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To Boldly Sing

Star trek has inspired plenty of pop culture, but nothing is as bizarre as the musical fandom following its warp trail..

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Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh one from David Buck , who is helping us maintain our mental-health-break status for this week. If you’re a Star Trek enthusiast, you will enjoy this one.

Today in Tedium : Some readers might have noticed my absence last month. Unfortunately, my father passed suddenly and I was out of commission for a while. As I looked through some of his stuff, I came across some things that reminded me of the times we would sit down together to watch Star Trek: the Next Generation or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Thinking about those moments reminded me of some old files and pitches that I was working on a few years ago. I came across one idea and decided to flesh it out a bit: a piece on songs about a certain science fiction television show. If I recall correctly, the original outline of the piece was written for a certain site that ghosted me a few years ago. So, here it is, completely rewritten with fresh insights. So set your phasers to stun and beam up your sense of humor because in today’s Tedium, we’re going where no one has gone before: down the black hole of songs about Star Trek . — David @ Tedium

Today’s GIF comes from a claymation music video for the well-known novelty song “Star Trekkin’” by The Firm.

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“And on no other show do I police myself as much, because I’m such a fan of Star Trek that it’s important to me that we are as funny as we can be without breaking Star Trek at all times and without being mean about Star Trek. With the network and with the studio, the conversations are mostly when I’m pitching an episode, I’ll be like, ‘Here’s what inspired this episode.’ And it’s always coming from a thing that I love about Star Trek, and then ‘Here are the things that we love about these characters, here’s how we want to explore them, and then this is why it’s going to be funny.’”

— Mike McMahan , creator of Star Trek: Lower Decks , discussing his approach to comedy on the show in a 2021 interview with Collider .

Where no musician has gone before (well, not really)

Last year, I discovered something rather silly: a radio station with an apostrophe in its call letters. I joked with Ernie that it reminded me of the Klingon language. This led to a very interesting journey about Klingon that ended up going pretty far and even made an appearance on Vice’s Motherboard —something for which I am eternally grateful. Revisiting this idea only further brings home the point that science fiction television can be a goldmine for weird stuff.

Star Trek has always been a great source of humor. Where Deep Space Nine and Picard readily take on more serious themes, there’s something to be said about the ever present sense of humor that runs a deep vein through most Trek shows. It’s in “The Trouble With Tribbles,” all over TNG (especially in some of Riker’s most memorable scenes ), interspersed between more maudlin moments of DS9 , and encapsulated by certain characters on Voyager . And that’s only naming a few shows! It’s not difficult to see the humor in the shows.

A few years ago, a surprising new Star Trek show was announced, focusing on the non-bridge crew of a “second contact” starship called The Cerritos . That show was Star Trek: Lower Decks . Created by Mike McMahan (who also worked on shows like Rick & Morty and Solar Opposites ), the show centers on a few quirky characters who aren’t officers but perform the ship’s grunt work. It’s hysterical and the characters are quite fun to spend 22 minutes with each episode.

With Star Trek: Lower Decks already two seasons into its run and a plethora of Trek shows coming out, it’s almost as if a renaissance for the series is upon us. Also, Strange New Worlds looks amazing.

Lower Decks goes out of its way to take itself less seriously, proving there’s definitely some room for a bit of comedy interspersed with the more abstract seriousness the show often aims to hit. What Lower Decks does so well is how it leverages that crazy sense of humor into the fandom at large. It sort of reminds me of what happens when enthusiastic, musically inclined fans get together to write songs about the show.

Music has always been integral to Star Trek . From the opening theme of Star Trek (TOS) onward, music has been an integral part of Star Trek , inspiring viewers and musicians alike. While each show’s own music is instantly recognizable, the program also inspired a great deal of music by other artists (often related to TOS ). You’ve probably heard “ The Trouble With Klingons ,” a pastiche created by Dennis Williams for a certain novelty song contest or “Spock Rap” by the animators at Will Vinton Studios (under the name The Neural Paralyzers ) in the ’80s. Admittedly, not everything in this category is great, but there are plenty of gems around. Here are a few artists/songs that explore strange musical worlds, seek out new melodies, and boldly sing where no one has sung before!

You won’t find William Shatner’s The Transformed Man or Leonard Nimoy’s Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy here. Likewise, we won’t revisit the original Trek theme and its lyrics . Rather, these songs and sketches represent unique takes on Trek by various musicians and comedians past and present.

5. “Banned from Argo,” Leslie Fish & the Dehorn Crew

“ And we’re banned from Argo every one, banned from Argo just for having a little fun…”

Filk music is full of talented musicians who share a love of science fiction and community. Filk music—folk music with lyrics based on science fiction—has a rich history , with a strong connection to Trek.

Leslie Fish is perhaps the genre’s best known figure. With her 12-string guitar and larger than life persona, Fish writes about science fiction and beyond.

“ Banned from Argo ” is an upbeat shanty with slightly twisted lyrics. The Enterprise crew goes on shore leave and various hilarious hijinks ensue. It doesn’t reference TOS characters by name, it’s obvious which crew members she’s singing about.

The first few lines of a song explore the mischievous misadventures of the crew checking out “every joint and bar” on Argo during their shore leave. Listeners then learn about the Captain’s sinful tastes and complex methods, the engineer’s ability to “outdrink space marines and a demolition crew,” and the first officer teaches the computer how to swear. It’s a shame what happened to the doctor … but I digress.

Surprisingly, Fish doesn’t seem to like the song much. As she states in several interviews (notably her brief appearance in Trekkies 2 ), the tune was written as quickly to fill out an album. It rapidly became her best known song—something she is a bit cranky about .

Leslie Fish has a large ouvre of other songs, both Trek related and otherwise. Her exuberant performances and love for storytelling shine during her performances. If you’re not a fan of folk music and/or sea shanties, you may want to give this one a pass.

If you enjoy her Trek music, check out the song “Carmen Miranda’s Ghost” and its accompanying anthology . For the full Leslie Fish experience, give Folk Songs for Solar Sailors a spin—if you can find it .

4. “Everything I Do, I Do with William Shatner,” Warp 11

”I don’t want to go to work, just wanna hang with Captain Kirk and if I had my way, I’d make it so…”

Dedicated to all things Trek , Sacramento’s Warp 11 built a career playing Trek -themed music. Originally devised as a “band that only plays Trek songs” for a one-time video project of bass player/singer Karl Miller, the idea stuck and Warp 11 was born. Two decades and six albums later, the band is still on their musical journey.

Through incredible energy, crunchy electric guitar, and hilarious lyrics, “ Everything I Do, I Do with William Shatner ” from 2002’s Red Alert perfectly reflects the band’s “mission statement” —to convert listeners into Trek fans. Despite its title, the song is about Captain Kirk rather than Shatner himself.

Effortlessly juxtaposing the manic energy of The Presidents of the United States of America and the killer chops of The Ramones with a wider mix of blues, rock, and punk styles. Add their DIY punk-meets- TOS cosplay aesthetic, and you get one very eclectic listening/visual experience.

With Warp 11, you’ll find songs about Q and Betazoids, an entire album covering The Borg, and a few sporadic tunes about Voyager . The band’s healthy mix of TOS and TNG material is the epitome of Trek music created by fans, for fans.

While I enjoy their music, it skews toward a teenager/adult audience and is definitely not for kids. Warp 11 are well known for their sense of humor and double entendre and they can be a bit R-rated at times, with mildly NSFW album art. Some of their stuff can be a bit of an acquired taste, but if you dig pink, scifi, humor, and Star Trek , they’re worth checking out!

For those interested in Warp 11, start with Red Alert , then dive into any of their post-2007 work from It’s Dead Jim onward, available at their website and most streaming services.

3. “StarDrek,” Bobby “Boris” Pickett and Peter Ferarra

“ To boldly go where everyone has gone before !”

What do The Godfather , the most famous Halloween song of all time, and Star Trek have in common? Bobby “Boris” Pickett, of course. After having his breakout smash with “The Monster Mash” in 1962 (we wrote about this classic novelty tune in 2018 ), Pickett forged a career as a writer, playwright, comedian, and songwriter.

In 1975-1976, Pickett got together with producer Peter Ferrara to record “Godfather’s Respect”—a song about the 1972 film set to the tune of Aretha Franklin’s “Respect”—and an original spoken word spoof of TOS called “Star Drek” (not to be confused with the MAD Magazine spoofs of a similar name).

The sketch follows the daily operation of a parody version of The Enterprise and its crew, focusing on the most exaggerated aspects of each character.

It isn’t an outright mockery of the franchise and its fans, either. “Star Drek” is a carefully crafted satire of the genre that plays to the absurdity of the occasional technobabble used on the show, taking a light hearted approach to the action. We won’t spoil the punchline for you here.

Barrett Hansen—a.k.a. radio host Dr. Demento—included the sketch on his 25th Anniversary collection, writing the two were on opposite coasts during the recording process so Peter ended up doing all the voices himself. They shared the credits, as Pickett helped write the piece.

The sketch is uproariously funny every time you hear it—a rare accomplishment for a comedy/novelty song—full of nuance and spot-on characterizations. Of course, your mileage may vary. The humor may be a bit dry for some, but it’s a fun piece that holds up remarkably well today.

If you like Pickett and Ferrara’s style consider listening to Pickett’s The Monster Mash LP. For more Peter Ferrara, watch the Jonathan Winters specials On the Ledge and Spaced Out .

(via Terry McGovern’s website )

2. “Beam me up Scotty,” Terry McGovern

”Beam me up Scotty, oh beam me up Scotty, life sure is trouble below …”

Terry McGovern is known today for his voice acting (he was the voice of Launchpad McQuack in the original Duck Tales ), but he began his career as a radio broadcaster . Later, he would work in movies and television as well. In 1976, he released a Trek song of his own, “Beam me up, Scotty” on Baseball Records as a B-side to his rendition of the classic tune “ Pachalafaka .” You can hear the entire thing on SoundCloud .

Not to be confused with an obscure country tune of the same name, McGovern’s song is a quiet rumination on how boring/awful life on earth can seem sometimes. The singer longs to join the crew of The Enterprise and escape the banality of modern life.

The song received airplay on various radio shows, but languished in obscurity for years until being officially re-released on a compilation album in the early 2000s. While it may not be the most well known Trek tune, it’s certainly well loved .

McGovern regularly attends conventions and teaches acting classes—on top of his legendary voice work.

1. “Star Trekkin’,” The Firm

“ There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow… ”

The final entry in our list may be the best known: “Star Trekkin’” by The Firm. No, not Jimmy Page’s post Zeppelin band; this group was a side project of John O’Connor, a British music producer.

The song was popular in its own time—it hit Number One in the UK music charts and stayed there for quite awhile back in 1986—but took on new life in the internet age. It was used in one of the episodes of a Flash-based web series called Stone Trek (a mashup of The Flintstones and TOS ) and a claymation video makes the internet rounds every so often. Not bad for a novelty song that was rejected by every record company O’Connor approached. Then it became a million seller, prompting O’Connor’s move to America, where he went on to compose for television .

The Firm released a full-length LP, Serious Fun , that’s worth at least a slip of gold pressed latinum. “Star Trekkin’” is the best and catchiest of the tracks. Good luck getting the tune out of your head.

The number of songs in the Star Trek musical Boldly Go! Written by a Caltech theoretical physics graduate , Grant Remmen, and his brother Cole, the show is a humorous and satirical take on The Original Series . With songs like “Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor” and “Captain’s Log (As Great As I Know I Am),” the show is well worth watching for its two hour runtime. According to a 2016 Caltech ad for the show, Boldly Go! is ”a story about being true to oneself and one’s convictions, about friendship and love, about discovery and wonder, about the triumph of the individual over adversity, and about the joy of sharing with each other this vast and mysterious Universe.” For those interested in such things, it’s available in its entirety on YouTube .

When I originally outlined this —several years ago now—it had quite a few more songs. But over time, my interest and enthusiasm for Trek has waned somewhat.

And of course we couldn’t fit all of our favorite goofy science fiction songs into this piece. But there are plenty of great Trek bands around like “one-chord punk rockers” No Kill I (and NKI: the Next Generation and NKI:Deep Space Nine; they’re all different bands), modern filkers Ookla the Mok , and the Klingon metal group Stovokor , whose performances take Trek music to the next level.

Songs and sketches about Trek continue to endure well into the 21st century and beyond and it will be interesting to see what strange musical moments the future of Trek fandom holds.

And although this piece no longer resembles anything close to the original idea I had for it, I’m glad I was able to take a quick reprieve from the insanity of our modern world to find—and share—some humor from the bridge of The Enterprise that can still resonate with audiences today.

Thanks again to David for the great piece. Find this one a worthy read? Share it with a pal ! And see you all next week.

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David Buck is a former radio guy/musician who researches and writes about all manner of strange and interesting music, legacy technology, Nintendo and data analysis.

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Star Trek parodies and pop culture references (music)

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The following are examples of music that parodies or references Star Trek .

The beginning of the song "Pain" by 2Pac from the Above the Rim soundtrack features an excerpt from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier :

Admiral Radley [ ]

Indie-rock "supergroup" Admiral Radley released the song " GNDN ", written as a love song to Star Trek: The Original Series , on their 2010 debut album I Heart California . Lyrics reference Sulu and Spock, and include the verse,

• Interview with Jason Lytle of Admiral Radley discussing GNDN

Ai Tomioka [ ]

The music video for "Koi suru wakusei "Anata"" features a poster of Star Trek: The Next Generation with the USS Enterprise (Galaxy Class) on it as seen on a bedroom of two children.

Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah [ ]

The song " Beam Me Up Scotty " is about the narrator watching a Star Trek rerun. It quotes one of the most popular misquotes of TOS.

Apollo 440 [ ]

The song " Destiny " samples dialogue from TOS' " Who Mourns for Adonais? ".

The Aquabats [ ]

The Aquabats song "Meltdown!" from their 2005 album Charge!! features the lyric " I will go to work, just like Captain Kirk . "

Also, on their show The Aquabats Super Show they have large rockets on their van, enabling it to fly. These rockets are labeled NCC-1701, which is the registry number of the USS Enterprise .

Astral Projection [ ]

A quote taken from La Forge is sampled in the first twenty seconds of trance song " The Feelings " by the Israeli duo Astral Projection. [1]

The song " Flying Into a Star " samples dialogue spoken by Jo'Bril in TNG's " Suspicions ".

The song "Star Trek" discusses the Utopian society of Star Trek and the potential of Humanity to achieve it.

Beastie Boys [ ]

The Beastie Boys ' 1998 song " Intergalactic " features the lyric " ...Like a pinch on the neck of Mr. Spock ". On the album Hello Nasty , a studio outtake interlude between this song and the next track ("Sneakin' Out the Hospital") can be heard where frequent Beastie Boys collaborator Biz Markie raps, " Go by the name of King Ad Rock | Super educated I'm smarter than Spock ." (see SongMeanings.com )

From 1992, "Stop that Train" (Part of B-Boy Bouillabaisse off of Paul's Boutique ) features the lyric " French trench coat wing tip going to work, Pulling a train like Captain Kirk ".

The song " Ch-Check It Out " also contains several references to Star Trek . Not only does the song contain the lyrics " All you trekkies and TV addicts... " and " All you Klingons in your Grandma's house... ", but the video also contains a homage to The Original Series , with the three members of the group dressed as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy

The song "Brouhaha", on the same album, contains the following lines:

Communicator check one two one two This is Bones McCoy on a line to Sulu Set the bullshit to warp factor one Check your tricorder set your phaser to stun

The song "So Whatcha Want" contains the lyric " Well I'm Doctor Spock I'm here to rock y'all ."

Eleven years later, they entered Star Trek canon, as young Jim Kirk listened to their song " Sabotage " during his joyride in his stepfather's Chevrolet Corvette in 2009's Star Trek .

In 2013 during Star Trek Into Darkness , as young James Kirk wakes to his communicator beeping (with twins on each side of him) he is listening to a remix of "Body Movin'".

Star Trek Beyond featured "Sabotage" in the trailer, and in the movie it was chosen by Jaylah to play as a disruptive VHF signal.

"Warp Factor Five" is a song released by the Christian band Bleach with obvious references to Star Trek .

Bob Schneider [ ]

Bob Schneider has a song called "Cap'n Kirk", in which he mentions a number of people he wants or doesn't want to be. He wants to be like Captain Kirk, but not like Mr. Spock.

Jimmy Buffett [ ]

Buffett's song "Boat Drinks", about how miserable a resident of the tropics feels while stuck in a cold-weather area, contains a possible sci-fi way to cure the blues.

Buffett's song "Fruitcakes" from the eponymous album also references Star Trek : " The future. Captain's log stardate two thousand and something. "

"When Salome plays the drums" – " phasers on stun "

"Cliches" – " He's always tuned into Star Trek . She's always tuned into him ".

"Beach House on the Moon" – " Cameron's getting logical, a Vulcan in disguise ".

This Italian artist released a song called "Oggi E' Morto Spock", which is about Spock's death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .

"Conehead Love" [ ]

The video, which ties into the movie Coneheads has the USS Enterprise -D appear on Beldar and Prymaat's viewscreen telling them to move. Clips from " Where No One Has Gone Before " and a clip of the Bajoran wormhole also appear.

DarkMateria [ ]

"The Picard Song" is an electronica theme created by DarkMateria. The song's lyrical content is comprised solely from audio samples of dialogue from Star Trek: The Next Generation , most of which are lines spoken by Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard .

Samples used

• " Here's to the finest crew in Starfleet . "
• " The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth... scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth. It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth... you don't deserve to wear that uniform. " (" The First Duty ")
• " This is becoming a speech. " " You're the captain, sir, you're entitled. " " Hmm... I'm entitled to ramble on about something everyone knows. "
• " He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no-one had a chance to interrupt; it was really quite hypnotic. " (" Timescape ")
• " You'll have to call again, I was just leaving. I'm uhh... not dressed properly. " (" The Big Goodbye ")
• " My love is a fever, longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease. " " Tell me more. " " In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes for they in thee a thousand error see; but 'tis my heart, that loves what they despise, who in despite of view, are pleased to dote, shall I compare thee to a summer's day? "
• " Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra. " (" Darmok ")
• " This is the captain speaking. " (" Where No One Has Gone Before ")
• " I am Locutus of Borg. You will respond to my questions. " (" Descent ")
• " You are Borg. You will assist us. " (" I Borg ")
• " Lock phasers on that vessel... " (" Encounter at Farpoint ")
• " There are four lights. " (" Chain Of Command, Part II ")

The song also makes extensive use of the quotes " Engage ", " Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise", and " Make it so ", particularly during the chorus. Since these are spoken by Patrick Stewart in many episodes, it is difficult – if not impossible – to determine the samples' specific episodes of origin.

