Subj : Re: Another Emmy for Shatner
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : Graeme
Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 10:37:53

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

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I was glad that he won the Emmy. But I was a little disappointed in the

performance of the Star Trek Theme. I had read that he was going to
recite
the (virtually) unknown lyrics, but all he did was recite the show's
opening
narration ("Space the Final Frontier ...").
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Be glad he didn't.  The lyrics are awful, and only existed at all so
that Roddenberry could claim half of Sandy Courage's music money.  Lots
of shows have lyrics that were never used, probably for the same reason
(did you know that Bewitched and Leave it to Beaver had lyrics, for
example?)

The lyrics to the Trek theme make no sense.  They're apparently written
from the point of view of Kirk's wife who's waiting for him to stop
roaming the stars and come back to her.  Or maybe one of his lovers who
doesn't know she's been jilted.  Since Roddenberry saw Kirk as
something of a horndog, maybe that's what he had in mind.  Whoever she
is, she sort of figures that he's not coming back and that his Star
Trek will go on forever.  Really wretched stuff.  And badly written.
There are more syllables than there are beats of music so it sounds
terrible when sung, and there are bits where a line ends on a high note
with an S sound, which is notoriously difficult for singers to perform.
 These lyrics were not meant to be heard, they were only meant to be
paid for.

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