Yet Another Song

[jtthomas]

 Finished while at last night's MASSFILC meeting; not performed, because I wouldn't have gotten through it without laughing.

I started it back on December 21st, an hour or so after finishing my finals, after laughing too hard at my own failure to remember the actual lyrics to Toast to Unknown Heroes. There's one trouble with having a song written by someone who rather famously has always loved Star Trek when the song itself has one verse where the end rhyme can accidentally be "boldly go" and one where the final word is actually "before" -- as in, "where no man's gone before".

This song has given me more trouble than any other song I've ever written, and I'm glad it's over.

Toast to Unknown Trekkies
TTTO Toast to Unknown Heroes
A man is walking on the set with his mind on NBC
And the second chance they've given him with pilot option three.
The world will soon be watching, and in fifty years also,
But few could then appreciate what it took to boldly go.

CHORUS:
Trek by Trek, the farthest rock can be won, can be won.
Many fans ship Kirk slash Spock, watch for fun, watch for fun.
And together their desire ignites a spaceship's fire --
Many fans cry out in shock*: "This show's fun! This show's fun!"

Here's a health to the man who walks the set, and the camera crew behind,
And the many fans who love the show with heart and soul and mind.
To all who blazed the screens then, before we touched the moon,
And a health to the unknown Trekkies, too, who'll turn on TVs soon.

Here's a health to Gene Roddenberry, and to Majel Barrett too,
And the actors and the writers and the whole production crew.
For all the unknown Trekkies, sing out to every shore:
"With all these shows, we'll boldly go where no man's gone before!"








*Note: Alternate line for the less child-inclined audience, aka the line my niece and nephews won't be hearing when I perform this for them given any opportunity:
Many fans cry, "What the fuck? This show's fun! This show's fun!"