Beam Me Up Scotty with Gramma Vedetta

Gramma VEdetta

By now, someone has to be asking a simple question about this, the most ridiculous column thusfar, on Glacially Musical.

What does metal have to do with Star Trek?

Well, deep down, or maybe on their sleeves, all metalheads are indeed nerds. You can't learn how to play sweep picked arpeggios is you're cool like Ace Frehley.

And you're not going to be sucked into the worlds Robert Plant, Ronnie James Dio, Bruce Dickinson, and David Vincent sing about if you're not into fantasy. 

Metallica, Iron Maiden, Manilla Road, Led Zeppelin etc have all written songs about nerdy authors like Frank Herbert, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, and J.R.R. Tolkien. 

No one, to my knowledge, has gotten into Trek, but I feel like more metallers out there are into it than say they are.

Now, Gramma Vedetta!

Go to their BANDCAMP.

1. Star Trek is the world's most perfect universe. In what show (era) would you be the happiest? Why's that?

Although I am very fond of the TOS, if would choose TNG. Why?

• The NCC-1701-D is bigger, that means more  people on board. 
• Picard is doesn't hit all women so there wouldn't be competition with the Captain.
• I'm a techy guy and in TOS I would be a redshirt I would last alive for 5 minutes.
• The Holodeck. Do we really need more reasons?

2. In the second season of The Next Generation, Commander William T, Riker had to prosecute Lt. Cmdr. Data on whether or not he was sentient and not property. Where do you stand on this issue and why?

I feel like data is sentient. Although is a machine, the experience gained during his life made him unique. 

Yes, it was build by the federation, but children are not property of their parents.

3. The only time we ever got remotely heavy music was on the bus in Star Trek IV. Why do you think they've not pursued heavy music?

It's just because distorted guitars and heavy bits doesn't suit the scenery of space, where everything is silent and slow.

Also, TOS was filmed in the 60s when heavy metal wasn't there yet, and TNG has been produced in the 80s where everything became midi and syntesized.

I guess there's no space for heavy rock here.

4. In the Star Trek TNG Novel, worlds, universes, and centuries collided when Peter David posited that Trelane from The Squire of Gothos, was actually a member of the Q Continuum.

Do you think that's anything more than simple fanboyism?

I didn't know that. I think that putting Trelane on the Q continuum give the character a meaning. 

5. What's the most metal alien in the Star Trek Multiverse?

Kahn in the Wrath of Kahn. It's ready for being a frontman of an 80's Arena Hair Metal Band.

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GORN which dresses like a member of Manowar