Fact about this video: the song had become so successful that the band was asked to appear on a British music show called Top of the Pops in a week. Not wanting to appear in person because they thought it'd kill the excitement, they decided to create a music video. This video was the result and it was finished with mere hours to spare before it was due to appear on TV.
My mum used to walk around the house singing “Star Trekking across the universe” for years when I was little, she couldn’t remember the rest of it and only could remember that part. She rewatches all of the series (all the time, it’s the only thing she watches) from start to the latest ones and ended up getting me into Star Trek, I’ve officially watched every series and season from Kirk to the new Picard. Once I finished, the lyrics randomly popped into my head so I gave it a google and found this. I showed it to her (once again her only singing that one part for my whole life, I’m in my early 20’s now) and she literally laughed so hard and was so excited. Watching this 60 something year old woman jumping up from the chair just to sing and dance to this song was amazing 😂
Your mum and I are in the Same category, my kids hate when I sing because if I don't know the words (which I mostly don't) I make something up. Enjoying EVERY MOMENT
Ahaha when me and my brother were little, all we could remember was "star trek-" and made it up going "star trekky trekky trekky star trekky trekky trekky" over and over We had the "star trekky" to the same tune as "star trekking" and kept "trekky" on the same note as "trekking" on repeat 😂
Luckily I never got to that level of math-induced suffering in school. Barely made it through Algebra II. That's a big part of the reason I majored in history!
Many many moons ago, I used to do a bit of karaoke, this one song nearly got me banned permanently from my local, the fact every customer was laughing saved me. The guy running the karaoke had his wife slamming his back as he couldn't breathe, the bar staff were slamming the bar with their hands with their heads down in their arms, people were on the floor in stitches, I did the whole song, accents and all, all the way through, it was a one off performance, never to be repeated.
An absolute masterpiece.... And I'm not kidding How does someone compose such a beautifully arranged disaster... And I have loved this since it was released in the 80s
The local radio station played this yesterday in honour of Shatners ascent to space during an hour long session of space related songs on an AM channel
When I was in third grade I was obsessed with this song for some reason. We learned how to make PowerPoint presentations and I made a presentation where I essentially reenacted this. And now I realize why I had no friends
Forgot about this,till I watched it on Top Of The Pops on BBC Four last week...it knocked Whitney Houston off the top spot and was number one for a fortnight in 1987😍
what added to the huge popularity of this song was the fact that the original star trek was still airing , and the voiceovers were so good and funny that many people actually thought it was the star trek crew doing their stuff !
Except Mr. Scott, a Scottish accent is not easy and they don't pull it off. That said, I love all the versions of this great song. "It's worse than that, he's dead Jim" has been my comment watching many movies and TV shows. Thanks to Dr. Demento for helping get this out to the world.
Man this is a nostalgia trip. I remember watching this back when it was uploaded. My parents showed this video to me when I was 8 because I found my old toddler toys including a weird chicken toy with star and moon patterns and I couldn't understand why my parents referred to it "Star-Chicken across the universe." It was one of the first songs I ever learned all the lyrics to and remains in my music collection to this day.
The DJ on our local morning show in the late 80s/early 90s played this once every morning. We were usually on the bus about the time that it would come on and the whole load of us kids would sing along much to the chagrin of the bus driver but she was a good sport about it.
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy aka Mr Spock 28 February 2015 "Live long and prosper." "It's Life Jim, but not as we know it." Thanks for all the great memories. Travel well on your voyage to the stars.
The actual band played it on 'Top Of The Pops' and they had a log on the stage with them. I was about 9 years old but I always think of it when I hear 'Captain's Log . . . ' at the start of the episodes. lol
@Will B. prez4food idk man I thought Wrath of Khan and Voyage Home were alright. Never saw Undiscovered Country but I heard people liked that one enough
One of my earliest memories is my dad having this on vinyl and i used to put it on the highest rpm so it sounded like alvin and the chipmunks. Hours of fun lol
No major record labels were interested in releasing this, but it sold over 470,000 copies in the UK. It also had success in several other countries and total sales of over 1 million. Not bad for a novelty record!
I work at an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and we had this video in the preshow for Star Trek. After listening to it every day for a month, I wanted to bash my head into a wall multiple times.
Monkiebuddy It could be worse...I spent a summer working as a security guard at a minor-league ballpark where they played the theme song from SpongeBob SquarePants during the second-inning stretch at every home game FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON!!!! And I wasn’t crazy about that show to begin with...AAAUGH!
Close enough, but not quite 40 years. This first hit the UK charts in June 1987, so 37 years ago. I vaguely remember listening to this when it was first released and I quite liked it. Apologies to my mum and brother for having to put up with my music, I don't think they liked it much!
omg I'm gonna be a total weirdo but I love this song. it cracks me up every time I listen to it. it just takes me back in memories of this song.❤this 😂😂😂😂
One of my favourite memories of this is a clown trying to sing this with us at a kids birthday party, circa 1998, and absolutely none of us having any idea what the hell he was going on about and who 'Jim' was.
thesanctityoflife You're in the deadly part of RUclips, where things constantly mess with your brain. Would you like to transfer back to the normal side of RUclips.
