10 Times Pop Music Was Heard In Star Trek

Yes, yes, we know! This is another song from the Disco disco episode. We must be madder than Mudd in his time loop. This is a favourite for TrekCulture, though. To quote a conversation at TC Towers, "it's a banger". First released in 1972 on the album I'm Still in Love with You, Al Green's Love and Happiness has often been voted one of the greatest songs of all time. As Harry himself said, "Computer, pump up the volume!" STELLAAAAA!

The soulful track features about midway through the episode Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad as Stamets resorts to more creative ways to get Burnham and Qu'noS world record holder for most plastic surgery, Ash Tyler (/Voq), to believe him that Harry Mudd has trapped the Discovery in a repeating window of time in order to deliver the spore drive to the Klingons. Burnham goes over to Ash at the party and practically drags him onto the dance floor, as Love and Happiness begins to play.

The moment could have been all business – to enlist Tyler's help in stopping Mudd – but the song's lyrics are intended to be taken word for word. This is the start of the pair's burgeoning romance. And even if they don't remember anything about it after that loop, Stamets fills them in.

We also get the sense that this was one of the last true moments of happiness for Burnham in the series (so far), before Tyler/Voq went all activated murder-mode. Burnham would be unlucky in love for a second time following Cleveland Booker's betrayal of both her and the Federation in the 32nd century. Only time will tell if he can make it right.