Usage in other media

A "Picard Song" sample is the feature of a popular YTMND page. However, according to the YTMND wiki, " Some users seem to believe that the 'Luc' in 'Jean-Luc' is not spoken in the sound file used for the site. The 'Luc' is present, but it is difficult to hear because of the electronic beats that comprise the percussion of the song. Nevertheless, some users maintain that the 'Luc' is absent. " [2]

External links [ ]

• "The Picard Song" official download page
• YTMND - Picard Song at YTMND

Deathamphetamine [ ]

A death/thrash/hardcore band based out of Boston, Massachusetts have several songs based upon Star Trek . The song "The Last Battlefield" is based upon the TOS episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". The song "The Savage Curtain" is based upon the episode "The Savage Curtain." They have a few TNG themed episodes as well. The singer/guitarist is often seen wearing a Star Trek hat.

The Dickies [ ]

The California punk rock band has a Star Trek -themed song, "Make It So" , on their 1995 album Idjit Savant. The song has lyrics such as:

" Set the controls for the neutral zone-make it so, " " Where no one's gone before is where we'll boldly go "

" Live long and prosper, make it so. "

" We're flying through the stars and we're hitting the bars, all right! " " Data's going to tell me that the Romulans will put up a fight. "

" Where we're going no one knows, " " The Enterprise is out of control. "

The cover for the single features the members of the band, along with members of The Original Series on the Enterprise .

Digable Planets [ ]

The song "It's Good to be Here" contains the following lyrics:

Stopped at Pluto to cop some petrol Met some Klingons, and got our things on Cruisin' warp 6 with Mr. Wiggles in the mix Hendrix passin' peas, star child get the fix The saucer shook the heavens with the blooms and the blams Because when we hit New York – shazam We droppin' like a comet and this Vulcan tried to Spock it These Martians tried to do it, but knew they couldn't cop it The others from our brother planet lands in the flesh From up in sector 6, yes y'all

Dog Park Dissidents [ ]

Dog Park Dissdents' song "Trans Starship Feminist BDSM Paradise" uses much of the vocabulary popularized in Star Trek over the years, including referencing a viewscreen , ship decks , and a warp drive .

Down With The Ship [ ]

Down With the Ship is a name shared by a Nebraska indie rock band, a Boston punk band, and an Australian "easycore" band. One of them (or perhaps another band entirely) has a song entitled "Sex With Mr. Sulu".

Dr. Corpse Fucker [ ]

The song "Mr Spock" mentions Spock and " William Fucking Shatner ".

George Duke [ ]

The album "The 1976 Solo Keyboard Album" contains the songs "Spock Gets Funky" and "Vulcan Mind Probe".

Edelweiss [ ]

In 1992/1993 this Austrian electronica/dance band had a European hit called "Starship Edelweiss".

The song starts with:

and the chorus says:

But most notably, the recurring operatic hook of the song is a slower version of the TOS theme by Alexander Courage .

Edenbridge [ ]

The Austrian symphonic power metal band Edenbridge has a number of Star Trek -related references, not least of which is the name of founder Lanvall's studio, Farpoint Station .

Their 2004 album Shine features two DS9-themed songs, " Move Along Home " and " What You Leave Behind ". On their 2008 album MyEarthDream , another two songs, "Shadowplay" (after the DS9 episode of the same name , with references to the plot of the episode) and "Remember Me" (after the TNG episode ) are Trek -themed.

The music video for the song "Higher" from their 2010 album Solitaire features a duel between a swordsman and a cowled and masked assailant resembling Joran Dax from the DS9 episode " Equilibrium ", who in the end of the video turns out to be the swordsman's doppelgänger.

Epic Rap Battles of History [ ]

This YouTube series pits historical as well as occasionally fictional figures against each other in rap battles. One such rap battle is between Christopher Columbus and James T. Kirk . [3]

The Firm [ ]

In 1987, a group called The Firm released " Star Trekkin' ", a comedy single based on The Original Series . The song was #1 for two weeks in the UK singles charts. The video featured stop motion animated versions of the cast of The Original Series .

The song's lyrics are made up of parodies or deliberately funny readings of famous lines from The Original Series . For example, the song's chorus includes the line " Boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse. "

Leslie Fish [ ]

Filker and sometime labor activist Leslie Fish wrote many songs that are set in the Star Trek universe, especially Star Trek: The Original Series . The most (in)famous is probably "Banned from Argo", but other examples are "Wobblies from Space" and "Neutral Zone, Romulan View".

Five Year Mission [ ]

With the albums Year One (2010), Year Two (2011), and Year Three (2013) this band lovingly crafts pop rock songs named after and about the episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series . "The Trouble With Tribbles" (2012) features six different songs of the same name and a new birthday song solely for actor George Takei .

The first albums of this Canadian progressive rock group dealt almost solely with science fiction themes, the best known of which, " Phasors on Stun ", is quite clearly a Star Trek reference.

Futuristic Sex Robotz [ ]

This band did a song called "The Positronic Pimp", extolling the successes of Data , which quotes " Ode to Spot " in response to the lyrics " What does the android have to say about his favorite ***? "

Garbage [ ]

Garbage 's song, " Alien Sex Fiend ", features the boatswain whistle from TOS at the end.

Genesis [ ]

The "Mr. Spock" puppet

In 1986, the English rock band Genesis released the music video for their hit single Land of Confusion . The music video features a puppet of Leonard Nimoy as Mister Spock trying to solve a Rubik's Cube but then throwing it away. [4]

The caricature puppet was created by Peter Fluck and Roger Law , creators of the British television show Spitting Image .

Paul Gilbert [ ]

American guitarist Paul Gilbert, former member of the band Mr. Big, recorded a song called "Mr. Spock" in his 2005 album Space Ship One . The lyrics are about a person who denies being overcome by emotions. The chorus has the following lyrics:

Johnny Gill [ ]

The inspiration for the title of ex-New Edition singer's new jack swing "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is obvious. The lyrics, about bedding a woman, are uninspired by Star Trek or perhaps simply uninspired.

The Gothsicles [ ]

The song "Wearing A Star Trek Uniform, Watching Tony Lechmanski Sleep" involves dressing up in a Star Trek uniform, tribbles, Gorn, Seven of Nine fanfiction, and more.

Hank Green [ ]

"What Would Captain Picard Do?" is a pop punk anthem with advice for starship commanders new and old.

Hawkwind [ ]

Hawkwind is a British space rock band active since 1969. The opening of their song "Alien (I Am)" from Alien 4 (1995) samples " The Mind's Eye "; another song on the same album is titled "Beam Me Up".

William Shatner covered Hawkwind's song "Silver Machine" on Seeking Major Tom (2011). Members of Hawkwind have also performed in Shatner's music. [5]

Lee Hayes [ ]

The song "David Duchovny's Bride" mentions channel surfing through, among other things, Star Trek reruns, before finding true love in The X-Files .

Helion Prime [ ]

The American power metal group's song "A Place I Thought I Knew" from their debut self-titled album (2016) is about Kirk dealing with Spock's death at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan .

Heltah Skeltah [ ]

In "Grate Unknown":

" We up in this space deep, wit' nines like Star-Fleet "

Hillman Morning Show [ ]

"Star Trek Rhapsody" is a parody of Queen's song "Bohemian Rhapsody". This song is often incorrectly associated with "Weird Al" Yankovic, but it is actually from a group known as Hillman Morning Show and was written and voiced by the show's co-host Kevin Barbare. Several music videos for the song, including one by the original performer, are widely available on the internet.

Leslie Hudson [ ]

Canadian musician and filker Leslie Hudson released the concept album Yeoman on the Brige about her love of Star Trek in 2016.

Information Society [ ]

The song "What's On Your Mind" by the US band Information Society features a clip of Spock saying " Pure energy " several times. The song begins with a clip of McCoy saying " It's worked so far, but we're not out yet! " The clips are from "Errand of Mercy" and "I, Mudd", respectively.

"Walking Away" begins with a clip of Captain Kirk saying " It is useless to resist us. " Later in the song, Scott can be heard saying " Let's go see! " These clips are from "Mirror, Mirror" and "Wolf in the Fold", respectively.

"Over the Sea" features a sample of " In every revolution, there's one man with a vision " from "Mirror, Mirror".

A brief track on the HACK album entitled "Charlie X" consists of a clip of the lead singer of the band quoting the lead character, Charlie, saying " I can make you all go away, anytime I want to! "

Several other songs from this band contain other Star Trek TOS clips.

Michael Jackson [ ]

The music video for his 1982 song "Thriller" ends with Michael comforting his girlfriend after defeating a horde of zombies. As the camera focuses on his face, his eyes glow red & the image freezes, exactly like the final shot of Mirror, Mirror .

The German comedy-metal band JBO recorded two songs as a tribute to Star Trek on their record "Laut!" in 1997: "Sound Trek" and "Star Treck".

Translated, the chorus of the latter one means:

"Sound Trek" was a parody based on the German version of the series' intro:

Jedi Son of Spock [ ]

Jedi Son of Spock is a Brooklyn rapper. Apart from the name, a Spock-like figure is also included in his branding.

Jefferson Airplane [ ]

The psychedelic group recorded a song called Star Track .

Folk Singer Jewel's song "Race Car Driver" has a reference to Star Trek .

Komor Komando [ ]

The song "Slaves of the Machines" features a sample of Spock saying " I find this scientifically fascinating ".

Lady GaGa [ ]

Towards the end of the song "Just Dance," the sound effect of a Romulan torpedo can be heard in the background.

Lake Street Dive [ ]

The 2021 song "Know That I Know" by Lake Street Dive references Kirk and Spock :

Yeah we're like sneakers and gym socks

You're happy hour and I am 5 o'clock

You're Captain Kirk to my Spock

You know I'm Dee Dee Ramone and you're punk rock

So let me tell you boy

Don't leave it up to fate

It's time to set things straight

Johnny Marr [ ]

British musician Johnny Marr 's 2019 music video for the song "Armatopia" features a clip from TNG : " Unification II " (with Denise Crosby and Leonard Nimoy ), as well as a portion of the episode's end credits playing on a TV screen.

Millencolin [ ]

Swedish punk band Millencolin record a song for their 1995 album, Life on a Plate , called "Vulcan Ears". The song is about wanting to be logical as a Vulcan.

Nicki Minaj [ ]

Rapper Nicki Minaj released a mixtape in April 2009 called Beam Me Up Scotty, with album art featuring the USS Enterprise as it appeared in Star Trek , which was released a month later. The mixtape's final track has the same title.

Marteria [ ]

In his 2017 album "Roswell", German musician Marteria included a song titled "Scotty beam mich hoch" ("Scotty, beam me up").

MF DOOM [ ]

The song "The Drop", from the album Vaudeville Villain (released under the moniker Viktor Vaughn) contains the following lyrics:

Make a hick say "what the hey?" brought that chick from sick bay Ensign, he shoulda asked his upperclassmen Before he bust blast 'em, never trust no Cardassian Captain's log supplemental The Klingons are now aboard the Enterprise rental vessel On my cue, photon torpedo Oh, and if I'm not on the block with Jorgito And so on for the street though Smoke a pound of leak though I'm jokin' on the fact that hiphop has gone freak show

The song "A Dead Mouse", also from Vaudeville Villain features the lyric " No I haven't seen Kes, Neelix ".

Furthermore, the opening track of his album Take Me To Your Leader (released under the moniker King Geedorah) is called "Fazers", and ends with the line " Rule number one: keep your phasers on stun ".

The song "Space Hoes" off 2005 DANGERDOOM album The Mouse and the Mask , a collaboration between DOOM and producer Danger Mouse, contains the lyrics " When it come to wreck / Cruisers like them dudes are red shirts off Star Trek / He Kirk, he Spock, he McCoy / Been B-boy since you jerks first squeezed toys. " A 2009 New Yorker interview also referenced DOOM's obsession with Star Trek .

Millencollin [ ]

The ninth track on Millencollin's album Life On Plate is called "Vulcan Ears" and is about someone dreaming to be beamed up in to outer space.

The 8th track on their 2003 album, The Rebel You Love to Hate , is called "He's Dead Jim" which talks about an extra on the original series who has their big break on TV by being the fourth man on the landing crew. Making an obvious reference to the original series and the Red Shirts, one of verses says " Every time they beam down four they only beam back three ".

Mos Def [ ]

Mos Def references " Captain Kirk and the Klingons " in the song "If You Can Huh! You Can Hear".

Jason Mraz [ ]

In the pop song "Wordplay," Mr. Atoz is referenced in the chorus.

99 Luftballons (German)

99 Red Balloons (English)

Note that the English version of this song is not a direct translation of the German.

Nerf Herder [ ]

The fourth track on the album American Cheese by pop punk group Nerf Herder is entitled "Mr. Spock", and the lyrics contain references to both Star Trek: The Motion Picture and the TOS episode " Arena ".

Nichelle Nichols [ ]

Like her cast mates Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, and Grace Lee Whitney, actress Nichelle Nichols flirted with a music career. Prior to Star Trek , she had performed in stage musicals and also toured with the Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton bands. She recorded two albums and the second, Out Of This World (1991), featured the "Theme From Star Trek" and "Beyond Antares" (both done by Nimoy on his first album) as well as the disco-inspired "Uhura's Theme". The song "Gene" is a loving tribute to the series' creator. These songs were also released on later compilation albums such as Hauntingly and Uhura Sings" .

Leonard Nimoy [ ]

Actor Leonard Nimoy also had a music career that spawned five original albums and numerous compilations and re-issues. The first, Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space (1967), included a vocal version of "Theme From Star Trek" and another series themed song by Alexander Courage "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Other titles include "Music To Watch Space Girls By", "Beyond Antares", and "A Visit To A Lonely Planet". "Highly Illogical", from Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy (1968), is a humorous look at the "modern" Human condition from the POV of Spock , and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Earth" seems to be in person as Spock as well, as he mentions being from Vulcan. The album also includes a spoken word piece entitled "Spock's Thoughts".

No Kill I [ ]

No Kill I, who formed in 1993, is a mix between 1980s hardcore music and Star Trek . No Kill I: The Next Generation (NKI: TNG), and the second spin off No Kill I: Deep Space Nine (NKI: DS9) also performed in Trekkies 2 .

• NoKillI.com – official No Kill I website
• NoKillI.com/NKI-TNG – official NKI: TNG website

Ookla the Mok [ ]

The filk-rock band Ookla the Mok has released several Trek-themed numbers. For their 1997 album less than art , they recorded the poignant "Tiberius Rising," a song from the point of view of James T. Kirk's mother, as well as the comical "Number One," which implied that the changes in Commander Riker's appearance during the run of TNG were due to the fact that the Enterprise has no bathrooms. They included a number titled "Mr. W," which humorously imagined what would have to happen to place Mr. Worf in charge of the Enterprise, on their 2003 album oh okay LA . In 2005 they recorded a song titled "Spot the Cat" (using the lyrics from Data's poem ) for their album Dave Lennon .

Orbital [ ]

A line from Worf and Geordi La Forge from " Time Squared " was used in two songs by Orbital, " Moebius " and " Time Becomes ". The quote by Worf used in both tracks is " There is the theory of the moebius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop. " The segment by La Forge is only used in the first song, and is " when we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again. "

Rock band Phish , whose members are self-admitted Star Trek fans, released a 26-second instrumental song called "Riker's Mailbox", in which Jonathan Frakes played trombone, on their 1994 album Hoist .

Phish also wrote and performed a song called "Spock's Brain," although the song has never made it onto any of the band's albums. The song was inspired by the episode and its title was chosen over several other options by a live audience.

Protest the Hero [ ]

This Canadian metal band's vocalist Rody Walker is a professed Star Trek fan. [6] The song "Clarity" from Volition (2013) references Star Trek in lyrics ("Like a saucer ship let's separate and shuffle off this conflict") and in the music video. [7] "Animal Bones" from the same album references " Darmok ": " When the walls fell / With arms wide ".

Scurrilous (2011) contains "hidden Star Trek references" [8] such as the title " Dunsel ", and the album was intentionally released on William Shatner's birthday, along with a promotional photo of the band in Star Trek uniforms. [9]

American pop singer P!nk recorded the song "Beam Me Up" for her sixth studio album The Truth About Love , released on 14 September 2012. The song was written by P!nk herself and Billy Mann. In this song she also mentioned a parallel universe. [10]

Q-Continuum [ ]

The Finnish funk band Q-Continuum's name pays homage to the world of the Q , by the same name. Some of the band's songs also make reference to the Q, for example, "Q Is Comin". They have released two albums as well as some singles and EPs.

Rammstein [ ]

The music video for German band Rammstein 's song "Amerika" features the bandmembers as astronauts on the Moon, playing with a 1991 Data East version Star Trek Pinball game.

Red Hot Chili Peppers [ ]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers song " Californication " mentions that " Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement. "

The Refreshments [ ]

The 1996 song "Banditos" by The Refreshments references TNG 's Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a repeated verse:

Rihanna [ ]

In the 2017 song "Lemon" by N.E.R.D. and Barbadian singer and rapper Rihanna , Rihanna concludes her verse by rapping:

It's Rihanna n*gga, my constellation is space

Warp speed , Doctor Spock couldn't chase

The erroneous reference to Spock as "Doctor" is likely due to conflating the Star Trek character with famed pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock. At the time of this song's recording, Rihanna had recently been involved in the Star Trek franchise by recording the song "Sledgehammer" for the Star Trek Beyond soundtrack.

Rob Zombie [ ]

The 2013 song "Rock and Roll (In a Black Hole)" repeats the following line twice, referencing TOS 's famed captain:

A number five said he Captain Kirk

The Roddenberries [ ]

The Roddenberries are a Star Trek ified, multi-media, sci-fi rock cabaret. Forged in Philadelphia in 2012, this nine-piece troupe is comprised of professional musicians, cabaret performers, dancers, and filmmakers.

The Roddenberries have performed at multiple venues and events around the country, including The Roddenberry Stage at the 2016 Star Trek Las Vegas Official 50 Year Anniversary Convention, The Franklin Institute's Fels Planetarium, the Penn Museum, the New York Comic Con, and the Philadelphia Wizard World/Comic Con.

They appeared on Philadelphia Fox 29 Live to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek in 2016, and were also Philadelphia Geek Awards nominees for "Makers of the Year."

Since they released their debut, self-titled album in 2015, The Roddenberries are currently working on their second album of new parodies and original compositions.

