Khan!!! The Musical! is a gut-bustingly funny parody based on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Star Trek: The Next Generation with an entirely original score. It's fun for Trekkies, Broadway fans and "normies alike", and you don't have to know anything about Star Trek to enjoy it!
It was produced Off-Broadway in 2023, receiving rave reviews and playing sold-out performances. In 2024, we rocked Texas with a regional premiere.
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In 2366, Data the android presents his musical comedy version of The Wrath of Khan with a cast of virtual actors 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.
It is 2366, and Data the android is presenting his new “virtual” musical for an AI audience. His show-within-a-show retells the events of the movie The Wrath of Khan, (he embellishes the “historical” facts for dramatic effect, of course). Data’s naivete about musical theatre spawns a campy Star Trek satire with a big heart that borrows heavily from classic Broadway moments. He also plays multiple characters 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, who is 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' sixties (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 in a jazzy soft-shoe number, Spock 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), Saavik finally gets a chance to go on an away mission, Khan traps Kirk on a remote planetoid, and a band of mutant space chickens sing backup for a reflective ballad called "When the Chickens Come Home". 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. Kirk finally feels “Young,” but it comes at a huge cost... 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!"
BRENT BLACK
(Book, music, and lyrics)
Brent Black is a comedian, musician, and video game developer. He’s been professionally creating “nerd comedy” and parody material throughout his career, and he's best known for his YouTube channel "Brentalfloss" which has garnered nearly half a million subscribers. His three full-length Brentalfloss albums all debuted in the the top ten on the iTunes and Billboard comedy charts.
Aside from his YouTube persona, Brent has written or co-written 7 musicals, including a 2010 Off-Broadway musical called I'll Be Damned which starred Tony nominee Mary Testa. He also co-hosted the podcasts Trends Like These and Question Box, and is the lead designer/head writer for the popular video game franchise Use Your Words.
ALINA ROTH
(Co-conceiver)
Alina has been a Trekkie since a very young age. She has co-hosted multiple Star Trek-themed podcasts exploring it through the prisms of the queer community and family connections. She has also hosted the Syfy Channel’s “Who Won the Week” podcast, and is currently the co-host of the popular music review podcast “Song vs Song”. She was a contributing writer for the Syfy Channel’s Syfy Wire publication for 9 years, and has recently been a featured writer for Looper and Grunge.