Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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The Star Trek Quartet

Here is a video of Capt. Kirk and his hapless landing crew beaming down into a barbershop quartet contest. Do not play with your mouth full.

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  • 6 comments
minor_architect

minor_architect

August 31 2009, 18:40:55 UTC 11 years ago

I do like the "barbershop" style of a cappella and I do like Star Trek...but I never would have thought to put the two together! O_o

"Judges! What do they want?"

"No one knows."

As someone who's sung in enough choral competitions, I know that's the truth! :D
ladyperegrine

ladyperegrine

September 1 2009, 02:19:06 UTC 11 years ago

I loved this and reposted the link on Facebook. Thanks so much for sharing!
janetmiles

janetmiles

September 1 2009, 03:02:23 UTC 11 years ago

Oh, wonderful! I must share with a couple of coworkers who sing barbershop.
msminlr

msminlr

September 1 2009, 10:54:14 UTC 11 years ago

Anybody want to bet AGAINST a cover of these being done at OVFF?





i didn't think so
fayanora

fayanora

September 1 2009, 12:37:51 UTC 11 years ago

LOL! Awesome!

I love barbershop quartet music. Too bad it's not more popular. Of course, there isn't a lot of music that I *don't* like.

The way my mind works, when I saw "Star Trek" associated with music, my thoughts immediately leaped to instances of interesting music in Star Trek, from alien cultures. The best examples I can think of are Klingon opera1 and the music of the Talarians from the episode "Suddenly Human". Which are both forms of music that most people probably wouldn't like, the Talarian music in particular. But that's one of the oddities of me. I was practically deaf and unable to taste much of anything for most of my childhood, both because of my sinuses being constantly clogged up no matter what. It was all cleared up by high school, but it gave me a preference for strongly flavored food (feta cheese, crab apples, cranberry juice with as little sweetening as possible, and lemons), and also for kinds of music that most people don't take to. I think most people are like Picard, in that they process Talarian music as noise, but me, I found it interesting and wanted to hear more.

1 = Oh Gods. I accidentally capitalized "opera" there at first, and that made me think of a version of the Opera browser with the controls all in Klingon!
fayanora

fayanora

September 1 2009, 12:48:54 UTC 11 years ago

Oh, and funny Star Trek music reminded me of these (some are NSFW):









Links, in case the above don't work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DYrlt3CyaE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfjQZXPmilQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12c4jQOfPdk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03E68F6599Q

He also did a Star Wars filk song, too, but I won't link that here.