At my first high school in Scarborough, we had a walk-a-thon called Scar Trek. Every year they`d call us into the auditorium and play this song to raise morale!
Back in 1987 my family went on holiday to Butlins (either Bogner Regis or Skegness-I can't remember which now) and almost every evening in the nightclub there were two songs that they played. The first is this one-Star Trekkin by The Firm. Even now, after 37 years, whenever this is played I can still remember the bright, multicolored lights and the thumping music of the club with this blasting out whilst everyone sat around drinking and dancing. 😃
can't believe i havent heard this since it first came out! was a big hit in Australia too, even tho Star Trek wasn't one of those things played a lot on tv (here) at the time. By the early 90's i had a job at a small '"art house"cinema and we would show 2 episodes of the original ST tv show (on 16mm celluloid reels) on a Saturday morning and would always get a good solid core crowd each time. I've never forgotten this song,though , but i had forgotten how insane the clips is!
I was 4 when this came out and played on tele, loved it then and still love it now.... If you're a Star Trek fan like me and you haven't seen Leonard Nimoy singing 'Bilbo Baggins', go there immediately! Haha
Yeah, I'm afraid nothing quite beats the black plastic inflatable chair that kills people in a manner that would be super easy to escape from when it comes to bad special effects. Classic Who, everyone! lol
The song might have hit number one in the UK charts in 1987, but it started out as a song sung around a campfire. Rory Kehoe was a member of the reenactment group The Sealed Knot. He made up a song about Star Trek that was sung around the campfire to the tune of ‘I Am The Music Man.’ They named it ‘I Am The Star Trek Man.’ In 1986, a version of the song was performed at a folk club by Chris Steinhauer. Grahame Lister, one of the members of the Firm, was in the audience and he convinced Steinhauer to record it so he could share the song with his writing partner, John O’Connor. Lister and O’Connor dropped the original tune and instead tried to set the lyrics to one of their own songs called ‘Arthur Daley (e’s Alright)’ with the provisional name of ‘Captain Kirk (e’s Alright).’ When that didn’t work, they locked themselves away for a week and wrote the song from scratch. Although they offered ‘Star Trekkin’ to various professional recording studios, no one would take it. So The Firm ended up recording it in studios belonging to O’Connor and Brian O’Shaughnessy. O’Shaughnessy has gone on record since then to say that producing the song was “one of the greatest highlights of my career.” Not surprising given that it ended up knocking a Whitney Houston song out of the top spot in the UK charts for two weeks. The lyrics were designed to poke fun at those featured on Star Trek. One line, spoken by “Kirk” goes: “We come in peace. Shoot to kill.” While Shatner might have said both those lines, they were never delivered in that exact way. However, the writers thought that the mash-up represented the trigger-happy approach so often shown by Captain Kirk on his adventures. But another made-up line actually had the unintended consequence of being misattributed to the series itself. The line “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it” was never actually spoken by Spock in the series itself, but was made up just for this song. However, the writers struck such a genuine chord with fans that many times since then this line has been misattributed to the original series. The popularity of the song was completely unexpected. When it was first released, O’Connor sent copies to British radio stations and it was promoted by Radio 1 DJ Simon Bates. ‘Star Trekkin’ entered the charts at the 74th position when it was released. The next week, it had climbed to 13th place. For two weeks after that, it was at number. It actually became the 9th best-selling single in the UK that year. Since the song reached the number one spot, it was expected that The Firm would appear on Top of the Pops. However, O’Connor and Lister felt themselves to be a “bunch of balding thirty-somethings” - an image that wouldn’t gel with the fun elements of the song. To avoid appearing, they decided they’d make an animated video instead. But they only had one week in which to do so. While they initially went to various production companies - including the one behind Spitting Image - they found it would cost them far too much. In the end, they recruited a team of graduate art students called The Film Garage. The students created the claymation stop-motion video that we know and love today. The video was shot over seven days and completed with only HOURS to spare before it had to be aired on Top of the Pops.
The 5 stages my mind went through when I first heard this: Oh this is pretty fun music! Actually this is getting annoying... Ummm... Scratch that. This is creepy and disturbing. What the actual fuck am I listening to? Then ultimately laughing uncontrollably and proceeding to listen to it 7 times in a row.
I'm 54. I bought the Maxi Single of Star Trekkin' then and I play it on a local Disco. No one seems to understand it.... LOVE IT!!!! I can't believe that so many people knew this song! Love you guys.
Absolutely brilliant, I remember hearing this for the first time and my parents, my older sister and me were all doubled up laughing, even today it brings a smile.
I used to listen to this on the Imagination Station in St Louis as a kid in the early 90's. We still have it recorded on a cassette tape somewhere. Because of that tape, it will be forever stuck in my head.
I Lmfao when i first saw this on its release back in the early 80's. Thirty odd years later i still Lmfao when i see it, specially the spaceship made from pizza and sausages. Whoever created the video is an absolute genius, Lmfao.
