hindsight. Even after the first season of Star Trek aired on NBC, it wasn’t clear to Roddenberry that he’d make any money off the show, which kind of sucks because he needed money to buy things. But Roddenberry had a way of cashing in, as CBR explains : 

Theme song credits were more than just vanity in the ’60s. Television profits lay in syndication, and whenever the theme aired, the composer was entitled to royalties. Star Trek gained its first real following on syndication, and even before it had completed its original run, its potential for reruns likely played a role in financial decisions. As the show’s creator, Roddenberry knew that, and once it began its run, he took steps to take a cut.

The problem, for Roddenberry at least, is that he wasn’t very musical. He didn’t compose the Theme from Star Trek and probably couldn’t have even had he tried. That wasn’t a problem when Desilu Productions originally decided to produce Star Trek; they hired Alexander Courage, a composer with a number of film credits on his resume, to create something magical for the sci-fi series, and Courage delivered the iconic piece of music that we know today. But when Courage signed his contract with Desilu, it had a clause in it that he didn’t appreciate. According to Snopes , Courage’s deal “gave Roddenberry the option of composing lyrics for Courage’s Star Trek music” if Roddenberry so desired. Originally, Roddenberry didn’t, but after the show’s initial success turned into a lot of reruns and syndication plays, Gene thought better of it.  Snopes continues: “Roddenberry exercised that option, writing lyrics for the main theme and then asserting his right to half the performance royalties as a co-composer. It made no difference that the lyrics were not intended to be used in the show itself and had never been recorded or released. As the lyricist, Roddenberry was entitled to an equal share of the royalties, whether or not the lyrics were ever used.”

From that point on, Roddenberry was entitled to 50% of the royalties earned by the theme song.  Courage, understandably, was upset by Roddenberry’s decision; the move was wholly a money grab by Roddenberry, as evidenced by the fact that the lyrics never made their way into a single recording. Roddenberry argued that this was his only way of ensuring that he’d come out ahead, financially, from all of the work and investment he made into the TV show, which obviously turned out to be untrue but, again, wasn’t something he knew at the time. Courage, who also composed the score for many episodes in the series’ first season, left the show, likely in protest, although he did return to provide the music for a couple of later episodes.  As for the lyrics themselves? They’re bad, but judge for yourself: “Beyond the rim of the star light, my love is wandering in star flight. I know he’ll find in star-clustered reaches love, strange love a star woman teaches. I know his journey ends never. His star trek will go on forever. But tell him while he wanders his starry sea remember, remember me.”

An additional fact I’m sharing mostly for sake of completeness : Another version of the Theme from Star Trek with lyrics also exists. In 1986, Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Nyota Uhura in the original series, released an album titled “Uhura Sings,” and then re-released it in 1991 under the title “Out of this World.” One of the songs on the album is the Theme from Star Trek, which you can listen to here — it has lyrics, but they’re different than the (horrible) ones Roddenberry penned. Nichols’s version of the song credits Courage and Jim Meecham with composing the song and lyrics, not Roddenberry.

Bonus fact : Gene Roddenberry never went to space while alive, but his ashes have been brought to space twice. In 1992, some of his ashes were brought on board the Space Shuttle Columbia during its 9-day mission to go around the Earth, and in 1997, more of his ashes were sent off an unmanned flight that ended up returning to Earth as well. There were plans to send some more of Roddenberry’s ashes out on a spaceflight to deep space — where no ashes had gone before, basically — but those plans have never been put into action.

From the Archives : How a Failed Star Trek Episode Helped Save the Franchise : The story of a pilot that didn’t launch. 

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Star Trek Just Weirdly Revived a Very Old Gene Roddenberry Original Series Idea

Did the Great Bird of the Galaxy want a Star Trek musical like Strange New Worlds' "Subspace Rhapsody?" There's evidence it's what Gene Roddenberry wanted all along.

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Everyone remembers the famous words to the theme from Star Trek , right? You know, those immortal lyrics : “Beyond the rim of the star-light, my love is wand’ring in star-flight!” Okay, to be clear, these are not lyrics sung in the history-making Strange New Worlds musical episode, “Subspace Rhapsody.” Rather, these are song lyrics that Gene Roddenberry wrote for the theme for Star Trek: The Original Series , which was composed by Alexander Courage. So, in a way, the very first seed of a Star Trek musical was planted almost 60 years ago.

In our universe, the songs in “Subspace Rhapsody” were written by veteran songwriters Tom Polce and Kay Hanley, both best known as members of the ‘90s rock band Letters to Cleo. But, within the canon of Star Trek , the songs in “Subspace Rhapsody,” are seemingly composed by a combination of strong emotions and a subspace fold that causes an improbability field. Translation: wibbly-wobbly, singy-wingy. The “musical reality” occupied by the crew of the Enterprise creates music on its own, which may or may not be responsible for the TOS theme becoming an in-universe song during the outro of “Subspace Rhapsody.”

