Star Trek Question

[EarlJam]

Okay, I am fusing hit songs from the past with some Star Trek terminology. See if you can name the actual song and the artist:

1. I've got a photon torpedo, and baby it's ready to roar!
2. Plenty of room on the Starship Enterprise...
3. Reach down, between my legs, and pull the Captain's chair back...
4. We gonna Energize and have a good time! It's time to come together...
5. Can't you see me standing here I've got my back against the Doomsday Machine!...
6. If you like Dr. McCoy, and getting caught in the rain...
7. GORN to be wild!
8. Oh I'm, I'm, still at warp factor five!
9. I woke up this moring, my tricorder was gone...
10. Nothing last forever, even knowing how to save Spock's brain...

-EarlJam

[Lavabe]

Okay, I am fusing hit songs from the past with some Star Trek terminology. See if you can name the actual song and the artist:

1. I've got a photon torpedo, and baby it's ready to roar!
2. Plenty of room on the Starship Enterprise...
3. Reach down, between my legs, and pull the Captain's chair back...
4. We gonna Energize and have a good time! It's time to come together...
5. Can't you see me standing here I've got my back against the Doomsday Machine!...
6. If you like Dr. McCoy, and getting caught in the rain...
7. GORN to be wild!
8. Oh I'm, I'm, still at warp factor five!
9. I woke up this moring, my tricorder was gone...
10. Nothing last forever, even knowing how to save Spock's brain...

-EarlJam

2. Hotel CA
4. Spock & the Gang: Celebrate
6. I do NOT like Pina Coladas.
7. WOW... a Steppenwolf reference!
9. A Boston reference!

Lavabe

[Olympic Fan]

I agree with Jason ... TOS is very good at times (but with a lot of weak episodes), but TNG is the best science fiction ever done on TV.

My favorite TOS: City on the Edge of Forever (although Balance of Terror is a strong second place)

I do disagree with Jason about the impossibility of naming a favorite from TNG (although if I were picking a top 10 of all the Trek series 7 of 8 of them world be from TNG). I know most fans like "The Best of Two Worlds" (where Picard is kidnapped by the Borg), but I much prefer both "Yesterday's Enterprise" (which interestingly enough, incoporates the same moral dilemma that is at the heart of City on the Edge of Forever) and "Inner Light" -- an episode with rare human dimension.

Okay, linking the two, I'd suggest "Relics" -- with Scotty making a guest appearance and (shades of Larry Niven!) a Dyson Sphere.

For DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars" ... just a stunning homage to the '50s pulp era and why so many were inspired by science fiction in our dreams of a better world.

A couple of other observations --

-- If you're really interested in Star Trek music, you need to rent the documentary "Trekkies 2" which has segments on some great Trek-themed bands, especially some Klingon metal bands ... for some reason, there seem to be a bunch of these based in Sacremento.

-- Also as a Trek fan, I wonder if anybody else appreciated the Tim Allen movie Galaxy Quest (it was on cable last night). Clearly based on the Trek phenomenum, I can't help watching it and trying to imagine the Trek characters in the main roles -- especially Kirk as Commander Taggart and Nimoy in the Alan Rickman role.

[EarlJam]

2. Hotel CA
4. Spock & the Gang: Celebrate
6. I do NOT like Pina Coladas.
7. WOW... a Steppenwolf reference!
9. A Boston reference!

Lavabe

Spock & the Gang!

That sounds like some horribly failed, wacky spin-off of Star Trek. Kind of like Joannie Loves Chachi (or however you spell it).

Good guesses. You are most correct on them. Know the others?

-EarlJam

[EarlJam]

-- Also as a Trek fan, I wonder if anybody else appreciated the Tim Allen movie Galaxy Quest (it was on cable last night). Clearly based on the Trek phenomenum, I can't help watching it and trying to imagine the Trek characters in the main roles -- especially Kirk as Commander Taggart and Nimoy in the Alan Rickman role.

NEVER SAY DIE! NEVER SURRENDER!!

-EJ

[cato]

I do disagree with Jason about the impossibility of naming a favorite from TNG (although if I were picking a top 10 of all the Trek series 7 of 8 of them world be from TNG). I know most fans like "The Best of Two Worlds" (where Picard is kidnapped by the Borg), but I much prefer both "Yesterday's Enterprise" (which interestingly enough, incoporates the same moral dilemma that is at the heart of City on the Edge of Forever) and "Inner Light" -- an episode with rare human dimension.

Okay, linking the two, I'd suggest "Relics" -- with Scotty making a guest appearance and (shades of Larry Niven!) a Dyson Sphere.

Darmok!

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
The Beast of Tanagra
Picard and Dathon at Eladril

[OZZIE4DUKE]

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