Hahaha! I looked up the old WAV file I have of this song and discovered it was 1996 when I found the song on some obscure P2P website back then. Now I feel REALLY old.
early 80's & those days charts were boring so these songs that came out weren't intentionaly for money purposes they were released to show that bands do have a sense of humour & just wanted to spice things up a bit
Agadoo, Big Fish Little Fish, Purple People Eater, Star Trekkin', Chico Time and so many more good memories from Haven and Park Resorts! It makes me wish I was 9 years old again! :')
My dad played this video for us when I was a teen. Have a video of me and one of my sisters singing this while watching this when we were drunk a couple of years ago. That video will never be seen outside of family 😂
Was watching a retro show on my telly yesterday afternoon and hearing this song just brought back so many fond memories. I had never actually seen the video until yesterday and I thought it was brilliant!
It's been 35 years and I still can't get this freaking tune out of my head.
Its one of those songs! Positive and negative brainwashing all in one! 😉
And you never will 😂
Why was mr spock looking down the toilet?
He was looking for the captains log
Great to listen to when you are drunk
Shit, have you seen the doctor? 😥
Warning: things start getting weird around the 00:00 mark
That's not a warning, that's a promise!
That's the way I like it! Always weird, always good!
This deserves more likes
🤣🤣🤣
Tea splutter, another keyboard stuffed....
I'm not even joking, this is one of the things that came into my head as I had a mental breakdown from lack of sleep
Been there mate, know what you mean..
Totally believe it!
Me too WTF?!
You're my doppelgänge
🤣😂🤣 of all the songs!!!
“We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill” is lyrical genius and I cannot be convinced otherwise.
Just the once on STUNNED
He’s dead jim…it’s worse than that 😂
Personally, I liked "There's Klingons on the starboard bow; Scrape them off, Jim" just about as much.
"Ye kanna change the laws o' phesecs" takes pride of place in my stock catch phrases.
US foreign policy?
Fact about this video: the song had become so successful that the band was asked to appear on a British music show called Top of the Pops in a week. Not wanting to appear in person because they thought it'd kill the excitement, they decided to create a music video. This video was the result and it was finished with mere hours to spare before it was due to appear on TV.
Thank you so much! I was so confused!
Why was mr spock looking down the toilet?
He was looking for the captains log
That explains why some parts (like the puppets lip-syncing) look off
"was finished with mere hours to spare before it was due to appear on TV."
Just like the original TV series!
The whole video was made in less than a week.
I never knew you could love and hate a song at the same time so strongly
Same
Its life mate but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
There is no hate for this song 😂😂
Love the song hate the video
THIS IS MY CAMP SONGFG
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
Yes but they were lucky in that they should in fact have done this
Star Trek, uh, uh, finds a way.
@Clare Robertson They definitely should, shouldn't, should, shouldn't..... Head now explodes
@@aaqilian5.085 sounds like a quote from Jurassic Park to me 😂
@@aaqilian5.085 I just got the BEST mental image. Thanks for that!
My mum used to walk around the house singing “Star Trekking across the universe” for years when I was little, she couldn’t remember the rest of it and only could remember that part. She rewatches all of the series (all the time, it’s the only thing she watches) from start to the latest ones and ended up getting me into Star Trek, I’ve officially watched every series and season from Kirk to the new Picard.
Once I finished, the lyrics randomly popped into my head so I gave it a google and found this. I showed it to her (once again her only singing that one part for my whole life, I’m in my early 20’s now) and she literally laughed so hard and was so excited. Watching this 60 something year old woman jumping up from the chair just to sing and dance to this song was amazing 😂
fun story.
go your mum!
Legend.
Lovely, I can imagine your mum and the smile, so blessed
Your mum and I are in the Same category, my kids hate when I sing because if I don't know the words (which I mostly don't) I make something up. Enjoying EVERY MOMENT
Ahaha when me and my brother were little, all we could remember was "star trek-" and made it up going "star trekky trekky trekky star trekky trekky trekky" over and over
We had the "star trekky" to the same tune as "star trekking" and kept "trekky" on the same note as "trekking" on repeat 😂
It's music, Jim, but not as we know it.
lol
It's worse than that, it's DEAD Jim!!!
You canny change the laws of music
Anyone know where Scotty was from?
@@topmongs5984 two cities claim him, one is Aberdeen. He referenced himself in one show as an "old Aberdeen pub crawler".
This was my childhood. Meaning my dad would play this everyday at 6 in the morning to wake everyone up, I still get adrenaline when listening to it.
I wish I'd known it existed when my kids were still at home. I used the Lion King theme, instead.
Ohhhh, that's brutal. 🤣🤣🤣
Based dad
My Dad would always play this in the car.
😂😂😂 my dad played this to me
*”it’s worse than that, it’s physics Jim”*
I second that
Firm message from The Firm
Love it!
Och, if I give it any more, she'll BLOW cap!
Luckily I never got to that level of math-induced suffering in school. Barely made it through Algebra II. That's a big part of the reason I majored in history!
The Firm Star Trekkin 1987
777 like be like
My Aunty, a life long trekkie had this as her last funeral song! Amazing
“We come in peace. Shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill” Gold
…scotty beam me up
"We come in peace, shoot to kill, Scotty, beam me up!" 😂😂😂
You'd expect this line to be from Mars Attacks lol
Welcome to the military
“shoot to kill God” was Star Trek V, I think.
