I always get a feeling of giddy anticipation when I see a new video from fan filmmaker IAN RAMSEY show up in my YouTube feed. I subscribe to his STAR REKT YouTube channel, and every few months, Ian posts a new, brilliantly hilarious Star Trek-themed musical video parodystarring himself in a different era uniform(s) and/or costume(s) with wonderful green screen editing composited in with backgrounds and spliced with short clips from all the myriad Star Trek series.
Over the past four years, Ian has released no less than SIXTEEN parodies of songs ranging from Frankie Valli to Katy Perry, Barry Manilow to Queen, Nickelback to the Backstreet Boys, and Green Day to Michael Bublé (to name but a few!). I interviewed Ian back in early 2023 when he’d released “only” nine musical parodies—all excellent—but with his editing abilities only just beginning to develop. And I was thinking it might be time to interview Ian again…although I wondered what kind of spin to put on the blog. After all, making music videos in front of a green screen in your house is kind of a one-note interview, right?
Then, late last year, I saw this…
Wow! This was a step beyond (pun somewhat intended) anything I’d seen out of Ian before this. And who knew the boy could dance??? Actually, according to the tag at the end of the video, this effort required a professional choreographer and more than two years to complete.
Well, if that’s not fodder for an interesting blog, I don’t know what is!
Actually, I should mention that the paradigm shift happened one video sooner, as Ian went from videos that were mainly framed from mid-level up to full-body coverage shots. This music video parody of “Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears debuted in July of 2024…
And Ian’s latest masterpiece (from January of this year) takes the song “Starships” by Nicki Minaj, cleans up the lyrics to a PG rating, and sets its phasers (literally) on “Redshirts“…
I’m pretty sure Ian included every TOS red shirt death in that video…plus a few blue and gold shirt departures. (Let me know if he missed any.) But for now, I want to find out more about LOGICAL, Ian’s awesome dance moves, and his choreographer, CAROLYN DESKIN. So let’s fly…or hit it…or whatever. Here’s Ian…
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