A familiar song played during Sweden's NATO flag raising...

[Verteron]

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Must be a Trekkie or two in the NATO band.

 

[NCC-73515]

This far, no further!

 

[Richard S. Ta]

That's nuts. Cool. But why?

 

[Verteron]

NATO explains:

“Ahead of ceremonial military events, the band will often play a range of popular music, with the band given discretion with respect to which music to play. Jerry Goldsmith was a masterful film composer, as exemplified by his work on Star Trek’s “First Contact”. At the ceremony itself, the national anthem of Sweden and the NATO anthem were played.”

A fun nod by the band to an incredible composer!

 

[Paul Weaver]

I was expecting this to be “it’s been a long time getting from there to here”

I think First Contact is the only reference to Sweden in the entire of the Trek canon.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I was expecting this to be “it’s been a long time getting from there to here”

I think First Contact is the only reference to Sweden in the entire of the Trek canon.

There’s not many, but there are a few more:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sweden?so=search