Many many moons ago, I used to do a bit of karaoke, this one song nearly got me banned permanently from my local, the fact every customer was laughing saved me. The guy running the karaoke had his wife slamming his back as he couldn't breathe, the bar staff were slamming the bar with their hands with their heads down in their arms, people were on the floor in stitches, I did the whole song, accents and all, all the way through, it was a one off performance, never to be repeated.
God help us
@Goro Majima lol it happened :-)
I would have paid to see that
Does video of this exist anywhere? If so, it needs to be uploaded, and soon.
@@eclectica1 lol this was in the days of the Nokia 3310 :-)
Listen to this once and it'll be stuck in your mind until you meet your maker.
Oh I hope not!
Yep.
It's been in the back of my head for the last 20-30 years... Recently popped up; listened to it on repeat for a few hours......😢
An absolute masterpiece....
And I'm not kidding
How does someone compose such a beautifully arranged disaster...
And I have loved this since it was released in the 80s
In order to create something like this you first have to take drugs , lots of drugs
HAHA
@@nickcoppard5335 XD
😂
Maybe the video, but then again The Trap Door was airing at that time of the 80's and that was as off-the-wall as all hell too @@nickcoppard5335
This is one of those songs a man plays on repeat until they snap.
Decades later I still have not snapped. I wonder how long it will take :-)
@@Dermacrosis It's like hard cider, which will definitely kill you... when you reach the age of ninety or so.
@@blindleader42 Which is a good inning age to go at. I wish I would reach 90 but I won't.
@@blindleader42 hard drugs will do it faster :DD
This and 'brand new combine harvester'. I've been playing both over the past few hours. I think I may be having a mental breakdown.
I ended up here because I misspelled Star Trek in the search bar and put "Star Trekk". Oh dear God what have I done!
You went out of your way to search the internet for "Star Trek", so what you've done is wasted your life :p
You can na change the laws of physics.
Welcome to the 80's.
You have to boldly go forward now because we cant find reverse!
I’m sorry my dude
"Yo pass the Aux cord"
"You better not play trash"
*plays trash*
NGL IMA HEAD OUT
Oh you know I'm gonna...
xD
Me:
Well.. does it matter if its elite tier trash?
The local radio station played this yesterday in honour of Shatners ascent to space during an hour long session of space related songs on an AM channel
Even local radio stations are showing him more respect that Bezos did 😂
This feels like a visual representation of having a stroke
Sherbet/Platypi-p More like a LSD trip with your friends
A stroke while watching Star Trek
i've had a stroke...i don't agree.
LOL
I laughed my head off when I saw your comment
When I was in third grade I was obsessed with this song for some reason. We learned how to make PowerPoint presentations and I made a presentation where I essentially reenacted this. And now I realize why I had no friends
I APPROVE!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
3yrs later, but I'll be your friend!!
Can you upload it to RUclips please? 🙂
Oh I totally would have been.your friend!
Forgot about this,till I watched it on Top Of The Pops on BBC Four last week...it knocked Whitney Houston off the top spot and was number one for a fortnight in 1987😍
You gotta love it a bit for Killing that fucking Whitney song.
The fortnight in which i was born.
@@Fausto_4841 imagine if you were conceived to this song...
All the kids bought it from Woolies
Yep. I will always love the 80s. I bought some weird songs back then. LOL
It's hilarious. I particularly love the lyrics mix-up at the end. "it's worse than that it's physics Jim." I kid you not.
How do you know that wasn't deliberate?
It’s just physics 😮💨
@@eclectica1it was deliberate, for God's sake.
Jimmy Page?
POV: To your horror the GAMSAT (medicine entry exam here in Australia ) includes physics and not just biology and chemistry :P
what added to the huge popularity of this song was the fact that the original star trek was still airing , and the voiceovers were so good and funny that many people actually thought it was the star trek crew doing their stuff !
Wait but I just looked it up and it didn’t come out until 1987
@@natania7738 The BBC were airing repeats of the orignal Star Trek series in 1987. The comment is valid.
Except Mr. Scott, a Scottish accent is not easy and they don't pull it off.
That said, I love all the versions of this great song. "It's worse than that, he's dead Jim" has been my comment watching many movies and TV shows.
Thanks to Dr. Demento for helping get this out to the world.
@@natania7738 That's when I first heard it... well at least close... don't remember the exact year,, but Dr.Demento show 1986/87 is about right.
@@slipbone James Doohan didn’t exactly pull off the accent either.
2019. This is now 32 years old, and it _still_ owns.
THAT old??? Daaamn!
Serenitis I remember it so well I’m 38
First time seeing it and it slaps
I did this for an air band in 1987/1988!:) I remember it from when I was a kid!
its 2020
Man this is a nostalgia trip. I remember watching this back when it was uploaded.
My parents showed this video to me when I was 8 because I found my old toddler toys including a weird chicken toy with star and moon patterns and I couldn't understand why my parents referred to it "Star-Chicken across the universe." It was one of the first songs I ever learned all the lyrics to and remains in my music collection to this day.
