I have never interpreted this as making fun of Rick Astley, just a stupid joke to trick people into watching something. I totally agree, he is very talented.
The meme has been a huge benefit to him as well, his popularity skyrocketed with a generation that wasn’t around when he was first popular and led to tons of listens and sales of his music, heck they even had him play at the Macy’s day parade!
As I recall, I read an interview with him, and he didn’t quite understand the meme, but he was thrilled it had blown up his popularity again and introduced so many new people to his music.
I never quite noticed that before, but honestly, that’s probably part of the reason I like the first season more than the others. It really felt like they were out there exploring instead of just the pew pew action combat it became.
Especially this meme (startrek.website)
Is anyone using awk?
Studying and awk came up....
You can always count on Garak ...or can you? (startrek.website)
Weird, right? (lemmy.world)
Move over Spidey, new template just dropped (startrek.website)
Credit goes to Chris Fenoglio and to @CorujoSilva (an awesome person) over on the Tenforward.social Mastodon instance....
The memes, they got me (reddthat.com)
Worf struggles with /c/Risa (startrek.website)
Picard never fully processed his counting trauma. (startrek.website)
You haven't really experienced snow white and the seven worfs until you've seen it in the original Klingon (startrek.website)
The housing market is tough, so you need someone on your side who's tougher. (startrek.website)
Star trek meme space 9 (startrek.website)
Scotty, we need to get this starship up to 88 light years per hour. (startrek.website)
If only they had the voice of John de Lancie (startrek.website)
Despite growing up with humans, Worf could never quite understand their battle songs. (startrek.website)
D&Denise (startrek.website)
Instructions unclear, posted the Captain. (startrek.website)
DS9 was the most sexually explicit star trek of them all. (startrek.website)
A reminder that the Beastie Boys are cannon in the trek universe. (startrek.website)
Eventually, Data decided running the dream program wasn't worth the cost. (startrek.website)
I am sure everyone here will pass with flying colors. (startrek.website)
Classic Geordi (startrek.website)
In a later report to Starfleet command, the computer malfunctions would be blamed on an Iconian probe. (startrek.website)
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one (startrek.website)
Anytime I walk into a room with Fox News on the TV. (startrek.website)
What else do you think they do during those long haul warps? (startrek.website)