Adam Sandler [ ]

" The Chanukah Song " is a popular holiday song written and performed by actor and comedian Adam Sandler . The song is comprised of a list of celebrities who, like Sandler, are Jewish, with the intent of comforting those who felt isolated during Chanukah by proving that there were others in the world who were also Jewish. Among those celebrities referenced in the first song (two more followed) are Star Trek: The Original Series stars William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy :

Savatage [ ]

The 1991 song "A Little too Far" by Savatage from the album Streets: A Rock Opera references Kirk , Spock , and the transporter :

When John Wayne caught the last train out

And Spock and Kirk have had enough

And no one's left to beam me up

Got to get back

I never meant to take it this far

Schmekel [ ]

The 2014 song "You're Not the Only Bear I Fisted" by Schmekel from the album The Whale that Ate Jonah references a fan of Star Trek :

I wore my vinyl suit to the Cock Some guy said I looked like Dr. Spock That flaming trekkie was cute but snotty So I said, "Bend over and I'll beam you up , Scotty ." He looked at my crotch and said, "You don't have the power You must live long to prosper from a golden shower." I said, "Don't get your boxers twisted You're not the only bear I've fisted."

Screeching Weasel [ ]

The 1996 song "Phasers on Kill" by Screeching Weasel from the album Bark Like a Dog references Captain Kirk , his crew, and the phaser :

What to do a spaceship crew came Crashing through my house Captain Kirk the stupid jerk Punched me in the mouth. Why'd you pick this place? You came from outer space If you're sleeping on my couch then You'll do what I say Go! Set tbe phasers on kill Go! Set the phasers on kill Go! Set the phasers on kill Cause I don't love her anymore Looking through my records all day On the phone all night Try to fix the beam without The help of Miller Light I can't get no sleep You better earn your keep Take the safety off and go Disintegrate that creep Go! Set tbe phasers on kill Go! Set the phasers on kill Go! Set the phasers on kill Cause I don't love her anymore

Sexy Finger Champs [ ]

The song "Jean-Luc Picard" is about wanting sexual relations with Jean-Luc Picard .

Snake River Conspiracy [ ]

The song "Vulcan" briefly mentions Spock.

The album Future Games contains many Star Trek samples, and songs named "Star Trek Dreaming", "Gorn Attack", and "The Romulan Experience".

S.P.O.C.K. (Star Pilot On Channel K) [ ]

This sci-fi inspired band has several Trek themed songs including "Never Trust A Klingon", "Dr. McCoy", and "Mr. Spock's Brain".

• Five Year Mission (1993)
• Alien Worlds (1995)
• A Piece of the Action (1995)
• Assignment: Earth (1997 and 1998)
• Earth Orbit: Live (1997)
• Official Fan Club (1997)
• S.P.O.C.K: 1999 (1999)
• 2001: A S.P.O.C.K Odyssey (2001)
• Official S.P.O.C.K website
• S.P.O.C.K. at Wikipedia

Spock's Beard [ ]

The name of this progressive rock band was inspired by the original series episode " Mirror, Mirror ".

Semisonic [ ]

Semisonic references the TOS episode " Spock's Brain " in the song "Never You Mind" from the album Feeling Strangely Fine .

"...Switch on the box, Mr. Spock is on the table, Dr. McCoy is unable to connect his brain..."

The Sisters of Mercy [ ]

On their website, rock band The Sisters of Mercy write: " Our smoke and lights work together to create moving clouds and shafts of colour. Imagine them as a life-form from the first series of Star Trek . Then imagine having a symbiotic relationship with that life-form. If you don't know what symbiosis is, just imagine having sex. If you don't know what a relationship is, just imagine having sex. If you don't know what sex is, you probably watch too much Star Trek . Oops. " [11]

SpizzEnergi [ ]

"Where's Captain Kirk?" is a song released originally by the punk band SpizzEnergi in 1979. The lyrics are about the singer suddenly finding himself aboard the Starship Enterprise and ends with the line "Where's Spock?". The opening bars consist of their parody of TOS theme music.

The song was the first to top the newly-created UK Indy charts in 1980. SpizzEnergi was notorious for changing its name frequently (at least once a year) so live versions by the band were often performed under different names.

It was covered by the band R.E.M. in 1992 and released as a fan club exclusive. This version also contains sound effects and dialogue from Star Trek .

Star One [ ]

" Songs of the Ocean " by Star One, a project of Dutch progressive metal artist Arjen Lucassen is inspired by the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home .

It must be unaware of the damage it's creating They are reaching out to the seven seas It's not with man they're communicating We're going back in time, back in history

The Starship Róisín [ ]

The Starship Róisín was an Irish radio parody of Star Trek . It was a short-lived science fiction comedy radio series on The Ian Dempsey Show on RTÉ Radio. It followed the adventures of Captain Bono (played by Paul Woodful, based on the U2 lead singer Bono), his Vulcan sidekick Stephen "Spock" Roche (played by Arthur Mathews, based on cyclist Stephen Roche, with a "cold, cycling brain"; storylines involved "space bicycles"), the ship chef Darina Alien (based on Darina Allen), MC Tony St James (Woodfull), Johnny Guitar (a "little fella" who made guitar sounds), and ship chaplain Father Ted (Arthur Mathews; TOS never had a ship's chaplain as Roddenberry was quite insistent that they would not exist in the future).

Woodfull later said that the show was "probably a bit too weird for [its] slot", and that, when the station suggested they take two of the characters and launch a spin-off called Tea and Toast with Tony and Ted, Mathews opted out.

While the band and the series didn't last and left little mark otherwise, it did represent an early outing of the character Father Ted who would be later played on TV by comedian Dermot Morgan and given his own series, which proved popular in Ireland and the UK.

Star Trek: The Lost Episode [ ]

Star Trek: The Lost Episode is a radio bit comprised of soundbites from various episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series , edited together to create a "lost episode" in which Captain Kirk and Spock become... intimate. Soundbites of Montgomery Scott are also included. The bit is played by certain radio morning shows nationwide.

The bit begins like this:

As Kirk and Spock continue (complete with screams provided by the "evil" Kirk duplicate from " The Enemy Within "), Scotty interrupts and becomes involved in the proceedings. The bit ends with Kirk depicting in his log that he's seen a part of himself that no man should ever see, after which he tells Spock " Thank you ... from both of us. " Both are lines from the end of "The Enemy Within".

One of the radio morning shows that occasionally play this bit is Tommy & Rumble on the Virginia radio station, WNOR (FM99). Tommy & Rumble once played the bit for actor James Doohan (who played Scott) when he was a guest at the station. According to co-host Rick Rumble, halfway through the bit, Doohan demanded that they "turn that thing OFF!" Rumble stated it was a lot like being on the bridge or in the engine room of the USS Enterprise , being yelled at by "Scotty".

StoVoKor [ ]

StoVoKor is a Klingon metal band seen in Trekkies 2 that sings only in Klingonese .

External link [ ]

• Stovokor at Wikipedia

T3CHN0PH0B1A [ ]

The song "Abduction Starfleet" references the term Starfleet, although in a general sense.

TBF (The Beat Fleet) [ ]

Croatian hip-hop band The Beat Fleet released the song " Data " in their 2007 album " Galerija Tutnplok ", which is a factually accurate biography of Lt. Cmdr. Data . A music video was released in January 2009 featuring the local comedy group Gitak, but did not feature footage from Star Trek itself, instead loosely dissecting the lyrics intentionally and working from there for comedic (and copyright-evading) effect.

Tenacious D [ ]

Tenacious D has covered the " Theme from Star Trek ", with the lyrics included.

Toxic Coma [ ]

Toxic Coma is a minor side project of Velvet Acid Christ ( which itself has also referenced Star Trek ) A promotional image seemingly supposed to depict the band is derived from a group shot of the original series crew on the Enterprise bridge, though with the faces replaced by new ones, ranging from badly pasted on human faces to more grotesque creatures.

The band T'Pau formed in 1986 in Shropshire, England, taking their name from the Vulcan priestess of the same name in Star Trek: The Original Series . None of their songs directly reference Star Trek , although there has been discussion among their fanbase over the years regarding whether or not some of their songs address Trek -inspired themes, in part because the band's biggest hit, "China In Your Hand", is admitted by the band to be a reference to Frankenstein, and another song by the band samples from the theme of the television series Dallas . Aside from such speculation, when their hit "Heart and Soul" was initially played on American radio, the edit used by radio stations frequently included a lead-in and/or lead-out featuring dialogue spoken by Kirk and T'Pau from the TOS episode " Amok Time ". Lead-ins included Kirk saying, " Bones, you know who that is? T'Pau " and T'Pau saying, " What thee are about to see comes down from the time of the beginning, without change. This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is our way. " The lead-out was Kirk saying, " How about that T'Pau? They couldn't turn her down. " How much involvement the band had with the development of such radio edits is not known.

Terry Talbot [ ]

Terry Talbot, along with his brother John Michael Talbot, was a leading member of the highly influential rock band Mason Profit before discovering Christianity and each subsequently doing solo work. On Terry's 1978 album A time to laugh, a time to sing on the cut "Angels" Terry parodies (in addition to Rev. Billy Graham) Star Trek crew meeting God on their viewscreen. He starts out saying " if there's a shuttle craft, it'll wait. " and " there's Lt. Uhura with a baby bottle in her ear ". Spock shows emotion shouting out " Alelujah. "

Velvet Acid Christ [ ]

Velvet Acid Christ is an electro-industrial band hailing from Denver, Colorado. The song "Thought Criminal" from their 1997 release Neuralblastoma contains, among others, lengthy samples of Jonathan Frakes as Commander Riker and Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data from the TNG episode " Frame of Mind ". The samples used are of the characters reciting their lines from the episode's titular play, Frame of Mind .

Velvet Acid Christ have also released several versions of the track "Futile". It contains several samples of the TNG crew's encounters with the Borg. Versions of the song mixed before 1996 have samples taken from the series Star Trek The Next Generation . Versions of the song mixed after 1996 (most notably "Futile (Resisted mix by Funker Vogt)") contain samples from the from the the motion picture Star Trek: First Contact , including phrases from the Borg as well as dialogue between the Borg Queen and Jean-Luc Picard. The lyrics also appear to be about the Borg, and specifically about assimilation .

Venetian Snares [ ]

The 2008 song "Koonut-Kaliffee" by Canadian electronic musician Venetian Snares features numerous vocal samples of Leonard Nimoy as Spock from the original series episode "Amok Time" over a breakcore beat, including, " One touches the other in order to feel each other's thoughts. In this way, our minds were locked together, so that at the proper time, we would both be drawn to koon-ut-kal-if-fee, " and " My eyes is flame, my heart is flame – I burn. "

Voltaire [ ]

Voltaire , the Dark Cabaret/Darkwave artist, released an EP called Banned on Vulcan . It was comprised entirely of parodies of various aspects of the Star Trek universe. More recently, Voltaire (now using the name Aurelio Voltaire) released a full length album, BiTrektual , featuring Tim Russ , Garrett Wang and Robert Picardo performing backing vocals on select tracks. The album features updated versions of the songs from Banned on Vulcan, as well as new tracks parodying Star Wars and Doctor Who.

Vox System [ ]

" Imzadi " is a ballad by Vox System, featuring singer Aly Frank. It's from their 2018 debut album "Time Has Come". The title of the song refers to the Betazed word for "Beloved" and the lyrics are about an impossible love.

• "Time Has Come" album at Official Vox System website
• Imzadi  at YouTube

Vulcan death grip [ ]

This band, of which Ann Magnuson was part, was named after the Vulcan death grip .

Joe Walsh [ ]

Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is the guitarist for The Eagles , as well as the James Gang and Barnstorm.

His "Space Age Whiz Kids" 7" single contains the lyrics:

Warp 11 [ ]

Warp 11 is a rock band that performs humorous songs inspired by Star Trek , with sometimes profane and sexually-related lyrics. They are comprised of four members: "Captain" Karl Miller (lead vocalist and bassist), "Commander" John Merlino (drums, replacing "Chief Medical Officer" Jeff Hewitt in 2007), "Chief Engineer" Brian Moore (guitarist), and "Chief Science Officer" Kiki Stockhammer (vocalist).

The male band members wear torn, short-sleeve versions of the TOS -style Starfleet uniforms.

Warp 11 has released albums since 2000:

• Suck My Spock (2000)
• Red Alert (2002)
• Boldly Go Down on Me (2005)
• It's Dead, Jim (2007)
• Suck My Spock Some More (2008)
• I Don't Want To Go To Heaven As Long As They Have Vulcans In Hell (2009)
• Borgasm (2011)
• Rock Out With Your Spock Out (2015)
• In Search of Rock (2020)
• Warp11.com – official site
• Warp 11 at Wikipedia

"We Didn't Start The Series" [ ]

This song, sung to the tune of "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel, was used on local television affiliates during the original run of Star Trek: The Next Generation to promote the series, post- TNG Season 3 .

• The Promo  at YouTube

The Weeknd [ ]

Canadian R&B singer The Weeknd's 2016 song "Starboy" includes the following line:

Star Trek roof in the Wraith of Khan

The pun on the title of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan refers to the Rolls-Royce Wraith automobile , some models of which come with a roof equipped with fiber-optic lights meant to evoke the night sky.

"Weird Al" Yankovic [ ]

"Weird Al" , the Prince of Parody, has parodied on Star Trek several times in his songs. Some verified references include:

• Song: "Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White"
• Album: Even Worse
• Song: "Albuquerque"
• Album: Running With Scissors
• Song: "Genius In France"
• Album: Poodle Hat
• Song: "eBay"
• Song: "Gee, I'm A Nerd"
• Album: Tour song, never released
• Song: "You're Pitiful"
• Album: Straight Outta Lynwood
• Song: " White & Nerdy "

"Weird Al" planned to record a " Let It Go " parody called "Make It So" for his 2014 album Mandatory Fun , " but then I checked online, and of course, somebody had done that already. And apparently it had gotten enough attention online to make the Disney legal department ask them to take it down! I couldn't think of an idea that I liked as much as "Make It So", so... I gave up! " [12]

Grace Lee Whitney [ ]

Actress Grace Lee Whitney portrayed 'Janice Rand' in the original series and several films. In the 1960s and 1970s, she fronted a number of orchestras and bands, including the Keith Williams Orchestra. Later, she concentrated on jazz/pop vocalizing for the band Star. In the 1970s, with her then-husband, Jack Dale, she wrote a number of Star Trek -related songs and performed frequently at conventions. A 45 rpm record was released in 1976 with the songs "Disco Trekkin’" (A side) and "Star Child" (B side). She also recorded other original tunes including "Charlie X", "Miri", "Enemy Within" and " USS Enterprise ". Many of these songs were released in the 1990s on compilations she sold at conventions, personal appearances, and through the mail. Light at the End of the Tunnel was released in 1996 and Yeoman Rand Sings! in 1999.

The Window Smashing Job Creators [ ]

Their 2019 song "Communism in Space" quotes the opening title speech that has been used in TOS , TNG , and SNW :

We're going to outer space, it is the final frontier

The W's [ ]

The 1998 song "Pup" by The W's references Captain James T. Kirk .

Zero One [ ]

The song "possibilities" samples a line by doctor Bashir to Sarina, from " Chrysalis ": "Your life's going to be different now. Your future is full of possibilities"

Chris Zippel [ ]

Songs by Chris Zippel featuring a quote from Star Trek :

"As Possible" from " The Inner Light ":

Although it skips to live now! (and includes the rest).

"Mirror Dawn" from " Strange New World ":

• Search for "Star Trek" at WhoSampled.com , a database of sampled music, cover songs, and remixes
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William shatner’s “the real slim shady” and other “star trek”-related songs you never knew existed.

Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek has become a phenomenon in the TV world. Even 55 years after its initial air date on September 8, 1966, the iconic series continues to inspire new TV programs and films.

Over the years, it has also inspired musical artists to create songs about the show. Notable cast members such as William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy have also performed their own musical numbers. The songs range from pretty decent to downright awful, but they all have their place in Star Trek history.

Songs by Cast Members

William shatner’s notorious musical career.

William Shatner might have made his name portraying Captain James Tiberius Kirk in the original series of Star Trek , but he also pursued a musical career and released eight albums.

Rather than singing, Shatner’s style is to speak the lyrics in a dramatic manner. His first album, The Transformed Man , interspersed his interpretation of songs like “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “Mr. Tambourine Man” with dramatic readings of Shakespeare.

Universal mockery of this album didn’t prevent Shatner from continuing his passion for music. In 1978, he hosted the 5th Saturn Awards and performed Elton John’s “Rocket Man” in his own unique style. The performance has been laughed at but also lovingly parodied.

Always someone who is happy to laugh at himself, Shatner provided the voice of Captain Kirk in an episode of the science-fiction cartoon Futurama in 2002. A short but memorable section of the episode involved Shatner giving a spoken-word rendition of “The Real Slim Shady” by Eminem.

Jean-Luc Picard’s “Alphabet Song”

Sir Patrick Stewart is well-known for his tongue-in-cheek skits, and he is a stalwart of both stage and screen. But rarely do fans get a chance to see him mix the two together.

His rendition of “ The Alphabet Song ” is made even more perfect because he does it on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise in full Picard garb.

While this video has been shared across the internet, there seems to be no agreement on how it actually came about. Theories range from Stewart serenading Gene Roddenberry on set to the cheeky actor just playing around during takes. Whatever the motivation, this little video has caused many people to crack a smile.

“The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” by Leonard Nimoy

Not to be outdone by his co-star Shatner, Leonard Nimoy also followed a musical career alongside his acting. However, Nimoy only released five albums compared to Shatner’s eight.

In 1968, Leonard included on his second album, Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy , a song that ended up going viral when it was rediscovered by the BBC for a 1996 documentary called Funk Me Up, Scotty .

Written by Charles Randolph Grean, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” tells a musical version of the story told in J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 novel The Hobbit .

When required to appear on the Malibu U variety show in July 1967, Nimoy put together a little music video for the song. The footage was lost to obscurity until it was shown again by John Peel in the BBC2 documentary. After that, it’s been shared all over the internet and has become a fan favorite.

Many years later, in 2009, Nimoy treated fans to another, shorter but live rendition of the song at Fan Expo 2009 after giving them a little background as to how the song came to be born. The performance was caught on camera for everyone to enjoy.

Songs Inspired by Star Trek

“99 luftballons” by nena.

Many people had to wait until the German version of this song was translated into English before they could spot the Star Trek connection.

In the song, Nena buys 99 red balloons and releases them. They show up on the radar of various world powers who scramble to defend themselves from what they think are enemy contacts. Nuclear war is the result.