Back when it was uploaded? It’s a LOT older than that 👍🏻😅👍🏻
I love that you have "Star-Chicken across the universe" as a childhood memory. Speaking of birds, your parents must be loons! The kind I like. :-)
even better- I had it on a VHS from when it was played before a doctor who episode on ABC in 1988 - so yes, The Rani was on he same tape.
'Boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse'. That line always makes me lol
The DJ on our local morning show in the late 80s/early 90s played this once every morning. We were usually on the bus about the time that it would come on and the whole load of us kids would sing along much to the chagrin of the bus driver but she was a good sport about it.
Yes!!! Same! I would wake up to this song playing on my mom’s radio lol
R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy aka Mr Spock 28 February 2015
"Live long and prosper."
"It's Life Jim, but not as we know it."
Thanks for all the great memories. Travel well on your voyage to the stars.
@Mark Fryer Oh dear Leonard Nimoy played Mr Spock!!!!!
John Eden Thanks, my bad. I gave him an honorary doctorate by mistake, now corrected.
Mark Fryer Live Long And Prosper. R.I.P Leonard Nimoy.
Mark Fryer I just so happened to be celebrating my birthday party when my friend's uncle called and told my friend the news...
TheNobleScoundrel THNX MR SPOCK! MAY THE FORCE BE WIT CHU.
Being introduced to this at the age of four (roughly), I think I can say that this is what made me into the person I am today
I was 3 when I saw this as well as red dwarf's "tongue twister"
I'm in my 60s and still get a kick when listening to this song. It's life but not as we know it!!
"We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill..." My Christ, too good!
I love how Kirk has his "Captain's Log" on his lap xD
Are you sure that's not a cameo from Mikey Spock?
Omg I got the log reference only now 😂😂😂
You don't want to see the other log he left in the toilet
it's brilliant but there's no need to blaspheme the Holy Name
Holy...im just Now seeing it!! 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
This song played on my radio at 12am, I thought my radio was possessed
By awesome
same but after school
What awesome station played this?!?
That's exactly how we found this song, like 5 years ago.
.........OH GOD!
We come in peace - He's dead Jim - I can't stop laughing, we all need a laugh in the current times.
Yeah
Why is one of them wearing a face Mask don't tell me there's Coronavirus there as well.
True xD
@@davidstannard1235 that's the Doctor
@@davidstannard1235 Possibly where Corona virus originated. Took light years to reach 2020 as we know it.
I'm not even a Star Trek fan, but I love this.
hehe. Kirk has a captains log
Lol, I didn't even get what the log was for until I saw your comment.
Mike D And his cap says Cap. 😅
I thought it was due to his wooden acting, but the captain's log makes more sense.
The actual band played it on 'Top Of The Pops' and they had a log on the stage with them. I was about 9 years old but I always think of it when I hear 'Captain's Log . . . ' at the start of the episodes. lol
I didn’t put two and two together when I was watching it. 😋
Kirk had a cap. And a log. It was the captain's log.
ShrubRustle FUCK! THANK YOU FOR POINTING THAT OUT!!
LOOOLLL
Lol I watched this right after some Star Trek and I was like wait what lol
True
the replay button just screamed in pain...
Tobey Plug i
Start craping across the universe
🔪
This is genius. Once heard, never forgotten.
Star Trek Beyond is looking great
HA
＼（〇_ｏ）／
It is great
Danny true that!
Just going to cinema, grab your snacks and drinks, get in your seat, and it's just 120 minutes of this.
This is the last thing William Shatner will see before he dies.
+Will B. prez4food what did William Shatner do in 1980 that killed is career?
@Will B. prez4food idk man I thought Wrath of Khan and Voyage Home were alright. Never saw Undiscovered Country but I heard people liked that one enough
Look, don't jinx anything else this year, man.. it's been bad enough!!!!😟😖
The Firm Star Trekkin 1987
William shatner is immortal
Brings back good memory's. Sad New about Leonard Nimoy. RIP
Live Long And Prosper
richard wright
that is very logical. RIP Leonard Nimoy
surethom Its worse than that. He's dead Jim
Jack Vony Bet Leonard Nimoy would laugh at that, Spock wouldnt, "NOT LOGICAL"
I was an adult when it came out, and I hunted down the record so I could buy it. Yes, on vinyl. I'm that old.
Ah you are not the only one ,
I still have mine just incase of those world ending disasters or alien invasions
@thegremlin3194 and to add to that, another RUclipsr this last week woke up the Purple People Eater song in my head.
@@anndownsouth5070 Never had that on vinyl but it is on my Halloween cd mix .
Ah but I do have "They are coming to take me away Ha Ha " Napoleon xiv
One of my earliest memories is my dad having this on vinyl and i used to put it on the highest rpm so it sounded like alvin and the chipmunks. Hours of fun lol
Vinyl's back, baby! \😸/
My late primary school headmistress' son(Rory Kehoe) co-wrote this. She brought in the Silver Disc(for the record sales) one time to show us.
No major record labels were interested in releasing this, but it sold over 470,000 copies in the UK. It also had success in several other countries and total sales of over 1 million. Not bad for a novelty record!
