10 Times Pop Music Was Heard In Star Trek

With the announcement that Star Trek: Discovery will be coming to an end after season five, we thought it might be fitting to include a couple of songs for your playlist from a standout episode of the first season of the show that restarted the franchise. Hope you've got your civvies on, for "tonight we are having a party". They even have beer (Saurian Brandy?) pong!

We're Trying to Stay Alive by Wyclef Jean (a song suggested by executive producer Alex Kurtzman) was, in fact, the first bit of pop music to feature in Discovery (a rarity in the franchise before the Kelvin films, as we know) when it played at the crew's party in the episode Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad. The track, which was first released in 1997 and samples (much to Barry Gibb's chagrin, it would seem) the Bee Gees classic, wouldn't be the last use of pop music in Discovery, not even the last in this episode, as we will discuss later on.

The Wyclef track repeats… and repeats… and repeats… as Harry Mudd persists in his time loop lunacy. Who knows how many times the crew had to pull out the same dance moves at their little shindig! Less Saturday night fever, more Monday morning headache! Well, at least for Stamets anyway. The song's title becomes quite literal as the crew must work to stay alive and stop the nefarious Mudd.