Although never heard on screen, the reason Roddenberry originally wrote lyrics for the Star Trek: The Original Series theme was because, according to Ed Gross and Mark A. Altman’s The Fifty-Year Mission , he wanted to get half the royalties from the song if it were ever reprinted on sheet music. (Which, of course, it was!) But, because Roddenberry had a real interest in music, one has to wonder, silliness of the lyrics aside, did he secretly hope for a Star Trek musical someday?

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Consider the evidence. Nichelle Nichols was a singer and dancer before becoming an actress. In her memoir Beyond Uhura and in various interviews, she made it clear that Star Trek basically turned her career as a musical performer into that of an actress. And, in TOS and the films, she also sings a fair amount, such as in the TOS episodes “The Conscience of the King” and “The Changeling.” She also sings an impromptu song to Spock in “Charlie X,” and sings the song “The Moon’s a Window to Heaven” in The Final Frontier . Roddenberry doesn’t have direct writing credits on those episodes or on The Final Frontier , but he did hire Nichols and knew full well she was a singer and dancer first and an actor second . So, just by collaborating with Nichols to create Uhura, the idea of having at least one member of the Enterprise capable of bursting into song has been embedded in Trek since 1966. (In a December 1984 Star Trek comic book, Uhura even sings the silly Roddenberry lyrics to the main theme! It’s a comic book page you can almost hear.)

Nichols of course, released several albums of her own, and recorded both “Beyond Anartres,” and her own version of the TOS theme, with decidedly better lyrics than those penned by Roddenberry. But beyond the musical musing of Uhura in TOS , which, may, or may not have been motivated by Roddenberry to begin with, there is other evidence that Roddenberry wanted to do a musical.

According to The Fifty-Year Mission , Roddenberry was contacted by Paul McCartney in the 1970s to write some kind of science fiction musical. To be clear, this wasn’t going to be a Star Trek musical per se, but at one point, McCartney did want to do a musical with the creator of Trek because  the former Beatle was a massive Trek fan. There’s even some great photographic evidence of Roddenberry hanging out with Paul .

Roddenberry never lived to see a true Star Trek musical, and never got to collaborate with Sir Paul on their sci-fi musical. But, because “Subspace Rhapsody,” uses a very TOS – premise to allow the Trek characters to burst into song, it seems very likely that if the Great Bird of the Galaxy were alive today, that he would not only approve of singing Spock and Uhura, but would love it, too.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 is streaming now on Paramount+. You can listen to the music of “Subspace Rhapsody” below:

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Nichelle Nichols' Best Star Trek Episode Is A Series Highlight

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"Star Trek" fans are heartbroken over the death of legendary icon Nichelle Nichols , who passed away due to natural causes on July 31. The star is best known for her role as Nyota Uhura in "Star Trek: The Original Series," as well as several movies and cameo appearances throughout the franchise. The actress's son, Kyle Johnson, announced Nichols' passing on Instagram with a touching statement, saying, "Her light, however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration."

Tributes poured in from fans and Nichols' co-stars, with many praising her for being a trailblazer in the entertainment industry as one of the first Black actresses to play a high-ranking role of authority in TV. In "Star Trek: The Original Series," Uhura is the communications officer on the Enterprise, working alongside other iconic characters, like Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his science officer, Spock (Leonard Nimoy).

Nichols' performance was groundbreaking because it offered millions of Black viewers around the world the ability to see themselves portrayed on television — something that was incredibly important during the 1960s. In 2013, the star revealed in a TV interview that Dr. Martin Luther King persuaded her to stay on the series when she debated quitting. According to Nichols, King said, "For the first time on television, we will be seen as we should be seen every day, as intelligent, quality, beautiful, people who can sing dance, but can go to space, who can be lawyers, who can be professors."

In fact, one of the best episodes of "Star Trek: The Original Series"  is a highlight because of how it used Nichols' performance in a progressive way.

A groundbreaking kiss

Although an interracial kiss on TV in the present day is hardly noteworthy, back in 1968, it was incredibly controversial to broadcast something seen as that progressive on mainstream television. So when it came to "Star Trek" Season 3, Episode 10 ("Plato's Stepchildren"), NBC had a surprising issue on its hands. 

The story sees the Enterprise visit a planet where the inhabitants have taken on Greek culture as their own, calling themselves Platonians. Ultimately, it's revealed that the Platonians have telekinetic abilities and use them to manipulate the crew into performing for them. They force Uhura and Kirk to kiss, and it's one of the earliest interracial kisses shown on TV. 

