Strange New World Season 3 reveals that a pop song still exists in the Star Trek universe

The use of popular music from the end of the 20th century in “Star Trek” has always been a bit of a bet, especially because it asks the question: why This A particular song resists the test of time? He can also withdraw viewers from the moment, creating a little cognitive dissonance when they suddenly find themselves hearing the sounds of Beastie Boys or Wyclef Jean in the science fiction world of “Star Trek”. Other times, however, it can honestly be very fun.

Example: In the second extremely silly episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 3, “Wedding Bell Blues”, we discover that a pop song very well known to the 1980s lasted well in the 23rd century, and the whole Enterprise team can be a dance. And although its inclusion can ensure that some public members ride or moan, the choice of song seems perfectly appropriate. For what? Because I can sincerely imagine that they are still centuries from popular centuries from now.

Indeed, after having treated the buffoonery of a young member of the Q Continuum (as played to perfection by Rhys Darby), a whole bunch of Starfleet Boogie officers to a song presented in “Moon Knight” by Marvel and the very popular superhero TV satire “The Boys. It’s true, I’m talking about” Wake Me Up de Wham!

After a swirling wedding between Spock (Ethan Peck) and the nursing chapel (Jess Bush), graciousness of the Malicious young Darby is arrested and everyone is freed from the extraterrestrial fate, the crew of the enterprise can always celebrate the day of the Federation, the anniversary of the first time that the Federation met. (Not to be confused with Frontier Day, another federation celebration which seems to bring together everyone important in a central place.) In fact, it is the centenary, celebrating 100 years since the Federation was formed by a few groups of foreigners with the common objective of intergalactic peace. Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and his girlfriend Captain Patel (Melanie Scrofano) are among the first to really shake their groove as the classic Wham! The track begins to play, and it’s a really happy moment after the challenges they have already met as a couple this season. Spock and La’an (Christina Chong) also have the chance to dance together, referring to a future potential romance between the two.

But why “you wake me up before you walk?” Honestly, why not? The 1984 song was the first number one hit for Wham! In the United States and the United Kingdom, and it is the kind of Bubblegum Pop which seems to resist the test of time. Of course, the songs presented in “Star Trek” are generally what we consider as “classical music”, like Mozart and Tchaikovsky, but which can say that Wham! Can’t end up being held in the same esteem in a few hundred years? I mean, Deadpool gets it – there is a reason why the group has an exclamation mark on its name! Perhaps one day we will see someone present Klingons in Metallica. NOW There is A game made in sto-vo-kor (that is to say the paradise of Klingon).

New episodes of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” first on Thursdays on Paramount +.