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source: Star Trek: Picard
audio: Death Cab for Cutie, "Black Sun"
length: 4:51
download: 302MB on MediaFire

summary: 
There is a role of a lifetime
And there's a song yet to be sung
And there's a dumpster in the driveway
Of all the plans that came undone


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Lyrics on AZ Lyrics



I didn't actually like S1 of Picard that much--it's by far my least favorite of the Kurtzman Treks and definitely has the weakest writing. But I associate Death Cab for Cutie with Star Trek more or less indelibly thanks to "Grapevine Fires," and once the image of "role of a lifetime" came to me I knew I had to make this vid to get it out of my head. Thanks to Festivids and nicasio_silang for giving me that chance. There's a certain appropriateness to using Ben Gibbard's divorce song from his divorce album to this show, I have to admit. And as I have said multiple times, I have guarded hopes for S2, when Michael Chabon won't be involved.