I couldn't help myself but I ended up watching the whole thing....
JJ Abrams made some changes but this is ridiculous
MartyvH This is still better than Abrams' crap.
Yay 100 likes
I for one would have watched the hell out of a claymation Star Trekkin' series. It would have been a smash hit on British 80's television.
Aww Marty pellow 💕 still good looking at the Park Dean Caravan holiday park..... say hi to Kimberley Walsh 👋🏻 Victoria Wood xx 😚
This song predates Abrams' involvement with Star Trek by a couple of decades. At least.
"We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill".
American diplomacy in a nutshell.
Also done by Kelvin Kirk and Michael Burnham 😉
He sounded like a suspected suspicious terrorist anyway
@@E2018-q2b All Romulans and Cardassians are suspicious terrorist until proven otherwise!
Underrated comment. J108
This is memes before there were memes.
It's memes, Jim, but not as we know it
The first days of meme
It's worse than that, they're memes, Jim
You cannae change the laws of memes
It appears to be a proto-meme, captain.
I just discovered this again, oh NO THAT MEANS ITS GONNA GET STUCK IN MY HEAD AGAIN ARGH
Imagine it leaveing your head and not just popping into and out of your conscious mind whenever it damn well pleases for 8 years straight.
I work at an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and we had this video in the preshow for Star Trek. After listening to it every day for a month, I wanted to bash my head into a wall multiple times.
Hahaa thats gold..
Monkiebuddy It could be worse...I spent a summer working as a security guard at a minor-league ballpark where they played the theme song from SpongeBob SquarePants during the second-inning stretch at every home game FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON!!!! And I wasn’t crazy about that show to begin with...AAAUGH!
Monkiebuddy : I believe You
I can't believe it'll be 40 years next year since this came out marking the 20th Anniversary of the original Star Trek.
Probably because it's not!
@@RCassinello It came out in 1984, 40 years ago next year, learn to count, idiot.
Close enough, but not quite 40 years. This first hit the UK charts in June 1987, so 37 years ago. I vaguely remember listening to this when it was first released and I quite liked it. Apologies to my mum and brother for having to put up with my music, I don't think they liked it much!
This is one of the tunes that you can't watch just once.
Heavily into Star Trek. Spend hours every day playing Fleet Command.
Even I have to admit it's a good laugh!
The first RUclips video I ever watched over 10 years ago :3
same
Đigital™ Can't believe I'm about to say, do you know what a rotary phone is?. Yep I was born 1981 and that was one of the hits going around.
This will be notoriously hard to get out of my head now.
I keep on coming back
It will never go away.. 😂
My dad is a pretty big Star Trek fan and you would not believe how much he loves this song.
2:55 "Its worse than that...its physics jim" as some one studying physics...i can confirm this
omg I'm gonna be a total weirdo but I love this song. it cracks me up every time I listen to it. it just takes me back in memories of this song.❤this 😂😂😂😂
I love it, but it's really scary at the same time! 😂😂😂
late 80's, early 90's Britain was... a strange and odd place. It damaged us all. In a good way.
I love it too. Surprised by the negative comments.
Toniiee Louise Yeah, it just makes me think of my childhood & how much more simple things were back in the 80s, so I'm terribly fond of it. 💗 😄
Back when Star Trek wasnt aimed at the masses and only a trekkie knew or even cared what a Klingon was.
>captain's log
took me a whole day to get that.
I didn't realize it until someone pointed it out here. Lol
@@eblackwell I don't get it still.
He always talks to the log. 😂😂😂😂
@@Zatchary0909 most episodes of star trek start with rhe words captains log star date.......
This was my first dance song at my wedding 🤣🤣
Hmmmm, I wonder how long it will be before yu tell us you are now divorced. Though it will likely be longer than most of my cousins were married 😉😉
you're doing marriage right
You're my hero
Love that
Your spouse is very lucky to have you! lmao
Did you dance faster as the song got faster?
One of my favourite memories of this is a clown trying to sing this with us at a kids birthday party, circa 1998, and absolutely none of us having any idea what the hell he was going on about and who 'Jim' was.
i had so many family parties where we sung this when i was younger, i loved it :D
lol
I've listened to this about 3 dozen times today and I don't know why I can't stop..... Send help
Help is on the way, slowly going forward, oh god!
SEND HELP!!!
@@ivanolsen8596 it's coming, because I can't find reverse.
@@katarinahall5204 Dont worry Katarina, I have watched this so many times I am beyond help.
Have loved this song since the 80's and all my knowledge of the show comes from this song.
This was the first record I bought and by the end of the day my parents were ready to kill me.
can I buy it?
Nah just kidding
What if this is actually a vinyl i would buy it. Is it?
How did I get here....where am I?
+thesanctityoflife Been watching this since it came out. I don't know why, but I have.
Its been with me ever since I was a kid.
Please help me.
thesanctityoflife You're in the deadly part of RUclips, where things constantly mess with your brain. Would you like to transfer back to the normal side of RUclips.
At my first high school in Scarborough, we had a walk-a-thon called Scar Trek. Every year they`d call us into the auditorium and play this song to raise morale!