In Nichelle Nichols' 1994 autobiography "Beyond Uhura," the star explained that NBC was concerned about riling up the southern states with the kiss, and they decided to shoot two scenes — one with the kiss, and one without. In response, William Shatner and Nichols purposely sabotaged the second version of the scene so the executives had no choice but to air the kiss (via NBC ).

Nichols' performance had already cemented her place in pop culture history, but the kiss became a huge milestone that helped push TV forward into the modern age.

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The Honor of Painting Nichelle Nichols

Artist Robin Damore reflects on the portraits she created of the Trek legend!

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This week, StarTrek.com honors the late, pioneering Nichelle Nichols by reflecting on not only Nichelle’s legacy but also that of the character she portrayed — Uhura .

Robin Damore isn’t a devoted Star Trek fan. In fact, the artist from Portland, Oregon, is better known for her oil portraits and an annual Santa Claus painting. And it wasn’t even painting that connected her to Star Trek — it was a photo assignment a dozen years ago for a 2004 book by Katherine Martin called Those Who Dare: Real People, Real Courage and What We Learn from Them .

One of the subjects in that book was Nichelle Nichols ; Damore's photos accompanies a chapter about the remarkable life of the woman who portrayed Lt. Uhura . Photographer (and then-budding portrait artist) Damore was so taken with Nichols that she decided to do a painting based on a photo from that session.

“I was hired to go to L.A. to shoot Nichelle Nichols,” Damore recalls. “I didn’t really know who she was. I went to her house and waited while she got ready, and then she appeared. She comes down looking like a goddess. I shot a bunch of pictures of her outside. We had a ball. We really hit it off together.”

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Damore started as a photographer and advertising agency owner, honing her skills with the help of photographer friends who critiqued her early photography portrait work. “They would pick two that were acceptable out of a roll of 36,” Damore says. “And that’s how I learned to work out the problems of light, composition and creating foreground in a photograph.”

“Later, I started drawing every day,” she continues, “drawing in meetings and drawing with the kids. And I got to the point where I wondered if I could paint as well."

Damore took a one-week painting class in Seattle, and then a three-week intensive class with a Russian master painter in New York. Returning from New York, she was inspired to paint a portrait of Nichols using one of her favorite images from the shoot as her resource material. The portrait took shape in a temporary painting studio she designed into one of the model homes of a homebuilder’s tour in Portland.

“I worked on this painting of Nichelle as tens of thousands of people toured the house through all of August,” Damore explains. “And over and over people would recognize her. ‘Oh, my gosh! That’s Nichelle Nichols! How did you meet her?’ Everyone’s got a story about growing up and watching the show, and several people told me they had named their daughters after her.”

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While the original painting was finished a decade ago, Damore finally arranged to show it to Nichols when she came to the Portland area for a comic convention in 2015. During a stop at the artist’s studio, Nichols saw for herself what the artist had completed years before.

“She cried when she saw the painting and said, ‘Oh, it’s beautiful and I’ve got to have it,’” and so it hangs today in Nichols’ California home. That conversation inspired another photo session, and another work of art.

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“We were in my shooting studio, the backdrop and lights were already set up,” Damore explains. “And she immediately knew what to do. She just knows the camera. She knows what angles are good. She has such beautiful, expressive hands. I decided to add this gold and turquoise scarf. She draped this scarf over herself and created this incredible flair and personality, and she transformed herself into ‘royalty’ before my eyes. I shot a couple hundred photographs over the course of 20 minutes.” Later, Nichols and Damore decided which pose would work best as a new portrait.

Thirteen years after the original portrait, Damore has just finished another life-size painting of an older and even wiser Nichols using an approach to realism based on the painting style of the old masters. The final brushstrokes were applied last month.

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The artist had so many requests for prints that she's decided to offer two limited-edition prints in two sizes: small (13”x19”) and large (17”x22”). Interested fans can email Damore directly ([email protected]).

“People ask me all the time how long it takes to do a painting,” Damore says. “I usually say, ‘It depends on how much I suffer,’ but this painting was like butter – no suffering – just delicious. This most recent painting of Nichelle is a thing of beauty. It took only 2.5 weeks to complete. A photo of the new painting has already been shared nearly 12,000 times on social media. That’s the biggest response I’ve ever had to anything I’ve ever done. I think this is my best work to date.”

This article was originally published on April 20, 2017.

Dave Arland (he/him) has been a Nichelle Nichols fan since 1972, when he first saw Star Trek in syndication in Indianapolis.

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