why are there no rock music in star trek, it should be classical by the year what ever there in?

Answer 1

Rock music will never never ever be classical. A very tiny amount will survive their generations but not much.

Answer 2

I agree, there likely would be rock music. One reason it didn't appear on the original series (I bet) was that they would have had to pay for it. I guess they could have had some original, but since rock music tends to me more well known as a recorded medium (i.e., CDs) it would have to be paid for. After all, why shouldn't Data mix in a little of the Beatles while listening to Don Giovanni, the Brandenburg Concertos, etc. (remember the scene?).

Using pre-recorded music as such causes all sorts of nightmares when shows go into re-runs and to DVD (the reason why WKRP in Cincinnati has never came out on DVD despite quite a few requests for it) because of royalties and such.

In short, I don't think it's an oversight of the writers, just an insurmountable problem in the Hollywood legal department.

Answer 3

There was an episode of the original Star Trek called "The Way to Eden", with "space hippies", who played "futuristic rock music", with Spock playing his Vulcan lute.

Answer 4

Could be that Gene Roddenberry was producing his interpretation of the future and maybe figured rock music would have been out of place by the 23rd century.

Answer 5

They think they are too "evolved" for such primal music. The Classical and jazz they play is from a "primitive" time but is considered "refined"

Answer 6

Hmmmmmm...Didn't Zephren Cockran play rock on a dilapidated jukebox in one of the "next generation" movies???

I would bet rock would still be there....it's just harder to find...(Kind of like trying to find Bach on MTV or VH1 today)

Answer 7

The question should be "Why IS there no rock music" not why ARE, it is not gramatically correct.