It's beautiful in a way, that Nichols[Uhura] with her singing performance and Takei[Sulu] with his fencing got to live out their dreams outside of Star Trek, inside of Star Trek.
The skies are green and glowing, Where my heart is, where my heart is, Where the scented lunar flower is blooming: Somewhere, beyond the stars... Beyond Antares. I'll be back, though it takes forever. Forever is just a day. Forever is just another journey. Tomorrow a stop along the way. Then let the years go fading, Where my heart is, where my heart is, Where my love eternally is waiting Somewhere, beyond the stars... Beyond Antares.
I love Nichelle's persona, voice and music. I tried to remake the feel and sound of Uhura singing to Spock with my new song entitled "Cosmic Space Machine (Uhura Sings)" featuring Zenobia Salik on vocals. You can listen at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lb397KCzt50.html
Any real Trekkies here will know for sure . . . but I've heard that that's actually Nichelle Nichols' voice on the actual "Star Trek" theme. Is this true?
@@TomRiddleMeThisSpock Yeah, now that I look into it a little further, I think Nichelle recorded a disco version of the theme, using the same melody for her vocals. That's the source of the confusion.
Original: Loulie Jean Norman, Remastered: Elin Carlson. From Wikipedia: >>The unaired pilot "The Cage" used a wordless rendition of the melody line, sung by soprano Loulie Jean Norman with flute and organ, over an orchestral arrangement. When originally composed (and as heard in "The Cage"), Courage had Norman's vocalizations and the various instruments mixed equally to produce what Courage described as a unique "'what is that that I'm hearing?' sound."[4] According to Courage, however, Gene Roddenberry had the mix changed to bring up the female vocal, after which Courage felt the theme sounded like a soprano solo. Finally, for the third season it was remixed again, this time emphasizing the organ. The first several episodes, sans all vocals, was a concerto-like solo of an electric violin playing the melodic line. Norma's vocal was restored for the remainder of the season. Producer Herbert Solow recalled that Norman had been hired under a Screen Actors Guild agreement and that she would receive rerun fees for her part in the theme. For the second season onwards, her vocalization was dropped from the theme. Solow regretted the choice and composer Courage was not informed until twenty-seven years later.[5] The unaired version of the second pilot episode used an entirely different main title theme (Star Trek was the first series in American television history for which a network, NBC in this case, requested and paid for a second pilot episode)[disputed - discuss], also composed by Courage. This version of the theme never aired for when the second pilot was re-edited for broadcast it received the series standard titles and the original theme, minus the William Shatner opening narration (this was changed for home video) . In 2006, CBS began syndicating a "remastered" version of the series with numerous changes, including a re-recording of the theme music, which was used for all episodes of the series. Elin Carlson, a professional singer and lifetime Star Trek fan, recorded the replacement for Norman's vocalization.[6]
