Today is Star Trek day, which I’m pretty sure is something Paramount made up to compete with May the Fourth. I’ve been a Trekkie since a trampoline accident landed me in a hospital for three weeks and I suddenly got to watch TV — and discovered the original series. (I also saw The Next Generation, whic personally offended me as a seven year old because who were these people? It said ‘Star Trek’, but there was a bald guy and some dude wearing a hair barrette on his face….) Anyway, to celebrate I am going to share ten bits of Star Trek medium that come to mind. Absolutely random.
In the bad ol’ days of dial-up, I downloaded this. Do you have any idea how long that took?
I also downloaded this, long with Dark Materia’s “Picard Song” and “Frame of Mind”. This was before ‘remix’ was really a thing. Pretty sure the explosion sound effect is taken from the classic DOS game Skyroads.
I am Worf, son of Mogh! NONE of you are worthy of my blood or my life — But I will stand for you.
The character of Vic Fontaine, and particularly this song, is why I bought a Frank Sinatra album in 2004 and it’s why I remain a fan of classic pop/swing/big band to this day. Listen to Avery Brooks SING!
Star Trek has introduced me to SO much music — opera, folk, big band — and this is a favorite scene from Deep Space Nine. It introduced me to “Jerusalem”.
Yes, the Klingon K-Pop band in “Subspace Rhapsody” was fun. But THIS……THIS is awesome.
This is and forever shall remain one of the most beautiful scenes in all of Star Trek to me. A formerly mute woman begins to sing with her friends, with improvisation. It was scenes like this made my soul leap for joy, scenes like this that are utterly absent from Disco and Picard but so abundant in Strange New Worlds. If your attention span has been Twitterpated, the really good stuff starts at 1:33. (You should work on the attention span thing, though.)
Okay, they’re not all music. This is from STAR TREK BORG, an FMV game that was extremely immersive. The player is thrown back into time, to Wolf 359, and attempts to save his father from being killed. A mix of storytelling and puzzle-solving. This was later followed by STAR TREK KLINGON, which I did not play but LOVE some of the scenes from. If nothing else, this game is a 2 hour experience with John de Lancie. That’s worth experiencing it alone.
Star Trek and baseball. Ya gotta love it.
“You are attempting to manufacture a triumph where non exists.” “To manufactured triumphs! “HEAR HEAR!”
Back to music, a favorite scene from TNG. This is from “Lessons”, but it incorporates important aspects of “The Inner Light”. Beautiful music and a rare moment of Picard sharing his soul with someone else.
Can’t not give Strange New Words some love, which has reignited my love for Trek after 20 years trying to keep the faith.
The Starship Enterprise feels ELECTRIFIED I’m so proud to be your captain!
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MORE SINGING! MORE VOICES!
HAIL THE KLINGONS!
I could post more, but — as I said, this is just ten random things that come to mind.
It’s entirely possible that we started watching it not long after it came out in ’66. But its probably more likely that we watched the early re-runs, so probably late 60’s/early 70’s. I was definitely watching it in the early 70’s and credit Spock with helping me through the emotional horrors of puberty [lol]
“Spock mode” is an asset — though I tend to be more Data-y. I have a little joke with my boss where I say “Processing” when she’s just asked me a question and I’m still generating and refining a response. She sometimes accuses me of being like Sheldon on BBT.
[rotflmao] A number of people @ work regularly referred to me as ‘Sheldon’. I’d cock my head to one side, think about something for a moment and then give an answer – usually followed by one of the team shouting out: “OK, Sheldon!”.
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Star Trek Day seems *totally* made up… [grin] The franchise had a massive impact on me though… In my head its *always* Star Trek Day…. [lol]
Oh, and Star Trekking *rocks*.
Yep! Fun, fun song. When did you begin watching it?
It’s entirely possible that we started watching it not long after it came out in ’66. But its probably more likely that we watched the early re-runs, so probably late 60’s/early 70’s. I was definitely watching it in the early 70’s and credit Spock with helping me through the emotional horrors of puberty [lol]
“Spock mode” is an asset — though I tend to be more Data-y. I have a little joke with my boss where I say “Processing” when she’s just asked me a question and I’m still generating and refining a response. She sometimes accuses me of being like Sheldon on BBT.
[rotflmao] A number of people @ work regularly referred to me as ‘Sheldon’. I’d cock my head to one side, think about something for a moment and then give an answer – usually followed by one of the team shouting out: “OK, Sheldon!”.