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What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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With apologies to 1989 Kirk.....why does STAR TREK need a lyrical theme song?
It doesn't.
Here's something controversial. The song Uhura fan dances to in TFF is actually a pretty solid adult contemporary track when you play the real world version.
With apologies to 1989 Kirk.....why does STAR TREK need a lyrical theme song?
It's not about "need." It's not advocacy or opinion. I'm simply saying it's factually incorrect to say that Star Trek never had a popular-song theme before Enterprise, since TOS's theme was in a popular-song style. Modern audiences just don't recognize it as such because it's an older song style and it's performed by an orchestra.
Most TV shows have theme songs that are in popular styles for the era they're produced in. This has always been the case.
And as such, when each era is superceded by the next, those songs don't sound like popular music anymore.
And as such, when each era is superceded by the next, those songs don't sound like popular music anymore.
If you're talking actual songs, yes, as opposed to orchestral themes, since orchestral music is generally considered timeless (though the trained ear can discern stylistic differences between, say, the orchestral movie themes of the 1940s, the 1980s, and the 2020s).
And the definition of "popular" can depend on the generation. The TOS theme wasn't in the rock-and-roll style that was popular with young people in the mid-1960s, but in the dance-music style popular with their parents and even their grandparents. I mentioned that the TOS theme was something of a pastiche of "Beyond the Blue Horizon," a song that debuted in 1930. It's also been described as having some stylistic influence from the 1935 song "Begin the Beguine."
Wow…. I have never heard this before. Thanks for sharing
Once The Partidge Family was canceled in 1974 a lot of music-driven character shows disappeared. After the end of the '60s and the conclusion of Vietnam and Watergate the cultural atmosphere in America changed and things got more cynical and a lot less bright and peppy.
Star Wars reversed a little of that, but even if was far more orchestral than pop in tone and execution.
Star Wars reversed a little of that, but even if was far more orchestral than pop in tone and execution.
Pop music reared its head in, well, things like this.
I don't recall too many shows going for a "rock and roll" theme song, unless it was aimed for the youths like The Monkees. I'm willing to bet even in the Sixties folks in charge still saw Rock and Roll as a passing fad.
"Big Love" used The Beach Boys "God Only Knows" as it's main theme song.
I was talking about shows in the Sixties.
I think Christopher Lloyd was great as Kruge. I think he doesn't get much comments/reactions one way or the other but what comments he does get tend to be that he didn't really get enough away from his comedy characters, I thought, though I don't like the movie overall, he really did and was a strong and worthy villain in part because he wasn't just trying to be the next Khan.
Lloyd remains the best latter gen Klingon. Maybe Martok and Worf are up there somewhere. The crown belongs to Kor and Kang.
I mostly agree with this. Just my order of best would slightly different.
Lloyd was the perfect combination of Movie/TNG Klingon makeup and costumes and TOS Klingon cunning and sliminess. He became the prototype Klingon villain for many years to come.
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