The lyrics are a poetic reference to the dreams of the German people after WWII. Captain Kirk makes an appearance with the words: “ Everyone’s a superhero. Everyone’s a Captain Kirk ,” referencing the fact that when the balloons appear on the radar, everyone races to be the first to intercept them.

“Star Trekkin’” by The Firm

At the top of any “inspired by” list is this 1987 hit created by a British novelty band. The performances are comedy renditions of the original characters. The voices were provided not only by the band, but also by a studio technician and the wife of one of the songwriters.

The lyrics are quite simple and repetitious, but include such gems as: “There’s Klingons on the starboard bow – scrape ‘em off, Jim!”

It’s a little-known fact that this song actually created one of the most repeated Star Trek phrases. “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it” is a phrase from the song that was never actually spoken in the TV series. However, the lyric proved so popular and so in-keeping with the show that it is commonly misattributed to the TV program.

“Where’s Captain Kirk?” By Spizzenergi

The Star Trek reference in this song is not only more obvious than that in “99 Red Balloons,” it’s right there in the title.

The song charts how the singer is suddenly beamed onboard the Starship Enterprise . He wanders about for a bit, meeting all the crew except for Kirk. By the end of the song, it becomes clear that he can’t find Captain Kirk because he is Captain Kirk.

This 1979 single stayed at number one on the UK Indie Chart for seven weeks. The band also did two follow-up songs: “Spock’s Missing” and “Five Year Mission (Featuring the Return of Spock).”

“Starship Edelweiss” by Edelweiss

Austrian electronic dance band Edelweiss decided not only to make a song and music video heavily influenced by Star Trek , they also incorporated the main theme from the 1960s series.

They sampled Alexander Courage’s “Theme from Star Trek” and added some straightforward and repetitive lyrics to create a European hit.

“Ch-Check it Out” by the Beastie Boys

In a nod to the original Star Trek series, the music video accompanying this Beastie Boys single begins with the three of them dressed as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beaming down onto Earth. A little later, the three of them get into a fight, drawing the attention of the police, before McCoy disintegrates the other two with a laser.

More from us: Lucille Ball is the Reason we have Star Trek

The Star Trek skit is only one among several in the video, which also includes boisterous, fish-throwing grannies. It shows how much effort went into the video that the song only lasts 3 minutes and 34 seconds, while the final 1 minute 34 seconds of the video is the credits of all those involved.

STAR TREK REVIEWED

Links to hundreds of star trek fan films. founded by barb reader., you are on the new str website, which is still under construction. the original str website will remain online until this new site is complete..

These projects are intended as spoofs of Star Trek , rather than as continuations of it.

These parodies have a certain degree of sophistication and professionalism; for the many, many other less-developed parodies, see Minor Parodies .

GoldenTicketComics

Golden Age Animation; Series (Parody)

Golden Ticket Comics Television hopes to raise money on Kickstarter for artists and voice actors to complete entire episodes, in a style of that looks and sounds like the original animated series. GTTV also aims for it's episodes to be told with flair and theme, in a style that feels like the original series.

Klaupao & Vio

Golden Age Animation; Series (Parody) — USA

Machinima videos, made by two creators of Sims 4 'Creative Content', which is a mashup of Star Trek and 1960's TV shows, such as I Love Lucy.

Star Flek: Redshirts

A parody put together by technomikelyons using the animation program Muvizu:Pro, having some fun with the old trope about the poor doomed red-shirted crewman

The Roddenberries

Era Not Applicable Audio; Series (Parody) — Philadelphia, PA

The Roddenberries are Philadelphia’s own premiere Star Trek tribute band/multi-media-performance experience, forged in 2012 to explore sensible new parodies, seek out new allies and unite the Nerd-O-Sphere, and BOLDLY go where NO Star-Band has gone before! Their shows present a unique melding of rock-n-roll cabaret and parody, spanning the realms of science fiction, fantasy, gaming, comics and beyond.

-F2B-Favor 2 Betty Productions

Golden Age Film; Series (Parody)

Youtube channel of Skits 

23rd century elevators

Golden Age Animation; Short Film (Parody) — USA

Animated by Ureshiiiiiii (on her YouTube channel Chaotic Kitty) using the anime style MikuMikuDance (MMD) program , this is a Star Trek parody made using audio from a skit on the Burnsitown Comedy Show about a problem that Scotty might have faced (or Chekov for that matter). 

A Band of Starships

Era Not Applicable Film; Short Film (Parody)

Happy little starships playing games in the stars, created by Serin Jameson.

Allen Chalmers, Star Trek

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody)

Wait for it... it was only a matter of time...

Amazing Star Trek Spoof!

Well produced Star Trek spoof starring actor Frank Logan as Captain Keller of the U.S.S. Hunter "...it ain't the Enterprise but it's pretty cool!"

Golden Age GoAnimate; Series (Parody)

One of the original driving forces behind Star Trek animation on the old GoAnimate platform.

Arnie is Star Trek

Golden Age Animation; Short Film (Parody) — UK

Captains Log…..uhhh…. two? Arnie takes the helm of the Starship Enterprise in this parody animation by Arnie Nation. Follow him and his crew as they travel at warp 15 to take on the toughest opponents space has to offer... BEAM ME UP SCOTLAND!!!

As Aventuras Atrapalhadas de Elow Cub! Star Trek Tupi

Era Not Applicable Animation; Series (Parody) — Brazil

Esta animação de Lula Velloso é um "Fan Film" de Jornadas nas Estrelas criado por Gene Roddenberry.  O cubo amarelo e sua turma no Espaço: A fronteira final! Reeditado pelo autor em 09/09/2020.

Era Not Applicable Film; Series (Parody) — Croatia

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Bird Trek - The Wrath of Falcon

Era Not Applicable Animation; Short Film (Parody)

A professionally animated episode from the Planet Bonehead TV show. In this parody of STAR TREK, Cpt Bonehead and his crew on board the VERTIBRISE get an anonymous hail telling them that JP Rothbone and his Sniveling Cronies have captured all the birds of prey in the area. With no birds of prey around, rats and other rodents will run rampant, and farmers everywhere will need to buy JP's questionable rat traps to protect their crops.

To make matters worse, JP's ship is cloaked - or invisible - and the birds of prey are in an invisible cage somewhere in the land below the ships. The Boneheads beam down and search for the missing birds. But JP's ship attacks the VERTIBRISE, disabling their transporters, and stranding Bonehead and his landing party in the field below. Can the Boneheads repair their ship, find the birds of prey, and free them from their invisible cages in time?

Golden Age Film; Series (Parody) — USA

A Star Trek Parody by Biz Kid$, an educational TV Series which teaches young people responsible money management. 

Bobble Pops - Episode 1 : Star Trek - Best Of Both Worlds

Silver Age Animation; Short Film (Parody) — Canada

"Part 1 of the new upcoming motion animation Bobble Pop episodes, reenacting a mashed scene from Star Trek's The Next Generation's Best of Both Worlds episode using Toys and Bobbleheads."

Boldly Going Nowhere

Era Not Applicable Film; Series (Parody)

Boldly Going Nowhere was a proposed American science fiction single-camera comedy television series created by Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton and Adam Stein to be aired in 2009 on the Fox network. The series was planned as a parody of the Star Trek franchise in the format of a workplace sitcom; the title was a reference to the famous phrase "To boldly go where no man has gone before" from the opening speech in the first two Star Trek series. A pilot was shot in October 2008, but the project was shelved indefinitely.

Brandon Sachs

Silver Age Film; Series (Parody)

BrazenSnatch

Late Golden Age Animation; Short Film (Parody)

BrazenSnatch is a multimedia parody channel on Youtube. "Scotty hits his head" is little animation made in Adobe Animate and Premiere Pro, based on Scotty's legendary scene in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Watch out, Scotty!

Canadian Star Trek

Era Not Applicable Film; Short Film (Parody) — Canada

From the Youtube channel of Jorxdefier who admits, "It was really just an excuse to make a Star Trek video because I’ve been watching it."

Captain Kirk vs USS Enterprise Computer

Golden Age Animation; Short Film (Parody) — Australia

So THIS was how Kirk picked up his mannerisms! An original animation by visual artist, BlobVanDam on his YouTube channel

Cartoon Man Animations

Era Not Applicable Animation; Series (Parody)

Short animated skits or parodies of Star Trek, some with Spanish dialog and English subtitles

Chip Trekked

Cockney star trek.

Being Cockney isn't just whether you are born within earshot of Bow Bells or an arcane accent...

Comedians in Space w/ Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Tiffany Haddish, Ken Jeong

#deepfake video clips of various celebrity's faces superimposed over the actors in TOS scenes. These are very controversial: could you tell that they are all not acted by real people? 

Commander & Lieutenant Rolf

Silver Age Film; Series (Parody) — Germany

Der Produzent von Rolfs Filmkritik-Kanal hat eine Reihe von kurzen Parodie-Sketchen erstellt.

Commander Rob

Silver Age Toys / Puppets / Stop-Motion; Series (Parody)

Stop Action Animation.

Constar Clips - Hailing Frequencies...Open?

Silver Age Film; Short Film (Parody)

Onboard the Constar B, Sanders faces his greatest challenge yet: being a therapist...

Late Golden Age Film; Series (Parody)

Cool Age is a science fiction satire that pays homage to many famous films. The project "Cool Age" exists since 1996 and was founded by Rainer Grüning and Dennis Rada. The Cool Age universe now comprises several films, two series and three radio plays. As the number of film enthusiasts and fans increased, an association was founded: Double R Productions.

Within the framework of our association it is easier to communicate with like-minded people. In addition, it is possible to work with a small budget, which gets us more chance of increasing (film) knowledge.

Cool Age is an association of several planets in the 24th century, the so-called "Shooting Stars". More specifically, we follow the adventures of the flagship "U. F. S. Survival", where Captain Ted Erikson and Commander Karta are performing their duties. On their interstellar missions they get to know new planets and mysterious species. The Cool Age universe now includes more characters than just the Captain and his first officer, so we're happy to see you plunge into the Cool Age universe and experience new adventures with us.

Corruptdream sans

Bande dessinée vidéo avec l'audio de François Pérusse sur des graphismes d'anime simples. François Pérusse est un célèbre humoriste radiophonique québécois

Couillon Quest TASSO

Cajun Star Trek. The Original Acadianimated Series Spectaculaire Original! A spin-off, extension of Couillon Quest, an earlier series by the same producer in conjunction with Chris Marshall.

Critter Kingsford

An amateur film maker with a surprisingly large backlog of material, some live action, some improv and a number of stop action action figure movies.

Crossing The Threshold

Silver Age Animation; Short Film (Parody)

This parody of the Star Trek Voyager episode “Threshold” follows a young pilot who dares to fly faster than everyone else. And, of course, the slimy shenanigans that follow his fateful trip. Footage recorded in the game Star Trek Online. Made for the 25th anniversary of Threshold! Happy Threshold Day!

Cruz y Raya Star Trek

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Spain

Desde el Canal oficial de Juan Muñoz Cómic donde podrás revivir sketches de Cruz y Raya, nuevos sketches, canciones... ¡y sus últimas novedades! ¡También podrás encontrar material directo y totalmente inédito!

Entre 2000 y 2004 trabajó en Televisión como parte del número cómico Cruz y raya

Dafter Things

Golden Age Toys / Puppets / Stop-Motion; Series (Parody) — UK

Short stop motion videos using Mega Bloks (Construx), C920 webcam, Stop Motion Pro Eclipse, Hitfilm 4 Pro, Audacity and Stagelight.

Deep Fry Eight

Bronze Age Film; Series (Parody)

A Minecraft parody made in Blender by Beneral Grevious

Destination Helios

Era Not Applicable Film; Short Film (Parody) — Gwinnett County, Atlanta, Ga

Different Donut: Star Trek - :30 Spot

Golden Age Animation; Sketch / Commercial (Parody) — USA

At college in 1990 four friends pulled an all-nighter on a group project to record a 30 second radio spot for a fictitious company called “A Different Donut” using a Star Trek parody approach. Thirty four years later one of them, Eric Horst, decided to animate it in the style of The Animated Series!

Distress Call

Written and Performed by Natasha Purdum as "Lt. Saavik" for the GeekLifeRules: NY Cosplay Cabaret @VIRTUAL TREK CON 2

Egotastic Trek

Pranakasha Productions is a creative collaboration between Matt Weiss and James H. Pierce - mostly quirky stuff and Matt's original music - featuring Cpt Matthew A. Hardinger (Weiss) in temporary command of the U.S.S. Enterprise and Captain Jason Theodore "Teddy" Powell (Justin "JP" Pool) on the Orvillian Union Starship Egotastica.

Ender-Written Motion Comic

Golden Age Animation; Short Film (Parody)

A  gacha style motion comic by  /*Ender-Written*\ titled " Star trek: He's dead Jim!

Every Episode of Popular Space Show™

Silver Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — England

Alasdair Beckett-King, an English comedian, gives his take on the tropes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Stone Age Film; Long Film (Parody) — Milwaukee

Filmed in 1988, this Milwaukee Public Access (Viacom) parody of Star Trek, complete with Saturday Night Live-style fake ads, is a gem and a tribute to the lost art created during the era of cable access television!

Fuera de Órbita

Era Not Applicable Animation; Short Film (Parody) — Spain

En un lugar del espacio de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, la comandante Natalya y su tripulación VR Clan surcan los cielos...  ¿cuál será su destino final? ;) Webserie cómica inspirada en Star Trek y grabada en Altspace con unas gafas OculusQuest 2. Producido por Lashistorias dinma

Fur Trek: Tribble Troubles

When Capt. Purrk of the furship Kittyprise and his crew respond to a distress signal from Ambassador Barker of the planet Tribbiani, they come face to face with a fleet of Klingoffs! Purrk is urged to protect the Tribbilonians' life-saving grain known as quadrokittycale from the Klingoffs, who want to steal it and sell it to the highest bidder. Will the adorable (but pesky) indigenous creatures known as tribbles be caught in the middle of a war between the Furderation and the Klingoff empire? From Adventures in Purradise.

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Next Generation

Silver Age Live Stage Performance; Series (Parody) — Cambridge MA

Not content with her earthly empire, Great Britain has turned her gaze outward, and Her Majesty's Navy now patrols the vast expanse of the final frontier. But where England goes, so goes her notorious class system, and Chief Security Officer Josephine Corcoran and lowly ensign Ralph Rackstraw find themselves all at sea when they fall madly in love. With Romulans in the neutral zone, restless Klingons itching for a fight, and Josephine's social-climbing father, and captain, determined to marry her off to a pompous admiral, the stakes have never been higher for Gilbert and Sullivan's most famous lass and the sailor she loves.

GoMultiverseLegacy394

The explosion of creativity that was the free version of Go!Animate ended in 2019 when Adobe Flash reached ' End Of Life '. GoMultiverseLegacy394, originally known as FunEditor4, was a GoAnimator from May 5, 2012 to the close of the free channel with over 3,000 videos to his name. His Star Trek related animations are listed here with the earliest date that they are listed on Youtube, which will not be their original date of creation.

Grease Trek

Join the crew of the UFF Frank & Frys -- Manager Cook, Spork, Mopboy and the other loyal members, as they serve beyond the call of duty and save their fast-food universe -- one hungry customer at a time. Intense drama, action-packed fight scenes, and high-cholesterol fun meals make Grease Trek the most unusual Trek adventure of them all! 45 minutes total.

Greek Star Trek

Kirk and Spock share their adventures in the Aegean! A fun satire!

Happy Star Trek Day

Animated parody / music video by Kong Studio

Hi Fidelity Star Trek Quartet

Golden Age Audio; Series (Parody)

Founded in 2002, Hi-Fidelity was a successful 'Barber's Shop Quartet' made up of Tom Moore, Gregg Bernhard, Martin Fredstrom, Craig Ewing and were the 2006 National Harmony Sweepstakes Champions.

Holodeck Follies

Era Not Applicable Live Stage Performance; Series (Parody) — Toronto, Canada

Canada’s longest running improvised Star Trek parody follows the hapless crew of the USS Albatross each month with a new episode complete with audience interaction, plot elements and character developments carrying over from one ‘episode’ to the next for their regular fans!

How 'Bones' Got His Nickname

Great drawn animation from Totally Kewl Toons (TKToons) who has a massive back catalogue of work on other popular media franchises.

I Knew You Were Tribbles

A Star Trek musical parody (filk) of the classic TOS episode, The Trouble With Tribbles to the tune of Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" by Josh Millard on his Youtube channel

If guitar player was a Star Trek / Orville character

Everyone's a critic! A short holodeck parody by Space Expire Audio

It's beginning to look a lot like Starfleet

Silver Age Mashup / Recut; Short Film (Parody)

A mashup of TNG clips with original lyrics put to a very well known tune by Brad Smith!

Jesse Mercury

Short TNG parody skits by Youtube producer, Jesse Mercury, who describes himself as a " SciFi synthpop artist from the year 3000 passing the time until holodecks are invented. " Clever green screen insertions into canon clips.

Jimbo No. 5

Golden Age Audio; Short Film (Parody)

A Mambo No. 5 parody from Captain Jerk. No secret Kirk was a player, what better song sums it up better? Lol.

Jist?, kapitáne! - Yes, Captain

Silver Age Film; Series (Parody) — Czech Republic

Jistě, kapitáne!  je fanouškovský seriál, který míchá vesmírné prostředí s politickou satirou. Námět vzdává hold sitcomu „Jistě, pane ministře“ a dává této britské klasice kabát science-fiction.

Příběh se odehrává v roce 427 NSL (nového solárního letopočtu), tedy ve více než tisíc let vzdálené budoucnosti. Solární Říše, která byla v posledních staletích zárukou míru a porozumění rozmanitých druhů v mléčné dráze, je ve válce s Federací Floranidů z galaxie M36. Pro odražení nájezdníků je třeba udržet křehké spojenectví i s letitými sousedy včetně bojových Aresanů a intrikánských Centuronů. Ale i vnitřní členové Říše, stejně jako dosud neutrální planety se dožadují pozornosti.

Do této nelehké situace vyplouvá hvězdolet Vesmírné Legie H.V.L. Masaryk, diplomatická loď pod velením kapitána Pargimea.

Seriál je příběhově přímým pokračováním projektu Star Trek: Diplomacy. Ten byl produkován v letech 2015 - 2017 a po čtvrté epizodě ukončen v souladu s novými pravidly pro fanprodukci, vydanými majitelem autorských práv.

John C. Worsley

Witty, original Star Trek music videos, filk, made from mash-ups of clips from canon shows by John C. Worsley.

