Any good Star Trek songs?

[captainkirk]

I've been looking around for a while, but I've never been able to find anything good that isn't a parody song. I'm hoping to find something on the same level as these:

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Surely a fandom as large as Star Trek's has produced something of equal quality?

 

[Kilana2]

My favorite song....

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And Tim Russ is also a good singer....

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[captainkirk]

My favorite song....

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Okay, I was looking for something other than parody songs, but that was great.

 

[USS Triumphant]

There's a group called T'Pau named after the Vulcan High Priestess from "Amok Time". Mostly their music doesn't have anything to do with Trek directly, although there are a few tracks that feel Trekkie if you squint your ears. Especially this one, which always puts me in mind of the asteroid mining operation in "Spock's World"...

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Brent Spiner has an album called "Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back" that is him doing a good job covering Sinatra-era tunes, and some of the other TNG actors back him up.

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And I don't think of this as a parody, so much as maybe filk?:

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[Stibbons]

Well, Richard Whiting's song "Beyond the Blue Horizon" was always credited by Alexander Courage as the main inspiration for the Original Series theme tune, can't find a sung version, but here's the music-

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The theme tune does actually have lyrics written by Roddenberry, covered here by Tenacious D-

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Aaaand of course Shatner sings "Rocket Man"-

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You're lucky I didn't link to "The Ballard of Bilbo Baggins"...

 

[Kor]

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Kor

 

[Stibbons]

Oh, there's Five Year Mission too-
http://fiveyearmission.net/

 

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BEYOND ANTARES (Sung by Nichelle Nichols) ~ Star Trek

 

[captainkirk]

Aaaand of course Shatner sings "Rocket Man"-

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You're lucky I didn't link to "The Ballard of Bilbo Baggins"...

I've already had the dubious privilege of listening to both of those...

 

[Brenny Reindeer]

Try Julia Ecklar's "Born Again Trek."

 

[F. King Daniel]

The lyrical version of Illia's theme:

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[captainkirk]

The lyrical version of Illia's theme:

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I've got a different version of this that came on a CD with disco versions of different sci-fi themes. I think I prefer this version. The other version has the lyric, "We'll star trek the unknown." Which I always thought was a little cheesy. Although it's the first time I know of that Star Trek was used as a verb, long before Star Trek Into Darkness.

 

[Crisp Conditions]

The other version has the lyric, "We'll star trek the unknown." Which I always thought was a little cheesy.

A little?

 

[captainkirk]

A little?

Well is it much more cheesy than when Zefram Cochrane says it?

 

[Crisp Conditions]

Well is it much more cheesy than when Zefram Cochrane says it?

Oh, yes. When Zeffy-poo said it, it was funny.

 

[Stibbons]

How about this lot- Stovokor, Klingon Death Metal (language caution- probs NSFW).

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[Kilana2]

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[captainkirk]

For me, personally, I suspect that the kinds of songs I like don't exist for Star Trek. It makes me wish I had musical skills so I could write one.

 

[Stibbons]

You are, I fear, most certainly correct. Star Trek lends itself to parody and comedy songs much more readily than meaningful ballards, alas. I think your best shot is to look for existing songs which our esteemed contributors here feel most captures the spirit of star trek.