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Star Trek has been part of my entire adult life, which is to say it's been around a long time...it's amazing the network execs keep trying so hard to kill it...

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Gene’s Legacy
Music: Joni Mitchell
Lyrics: Gary Hanak
TTO: Big Yellow Taxi


‘Enterprise’ has been cancelled—Captain Archer is looking for work
With Captains Janeway and Cisco, not to mention good ol’ Cap’n Kirk
Forty years since it debuted
No more strange new worlds out there to be viewed
Gene’s Legacy consigned to the cinema vault

Forty years of the franchise, every year for the last twenty-three
Somewhere ‘Star Trek’ was running – not just cable, but on network TV
Nielson, don’t do this to me
The series is now part of my psyche
Gene’s Legacy consigned to the cinema vault

Hey Fox, W-B, C-B-S, A-B-, N-B-C
Don’t care about ‘Lost’ or ‘Survivor’, just give me my Rodenberry … Please…
Networks are polling Nielson again
And ‘Star Trek’ once more comes to an end
Gene’s Legacy consigned to the cinema vault

(…instrumental…)

Bill and Leonard have finally admitted they don’t work for free
Star Trek’s gone, they can’t save it, now it’s only about the money
Don’t it always seem to be
You don’t miss it ‘till there’s no more Rodenberr - y – y – y – y
Gene’s Legacy consigned to the cinema vault

Don’t it always seem to be
You don’t miss it ‘till there’s no more Rodenberry
Gene’s Legacy consigned to the cinema vault
Gene’s Legacy consigned to the cinema vault
Gene’s Legacy consigned to the cinema vault

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from Delusions of Adequacy, track released August 1, 2006
All vocals and instrumentation by Gary "MoFilker" Hanak.

This song is parodied under the Fair Use provisions of 17 U.S. Code § 107. The original owners of the music retain all rights. No challenge to copyright is intended, nor should any such challenge be construed.

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Gary "MoFilker" Hanak St. Louis, Missouri

Old person. Sings and plays guitar, piano, bass, accordion, and programs drums, sorta

Writes originals and parodies.
Currently there are four albums out there, with two more as a gleam in the eye.

Filk Hall of Fame awardee, winner of a Pegasus, and an invited music guest in St Louis, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, and Columbus. So far.

And, plays around St Louis in the live music scene. ... more

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