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Anyone know the singer for the Klingon portion of 'We Are One'? (startrek.website)

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I know that the utterly incomparable Bruce Horak came back not as Hemmer but as the Klingon for this episode. However the singer, was that Bruce too? If so then I'm genuinely shocked. I thought for sure that it was Weird Al. It sounds almost identical. If it's not Weird Al himself then it's a pitch perfect double.

Just wondering because I couldn't find anything through my usual channels.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume it was Bruce.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ. Okay. Leave some talent for the rest of us, goddamn. It just sounded so identical to Weird Al that I didn't even consider that it would be Bruce himself. That's phenomenal.

Also posted 15 years ago and 334 views. I'm slightly annoyed because that was great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew about the singing from the reviews of the Goblin MacBeth, because there’s musical improvisations in that live theatre piece.

Bruce Horak’s family seems to all be creatives.

I recall an interview from 2022 where he talked about being the youngest of 4 very competitive boys, with older brothers who are musicians. I believe his dad was a high school drama teacher(?), and an amateur cartoonist. Mum also in a creative field.

The painting / visual arts career is what caught me off guard actually. Horak said his dad encouraged him to make his own comics as a child to write stories. Here’s a piece on his one man show ‘Assassinating Thompson’

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean I was already impressed with his Hemmer appearance but it makes a lot more sense with that context. Dude is truly impressive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Uhm, here’s another odd song from Bruce “Honky the Christmas Goose”