Post#185 I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper - Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip - 1970's Disco

Enough with the politics! Here's some much juicier gossip: Hot Gossip! Sarah Brightman and the crew perform their only hit song; but what a hit. What moves! Quel maquillage!! Quelles femmes!!! (French? I have no idea why. But why not? It's the extravagance of the 1970's. The eclecticism of crocheted hot pants and leg warmers. This is a strange video. I can laugh right through it, but I love it.  It sends thrills up my spine. It speaks to me of the hope of that time...that things really can change and life can be fun and...hand in hand we could conquer space.

Sarah Brightman - I lost my heart to a starship trooper

Speaker 1:

Arcadia
X-ray X-ray delta niner niner zero
This is Starfleet Control
You are clear to go hyper space
Acknowledge

Speaker 2:

Affirmative, Star Comm
We have situation gold

Speaker 1:

Niner niner zero, roger
You're looking good for trans-light

 

Sarah singing:

I lost my heart to a starship trooper
I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Oh...

 

Hey, Captain Strange, won't you be my lover
You're the best thing that I've ever discovered
Flash Gordon's left me, he's gone to the stars
An evil Darth Vader, he's been banished to Mars

 

Tell me, Captain Strange, do you feel my devotion
Or are you like a droid, devoid of emotion
Encounters one and two are not enough for me
What my body needs is close encounter three

 

I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Flashing lights in hyper space
Fighting for the Federation
Hand in hand we'll conquer space

 

Listen, Captain Strange, what's our destination
The scanners seem to indicate a small deviation
Static on the comm - it's Starfleet Command
Requesting your position, it's their final demand

 

You're intentions are known, they've found out at last
So if you're gonna take me, please make it fast
Touch me, feel me, do what you will
I want to feel that galactic thrill

 

I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Flashing lights in hyper space
Fighting for the Federation
Hand in hand we'll conquer space

 

Speaker 1:

Niner niner zero
This is Star Comm
We got a problem
On your vector
Request status check
Over

 

Sarah singing:

Oh, baby...

 

Speaker 3:

Arcadia
This is Strategy Control
You have course deviation
At five mark six
Acknowledge

 

Sarah singing:

I love you...

 

Speaker 1:

Arcadia
We show condition red
Confirm

 

Sarah singing:

Love me...

 

Speaker 3:

What's going on out there

 

Sarah singing:

Oh...
I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Flashing lights in hyper space
Fighting for the Federation
Hand in hand we'll conquer space
I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Oh...

 

Space suit is lying on control room floor
Pulse rate increasing as the heat factor soars
Take me, make me feel the force
Ignore the computers, we're locked on course

 

I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Flashing lights in hyper space
Fighting for the Federation
Hand in hand we'll conquer space

 

I lost my heart to a starship trooper
Flashing lights in hyper space
Fighting for the Federation
Hand in hand we'll conquer space

 

Speaker 1, while Sarah sings
the previous lines repeatedly:

Niner niner zero
This is Star Comm
Be advised
You have serious vector deviation
I repeat: serious vector deviation

 

Arcadia
Niner niner zero
Do you copy

 

This is Starfleet Control
To all ships in sector five
Be advised
Arcadia
Niner niner zero
Is off course
All ships squawk  ident

 

Starship Arcadia
This is Starfleet Control
Squawk ident
I repeat: squawk ident

Nope, they're too busy with a very special docking manoeuvre, but I'm sure they'll squawk when it's finished.

Here's another spin on it; overlaying the song over Star Trek clips:





Hand in hand we'll conquer space.