Enjoy this Star Trek fan's delightful "Ode to Spock" recorded after the Vulcan's film death in 1982

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Ah, yes, I recall how our slogan for a while was “Spock is dead, deal with it!”

Star Trek III still doesn’t feel all that right, to be honest. It cheapened Spock’s sacrifice.

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Huge Dr Demento fan, but it was in the late 80s to mid 90s and I don’t recall this song. Then again, it probably would not have made “best of” tapes I made of the program every night.

Unlike this gem:

I wrote full lyrics for parody for Don’t Worry, Be Happy called “Don’t Worry, Here’s Scotty”.

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You sure Dr. Bronner didn’t ghost that auto-bio?

Paragraphs. Paragraphs.

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What a beautiful life.

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At least Spock finally got a chance to get his Pon Farr on. True, his mind wasn’t in his body at the time, but what teenage boy could claim otherwise?

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I met Sulu at one of her kid-related gigs about the time this song was performed. For some reason I didn’t make the connection with her appearances as a regular on Dr Demento, which I also loved.

Here’s another fun song by Sulu:

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