bloodyrosemccoy | A Post For My Trekkie Buddies (Reply)

As long as I’m being a geek, I must note that—at last!—after years of half-assed searching, I have finally found a site where one can download, for free, The Firm’s bizarre hit, Star Trekkin’! As I have many friends who inexplicaby like this song, I thought I’d share my good fortune and link to it. (Click the speaker to download it, guys.)

The gratitude of myself and my goofy friends is owed to Wil Wheaton, who included a link in his blog that allowed me to track down the song. My Trekkie friends may recognize Wil as the actor responsible for The Next Generation’s insufferable and universally-loathed Ensign Wesley “God I Hope He Dies Next Episode” Crusher, whose twerpiness, youth, and hair that looks like it was carved on activate the inner-school-bully in all of us.* It turns out that twenty years after it was established that his character was “sort of like Mozart,” Wil has begun an enormously entertaining blog chronicling the episodes of TNG, and redeems himself by being totally aware that Wesley was possibly the least-liked television character ever, and making several jokes about it. Way to accentuate the positive, Wil. And thanks for the song.

And now I leave you with my personal favorite verse in the song, as a philosophy that has driven most science fiction for the entirety of its existence:

We come in peace! Shoot to kill

Shoot to kill

Shoot to kill!

We come in peace! Shoot to kill

Shoot to kill, men!

*Fun Fact: Wesley is the direct inspiration for Futurama’s equally obnoxious young genius, Cubert Farnsworth. The large difference is that the characters in the show as well as the audience all want to punch Cubert, while in Star Trek they seem oblivious to the possibility that Wes could come off as a smug little bugger.