Blame It on the Stardust: A Star Trek Vid Album
March 24, 2022 3:12 AM Subscribe
Over the last three years, beatriceeagle has made fifteen fanvids celebrating, critiquing, and reflecting on Star Trek -- one vid for each song in the album Rainbow by Kesha (formerly Ke$ha). The playlist on YouTube has 14 videos and AO3 links to a fifteenth bonus track. Standouts include
"Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down": "A vid for the underserved and screwed-over characters of Star Trek", and "Praying": "Some things only God can forgive. (Kira and Dukat)". "Praying" previously on MeFi.
Meanwhile, I am low-Kesha but high-Trek, and I can't wait to watch all of these and give them the attention they deserve.
Self-link, but my Nick Cave × Deanna Troi tribute is the thing I am most proud of in this life.
posted by avocet at 6:23 AM on March 24, 2022 [8 favorites]
Self-link, but my Nick Cave × Deanna Troi tribute is the thing I am most proud of in this life.
posted by avocet at 6:23 AM on March 24, 2022 [8 favorites]
Very interesting. I look forward to seeing them all.
I don't think I understand Burton's inclusion in the Bastards track. The writers made him a bumbling sociopath when dating, but even then he got a hell of a lot of interesting screen time and did a great job. While his costume was annoying, it's nothing compared to what the klingons and ferengi put up with every morning. Maybe my impressions are distorted by seeing the show as a 9 year old who wanted to grow up to be La Forge, but he seems like one of the five best treated characters on the show, at least starting in season 2. Everyone else makes sense. (I'd have included Jeri Ryan as well - or perhaps it's there and I missed it.)
posted by eotvos at 8:54 AM on March 24, 2022 [1 favorite]
I don't think I understand Burton's inclusion in the Bastards track. The writers made him a bumbling sociopath when dating, but even then he got a hell of a lot of interesting screen time and did a great job. While his costume was annoying, it's nothing compared to what the klingons and ferengi put up with every morning. Maybe my impressions are distorted by seeing the show as a 9 year old who wanted to grow up to be La Forge, but he seems like one of the five best treated characters on the show, at least starting in season 2. Everyone else makes sense. (I'd have included Jeri Ryan as well - or perhaps it's there and I missed it.)
posted by eotvos at 8:54 AM on March 24, 2022 [1 favorite]
I enjoyed the "Praying" one; I'm generally unfamiliar with Kesha's work. As for forgiveness, well, the Prophets' (former?) Emissary doesn't like Dukat either, and as for the Pah wraiths... wherever Dukat is now, I don't think that he's having fun.
posted by Halloween Jack at 12:42 PM on March 24, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Halloween Jack at 12:42 PM on March 24, 2022 [1 favorite]
Oh, that was so much fun, although I would have wanted to see more Tasha Yar in the Bastards one, especially given the external source added in partway through. Justice for Tasha Yar!
posted by suelac at 9:39 PM on March 24, 2022
posted by suelac at 9:39 PM on March 24, 2022
"They're Coming Back for Me" is just breathtaking. The yearning, the pain, the hope, the deep deep wish to not be alone, or to be raptured into a better world (I'm reminded of Tiptree's "The Women Men Don't See").
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