Watch these five Star Trek fan-made Christmas songs
It’s that time of the year. Christmas songs on the radio, carollers at your door (does anyone actually still do that?), Christmas specials on your television and Star Trek fans creating the best mash-up songs on YouTube.
You didn’t know? Apparently, you can make any song out of the dialogue used in various Star Trek shows and a few YouTubers have done just that, but with your favorite Christmas classics. We found five of the very best that YouTube has to offer and we’re bringing them to you.
Now keep in mind, these are dialogue-based songs, so if you’re looking for actual singing, that isn’t going to be the case here. Not even with auto-tune. So enjoy these for the hilarity they bring but if you were hoping to sing along or maybe dance to these holiday favorites, you might want to find non-Star Trek versions.
Jean Luc Picard and Q sing “All I want for Christmas…” to each other.
Original: “All I want for Christmas” by Mariah Carey
In space, you can’t escape Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas”. Thankfully this time, you don’t have to, as this version stars Jean-Luc Picard ad Q in a bit of a duet. The two characters that helped make The Next Generation and Picard such memorable shows have united to “sing” this Christmas classic.
The original song may be flooded onto the radio every November to such a degree that it’ll haunt your dreams but this version of the song should hopefully be more of a pallet cleanser. After all, you don’t have to deal with any of Carey’s vocals for this version, just Q, mockingly, singing to Picard.
The Twelve Days of Star Trek: a Sci-Fi Christmas Carol
By: Ryan’s Edits
Original: “Twelve Days of Christmas” by Frederic Austin, Andrew Carter
If the idea of being gifted 23 different birds for Christmas is a nightmare-filled nightmare, then maybe the Twelve Days of Star Trek: a Sci-Fi Christmas Carol will be more up your alley. Instead of trying to sell you on the idea of six geese laying eggs, this version gives you things you may actually like and want.
The original song was awful with gifts, with twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers pipin, ten lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five gold rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.
This time around we get 12 replicators, 11 carbo bays, (warp)10 lizard babies, nine unimatrixies, eight accommodations, seven synthetic beings, six shuttlecrafts, five lights, four warp nacelles, three Cardassians, two engineers, and one Enterprise-D.
I much prefer this version of the song instead.
Wonderful Deep Space Nine
By: John C. Worsley
Original: “Wonderful Christmas Time” by Paul McCartney
What may be the bane of Paul McCartney’s career, Wonderful Christmas Time is as bad as they come. The song either tries to follow a dying trend of the late 1970s or tries to create one with its terrible electronic warble effect that permeates throughout the song. It’s the wost.
Unfortunately, this version of that song, Wonderful Deep Space Nine, has that same keyboard warble that makes the original so terrible. However, this time around McCartney’s not here to make us all hate the fact that he’s doing solo work. No, instead we have a Deep Space Nine mash-up that also includes the infamously bad Allamaraine mixed in. Somehow the awful McCartney song mixed in with the awful Allmararine nursery rhyme works.
"“Allamaraine, count to four, Allamaraine, then three more, Allamaraine, if you can see, Allamaraine, you’ll come with me…”"
It really helps drown out that awful background music. Though it’s not a great song regardless. McCartney should’ve stuck with Wings and their iconic hit “Love Take Me Down to the Streets“.
Make it So
By: Leslie Hoffman
Original: “Let it Snow!, Let it Snow! Let it Snow!” by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn
You can’t get much more iconic when it comes to Christmas songs than the infamous “Let it snow!” song by Jule Style and Sammy Cahn. That is until you add Jean-Luc Picard and the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation to the mix.
The video may be one of the better-edited ones on this list, mostly because of how perfectly every audio clip and video clip works in unison with the music. It also brings in every main character in the franchise, with the likes of Worf, Beverly, Deanna, Georid, Will, and even Wesley getting a turn to sing. Well, not actually, Wesley.
The song doesn’t just take time out of its run time to dunk on Wesley either, it also finds a way to bring in Picard’s favorite drink; Earl Grey tea.
It’s short, sweet and works great as a Christmas song, and could easily be considered as one of the best Star Trek parody songs on this list.
Star Trek 12 Days of Christmas
By: Marsh84722
Original: “Twelve Days of Christmas” by Frederic Austin, Andrew Carter
Yes, we have another 12 Days of Christmas on the list, but this time it’s with different characters and different days. We already know the original gave us twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers pipin, ten lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five gold rings, four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.
This time around the song gives us 12 Vulcan cruisers, 11 hours of holodeck battle exercises, 10 slips of platinum, nine starships, eight tetryon pulse lodges, seven planets, six escape pods, five…whatever Bashir said…, four functioning lavatories, three extra power packs, two G-type stars, and a displacement activated spore hub drive.
It’s not as smoothly done as the first version on this list but it is still very well made and the added effect of the singing really made it unique and stand out.