THE CONCEPT:
No Wait, the "KHAN"-cept:
In 2366, Data the android presents his musical comedy version of The Wrath of Khan on the Holodeck! A campy show-within-a-show ensues where the bloodthirsty Khan vows revenge on a washed up James T. Kirk, and Data–portraying multiple roles–learns a thing or two about life along the way.
FULL SYNOPSIS
A musicalized Star Trek movie wrapped in a "Next Generation" episode?
It is 2366, and Data the android is presenting his new musical for an artificially intelligent audience program. His show-within-a-show retells the events of the movie The Wrath of Khan, (with “historical” facts embellished for dramatic effect, of course). Since Data is literally an "AI", his writing style accidentally borrows moments and tropes from shows like Rocky Horror, Chicago, and Les Misérables. He also plays multiple roles in the show, and there's no director to tell him to stop upstaging the leads! At the start of his musical, we meet Admiral Kirk–an older, embittered shell of the heroic "Captain Kirk" we know and love. He confides that he constantly dreams of being young again, which leads to a psychedelic flashback to the swingin' 60's (the 2260's). Meanwhile, Commander Chekov stumbles onto the planet where Kirk marooned the evil Khan 15 years prior. Khan vows revenge, commandeers Chekov’s ship, and hatches a plan to kill Kirk. When the Enterprise gets word that something is amiss, Kirk feels too old to return to the captain’s chair, but Spock ropes him into a "Vulcan dance meditation" and convinces him to take command. Suddenly Khan ambushes the Enterprise, nearly destroying it. Kirk outsmarts Khan by the skin of his teeth, barely escaping with his ship intact. As the story progresses, Kirk meets his long-lost son (who sounds a lot like William Shatner), we meet a host of classic Star Trek characters, Khan traps Kirk deep underground, and Kirk sings a reflective ballad called "When the Chickens Come Home" (with backup vocals by a band of mutant space chickens). But when Kirk is at his lowest point, his friends from the old Enterprise crew inspire him in a rousing song called "Boldly Go!" In the final showdown, Kirk outlasts Khan with the help of Spock and his crew. But Khan’s final act is to set off a doomsday weapon the Enterprise can’t escape from. Spock, applying utilitarian Vulcan logic, sacrifices himself to save the ship and his friends. Kirk barely gets to say goodbye to Spock as they speak one last time through a glass wall. Is it possible Data's artificial intelligence has produced something legitimately poignant? Either way, he decides it's too sad for the ending of a musical comedy, so the cast comes back out to sing a finale called "Spock Wasn’t Dead For Long!"
