Greetings and salutations Hivers. Today let’s go into another Three Tune Tuesday post.

As always, thanks to @ablaze for making this series. Lots of people participate in it! Follow the tags to find a ton of good music recommendation.

Today I have another mix of different genres. Trying to keep switching things up to stay interesting.

Kirk & Khan - Have I Still Got the Magic

As a onetime Trekkie, I can’t put into words how much I love this.[1] Star Trek II is absolutely the best Trek film and is the only Trek film that even crosses over and has non-Trek appeal as a great action suspense movie. This song and video plays on both the greatness of one of the main scenes in the movie and on the cheesiness of Shatner’s acting.

Enjoy!

And… with that song in my head, I couldn’t resist searching for more Trek parodies. I didn’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t the dozens of AI songs. Some weren’t bad, with people having some clever lyric ideas and using AI to complete the rest of their parody vision, but most were not so good. I settled on two others that seemed to be non-AI. At least mostly. See what you think.

Klingon Style

This is honestly pretty terrible, but it’s also so bad it’s great. The people behind it seemed to have just used their kids and friends for parts. And one troublesome Tribble. I’m not going to look up if the Klingon translation is accurate, but it sounds pretty good to me.

Anyway — not good, but fun!

Picard - All I Want for Christmas

This was put together 5 years ago, so whoever did this wouldn’t have had access to AI and instead had to crawl through all TNG for these clips. That’s dedication. If you think you know where it’s going from the first verse, just keep watching.

So what’s your favorite?

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David is an American teacher and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku. He blogs here and at laspina.org. Write him on Bluesky. 【Support @dbooster with Hive SBI】