Golden Age Film; Sketch / Commercial (Parody)

Commercial.

KPF In Space

Selling Credit cards from one galaxy to the next one! Animated parody of Star Trek made by James D. Patalon made using Plotagon . 

La-Mo Productions

Golden Age Film; Series (Parody) — RI, USA

La-Mo Productions is a father / daughter collaboration, featuring the dry sense of comic-con humor of Michael Skeldon and the musical performance and production talents of his daughter, Maddie. Michael has released his work with WOPA: The Worst of Public Access TV and Federation Forum, two of Rhode Island's most successful public access shows which aired between 1995-1997.

Land of Rum & Raisins

Golden Age Toys / Puppets / Stop-Motion; Short Film (Parody)

A planet made of great Aunt Martha's fruit cake? Christmas themed, stop motion animation of action figures by Hippohead Films

The boundaries of AI generated film are expanding all the time. These short parodies are from the YouTube channel of Adrian Lazarus, done on Midjourney.

Lego Star Trek: The Next Generation

Silver Age Toys / Puppets / Stop-Motion; Long Film (Parody)

The Crew of the Enterprise is reluctantly forced into a rescue mission to save one of their crew. Elsewhere Ensign Dave tries to muster enough courage to ask out Counselor Troi.

Lifeteen Star Trek Skit '99

Era Not Applicable Film; Short Film (Parody) — Nashua, NH

Religious message in a Star Trek parody

Live at the Improv: "Spock's Brain"

Golden Age Live Stage Performance; Short Film (Parody) — Irvine, CA, USA

Make It So, Media-Go-Go

From the YouTube Channel Media-Go-Go. "This song is a dorky escape hatch for every father who's been subjected to countless screenings of Disney's "Frozen," and countless replays of "Let It Go" in particular. That's right small girl people, I see your "Frozen" and raise you "Star Trek!"

Mark Lenard In a University Mall Star Trek Skit

Golden Age Live Stage Performance; Short Film (Parody)

Youtube user VTActor007 put this video-tape memory online on June 1, 2020, of a skit done with Mark Lenard, saying, "He thought I did a great Shatner :) this was 1991 I think so long ago I can't remember"

Me Every Time I Go To The Bathroom: Star Trek Edition

A parody about... exactly what it says on the label!

Media Messengers Star Trek The Next Generation

Silver Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Michigan, USA

Pandemic family fan film created by Adrian, Brennan, Luke and their dad. "Made in May of 2021. 2020 was a rough year, the Coronavirus lockdowns were long and restrictive. There was also a very contentious and controversial election in the States. I found myself watching old Star Trek The Next Generation episodes while stuck indoors for so long. My kids started watching too! They loved it! The science fiction classic served as a great escape from all the noise from social media and TV news. We had fun making this and I hope you like it too. I know it is NOT perfect nor 100% accurate to the show...give me a break we filmed in my garage with my kids! ENJOY!"

Michael Hübner Star Trek-Fan-Film

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Germany

In diesem Star Trek-Fanfilm von Michael Hübner ist nicht alles so, wie es scheint.

Mountain Dew: Supernova (Finland Exclusive)

Era Not Applicable Film; Short Film (Parody) — USA

A small crew of explorers answer a distress beacon across the emptiness of space. I think this is meant to be a tongue-in-cheek review of a new flavour of Mountain Dew.

My version of Star Trek!

Can Transporters send smells? A parody TikTok by Crazy Chris Comedy

NathanSaturnBO?

This is the new work of the animator formerly known as NathanWin7587 & NathanTDA. Using GoAnimate media, his themes are aimed at an adult audience.

NathanSaturnBOi

Nickel family tng parody.

Released in 2020 by Joel Nickel, "In the 90s my family loved to shoot random footage we'd intended to edit into videos but the technology just wasn't there yet (aside from having a double VCR where you'd sync one tape up and record onto the 2nd one ... :| ... but I we can now! So here's my family's Star Trek: TNG parody."

No Time for Klingons

After a rough mission, the crew of the USS Yeager encounters yet another obstacle separating them from a weekend off. Minimal animation but good script and voice acting makes for a diverting parody

Not Levar Burton

Youtube channel with experimental AI skits by Bob Hawkey

Obligatory Star Trek Parody

A satire of colonialism and the Prime Directive.

One More Bite: An Audio Drama

As a chef struggles to finish his final taco, his good and bad conscience weigh in on the pros and cons of how to proceed.

Golden Age Toys / Puppets / Stop-Motion; Series (Parody) — Switzerland

German / Austrian / Swiss filmmaker Martino Sulmoni's new series about the voyages the Playship Enterprise from the planet Playmobil, searching the toy galaxy for new lines of toys in different scales to try to prevent a war. "Filmmaker, Uberfan, Toy Collector and Bon Vivant @MartinoSulmoni's ... Age: 41 ... Origins: 25% German, 25% Austrian, 50% Swiss, 100% goofy. Languages: italian, german, french, protughese, english. little spanish ... Occupation: Production designer, architect, engineer, teach road and railways construction at grad school, teach film aesthetic at architecture faculty and production design history at film faculty."

Silver Age Animation; Series (Parody) — Russia

An animated parody series re-imagining Star Trek with anthropomorphic ponies - in the style of My Little Pony?

Pop Culture Puppets

Era Not Applicable Toys / Puppets / Stop-Motion; Series (Parody) — USA

Pop Culture Puppets (earlier episodes were called 'Off Trek') present short comedy skits using 'muppet' style puppets

Golden Age Film; Series (Parody) — Saarbrücken, Germany

Anlässlich des 20-jährigen Jubiläums des Klingonischkurs Saarbrücken ("qepHom") wollten wir einen Kurzfilm drehen, der letztendlich dann doch über 40 Minuten dauert. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Klingon course Saarbrücken ("qepHom") we wanted to make a short film, which ended up being over 40 minutes.

Queer New Worlds

Golden Age Film; Series (Parody) — UK

A one-man production by NJ Stephenson-Dickinson, who describe themselves as "The UK's #1 chronically ill, non-binary, bisexual, musically inclined, and slightly Norwegian writer"

Rafantastic Films

Kids having fun making Star Trek fan films

Red Shirts, The Series

Pre-Stone Age Film; Series (Parody)

Silver Age Animation; Long Film (Parody) — UK

Subtitled "Red Dwarf meets Star Trek TNG", Red Trek is a comedy animation by Pete Telfer, released by Gary Matrix, who blogs reviews on films, etc.

Rigel Thurston Music

Era Not Applicable Audio; Short Film (Parody) — USA

"Let's Hang Out on the Holodeck for the Holidays", an original Trekmas carol with a jazzy piano & vocal production, with lyrics that feature characters and scenes from old and new episodes.

RLM Animated: Star Trek the Next Desecration

An animated parody by WeeZacharyP of a parody review by Youtube stars Red Letter Media of a Star Trek: The Next Generaton episode.

Robed Horse

Excellent animation.

Sailor Marj

Era Not Applicable Audio; Series (Parody)

Sailor Marj, Marjorie Muñoz, is a cosplayer with a quite amazing vocal range who sings Star Trek musical parodies (filk) along with other fandom's cabaret.

Salty-Trekker

Occassional vignettes shown on the Salty-Trekker Youtube Channel

Sarai Trek Animono

Animation based on Star Trek dolls and action figures. An offshoot of Sarai Trek

Sarek "Loves" Amanda

A sitcom produced for the upcoming podcast "The Prime-Time Directive", produced by Jessie Reyes. Billed as part 1 so hopefully the start of a new series.

Shatner and I

This was originally a radio play created by Body in the boot productions and although there were no plans at the time to add visuals, it was decided to add them for video sharing platforms. The edits were created using various segments from videos found on Youtube and uploaded for entertainment/educational/parody purposes only.

Short parody videos on the YouTube channel of BirdOPrey5. Monologues performed by the creator over slideshows of stills.

Sketch Worcester

Golden Age Film; Series (Parody) — Worcester, MA

A parody of life in Worcester (obviously not the one in England) by the Sketch Worcester YouTube channel.

SMTV 2099 was a regular parody sketch based on Star Trek on SMTV Live, British Saturday morning children's television programme, which ran for over 270 episodes between 1998 - 2003.

Era Not Applicable Animation; Series (Parody) — Japan

An animation in Japanese with English subtitles created by 'Jollyboy' where Soka senbei, a traditional Japanese snack of rice crackers, and various sweets come alive. Made for adults and children from 2013, it has been re-released twice a week, Monday and Wednesday night on YouTube at 6:00 from February 5, 2020 (^ ^)

Soulz Studios

Flash animations using GoAnimate resources.

Parody by the HumourMe comedy Youtube channel

Space Tracks

Era Not Applicable Toys / Puppets / Stop-Motion; Series (Parody)

Stop motion Action figure animation by Mr Goo TV

Silver Age Animation; Series (Parody)

Hand animated parody of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Golden Age Animation; Series (Parody) — Canada

Spockboy, Canadian Paul Sibbald, has created a number of Star Trek parodies over the years ranging from redubs to animations.

Golden Age Animation; Series (Parody) — Vancouver, BC

Spoof Troupe

This parody channel has done a couple of Star Trek parodies amongst a large body of work.

Staa Trekk - The Wrath of Tron- The movie!

Golden Age Film; Long Film (Parody) — Atlanta

Frank and Gina, along with fellow videographer/content creator, Wayne Sales, worked on this project for 3 months.

Stalled Trek

Golden Age Animation; Series (Parody) — Little Elm, Texas, USA

Impressive Star Trek CGI parody by Kyle Dunnigan an Emmy, Peabody and Writer’s Guild Award winning comedy writer.

Star Burst - Last Contact

Silver Age Film; Long Film (Parody)

A 'lock-down' fan film by Matt Hausmann

A professionally (not) created film from 1975. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll probably vomit. Either way, you'll see the emotional story of the first voyage of the starship Win-a-prize. Led by Captain Woodrow N Cork, the crew of the Win-a-prize ventures into dangerous space. With an anibriated engineer, Mr. Scotch, miraculously, they survive this adventure. Starring Mark Schneider, Doug Max, Jay Brachman, Bob Kaynes, Peter Zaret, Carole Schneider and Amy Horowitz.

Era Not Applicable Film; Series (Parody) — Woodland, Ca USA

Parodies by Woodland TV, channel 21, a YouTube channel that started life as a public access television station based in Woodland Ca providing coverage of government and community events which has now moved it's content online.

Produced for a film camp

A Star Trek machinima parody starring Captain Kurt, Spork, Dr McBoy and Checkon made in Minecraft by Christopher Z and Valor Films.

Era Not Applicable Film; Series (Parody) — USA

A new Star Trek centric channel billed to bring us a lot of fun Star Trek related content, including song parodies, comedy skits, video essays, and more!

Star Spoof Voyager

Also called "Star Trek Voyager Cartoon"

Golden Age Animation; Series (Parody) — Italy

Billed as Star Stret: The Photonovel Adventures, this is best described as a video comic, created by The Dynamic Ten - A Burìì Production from Italy.

From the YouTube channel of Seymore Thighbrain. Star Trechs aka The Fix Team! “If you have a problem, kick it to Fix”

Star Terk II

Golden Age Audio; Series (Parody) — UK

A BBC comedy radio show, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, each episode began with a parody of Star Trek's original series, which would then go on to be interrupted by a series of sketches.

Star Track: The Metric System

Star Trek - PTHS 2017

Silver Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Pemberton, NJ

The faculty and staff of Pemberton Township High School go where no one, no school, has gone before!

Star Trek 11111111111111111111111111111111111111

Parody video? Avant garde film? Made by  Maximus Thor

Parody video? Avant garde film? Made by Maximus Thor

Star Trek 1977

Star trek 2 - the wrath of kahn a puppy parody video.

Late Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody)

K9 Theater present  a dog's eye view retelling of a classic scene

Star Trek 2021

Kirk and the crew get bored and debate the pros and cons of putting their brains into robot bodies. A mashup using video from Star Trek: The Animated Series. The producer, Dusty Rob commented, "I'm just a fan of both who decided to do this little parody on account of the fact that I was bored."

Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan 'Sweded'

Labelled as from 2010 by Brendan Joyce, "Sweded" means that this is a remake of a famous movie that has been reshot by amateurs, unedited, with only a single take per scene in the style of the flim, " Be Kind Rewind " from 2008.

Star Trek 57 Year Mission Las Vegas Convention Promo

This short parody was created by Justin Bonner and released on the SciFiction Youtube channel

Star Trek : When The Bowel Breaks

I've never been sure how to classify this video produced by Darksuperboy! In a way it is the opposite of a 'redub' in that it uses some of the audio from Jim Carrey's comedy skit, 'Star Trek VII: The Really Last Voyage' from 'In Living Color' against video clips from the Star Trek movies with a twist to the ending.

Star Trek Best Practice

Golden Age Animation; Short Film (Parody) — Germany

Hier gibt es kleine und auch größere Cartoons mit Stars aus vergangenen Tagen aber auch von heute. Die Crew des Raumschiff Enterprise macht mit beim Energie-Sparen und gibt ein paar Tipps :)

Star Trek Blackout Sketch: Subspace

Ever wondered why they call it "subspace"? Short bluescreen comedy by Will Haza at Green Robot Studios.

Star Trek Christmas Special - Stop Motion Film

A Star Trek stop-motion film for Christmas from Daniel's Stop Motions

Star Trek Comedy Fan Short Film: The Beam Issue

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Idaho, USA

Two redshirts are about to finish their mission but the transporter seems to be having some complications. A comedy short film saluting to our childhood of watching Star Trek. Filmed in City of Rocks, Idaho by Jake Kuwana

Star Trek Enterprise-D Crash in Minecraft

Silver Age Animation; Short Film (Parody) — Singapore

What would the crash of the Enterprise-D look like in Minecraft with a different captain and a sassy ship's computer? Look no further!

Star Trek Fleet Command

Interesting idea! Game developer  Scopely, Inc. have sponsored CarbotAnimations to do a very good animated parody of the gameplay to promote their game.

Star Trek III - Gimme Your Hand!

An original animation using the audio from the climactic scene in Star Trek III.

Star Trek IT Guy

Silver Age Film; Series (Parody) — USA

Writer/actor/editor, Adam Bergeron gives us his take on tech support onboard Picard's Enterprise.

Star Trek Lost Episode - Should remain Lost

Musician Brian Nicholson has created a small fan film to introduce a new song of his. The starship is party bound and Bones will have none of it.

Star Trek MSU

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Montclair, NJ

The Underprize with Captain Jerk, Dr Decoy and Science Officer Spark beam down to a planet made of alcohol in this fuzzy black & white 'frat house' style parody made at Montclair State University between 1977-1982

Star Trek Musical Number

Golden Age Film; Long Film (Parody) — USA

Video of a musical number from a church parody of Star Trek in 2008 from The Church of the Rock

Star Trek no longer on Netflix

Era Not Applicable Audio; Short Film (Parody) — Germany

Satire filk highlighting the frustration of fans regarding the changes in streaming Star Trek by Performed by Daniel & Vanessa on ScifinewsDE

Star Trek OMC!

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Scotland

A parody skit in Scottish Gaelic with English subtitles on BBC Alba, a free-to-air public broadcast television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba.

Star Trek OOC

Star Trek OOC (meaning Out Of Context) is a parody skit series using the awesomely kooky situations in Start Trek, and making them even more kooky. Star Trek is an amazing series, and this hopefully adds to the fun of enjoying such an amazing show. It is meant to comment on how often ridiculous situations come up in the series without us usually thinking about it, and how those situations can be even more crazy! WEEEEEE!

Star Trek Pi Trailer (2009)

Produced by Douglas & Shannon Atwill, this video from 2009 is on the YouTube channel of Michael Barnett, who played Cpt Kirk.

Star Trek Radio Theatre

Era Not Applicable Audio; Series (Parody) — Canada

Live Long and Podcast have fun reenacting their favorite shows as a live stream event on Youtube on a weekly basis. With occassional artistic reinterpretations of the original, some may not sound exactly as you remember them but everything is done with the utmost fan appreciation. 

Star Trek SFeraKon - Gagh

Silver Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Croatia

Food fight! A promo video made for sferakonzagreb, a science fiction convention that takes place in Zagreb, Croatia every year at the end of April.

Star Trek Skit_2

Part parody, part Christian message of hope in a short Star Trek fan film from "Joe"

Star Trek Spoof

When toys attack!

Star Trek Stunt Doubles

A long-running series of parodies of The Original Series done with some quite excellent greenscreen by filmmaker, MrBonk85. The music is credited to the original composers, some of the sounds are from TrekCore and the 3D model mesh of the ship was created by Vektor.

Star Trek Technical Difficulties

Golden Age Live Stage Performance; Sketch / Commercial (Parody) — Los Angeles CA.

Ever noticed how there are so few of the annoying technical glitches we have today on Star Trek? The Enterprise must have a truly amazing IT department!

Star Trek The Next Generation Animation

Jean Luc Picard is the hero and don't you forget it.

Star Trek The Next Generation Tesch Brother Skit

Silver Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — USA

A fan film acted out by three brothers in 1995.

Star Trek The Skipped Generation

Heavily mashed up parodies on the 'Farce Clips' Youtube channel.

Star Trek to Bethlehem

Golden Age Film; Long Film (Parody) — Santa Cruz, CA

A Star Trek nativity play at West Side Chapel.

Star Trek VII: The Really Last Voyage

Golden Age Film; Long Film (Parody)

Parody on StarTrek TOS on In Living Color from the 90's. With Jim Carrey as Captain Kirk

Star Trek: Adventure

The tales of the USS Adventure were largely 'log entry' style narrations over CGI with some highly creative non-canon aliens by Bob Fischer between Oct 2020 to Jan 2022. He is now creating live action videos  

Star Trek: Alpha Strike

Golden Age Film; Series (Parody) — Lexington, KY

Goatboy Films have produced Star Trek fan films based upon the idea that Gene Roddenberry's 1964 pilot for Star Trek, 'The Cage' is still the apex of Star Trek.

Filmed in glorious black and white (the majority of tv sets in America were in black and white in 1964) and using cost effective special effects, these strange and weird adventures are bare knuckles sci fi excitement!"

Star Trek: Attack of Bradosaur

This is one of those entries where it is a real challenge to classify the creative media but I think "baked goods puppetry" might fit the bill for this whimsical short by Edi-Oh: Child of Dysfunction

Star Trek: Calypso

Star trek: clyde.

The Klingons are back and Kirk has to send for his elite force! A comedy parody by TD Riggs as part of his 'Big City of Imagination' series of videos.

