Star Trek Fan Songs?

[Slartibarto]

Anyone put together any songs about ST?

As it's nearly Xmas, I put forward this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8PDXIqOtPg

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Roberta Rogow has hundreds of them collected. She even sold them on tapes, iirc. Star Trek folk songs were called "filks" because of a typo in a convention program way back when...

 

[chardman]

Actually, despite tales to the contrary, I'd always heard that the real origin of the word "Filksongs" was as an intentional contraction of "filthy folksongs", as the earliest of these fan-crafted songs were SF variants on old, invariably bawdy, drinking songs. (Specifically, I believe it was coined at Boskone by one of filk's major promoters of the mid-1960s by SF author Edwin "Filthy Pierre" Straus, who usually emceed the event, and coined the contraction as a play on his "pen name".)

I'm guessing that the story about a typo is an attempt to avoid talking about filk's "naughty" history, amongst those who are trying to cultivate it as a more family-frindly and mainstream artform. Whereas filking was once little more than a latenight convention diversion, (a way to fill time after the scheduled events were over, and some of us were still to wired to sleep) it has gained in respectability over the years, to the extent that there are now conventions specifically dedicated to filking, first and foremost.

This link is the "Star Trek" page of a site which claims to be Damn Near All the Filk on the Web

 

[Kail]

I've recorded two Star Trek inspired songs. One is basicly an instrumental with sound clips from "The Changling" mixed in. The chorus is "I am perfect, I am Nomad, Nomad, Nomad. I am perfect". Fun little ditty. The second is called "Make It So". Not about Star Trek, but a hard rock song about getting your life together.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Would now be a good time to post the lyrics to "Banned From Argo"?

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Actually, despite tales to the contrary, I'd always heard that the real origin of the word "Filksongs" was as an intentional contraction of "filthy folksongs", as the earliest of these fan-crafted songs were SF variants on old, invariably bawdy, drinking songs.

Interesting. I'd never heard that assertion. My source for the origin of the term was the late Joanie Winston, who was one of the guiding forces for the Star Trek conventions of the 1970's.

And please, no "Banned from Argo" -- Although "What Do You Do with a Drunken Vulcan?" usually could make me smile.

 

[Captain Robert April]

I'd always heard the simple typo story, and considering the proximity of the "o" and "i" keys, it's perfectly plausible.

 

[goofy]

I prefer Jessica Simpson's take on an old 80's favorite, "You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record)" (originally by Dead Or Alive) with a (2009) Spock/Kirk 'shipper theme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9QbFw0L4Y4

Version 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SOeeEUC6ZA

Version 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT-OV7wfe38

 

[TripTucker2012]

Does anyone know if there are any sites that have any filk for Enterprise? Thanks!

 

[USS Triumphant]

Does anyone know if there are any sites that have any filk for Enterprise? Thanks!

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