The duo pantomimes quite well as the music broadcasts throughout the ship, including the bridge where an exasperated Scotty carps about these young troublemakers making noise.
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In “The Way to Eden” episode of Season 3, the bare-chested space-hippie Tongo (Charles Napier) delivers a folksy tune about how trouble can be avoided if a man tells another man to “be my friend.” When he switches his space guitar to church organ mode, his sidekick Mavig (composer Deborah Downey) joins in with the sentiment “let’s say goodbye or let’s say brother.” Hearing the impromptu concert, crew members file into the Enterprise’s rec room until Tongo ends the song with “Let’s get together and have some fun / I don’t know how to do it but it’s got to be done!”ĭuring this same “Eden” episode, Spock and Mavig jam for an E-major Hendrix-chord instrumental…in the rec room again! Spock’s back on Vulcan Harp Mavig’s playing something that looks like the wire-rims from a 1960s MG midget.
Finally, the tune also appears as a track on the all-but-forgotten Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr.
That’s two people seriously injured because of this song. The song gets an unexpected encore in the later episode “The Changeling.” This time around, the space probe NOMAD decides that Uhura singing the song is illogical and promptly wipes her mind clean. Working alone in engineering, he’s desperate for “…a love song, something to reassure me I’m not the only living thing left in the universe.” Naturally, she obliges, leaving Riley so entranced that he doesn’t notice someone’s poisoned his military-issued cup-o-milk. In “Conscience of the King,” Uhura takes up the Vulcan Harp for a rendition of “Beyond Antares” to satisfy the request of Lieutenant Riley (Bruce Hyde) via intercom. Problem is, Charlie is a sensitive “teen” who uses his power to mute Uhura’s voice and Spock’s lute as a way to show his displeasure.
With Uhura on vocals (Nichelle Nichols, who’d previously performed for Duke Ellington!) and Spock on Vulcan Harp, this song begins as a gentle teasing of Spock’s devilish but attractive features then shifts its attention to Charlie, the aforementioned young man. Our first tune is from the first-season episode “Charlie-X” (1966) in which the crew encounters a young man (Robert Walker Jr.) whose strange powers get out of control. It didn’t happen frequently and likely only devoted Trekkers will recall them, but these songs from the show’s initial three-year run are definitely worth a re-listen. But there’s one musical facet too often overlooked: the original lyric-driven tunes featured on the show. Even the show’s background music and theme song have become embedded in our pop-cultural consciousness.
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So many articles have been written about the original Star Trek series (1966-1969) - from the challenges of getting the series off the ground to Gene Roddenberry’s fervent push to make the cast multicultural to the storylines reflecting the political realities of the 1960s and today.
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