Star Trek: Even LOWER Decks!

A fan's answer to Lower Decks, an original animation by WHYFU. Join Ensigns Newport, D'jarum, Winston, and Chesterfield as they learn just how low these decks can go! An animated homage to TNG era Star Trek.

Star Trek: Gorn Fight

Live action pastiche on the classic TOS episode. 'The quality of mercy is not strained...'

Star Trek: Modulator

A Borg Drone, recently liberated from The Collective, joins the ranks of Starfleet! Medical personnel have done their best to restore his body, however some compromises had to be made, and he voices every concern through the dry, mechanical tones of a text-to-speech synthesizer.

Star Trek: Ronnie Redshirt

A Redshirt gets stuck in our time.

Star Trek: The Farm Generation

Parody of Star Trek: The Next Generatiion by FarmBBC.

Star Trek: The Last Generation

An excellent animation by Robed Horse of Kirk inspiring one of the crew!

Star Trek: The Next Education

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — USA

An amusing video made for a school science project by ZetaPrime 77

Star Trek: The Next Generation as vines but I animated them

Amusing, short animated clips using audio from an American social networking short-form video hosting service called 'Vine' which appeared and disappeared in 2012.

Star Trek: The Real McCoy

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Franklin Square, New York, NY

A Star Trek Comedy starring brothers George & William Kayaian and Harold McLaughlin. While the crew vacations on Earth, Captain Kirk remains on his ship to enjoy a little alone time. But when Spock shows up along with a drunken McCoy, Kirk's problems are just beginning! This is the definitive Director's Cut featuring never before seen moments. From the George Kayaian archives. This short was entered into America's Funniest People show back in 1992 for a contest featuring Trek-related videos!

Star Trek: The Tub Generation

A Flash animation remixing clips from Star Trek the Next Generation. Animation by Shmorky, or Picky Picardo as he called himself on this one.

Star Trek: The Wrath of Neener

Subtitled, "An 11-year-old's Star Trek Fan Film Opus", this is a collaboration of Keith Varney and his younger brother from roughly 1992 just having some fun with Star Trek!

Golden Age Film; Series (Parody) — Germany

Die YouTube-Butze von Zukunftia, dem ernsthaften Medien-Magazin zu Film und Serie.

Star Trek fan film of indeterminate age uploaded by Eric Keller. "We always hear about the best. This is about the worst." An adventure of the USS Derelict NCC 170

Stop action clay animation

Golden Age Toys / Puppets / Stop-Motion; Series (Parody) — France

Les Minikeums était une émission de télévision française pour les jeunes diffusée sur France 3 du 31 mars 1993 au 31 mars 2002. Pendant cette période, nombre de leurs sketches étaient des parodies de Star Trek intitulées «Starkeum».

Youtube channels: Minikeums-TV (2015-2018) Cinékeum des Minikeums (12 Jun 2020-2021).  Wikipedia française . Articles en anglais: The Lost Media Wiki , TV Tropes

Starship Chimera

Thirteen years in the making, this ambitious fan film is a love letter to trekkies everywhere and to the era of Next Gen to DS9 and Voyager. Cards and Kat outdid themselves with this go motion space opera parody set in the Star Trek universe, albeit not the official one. Uses action figures, the creator has done his own voice acting, props and music.

Starship Edsel

Silver Age Live Stage Performance; Series (Parody) — Chicago

Starship Edsel is a Star Trek inspired farce set aboard the Federation Starship Edsel towards in the early 25th century. It is based upon a LARP written and developed by Brandon Brylawski, who is also a producer and head writer on this show.

​The Edsel is a cruiser, Edsel class (the only one), largely regarded as a failure in ship design. Somehow, serious flaws in architecture and engineering were not caught until the prototype ship was completed. From its launch, it has been plagued with mechanical and operational problems that have played havoc with its fitness and combat-readiness, to the point where it became the butt of jokes throughout Starfleet.

 Soon it had become a dumping ground for personnel who were considered too disruptive or incompetent for front-line service, but who had not done anything sufficiently egregious to warrant being discharged. Eventually, Starfleet Command sent down an order to retire the embarrassing vessel, to the relief of all involved. But it was not to be. At the last moment, the Federation Council countermanded the directive: a political use had been found for the vessel. The Edsel's new continuing mission:

To stay in permanent parking orbit around the vacation planet of Atlantis

To deal with vapid and overbearing VIPs

To boldly give tours of an "Authentic Federation Starship"!

Starship Pudnutter

Parody animations by the animator behind the animated web cartoons that were started in 2006 on a Godzilla and Toho Studios fansite called Toho Kingdom and through a complex history has ended up as the Youtube channel, "Totally Kewl Toons (TKToons)".

Stormtrooper vs. Redshirt

A stop motion comedy sketch by Struts Studios

Teleconferência

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Brazil

There's nothing worse than when you have an important conference call and you can't get a good signal! What if that happened during an important videoconference between Kirk and his Klingon counterpart? This is a Portuguese language film with English subtitles.

The Adventures of the USS Parkview

The crew of the U.S.S. Parkview are on a daring mission to rescue a well-known character who is critical to the well-being of the Federation.

The Bridge Crüe

Youtube videos, ranging from skits and standup comedy to filk by "The Bridge Crüe", a live performance, Star Trek themed group.

The Captain & Commander Take on an Unknown Enemy

It's good to see Star Trek fans starting out young!

The Covid Conundrum

The crew of the USS Lollipop is about to beam down to enjoy the holiday when Starfleet bans all transport to earth for... the covid lockdown... what to do? Have Christmas on board of course! This was obviously shot during Covid, probably October 2021, by RB's Toy Box a YouTube channeller who does videos of, you guessed it, toys! " I wanted one last hoorah with my kids so I rented The Neutral Zone for the day and had the first EVER Christmas party and a starship"

The Doomsday Machine Demastered

Golden Age Toys / Puppets / Stop-Motion; Long Film (Parody) — East Glacier Park, MT, USA

The result of a "Lazy summer in East Glacier. In an RV. But great wi-fi connection. Add too much time on hands, an old ST book and handheld Vivitar... a demonstration of how to save on production costs for an already-low budget". Paper cutout puppetry in real time.

The Engineering Chronicles

Silver Age Audio; Series (Parody) — Cerritos, CA

The Engineering Chronicles are the silly ongoing adventures of various Engineering Departments of ships within the Star Trek: The Fleet fan club. Short Star Trek-themed audio adventures, just a few minutes in length each from HoloNetAudio, the audio work of Joe Mignano. Fun, funny, and full of fandom.

The Hobbynator

Bronze Age Animation; Series (Parody) — Germany

Ein privater Visual-Effects-Künstler und absoluter Star-Trek-Fanatiker, der hier aus Liebe zu Gene Roddenberrys Universum Star-Trek-FAN-Filme veröffentlicht. Seine Uploads über Star Trek, Star Wars und Doctor Who kommen zwar in unregelmäßigen Abständen, aber sie kommen direkt aus dem Herzen.

The Improvised Generation

Golden Age Film; Series (Parody) — Los Angeles CA.

Venture with the USS McGinley and its crew as they explore strange new worlds and boldly go where no one has gone before... through improv! The Improvised Generation is a completely improvised full length show based on the popular series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Live performances are at the Impro Studio, home of the Impro Theatre Company

On Oct 9, 2020 they made an announcement on their Youtube channel that they would be continuing as "The Improvised Generation: Onscreen". As of Saturday October 10th they would live stream at Twitch.tv/Outpost13 at 2pm Pacific time. "The show runs weekly on Saturdays through early December. Go to Twitch.tv/Outpost13 to follow (free, access to live show) and subscribe ($5 a month, access to VODs and live show, plus other shows). LLAP!"

The Intergalactic Time Squadron

Era Not Applicable Film; Short Film (Parody) — UK

Breaking the fourth wall ...literally!

The Laughing Academy Star Trek Sketch

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Novato, CA

From The Laughing Academy Youtube channel, originally uploaded in low-res but now reuploaded in higher resolution.

"A sketch made for my high school film class in Marin School of the Arts, October 2003, as part of a variety show special we put together (titled Or-Durves), where the class broke into groups that each make a different segment. This was originally planned as a particularly ambitious Laughing Academy sketch in early 2001. Finally in fall 2003, we managed to pull it off. Teacher: Laurel Ladevich. Student Filmmakers: Alex Brouillet, Beth Diesch with David Albert (camera), Chad Janusch (sfx), Alex Scioli (prod.) starring Alex Brouillet as Kirk and Scotty, Sean Conwell as Spock, Corey Powers as 'Bones' McCoy, Dennis Brouillet as Scul, Joe Brown as Ensign Expendable, Beth Diesch as Christine Chappell."

The Lost Episode of Star Trek

Golden Age Mashup / Recut; Long Film (Parody)

"In anticipation of the upcoming show, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, CBS has decided to release a never-before-seen, unaired episode of Star Trek: The Original Series." Well, actually, no they haven't. However someone who styles themselves as @capybaramaster1876 has gone to great pains to create a surreal mashup of original footage that might have been such an episode ...if David Lynch had directed a Star Trek satire.

The Most Incompetent Star Trek Crew Ever

A Star Trek parody made with Ebsynth a new AI program that turns live video into animation

The Prime Directive

Warp 11 was initially spawned as an idea for a weekly Internet TV show we were doing back in 99 called the Prime Directive. The show was a half an hour long and the band was created to fill about 4 minutes of said show each week. We also did things like Trek news, Trek haiku, Trek commercials and the intros to fake Trek TV shows

The Two Ronnies Star Trek Sketch

The uss new york: lost in space.

Golden Age Animation; Series (Parody) — New York, NY, USA

The USS New York (NCC 1709) has been flung to the far side of the universe, and it will take at least 8 weeks for the crew to get back to Earth. A Star Trek fanfiction cartoon telling new stories with new actors in the Trek-verse! A mashup of Star Trek, The Animated Series and other video.

The Wavelength

Originally a parody series titled, "Star Trek Off Duty" - Even the off duty time of officers on the NCC-1701-D is pretty exciting! This occassional series merging original green screen shots onto TNG footage by 'The Wavelength' Youtube channel is branching out into some seriously exciting action comedy drama.

The Wrath of Farrakhan

Parody on StarTrek TOS from In Living Color from the 90's. With Jim Carrey as Captain Kirk

Thirty Minutes Worth, Star Trek Sketch

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — UK

A Star Trek sketch featuring British comedian Harry Worth from 1972 on his TV Series, "Thirty Minutes Worth".

TMI Ginger Beer Fueling Star Trek Success

Our future fan film makers at work! I particularly like the look on the kid's face when he finally mastered the Vulcan salute!

Bronze Age Audio; Short Film (Parody) — Canada

A filk or parody song which is a reaction to Season one of Star Trek Picard by Canadian musician artist and sketch comedian, Steve Mah on his Youtube Channel 'NegatingSilence'

To Boldly go where no Jerk has gone before!

Tost the original space thang.

Like Star Trek Sort of - for kids. Script-Free Entertainment presents.... For my kids when they were young... 5 years ago (therefore created in 2015) I was really really tired, and someone had given me these dolls...so naturally... I made TOST

Trek Or Treat

Written, edited, and directed by Jason Salazar.

Trek Sketches

Comedy from Andy Bray who, according to his bio, "was propelled into fan film stardom through his role as Chekov, first in the Paramount Pictures stage production of “Spock’s Brain” and, secondly, as a co-star to Walter Koenig, George Takei, and Denise Crosby in three episodes of Star Trek: New Voyages"

Trek Yourself! A Star Trek prequel cartoon

Teen / college humour animation - Star Trek Into Darkness crossed with Animal House - by Dan Meth

Trekkie Bricks

Short stop-motion Brick films animated with juvenile themes.

Trekking among the stars

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Sweden

Timothy Krik and his crew bravely explores the galaxy in the Starship Enterprise, a Swedish Star Trek parody from Nordberg Entertainment.

Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda

Golden Age Film; Short Film (Parody) — Turkey

Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda, literally translated as "Tourist Ömer is on Space Road" (ie Star Trek), sometimes called simply 'Turkish Star Trek', is one of a number of comedy films about a character, 'Tourist Omer', who is a Turkish hobo. In this one he is picked up by the Enterprise!

"The spaceship Enterprise under the command of Captain Kirk is on its new mission. They must receive the reports from Professor Crater, who lives alone with his wife on the planet Orin 7. Mister Spak lands on the planet with a crew. However, one of the crew dies unexpectedly. The doctor had difficulty determining the cause of death. The killer is the professor's wife, Nancy. To save him, the Professor decides to lure an ancient creature to the planet with a time machine. Tourist Ömer is about to be married to a woman he did not know at that time. During the wedding ceremony, the machine pulls Ömer to Orin 7. Tourist Ömer thinks he is saved. However, the adventure has just begun."

USS Falcon Crest

Era Not Applicable Film; Series (Parody) — Cerritos, CA

The USS Falcon Crest is a fan club within the Star Trek: The Fleet . Following on from their audio dramas,  The Engineering Chronicles  and  Star Trek Fanfiction, these are video sketches made by their members.

USS Improvise

Silver Age Live Stage Performance; Series (Parody) — Portland, Or

Improv theatre from The Funhouse Lounge, Portland, Oregon.

Star Trek themed parodies, a spin-off from his Star Trek Stunt Doubles series, based around the concept of "Men Going Their Own Way". (MGTOW) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Going_Their_Own_Way .

VRE Entertainment

Single voice, slideshow audiobooks, mostly parodies, described as fan-made episodes on the VRE Entertainment Youtube channel

Witness To The Darkness

Golden Age Toys / Puppets / Stop-Motion; Short Film (Parody) — Canada

A christian Star Trek parody by Highland Impact Puppets. The starship Eternal Life has been given a mission to witness and bring salvation to planet darkness.

Woffle Studio

Stone Age Animation; Series (Parody) — USA

High quality animation of skits played out on the NX-01 Enterprise

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STAR REKT takes MUSIC PARODY videos to the final frontier! (video interview with IAN RAMSEY)

I first discovered STAR REKT back in 2021 when someone posted to Facebook a link to a Star Trek -themed music video parodying the 1975 song by The Four Seasons , “ December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) .” But instead of “Night,” the lyric was changed to “Fight” and melodically recounted Kirk’s battle with the Gorn following the attack on Cestus III in the 1967 TOS episode “Arena.”

Now, I’d seen a whole bunch of Star Trek music videos over the years…many of them simply montages of edited clips from episodes and movies played over pop songs. ( I even made one myself back in 2002 from Trek home recordings off of VHS tapes!) I’ve also watched a wide variety of Trek music PARODY videos, usually when someone writes new lyrics to an existing song. This playlist from YouTube shows a good selection of what’s out there. What you’ll notice is that these parody videos are usually either edited clips from Trek episodes/movies OR fans doing cosplay singing (or lip synching) to their own song in a series of cuts.

But what struck me about Star Rekt is that this fellow recorded himself in costume in front of a green screen and intercut those shots with clips from TOS (and eventually other TV series and movies) to create a “hybrid” of sorts. This fresh approach really stood out for me—along with his great parody lyrics, good singing, and the quality of the video editing. Take a look first at “Oh, What a Fight…”

By the time I’d found out about this guy and his videos during the summer, he’d already posted two others. The first was “I Kissed a Borg” (based on “I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry)…

The other was “Trill All the Klingons Want” (parodying””Girl All the Bad Guys Want” by Bowling For Soup)…

Three awesome parody music videos in four months? This funny guy was SERIOUS! And he had already covered TOS, TNG , and DS9 . What else would he come up with? I immediately subscribed to his channel and eagerly waited for his next offering. It came three months later, and we were back to TNG with a dash of DS9 and Voyager thrown in. How did he cover all three? Well, they all have a Holocek (or Holosuite), and thus we were treated to a parody of the song “Photograph” by Nickelback…

At the time I’m writing this blog, Star Rekt has now released NINE parody music videos in total. If you want to see the rest, check out this playlist for parodies that spotlight some of the Star Trek features as well as the Enterprise TV series. This guy also did an off-the-wall video of himself mixing Star Trek -themed drinks and doing trivia for an hour while getting progressively plastered. It’s worth checking out.

Anyway, I tracked down “Star Rekt” and discovered his real name is IAN RAMSEY, and he does everything from here…

Let’s find out more…

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4 thoughts on “STAR REKT takes MUSIC PARODY videos to the final frontier! (video interview with IAN RAMSEY)”

Awesome stuff! I’m a HUGE FAN of Parodies! Ever since weird Al Yankovic. Appreciate the warning about Randy though! But, for you Jonathan, here’s one of my favorites, a “libertarian” who does all the acting & singing. Very similar to these videos by Ian Ramsey. Here’s a link to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL02D02B9A144182DB Watching the interview now, yes, I can type at the same time, isn’t tech great?

Well, even though I disagree with nearly everything Remy sings and libertarians scare the crap out of me, I will definitely admit that he’s a talented singer and video producer. I just watched his latest five videos (back through the “It’s Magic” one). Now it’s your turn to watch some Randy Rainbow, DL! 🙂

Ok Jonathan, challenge accepted, but, I’ll watch tomorrow. Thanks for taking a look.

I’m guessing you’ll cringe just as much as I did at your guy…but maybe not. 🙂

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1987: star trekkin' across the universe - on the starship enterprise under captain kirk....

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Good one..always fun to quote or sing in the pub or in the car...:))

It was a very happy summer... I met my life partner in 1987! :)

"It's worse than that it's horse, Jim!"

Updated lyrics for 2013! Well done!

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Was it simply "The Greed Decade" as many like to claim? I think not - the '80s saw the emergence of yuppies, but also Red Wedge, the Greenham Common Peace Women , and increasing concern for the environment. It may be convenient to scapegoat the '80s as the cause of all known ills, but the reality of the decade was far different - absolute bedlam, as Right fought Left, idealism fought corporate ambition. The election of Ronald Reagan as American President in 1980, and his second victory in 1984, had a far more decisive effect on the international political landscape than the three successive general election victories of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979, 1983 and 1987.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Musical Episode Songs, Ranked

Star trek: strange new worlds ' musical episode songs, ranked, strange new worlds ' "subspace rhapsody" delivered the star trek , but how did its musical numbers fare here's our definitive ranking..

Strange New Worlds ’ musical episode dropped this week , giving us a wonderful, all-singing all-dancing hour of Star Trek . But now that we’ve had a chance to give the Enterprise crew’s showtunes a few repeat listens , we’re ready to declare which hit the high notes and which should’ve been left on the cutting room floor.