I CAN NEVER GET RID OF THIS SONG FROM MY HEAD
Back in 1987 my family went on holiday to Butlins (either Bogner Regis or Skegness-I can't remember which now) and almost every evening in the nightclub there were two songs that they played.
The first is this one-Star Trekkin by The Firm.
Even now, after 37 years, whenever this is played I can still remember the bright, multicolored lights and the thumping music of the club with this blasting out whilst everyone sat around drinking and dancing. 😃
can't believe i havent heard this since it first came out! was a big hit in Australia too, even tho Star Trek wasn't one of those things played a lot on tv (here) at the time. By the early 90's i had a job at a small '"art house"cinema and we would show 2 episodes of the original ST tv show (on 16mm celluloid reels) on a Saturday morning and would always get a good solid core crowd each time. I've never forgotten this song,though , but i had forgotten how insane the clips is!
when you come in peace but really you came to shoot to kill.
Sounds like a certain country.....
The GIs buried in Normandy invite you to kindly go fuck yourself.
Kind of like what i wish i could do to the maker of this video. Shoot to kill lol...
A certain country in a nutshell
@@CleverFrenchNameyep merica..
I was 4 when this came out and played on tele, loved it then and still love it now.... If you're a Star Trek fan like me and you haven't seen Leonard Nimoy singing 'Bilbo Baggins', go there immediately! Haha
No idea why this song just came into my head while I'm at work on my forklift, but here I am....
Just came into my head... and here I am playing it on youtube, with my husband on the sofa giving me sideeye...😂
BIG-NABZ
2 years ago
It was an extra terrestrial request !
To be fair the special effects budget on this video is still better than early 80's Doctor Who!
or 2005 eccleston doctor who :P
Early 80s Doctor, no.
60s Doctor, yep.
Yeah, I'm afraid nothing quite beats the black plastic inflatable chair that kills people in a manner that would be super easy to escape from when it comes to bad special effects. Classic Who, everyone! lol
I don’t know, that thing in the sea devils episode with Peter Davison looked like it cost 50p
@@RivkahSong Yes classic. The bad effects are part of it's charm. Most Whovians agree.
It's a good day when this shows up in the youtube recommended!
The song might have hit number one in the UK charts in 1987, but it started out as a song sung around a campfire.
Rory Kehoe was a member of the reenactment group The Sealed Knot. He made up a song about Star Trek that was sung around the campfire to the tune of ‘I Am The Music Man.’ They named it ‘I Am The Star Trek Man.’
In 1986, a version of the song was performed at a folk club by Chris Steinhauer. Grahame Lister, one of the members of the Firm, was in the audience and he convinced Steinhauer to record it so he could share the song with his writing partner, John O’Connor.
Lister and O’Connor dropped the original tune and instead tried to set the lyrics to one of their own songs called ‘Arthur Daley (e’s Alright)’ with the provisional name of ‘Captain Kirk (e’s Alright).’ When that didn’t work, they locked themselves away for a week and wrote the song from scratch.
Although they offered ‘Star Trekkin’ to various professional recording studios, no one would take it. So The Firm ended up recording it in studios belonging to O’Connor and Brian O’Shaughnessy.
O’Shaughnessy has gone on record since then to say that producing the song was “one of the greatest highlights of my career.” Not surprising given that it ended up knocking a Whitney Houston song out of the top spot in the UK charts for two weeks.
The lyrics were designed to poke fun at those featured on Star Trek. One line, spoken by “Kirk” goes: “We come in peace. Shoot to kill.” While Shatner might have said both those lines, they were never delivered in that exact way. However, the writers thought that the mash-up represented the trigger-happy approach so often shown by Captain Kirk on his adventures.
But another made-up line actually had the unintended consequence of being misattributed to the series itself.
The line “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it” was never actually spoken by Spock in the series itself, but was made up just for this song. However, the writers struck such a genuine chord with fans that many times since then this line has been misattributed to the original series.
The popularity of the song was completely unexpected. When it was first released, O’Connor sent copies to British radio stations and it was promoted by Radio 1 DJ Simon Bates.
‘Star Trekkin’ entered the charts at the 74th position when it was released. The next week, it had climbed to 13th place. For two weeks after that, it was at number. It actually became the 9th best-selling single in the UK that year.
Since the song reached the number one spot, it was expected that The Firm would appear on Top of the Pops. However, O’Connor and Lister felt themselves to be a “bunch of balding thirty-somethings” - an image that wouldn’t gel with the fun elements of the song.
To avoid appearing, they decided they’d make an animated video instead. But they only had one week in which to do so. While they initially went to various production companies - including the one behind Spitting Image - they found it would cost them far too much.
In the end, they recruited a team of graduate art students called The Film Garage. The students created the claymation stop-motion video that we know and love today.
The video was shot over seven days and completed with only HOURS to spare before it had to be aired on Top of the Pops.
wow you wrote an essay hat this song.. GOOD ON YOU!!
@@khawajarahman lol 😂
I think I went on a bit too long
Thanks for reading it
Whenever I need a good laugh, I re-watch this. Never fails. "Scrape 'em off, Jim!"
