Why no rock music in Star Trek?

[The Old Mixer]

People ALWAYS think that music of their youth was the "best" music ever.

I think that the music from a few years before I was born is the best music ever. Pay up.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I found most of rhe music of my youth to be almost physically painful.

 

[Nyotarules]

Rock music is the music of rebellion! Rebellion is forbidden in the Federation...

LOL rock music will be as rebellious as Baroque music is today

 

[Greg Cox]

LOL rock music will be as rebellious as Baroque music is today

Yep. There was a time when the waltz was considered shocking and obscene. Times change.

 

[jaime]

Licensing copyrighted music is expensive. And it only lasts for a limited time: the DVDs of WKRP in Cincinatti had all the music removed or changed because the license had expired. In fact, that change happened while the show was still in syndication.

And as anyone who remembers Buck Rogers with Gil Gerard will tell you, original music on a tv budget that is supposed to sound like rock comes off cheesy and lame. Imagine a parody of disco done by someone who didn't understand disco to begin with.

Hardly surprising then that Star Trek tends towards music that is in the Public Domain.

Still, it did strike me as odd tgat nobody ever even talked about it.
I mean, couldn't Geordi have been in the middle of telling Data about how his sister just got him to listen to The Wall, Sgt Peppers, or Pet Sounds and how he now thought Data should listen to it?
I mean, it's hard to tell which artists from the last ten years are going to be remembered in 20, but by 1985 wasn't the jury in on The Beatles, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendricks? Even if you don't like them, you recognize they were influential.

Even mentioning the music or its lyrics costs money.

 

[Nyotarules]

Yep. There was a time when the waltz was considered shocking and obscene. Times change.

In the Star Trek universe the music danced by Orion slave ladies will be what Vulcan children learn in school according to Spock in The Cage.

 

[TommyR01D]

As I said in another thread, the people in the 24th century are really dull and have no good tastes at all. Case in point, their fashion sense.

Remember Future's End, when Janeway and co. were ruffled by 1996 Los Angeles.

 

[Kilana2]

I can see the DS9 crew playing Baseball in the Holosuite with Great Balls of Fire as background music....

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

In the Star Trek universe the music danced by Orion slave ladies will be what Vulcan children learn in school according to Spock in The Cage.

"The Cage"?

Try "Whom Gods Destroy."

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yep. There was a time when the waltz was considered shocking and obscene. Times change.

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[omnirad]

I've had this fantasy in that Tuvok would shock his Voyager crew mates with having a hobby more exciting than meditation or pick-up-sticks. He would be a closet disciple of slap bass guitar, and would jam out with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, on the holodeck, naked. When discovered, he would sputter some excuse that he appreciated the chordal algorhythms, or the polyphonic disharmonies.
It really was a substitute for pon farr!

 

[Lynx]

Your choice to be that obdurate, Lynx: but promise me something (if you can): DON'T you or anybody else continue to be complaining about how 'there's no good rock and roll out there' and 'everything is just pop.' Expecting rock music to sound like it used to 'just because' is ridiculous to the extreme; it still exists, it's still here, and it's just as good as the rock of the '60's, '70's, '80's, and '90's.

I guess that we have a different taste of music.
Personally I think that today's "rock" is just a watered-down copy of the real thing. More "pop" than rock.

Not to mention that the kind of music which is popular today is the same kind of music which I despised as a teenager. Syrupy, adapted, tame commercial stuff.

 

[Lynx]

I've had this fantasy in that Tuvok would shock his Voyager crew mates with having a hobby more exciting than meditation or pick-up-sticks. He would be a closet disciple of slap bass guitar, and would jam out with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, on the holodeck, naked. When discovered, he would sputter some excuse that he appreciated the chordal algorhythms, or the polyphonic disharmonies.
It really was a substitute for pon farr!

But we do have a rocker among the Voyager crew who happens to carry the torch of rock music into the 24th century:

 

[trash80]

If i was creating a Trek series i'd have a musician on the staff whose job was to create "future music" for use in the show, you could probably get fans involved. Rock with Romulan vocals and the like.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Remember Future's End, when Janeway and co. were ruffled by 1996 Los Angeles.

Yes but of all the crews who would get their lunch money stolen, Voyager is second only to Next Gen.

 

[Lord Garth]

LOL rock music will be as rebellious as Baroque music is today

It's already there. My nickname for Classic Rock is "Old White Guy Music".

 

[Nyotarules]

It's already there. My nickname for Classic Rock is "Old White Guy Music".

'Old white guy music who still wish they can pick up young ladies 40 years their junior, just like mega rich Mick Jagger'

 

[Agony_Boothb]

But we do have a rocker among the Voyager crew who happens to carry the torch of rock music into the 24th century:

Just no.

 

[Santaman]

Pfff.. everyone knows that Klingons love death metal...

 

[Shaka Zulu]

I gave up on Bond films after about the second Timothy Dalton outing. I like Derek Flint much better, even if there
were only two Flint films.

Oh, and let's see: Gounod. Prokofiev. Rimsky-Korsakov. Shostakovich. Holst. Ralph ("long-A, silent L")
Vaughan Williams. . . .

Do you like Derek Flint because he's (probably) less sexist than Bond, or is it because he's more human and somewhat more well-rounded (with a lot of weird, interesting hobbies and a better physical makeup [the ability to go into a trance, then be awakened by his watch]) than Bond?