Of course, as we’re going to discuss the songs and their context in the episode, if you’ve not yet seen “Subspace Rhapsody” consider this your final curtain call...

10) “Connect to Your Truth”

Una and Lieutenant Kirk are a fascinating pairing for a musical number, but this song is maybe the only real duff note in the whole episode, unfortunately. It’s just a bit too... twee, which is awkward for two characters who are anything but twee. Oddly, it’s a song that feels more about being in a musical in a fake way, rather than the actual songs in the soundtrack about being in a musical.

9) “Keeping Secrets”

Giving La’an and Una a song together makes a ton of sense—they’re consistently one of the more explored relationships on the show, and putting it through Una’s perspective lets her reflect on her own journey this season that puts a warm lens on her connection to La’an. It’s just a little sedate for a song that’s meant to be imploring people to trust each other and not be so guarded, never quite getting to the moment it wants to build to as an emotional release.

8) “Private Conversation”

The real shame here is that this doesn’t go on longer—there’s a great little tit-for-tat in the vibe here between Anson Mount and Melanie Scrofano. It just gets cut off as it’s getting really good, and it’s such a shame... even though Captain Pike appreciates the save.

7) “ Strange New Worlds Main Theme (Subspace Rhapsody Version) ”

Maybe it’s cheating to put the title theme on here, but hey, they did a special a capella version, so it is technically it’s a new song for the episode! And it’s very good, mostly because the Strange New Worlds theme is already very good.

6) “I’m the X”

Giving Spock a reserved, almost mournful rumination on his relationship with Chapel falling apart is a great idea, especially as this is arguably the turning point in the character’s arc towards the one we know in the original Trek . But it’s also a very Spock song—starting off almost clipped and reserved before he gets to really ba re his heart and sing, no longer able to hold his emotions in. The few equation puns in the lyrics are just icing on the cake.

5) “Keep Us Connected”

Celia Rose Gooding is a remarkable vocalist, and they get to really belt out some notes in Uhura’s reflective solo piece about her role as the glue that keeps the Enterprise crew together being their comms officer. Also maybe the first and only time someone in Star Trek is going to sing about their entire family violently exploding in a shuttlecraft accident, and that’s kind of amazing.

4) “I’m Ready”

I would say most of the songs in “Subspace Rhapsody” are great, but Nurse Chapel’s lounge number about realizing she’s willing to put aside her feelings for Spock to pursue her career dreams is where the episode really clicked into place for me. Some great choreography, a great performance by Jess Bush—the moment she sings “If I need to leave you/I won’t fight it” and realizes what she’s just said to Spock is a great little character beat. This one’s got the drama in ways few of the other tracks do.

3) “How Would That Feel”

Christina Chong alongside Gooding is the other really strong vocalist of the cast, and that’s on full display here in this power ballad/I want song. It’s perfect for La’an, this steady build up as she breaks her own walls down to yearn for what she could be if she opened herself to others. And how much she wants to sleep with Jim Kirk, of course.

2) “Status Report”

The first proper song of the episode is one of its best because it’s the only song that actually plays with Star Trek logic and language on the whole soundtrack—pretty much all of the other tracks are emotional, character-driven songs. It’s such a clever way of watching the premise of the episode wrap itself around the characters, as they try to do what any good Star Trek character would do in this situation: investigate and analyz e.

And those harmonies at the end? Mwah . Wonderful.

1) “We Are One”

It’s almost unfair to put anything else—the triumphant ensemble piece is the joyous climax of “Subspace Rhapsody” and everyone gets a little moment to shine, as Uhura guides her chorus to freedom. It’s got a little bit of everything, some nice harmonies, a good chance for everyone to get a moment of their own, and some great jokes, especially for Spock getting increasingly grumpy.

Plus, I’m sorry: if you don’t like the boy band Klingon interlude, I don’t know what to tell you. I was right there with Sam Kirk bobbing my head.

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10 best star trek parodies all fans should watch.

Star Trek has been a cultural institution for 57 years, spawning Muppet spoofs, bad impressions, cartoon caricatures, and pitch-perfect parodies.

• Star Trek: Lower Decks is the greatest and most affectionate parody of the franchise, but its official canon status sets it apart from other spoofs.
• Various TV shows and sketches, like Chewin' The Fat, The Muppet Show, and The Adam & Joe Show, have successfully parodied Star Trek with humor and deep-cut references.
• Other parodies, such as Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek and Black Mirror's USS Callister, offer unique and sometimes dark takes on Star Trek, pushing the boundaries of the franchise.

Star Trek has been a cultural institution for nearly 60 years, and its place in the popular imagination has spawned all manner of spoofs and parodies. Arguably Star Trek: Lower Decks is the greatest parody of all time, given how it perfectly, and affectionately, sends up the entire franchise. However, its official placing within the Star Trek canon means that it wouldn't be fair to place it alongside the countless comedy sketches, movies and sitcoms that have sent up the show over the past 57 years.

There's a long history of William Shatner impressions of varying quality, with the most notable being Jim Carrey's from In Living Color . While the jokes in those sketches, such as "The Wrath of Farrakhan" haven't aged brilliantly, Carrey's impression is certainly worth checking out. Some Star Trek parodies have gone on to spawn a life of their own, with full series orders, merchandise, and a fiercely dedicated fanbase all of their own. Meanwhile, other parodies have said all they have to say about Star Trek in 5 gag-filled minutes, and move on to their next target.

9 Chewin' The Fat - Taysiders In Space

The casting of Martin Quinn means that Star Trek : Strange New Worlds' Scotty is now Scottish , after decades of being played by a Canadian and an Englishman. BBC Scotland comedy sketch show Chewin' The Fat depicted a whole crew of Scottish Starfleet officers in the memorable sketch, "Taysiders in Space". Based on the premise that Starfleet Academy opened up a new campus in Carnoustie in Scotland, the sketch depicts the first batch of recruits setting out across the universe, with their phasers set to " malky " - that's kill in Scottish. It's a bracingly Earthy take on Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek vision with some big laughs.

8 The Muppet Show - Pigs In Space

Pigs in Space has been a stalwart of The Muppet Show since season 2, and while it has sent up all manner of sci-fi movies and TV shows, Miss Piggy's starship is called the Swinetrek, directly linking it to Star Trek . Not only that, but the character of Captain Link Hogthrob is very clearly based on William Shatner's Captain Kirk and just like Star Trek , it spawned numerous spinoffs. In the 1990s, ABC revived The Muppet Show as Muppets Tonight , which ran between 1996 and 1998. Pigs in Space was also updated in the revival, with the subtitle Deep Dish Nine and the character of Captain Pighead to better reflect 90s Star Trek .

7 The Adam & Joe Show - Stuffed Trek: The Toy Generation

The Adam & Joe Show was a cult TV comedy magazine show that was famous for spoofing popular movies and TV shows with toys long before Robot Chicken . In their sketch "Stuffed Trek: The Toy Generation", Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish sent up Star Trek: The Next Generation with some fairly deep-cut references. The mention of " more terrible movies " and irritation at Lt. Commander Da-Toy's newfound sense of humor say it all about Adam and Joe's opinions on Star Trek Generations . Interestingly, decades later and with successful feature films under his belt, Joe Cornish was approached to direct Star Trek Beyond , but he turned it down.

6 Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek

Turkish cinema is notorious for its copyright-skirting parodies of Western IPs, and not even Star Trek could escape this treatment. Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek is, like the title suggests, a film that places the titular Turkish comedy character into an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series . More specifically, "The Man Trap", complete with Salt Vampire and seductive apparitions. Watching it does feel like experiencing a feverish mashup of TOS season 1, but it's never boring. The Turkish Star Trek parody is also a charming buddy comedy between Ömer and Mr. Spack, and there's been nothing quite like it before or since.

5 Black Mirror - USS Callister

"USS Callister", Charlie Brooker's pitch-perfect parody of Star Trek: The Original Series had a predictably dark edge. As a Star Trek parody it worked on multiple levels, from the recognizable tropes to the much deeper critiques of its sexual politics. It's also a smart and thought-provoking take on Star Trek 's holodeck technology and the rights of those whose images are stored inside. The characters that Robert Daly (Jesse Plemmons) interacts with inside his simulation are avatars for his co-workers, who retain the memories of the cruelty he metes out to them. Star Trek has yet to fully interrogate the ethics of its holodeck technology in such a complex and engaging way, making this a must-watch episode for fans.

4 Animaniacs - Star Truck

Animaniacs' parody of Star Trek is an absolute riot as the Warner Brothers (and sister) cause chaos aboard the starship from their favorite TV show. It's full of copyright skirting names like Mr. Squat and Captain Kork, alongside typically meta-references such as a nod to " Ricardo Montalban and his plastic chest ." There's also a hilariously blunt joke about the classic Star Trek: The Original Series episode "City on the Edge of Forever". The parody featured some incredible impressions of William Shatner, DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy by Maurice LaMarche that perfectly capture each of their iconic Star Trek roles.

3 Seth McFarlane's The Orville

The Orville 's reputation as a Star Trek parody initially hampered its ability to be taken seriously as a sci-fi show in its own right. There are strong Star Trek links to The Orville from guest appearances by notable stars, and creative input from 90s Trek legends Brannon Braga, Jonathan Frakes, and Robert Duncan McNeill behind the scenes. Seth McFarlane has a deep love of Star Trek and that really shines through in some of the affectionate jibes at tired old Trek tropes. However, The Orville is more rewarding than a mere parody because it recaptured the feel of the episodic, planet-of-the-week style Star Trek long before the debut of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in 2022.

2 Futurama - Where No Fan Has Gone Before

Both Matt Groening's beloved animated series The Simpsons and Futurama have featured various nods to Star Trek over the years, but "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" is the peak. In the episode, the Planet Express crew discovers the original Star Trek actors alive and well on the planet Omega 3, where they've been resurrected by alien superfan Mellvar. Reuniting the majority of the living Star Trek: The Original Series Cast - minus James Doohan - it was an episode packed full of references and big laughs. From Philip J Fry (Billy West) in Captain Pike's bleep-bleep chair to the killer final line delivered by William Shatner, it's an absolute hoot.

1 Galaxy Quest

While Futurama may have had the benefit of the involvement of the original cast, Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek parody . The beloved sci-fi movie, which has spawned its own dedicated fanbase, was released in 1999. Effectively putting a Star Trek spin on the Steve Martin movie The Three Amigos, it sent the cast of a popular sci-fi show into space to defend a planet from an alien warlord. It's full of acutely observed jokes about conventions and fans, and it's steeped in various well-worn Star Trek tropes. Tim Allen is perfectly cast as the William Shatneresque character while Alan Rickman's snobbish actor is archly funny. It's the funniest Star Trek parody of all time, but Galaxy Quest is also a joyous homage to the show and its hugely positive impact on fans.

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Infinite Jests in Infinite Combinations: Looking Back at Star Trek Parodies

We all know about SNL and "USS Callister," but did you know about the less famous 'Trek' parodies criss-cross the quadrant as well?

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Star Trek parodies are almost as old as Trek itself and in all of its many iterations, the show has made easy fodder for standups and sketch shows. Spoofs like the Saturday Night Live sketches with John Belushi as Captain Kirk and William Shatner himself insisting fans “get a life!” are part of the cultural firmament, and new takes like Black Mirror ’s “ USS Callister ” give the tropes a 21st century spin.

But the well of Trek parody goes far deeper than those better-known examples, and as you’ll see below there are obscure, awkward and just plain weird takes on the U.S.S. Enterprise stretching across the decades.

In Living Color - “The Wrath of Farrakhan”

From the 1970s to the 90s a Star Trek parody was de rigeur for a sketch show, and In Living Color is no exception. “The Wrath of Farrakhan” was one of the first sketches made for the show, and the show's adept take on race is shown with Jim Carrey’s portrayal of a hapless Captain Kirk who doesn’t know what to do with himself once he gets knocked off his captain’s chair by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. It hasn’t aged perfectly (Sulu’s sexual desperation is tin-eared in 2019, and Louis Farrakahn is a complicated figure)  but the sketch is worth it just to see Uhura go off on Kirk and Spock point out that, despite being the most qualified person on the bridge, somehow Spock is only second in command.

Duckman - “Where No Duckman Has Gone Before”

The irreverent animated seiries Duckman was great when it first aired in the early 1990s. Jason Alexander has an effortless charm as the acerbic title character, Greggory Berger is perfect as Duckman’s deadpan foil Cornfed Pig, and the show’s view of modern society as a baffling fail-train still rings true decades later. Duckman’s empty swagger works perfectly for an ersatz, fourth-wall-breaking Kirk, Cornfed is a great Spock, and the choice of Gilbert Gottfried as a loudly unhinged not-McCoy is inspired. Plus there’s Fluffy and Uranus as redshirts, Tim Curry as Khan Chicken, a Marina Sirtis voice cameo and the immortal line “of all the soles I’ve tasted, his had the most..cumin.” It even ends with a live-action Leonard Nimoy cameo! Which leads us to...

The Carol Burnett Show - Mr. Spock’s Surprise Visit

Everything leading up to the reveal of Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock serves to remind us what a gift Carol Burnett was to comedy, hamming it up with an invisible baby and selling it for every second of the sketch. It was, perhaps, one of the best sendups of the name-sharing Mr. Spock and contemporaneous baby expert Dr. Spock we've seen to this day.

Spitting Image

North America didn’t have a monopoly on Trek parodies. In the 1980s Spitting Image skewered British politicians and celebrities, including a peek into the neuroses of “Leo-Nard Neemoy,” as they call him in the clip.

Like most good ideas on UK television, there was soon a short-lived American version. The American version of Spitting Image produced a spoof called “The 1987 American Movie Awards” where an ersatz Oscars show hosted by David Frost is hijacked by Leonard Nimoy and a passel of also-ran actors indignant they weren’t included in the festivities. Despite its age, it’s still quite funny, though considerably less biting than its British predecessor. “Nimoy” also looks great sporting a Starfleet regulation smoking jacket.

The Care Bears - Various Episodes

No-one should be surprised the Care Bears spoofed Star Trek; by this point Trek was a known pop culture phenomenon and was low-hanging fruit for TV writers on every rung of the career ladder. But what is surprising is that they milked the concept in almost a dozen saccharine-filled toyetic segments without getting sued. If you can get through this playlist, you’re a better person than I, or at least have a higher pain tolerance.

SCTV - “Check Please”

It’s only a commercial for a non-existent sitcom starring Spock and McCoy running a diner called “Check Please,” but in the space of about a minute Dave Thomas delivers a credible imitation of Dr. McCoy and Harold Ramis nearly convinces audiences that Spock would make a decent waiter!

The Muppet Show - "Pigs In Space"

Ok, this is a bit of a stretch, but there’s no way Pigs In Space would exist without Star Trek . Besides, the parallels between Link Hogthrob and Kirk are obvious, as are those between McCoy and Dr. Julius Strangepork. The ship is even called the Swine Trek!

The Firm - "Star Trekkin’"

UK band The Firm released this novelty hit in 1987 and it forever became the anthem of dank Star Trek clubs shortly thereafter. In the time before the infinite choices of the internet, this tune simultaneously increased one’s nerd shame while validating dedication to all things Trek . The British public seemed to enjoy the song as it spent two weeks at the top of the charts. The creators of the song decided not to appear on Top of the Pops (a TRL -esque British show) and instead commissioned a charmingly cheap music video. The stop motion and DIY puppetry made for a potent mix paired with one of the nerdiest earworms made up to that time. Looked at from a 2019 perspective, one could call "Star Trekkin’" one of the original memes.

Warren Frey (he/him) is a journalist, video editor and Star Trek fan in Vancouver, BC. He’s also one of the co-hosts of Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro. Find him on Twitter @freyburg.

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JoJo Siwa Grows Up

(Or tries to.)

With her new album, the singer is trying to make the notoriously tricky leap from child star to adult artist. Credit... Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times

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Madison Malone Kircher reported this story from Studio Siwa in Burbank, Calif.

• April 10, 2024

JoJo Siwa drives a car covered in her own face.

Actually, the child star turned children’s entertainer drives a couple. On a Thursday afternoon in late March, it’s a Tesla Model X wrapped in a patchwork of her blond, ponytail-topped head complete with a signature hair bow. The tire rims are a kaleidoscope of cotton candy colors.

Another car, a Lamborghini, was in the shop getting re-wrapped with a fresh design inspired by “Karma,” the synth-heavy dance track she released on Friday.

Ms. Siwa is currently doing a bit of re-wrapping herself.

“ The following content is not made for children and may be disturbing or offensive to some viewers,” Ms. Siwa, who is about a month shy of her 21st birthday, posted on Instagram earlier this year when she began teasing her new single. “It may contain sexual themes, violence, strong language, traumatic scenarios and flashing lights.”

In reality, what “Karma” does contain is Ms. Siwa saying precisely one swear word.

She eschews another for a more PG-13 modification, “effed.” Her sparkly costumes are tight, vaguely amphibian and skin-baring, though perhaps no more so than those she donned as a child on the reality show “Dance Moms.” In the music video, she dances aggressively on a desert island to a routine choreographed by Richy Jackson, a longtime Lady Gaga collaborator. Black makeup, painted into geometric designs on her face, makes her look like a forgotten member of Kiss. (Gene Simmons, the band’s frontman, approves .) She humps a woman on the sand.

“I was a bad girl, I did some bad things,” Ms. Siwa sings in the opening line of the song.

Not everyone is so sure. “‘I was a bad girl’ YOU WERE SELLING GLITTER BOWS AT WALMART,” reads one comment on Ms. Siwa’s YouTube channel.

Ms. Siwa burst onto the scene as a mouthy 11-year-old in “Dance Moms” in 2015. When she left the show the next year, she signed a deal with Nickelodeon. From there, she started a wildly successful career as children’s entertainer, performing family-friendly songs around the world and building a fan base of tween girls to whom she has sold over 80 million bows .

“I am the first, per se, first child star that is going from not a character to still not a character,” Ms. Siwa said, drawing a contrast between herself and Miley Cyrus, the former Disney Channel actor who shed her sugary sweet alter ego Hannah Montana and promptly cannonballed into adulthood with a series of scandals that fed tabloids for years. Ms. Siwa, who at first modeled her career on Hannah Montana , is now after her own Miley moment.

When Ms. Cyrus’s album “Can’t Be Tamed” came out in 2010, it was far from a critical success . The years that followed were tumultuous and didn’t always foretell the Grammy-winning artist she would later go on to become. It’s a notoriously tricky transition that has ensnared plenty of young people — Britney Spears, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato, to name a few.

