Aliza, Jarrah, and Grace welcome special guests Mary Chieffo (L’Rell in Star Trek Discovery) and Bonnie Gordon (Ship Computer in Star Trek Prodigy) to geek out on all things musical theater, and how it crosses over into Star Trek! We run down a non-exhaustive list of the Star Trek actors who have graced Broadway stages in musicals, Trek episodes we’d love to see get the musical treatment, and how Mary and Bonnie’s own musical theater training informed their work on their respective shows.
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Hosts: Aliza, Jarrah, Grace
Guests:
Mary Chieffo – @MarytheChief
Bonnie Gordon – @BonnieBellG
Editor: Jarrah
Transcription: Peter
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Special shout out to all the existing, independent Star Trek musical parodies:
- “Boldly Go!” a full length Star Trek musical parody, viewable on Youtube
- The Library Bards’ “Now You Have the Bridge Spock” and other Star Trek parodies
- Mary’s Klingon song “Steel and Flame”
- Klingon Tamburlaine by School of Night
- Klingon opera ‘u’
- Discovery cast does a Star Trek Rent parody
- Aliza’s Star Trek musical improv group Song Squadron that did exactly one online show
- Not Trek, but Bonnie and Aliza’s scifi musical, Teaching a Robot To Love