The 5 stages my mind went through when I first heard this:
Oh this is pretty fun music!
Actually this is getting annoying...
Ummm... Scratch that. This is creepy and disturbing.
What the actual fuck am I listening to?
Then ultimately laughing uncontrollably and proceeding to listen to it 7 times in a row.
There’s klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow
Then you realize this was written by the The Firm
Then you find out it's not that Firm
:)
I actually bought the vinel record way when it came out. I love the song. Never saw the video before. 💖
This confused my mind
The brainwashing worked!!! Booooohahahahahaha!
When I was 7, my class performed this at our end of year concert. I didn't even know what Star Trek was back then!
i used to love this as a kid - coming back to it after watching TOS i realise how accurate the voice actors are
Downright marvelous. I'd forgotten how ridiculous this is, and how hilarious it is. Thanks roopert.
oh, this is why I have nightmares with things speeding up.
you're cute though...
+Nerdtrap what?
+MissLizzieLou
Think he's hitting on you.
+HappyPotato Are you my cousin?
PotatoTornadoable yes
After all these years this song still cracks me up, good comedy never dies!
I'm 54. I bought the Maxi Single of Star Trekkin' then and I play it on a local Disco. No one seems to understand it.... LOVE IT!!!! I can't believe that so many people knew this song! Love you guys.
I used to listen to Dr. Demento every week on Sunday nights. Great stuff!
😂OMG!!Feel like I'm tripping out!!The original Star Trek was the absolute best.Beam me up Scotty❤
Absolutely brilliant, I remember hearing this for the first time and my parents, my older sister and me were all doubled up laughing, even today it brings a smile.
I used to listen to this on the Imagination Station in St Louis as a kid in the early 90's. We still have it recorded on a cassette tape somewhere. Because of that tape, it will be forever stuck in my head.
oh god i get it now hes holding the CAPTAIN'S LOG
JacksonTheCR more likely the ship's log. Minor detail, I know.
I Lmfao when i first saw this on its release back in the early 80's. Thirty odd years later i still Lmfao when i see it, specially the spaceship made from pizza and sausages. Whoever created the video is an absolute genius, Lmfao.
I think they were on something TBH. 😅
Not quite the early 80's, 1987 was when this madness was released on an unsuspecting world lol
@@Hodaris_Darlin something very good
I was actually made by college students rushed over the course of a week
@@MeesterTweester Really? Has anyone informed your parents that you were made in a college? ( joking )
at every uk holiday disco for kids literally
Holy smokes folks 😅
I was listening to this from thirty five years ago and this is the first time I am witnessing the video clip 😮 unbelievable 😂
Oh, dear god, *help me*-
I've never even watched Star Trek-
Just as well. This is still better than the last several things that came out with the Star Trek name.
@@cjhedrick6418 let me enjoy my nutrek, mr tos is the only trek to watch.
Me too
@@cjhedrick6418 ok old man
2 hours of this on repeat made me start to question reality
LMAO Yep
2 hours? I praise your constitution, my brain melted after 2 minutes. O.o
Amy Lou, It’s reality but not as we know it.
@@paladinboyd1228it’s their based programmed reality 😌
god I feel old just knowing this video was uploaded 10 years ago
Enjoy yourself?
Hahaha! I looked up the old WAV file I have of this song and discovered it was 1996 when I found the song on some obscure P2P website back then. Now I feel REALLY old.
early 80's & those days charts were boring so these songs that came out weren't intentionaly for money purposes they were released to show that bands do have a sense of humour & just wanted to spice things up a bit
I bought this on tape back in 1987, but it went missing shortly after and I still suspect one of my parents hid it out of annoyance.
Yeah !scary isnt it . 'Time waits for no man or beast '.(that includes women aswell 😌)
Love it. Brings back many happy memories ❤
Agadoo, Big Fish Little Fish, Purple People Eater, Star Trekkin', Chico Time and so many more good memories from Haven and Park Resorts! It makes me wish I was 9 years old again! :')
That. Was terrifying. If this gets stuck in my head I might have to cut it off.
Staarrr trekking across the universe,
boldly going forwards because we can't find reverse.
Its life Jim but not as we know it not as we know it not as we know it its life Jim but not as we know it not as we know it captain.
It's worse than that he's dead Jim dead Jim dead
Ive had it stuck in my head for 20yrs........
It could be worse, and I oughta know...I've had the stoopid song "Little Bunny Foo Foo" stuck in my head for a single day
My dad played this video for us when I was a teen. Have a video of me and one of my sisters singing this while watching this when we were drunk a couple of years ago. That video will never be seen outside of family 😂
Was watching a retro show on my telly yesterday afternoon and hearing this song just brought back so many fond memories. I had never actually seen the video until yesterday and I thought it was brilliant!
1st record I ever brought, £1.50 at Woolworth UK.
The prices for a single has dropped to 99p u were robbed 😂
I was only 10! Mummy Brought it 4 meeeee.
+Gavin Waterman haha
Gavin Waterman
Ha Woolworth's, love itt
Ah Woolworths. How I miss it. I was only 7 when it closed down. Then it turned into a Tesco. I still miss it today. :(