Now a familiar trope in the pop-culture canon, this shift can feel stilted when it’s happening in real time. That may be unavoidable.

“You don’t need to pretend that there’s this organic or authentic self that is somehow out there,” said Carolyn Chernoff, a sociologist who once taught a class at Skidmore College entirely on the subject of Ms. Cyrus. “It’s all this performance to manufacture a Miley moment. Of course, it’s manufactured, calculated.”

At Studio Siwa, Ms. Siwa’s personal rehearsal space in Burbank, Calif., the young singer, wearing loose black sweatpants and a pile of chain necklaces, offered a brief tour. A glittery red, white and blue piano sits in one corner of the space, but it’s fake, a leftover stage prop. In a makeshift archive in a backroom, there are other largely untouched things. Shelves reaching to the ceiling are filled with Siwa-branded dolls, pillows and headphones. Racks of old costumes line the perimeter.

“We would zip-tie it,” Ms. Siwa said, pulling out a hefty, bedazzled bow headpiece from one of her tour costumes and flipping it over to reveal dirt and sweat stains. It hurt her scalp “so bad, but in the best way possible,” she added. “Wouldn’t change it for anything.”

She speaks with the same unflinching positivity about her time on “Dance Moms,” though viewers of the show might have a grimmer recollection of Ms. Siwa’s time onscreen. In Ms. Siwa’s first appearance, her dance teacher, Abby Lee Miller, called her “obnoxious.”

“If you are good at what you do, you don’t have a healthy relationship with it,” Ms. Siwa said, likening her time on the show to an athlete being pushed by a coach to train even harder after losing a game.

In 2021, Ms. Siwa and her mother tried their luck at hosting their own reality show. Eleven girls competed on the Peacock show “Siwas Dance Pop Revolution” in the hopes of joining a new children’s musical group, XOMG POP!

In an interview this year with Rolling Stone , a member of the group and her mother accused them of mistreatment, including insults and punishing rehearsal schedules. The Siwas denied all allegations through a lawyer to Rolling Stone. When asked about them in her studio, Ms. Siwa echoed those denials, claiming that the mother and daughter, Anjie and Leigha Sanderson, were “dropped” by their lawyer “because they had an invalid case .”

In an interview with The New York Times, Anjie Sanderson denied this, saying that she and her lawyer had ultimately decided that pursuing further legal action was not in her family’s best interest.

Ms. Siwa said that the reason she had previously not spoken publicly about the incident is “because there was a kid on the line.” That child, Leigha Sanderson, now 16, said she thought Ms. Siwa’s latest musical efforts were “just trying to distract people from what actually is happening.”

The potential costs of being a child star were recently put in stark terms with the release of the documentary series “ Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, ” which surfaced allegations of harassment and abuse at Nickelodeon in the 1990s and 2000s. Ms. Siwa described herself as “one of the lucky ones,” crediting her mother, Jessalynn Siwa, with helping her navigate the industry unscathed.

These days, Ms. Siwa finds herself having to contend with the warped way much of her audience views her.

“I’ve always physically looked younger,” Ms. Siwa said. “I was 18, wearing a bow in my hair, looking like a 12-year-old, but I’ve always mentally worked as an adult.”

“I’ve always joked that I’m 10 years ahead,” she continued. “When I was 9, I was 19, and when I was 19, I was 29, you know what I mean? Now 20, and I feel like I’m 30 .”

Partaking in a rite of adulthood, she said she recently got two tattoos. “It was very impulsive, went into a janky shop in Florida and was like, ‘Let’s go,’” Ms. Siwa said. On her left hand is the name and release date of her debut children’s single, “Boomerang.” On the other, the same details about “Karma.” (The release date is technically wrong, Ms. Siwa said, because she didn’t account for time zones.)

When she was 17, Ms. Siwa, who identifies as a lesbian, came out over the course of several TikTok lip-sync videos and by tweeting a photo of herself wearing a T-shirt that said “Best Gay Cousin.” That fall, she placed second on “Dancing With the Stars” as part of the show’s first ever same-sex couple . But she didn’t exactly ascend to gay icon status. In a recent interview, she told Billboard News that she “wanted to start a new genre of music” called “gay pop,” prompting a sidelong glance from the longtime gay pop artists Tegan and Sara .

Over the past few years, she has been more open about her sexuality and dating life. “I present as a top,” Ms. Siwa said, using the popular parlance to describe her sexual preferences. “Outside, for sure I’m a top. Inside, bottom nation.”

But when it comes to the particulars of her relationships, she says she’s become a bit more circumspect, and she has some strict rules she abides by. No romantic DM slides. She won’t ever make the first move.

“I’m scared of rejection, of course, but more so, like, I just don’t want anyone to be uncomfortable,” Ms. Siwa said. She tells dates they need to grant her “access” before she’ll get even a little physical, Ms. Siwa said, describing her own personal consent system.

“The world is scary. You got to be careful, and I have horrible trust issues,” Ms. Siwa said. “I don’t want someone to be able to say she touched me and I didn’t want it. I would never do that, but anyone can say anything they want,” she added. She lives with “a lot of paranoia.”

But after more than a decade of being in the public eye, Ms. Siwa has largely accepted a certain degree of vulnerability. At times she seems to welcome, or even court, the scrutiny. As people tore into “Karma” online, Ms. Siwa shrugged off the criticism.

“No one’s going to be like, ‘Oh my God, this is amazing,” Ms. Siwa said. “It’s not designed for people to say that. It’s designed for people to say, ‘What?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Huh?’” Besides, she added, “My views have never been higher.”

The song did have some immediate fans, though: kids, the very same audience Ms. Siwa was intending to abandon. At a charity dance class hosted last month at Studio Siwa, a gaggle of 12-year-old girls burst into the opening line of the song when asked if they knew the words. The full track hadn’t even been released yet. Children have begun to send her videos singing the single with a slight lyrical change — “karma’s a beach” — Ms. Siwa said. That’s fine with her, she said. Her new music is for “whoever wants to enjoy it.”

So who is JoJo Siwa now?

It seems an unfair question to pose to someone still too young to legally buy a beer. That fact was striking when, on Thursday evening in West Hollywood, Ms. Siwa popped by several clubs to celebrate the release of her new music. An Instagram ad for the events initially warned that guests needed to be 21 or older to attend. Technically, as several commenters pointed out, that rule would bar Ms. Siwa from her own event.

She drove herself to the party, her hair piled in a lofty pompadour atop her head. Ms. Siwa’s Lamborghini was back from the shop, covered in new photos of her face.

Madison Malone Kircher is a Times reporter covering internet culture. More about Madison Malone Kircher

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Laufey as Screen ‘Goddess’: How Working With ‘Past Lives’ Director Celine Song and Co-Star Will Gao on Music Video Gave the Singer Her First Real Acting Gig

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The title of Laufey ‘s new single and music video, “Goddess,” is intended somewhat ironically. The storyline of both has a star feeling she’s let down a lover who only wanted the glamorous version of her he’d seen on stage, not the everyday person. But, in the unironic sense, Laufey does take a big step toward possibly becoming a screen goddess, of sorts, by having starred in a short film that may serve as a calling card for a possible move into film or TV roles.

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“Goddess” is the leadoff single from a deluxe edition of Laufey’s Grammy-winning “Bewitched” album, which arrives later this month, expanding upon the singer-songwriter’s heralded fusion of the jazz, pop-standards and classical styles she grew up mastering and the contemporary, Swiftie-era pop she equally loves.

Laufey got on a Zoom with Variety on the eve of the “Goddess” short coming out to discuss hooking up with Song and Gao, her acting aspirations, and instantly selling out her summer Hollywood Bowl show with the LA Philharmonic.

How did the working relationship with Celine Song come about?

So it’s fair to say you were a fan of “Past Lives,” along with just about everybody else who saw it last year?

Oh my God, yes. I mean, you know, so much of — all of — the music I write about is about these experiences of love that aren’t quite perfect… these things that could have happened. I think so much about the other ways in which my life could have turned out if I would’ve made different moves. Celine illustrated that so well with “Past Lives” and the way that she directed a movie that is, in a way, a love story was just really clever and refreshing, and it’s something I try to do with my music.

Was Will Gao somebody you knew of from his show, “Heartstopper”? Or was that Celine’s idea?

I actually got to know Will as a musician. He and his sister, Olivia (Hardy), are in a band called the Wasia Project. I think he followed me and a lot of my fans were like, “Oh my God, Will from ‘Heartstopper’ follows you? And I was like, “Oh my God, I didn’t even realize.” I discovered their band on Spotify one day, and it then turned out that we were on the same label, so I was like, “Oh my God, we must hang out.” I messaged them when I was in London over a year ago, and we hung out and then we just became friends through that. I mean, the music that we all make is quite similar. We’ve all had classical music backgrounds, but are writing more in a pop world now, but definitely blend those worlds together. Upon finding their music, I just thought it was the most beautiful, and they were all my top listens last year on Spotify. And their band is called Wasia Project and I am — as they say — Wasian as well, which is half white and half Asian, so I think we just really bonded over those experiences as well. They, too, are half Chinese. So when it came to finding somebody for the music video and working with Celine, it was quite important to me to find somebody who also had that kind of shared background of coming from Asian descent. And I thought Will would be one of the most perfect options. Also, Wasia Project is supporting me on tour soon. So it was kind of like a fun way of keeping it in the family.

Some people like to star in their more dramatic music videos and some people don’t. It seems like there’s been a lot of dramatic videos where it’s like, “Well, I’m gonna cast two actors as the dramatic leads,” like “All Too Well” from Taylor Swift. But you went for it. So did that feel like, “This is a bold choice I’m taking,” or “Actually, this is the obvious first step in my acting career”?

It’s a very naturalistic style of acting. You’re not overdoing anything. And that’s not always the way somebody does it the first time out. Did you have encouragement from her in that, or just instinctively knew the song will help sell the emotion and you didn’t need to overplay it? Even though you do have some tears at the end.

Yeah, there’s so much emotion in the song. There’s a lot of stillness in the song as well. So I think overacting those emotions wouldn’t lend itself to that kind of music. Most of the song is just a melody and piano and a lot of space, and I think any kind of sharp movements or deep, rash emotions just wouldn’t fit that style. Like you mentioned with the tears, it’s not until the very end when the song grows and gets bigger that the emotions kind of grow with it. Because I think for me, what I tend to do is, I really suppress a lot of those emotions and I kind of have almost this… not straight face, but almost this face of wonder, a lot, through my experiences with love. And I really wanted to (carry) that through the acting and the video.

Lyrically, “Goddess” has to be your first song that will command a parental warning label, with the F-word.

Definitely. I was a little bit wary of that, and words like that, I use them sparingly, because I don’t want to overuse them and I don’t want them to lose meaning. But this song felt like it needed it.

People will take this as a pretty autobiographical song. Maybe all of your songs have been that way, as you’ve explained them in concert, but this one is pretty explicitly so. It’s almost like a “Dear John” kind of song, about feeling wrecked by a bad experience with someone as a young person. But on top of that, you’re presenting it as from the point of view of a star, which is not everybody’s everyday experience.

No, it’s not. I definitely thought a lot about it when putting this song out. It’s definitely the most mature version of myself that I’ve presented thus far. You know, I think so much about relatability when it comes to songwriting, and this experience of being in the limelight isn’t necessarily everyone’s experience. But I think the way I write songs, though they’re autobiographical, I always hope and make a point out of making sure that a lot of people can find points of relating to it. I think in this day and age, we put on a face, we put on makeup and a perfect outfit and depict ourselves a certain way on the internet or at a party or whatnot, and then we come home and we take all that makeup off and all the clothing off. And whether you’re in the limelight or not, I think that’s a shared feeling, of this juxtaposition of being perfect out to the world and feeling insecure about yourself when you’re just on your own and not wearing all that makeup that you present to the public.

I had no help with that, which I’m very, very proud of. We didn’t plan to do a crying scene. If anything, I was just meant to kind of stand very still, like a statue. And then we were just shooting it for a while and it was the very last thing that we did that day. And I was like, I feel like I can do it. I was just standing there for so long and was like, “I wonder what Celine will say if I just cry right now.” And I was like: I think I can do it. I just blinked and it just kind of all came out — and I kind of had a lot of fun with it. It was satisfying to be able to pull that emotion out. I kind of smiled through it, almost, both as a personal victory, but also because I think it shows kind of that pain of still needing to be that star on stage and wearing all that makeup and smiling through it, even if you’re having a rough day. And then Celine was like, “Do you think you can do that again?” And I was like, “Yeah, I think I can.” It was very fun. I think I shocked myself, even.

As far as acting, you said you’ve got the bug, so did you have a bug before this and it just kind of accelerated it? And do you have plans now?

I mean, I definitely had an interest, but I hadn’t really had the opportunity to test it out, outside of music videos. And I think this was the first one where I’m not mouthing any words to the song. This was just telling the story through actions, really. And working with a director like Celine, who is used to working with just actors, not necessarily musicians, I was so scared before the video. It turned out I just really enjoyed it, and it’s definitely something I look forward to, hopefully, doing more in the future. It just has to be the right role in the right moment.

Last time we talked, we discussed you wanting to do scoring and do film songs, but it never occurred to me to ask about acting too. So, now we know.

Oh, yeah. I mean, my dream would be to act in something, or even do kind of a guest role, and couple that with writing something for a film or for TV. I think it’s always so magical when there’s some sort of thing like that where an artist contributes musically, but also has a role in the film as well.

To ask just a little about the deluxe version of your album that comes out later this month, you’ve got the four new tracks, of which “Goddess” is one. Another is “Bored,” which you’ve already been performing live a little bit. ..

Yes, I’ve done it twice now.

“Bored” is lighter, maybe closer to the sort of thing that people are used to hearing from you, even though, as a fun song, it may have come out of a not so fun situation.

Looking ahead to your summer touring: We reviewed your show in L.A. at the Ford last year with the LA Phil, and our take was, why isn’t this already across the street at the Hollywood Bowl? And now we see you playing with the Phil for a sold-out night this summer, and the price of resale tickets even for that is through the roof, and so our take would have to be: Why aren’t there two nights at the Bowl? Or three?

It is truly, truly wild. I never ever thought that it would get to this scale. And I feel like every single day I wake up and I’m shocked by something new and exciting. Especially to get to sell out the Bowl, and play with the LA Phil, it’s really special to me, just on a personal level. Because I grew up within the walls of an orchestra, and one of my goals as an artist and guiding lights is to bring this orchestral sound to Gen Z. So the fact that the biggest concert that I’ll play to this point is with the LA Phil is really, really special.

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William Shatner is beaming in to see the 2024 total solar eclipse from Indiana (video)

Captain Kirk got philosophical when speaking about the upcoming solar eclipse, saying it's not worth worrying about clouds.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Of the many cities and small towns along the April 8 solar eclipse's path of totality, Capt. Kirk is only beaming down to one. Bloomington, Indiana, will play host to the original "Star Trek" captain, William Shatner.

Indiana University (IU) is marking the April 8 solar eclipse with the Hoosier Cosmic Celebration, a performance-packed event at IU's Memorial Stadium where some of the expected 300,000 visitors to Bloomington will watch the highly anticipated celestial alignment.

Shatner will be joined on the afternoon of April 8 by performers from IU's musical theatre and dance programs, as well as an appearance by retired NASA astronaut Mae Jemison and a concert by Janelle Monáe. As star-studded as the Cosmic Celebration is, Shatner is playing a critical role in the big day. The 93-year-old " Star Trek " actor and philanthropist will be performing a spoken word piece as part of the celebration's program, with his last words ending just as totality is beginning.

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He spoke with Space.com and other local Indiana media ahead of his upcoming Indiana trip, and he noted the possibility of rain or clouds getting in the way of experiencing something wonderful.

What if the weather clouds out your solar eclipse?

William Shatner: It's the Sword of Damocles . It's the animal outside the door. And nobody talks about it because it's perfectly probable that there will be an enormous thunderstorm the instant the sun is eclipsed. It's also perfectly possible that it will be a clear, bright, lovely, warm spring day, and we will all enjoy the benefits of the Hoosier weather. What happens if it's cloudy? I don't know. It's like looking into the pit of a volcano saying, "What do we do about that thing?" And it's nothing can be done. There's nothing can be done."

Shatner spoke at length about the wonders of getting to see something as special as a total solar eclipse. It is, after all, a complete coincidence that the sun and moon appear relatively the same size in the sky.

That's not the case on many other worlds. For instance, scientists have witnessed Mars' tiny moon Phobos transiting the sun , as seen by the Curiosity rover from the surface of the planet, but the relative size of the moon and sun in the Martian sky don't create the same totality phenomenon seen during solar eclipses on Earth.

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What does this solar eclipse mean to you?

Shatner: One of the curses, and one of the benefits of humanity is our curiosity. And we'll never overcome that curiosity. "What's there? Why is it hiding?" I mean, even this eclipse, "How did it happen? Oh, you mean a great big piece of debris...brushed up against Earth, causing it to scoop out an amount of Earth to make the moon?" How do we know that, and how do we do that? How did we see it? I mean, the mystery of the beauty of our existence — to examine that is a voyage we all have to take...

To me, the magic of the eclipse, the extraordinary events it all took in the heavenly bodies to cause this eclipse, should make us ponder the mystery of existence, of our own existence, of the existence of everything else and how unified everything is...

The eclipse should bring about all of us thinking about the mystery of existence. And the beauty of the fact that we live and are able to observe it from this little rocky outpost called Earth, and how valuable that is to keep alive, to keep healthy, because that's why we are alive. So this event, the eclipse, should bring about a whole manifestation of the mystery of everything...

It's going to be so much fun-filled, with some of the answers to the mysteries and some of the mysteries posed as questions. You'll have a great time.

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The total solar eclipse on April 8 will sweep across the United States from Texas to Maine, passing through Indiana around 3 p.m. EDT, with Bloomington experiencing 4 minutes and 2 seconds of totality between 3:04:50 p.m. EDT and 3:08:53 p.m. EDT. The forecast is calling for partly cloudy skies in Bloomington on April 8, but, like the captain said, "There's nothing can be done."

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Josh Dinner is Space.com's Content Manager. He is a writer and photographer with a passion for science and space exploration, and has been working the space beat since 2016. Josh has covered the evolution of NASA's commercial spaceflight partnerships, from early Dragon and Cygnus cargo missions to the ongoing development and launches of crewed missions from the Space Coast, as well as NASA science missions and more. He also enjoys building 1:144 scale models of rockets and human-flown spacecraft. Find some of Josh's launch photography on Instagram and his website , and follow him on Twitter , where he mostly posts in haiku.

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