Vid! "Born Too Late," DS9 ensemble, historical roleplay theme

[bironic]

I was going to wait to post this until after the holiday / start of the new academic year, since few people are likely to be interested to begin with, but patience, I don't have much. Here we go!

Title: Born Too Late
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Characters: Ensemble, gen, with background pairings
Length: 3:17
Music: The Clarks
Summary: Life in the 24th century has its perks, but that doesn't mean its citizens don't yearn for the days of lounge singing, princesses, pulp SF and… Vikings?
Physical/content warnings: None I can think of.
A/N: For my Kink Bingo "historical roleplay" square. Because boy, does Star Trek love playing dress-up from bygone eras of Western culture. Including pasts that occur in our own future. It's part compliment and part self-referential affection. One day there'll be a trans-Trek vid like this, complete with TOS reenacting ancient Greece and Rome and gangsters and Shakespeare and hanging out in '80s San Francisco, and TNG with its Robin Hoods and noir detectives and Westerns and Sherlock Holmes and HMS Enterprise and...
Credit: Anyway, thanks to my f-listers who tried to help me find the perfect historical roleplay song—it exists somewhere, I know it—and to kuwdora for suggesting how to deinterlace the footage.




Streaming at YouTube and Vimeo | Download MP4 (20 MB)

The YouTube version has captions. Here are the lyrics:

Vincent, will you teach me how to paint?
Teresa, will I ever be a saint?
John, I really think your songs are great
I was born too late

William, will you teach me how to write?
And Cassius, will you show me how to fight?
Thomas A., I think I see the light
I was born tonight

I've had a hard time leaving this town
I've been losing everything that I've found
I'm gonna search the sky, kiss the ground
Build it up and tear it back down

I've had a hard time leaving this place
I've been counting all the lines on my face
I'm gonna curse the sky, hit the ground
What goes up comes tumbling down
Tumbling down

Jimi, show me how you play that thing
And Elvis, will I ever be a king?
And Jerry, all the joy and love you bring
I was born to sing

Martin Luther King, show me the way
Jesus, Buddha, teach me how to pray
Christopher, I think I see the bay
I was born today
I was born today
I was born too late
I was born too late
I was born too late…



ETA: Winner of an Arbitrary Mod Prize at Kink Bingo! Hurrah!



Comments and concrit are always welcome.

This vid has shown at: Vidukon 2015 (Tropes vid show), Nine Worlds 2015 (Vid Long and Prosper vid show)

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Comments

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

AWESOME! The song does work for it, and it is so much fun to see them all having such fun. ♥

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, someone watched it! And liked it.

:)

Am working on a wet/messy/dirty vidlet now for the same Bingo line. 's fun so far, but hard to edit. & I sadly lack a way to snag a mud bath scene with Troi and Worf.

[catilinarian.livejournal.com]

Love the video - the images flow really well, and it's sheer fun. :)

Future retrotastic!

[brendan dolan-gavitt (from livejournal.com)]

I never thought about the irony of having characters that all love recreating the past shown to an audience that desperately wants to live in the future! This was wonderful, thank you :)

Re: Future retrotastic!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

It certainly seems like a great compliment that people in the future fantasize about history instead of their own future. It's like Data having enviable ultimate computing power but wanting to be more human. Makes us feel better!

Thanks for the comment!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks! I was hoping you'd see & enjoy this.

And that is awesome awesome news going on on your end. Sorry for incommunicado lately - am very excited for you and will be better about saying so. *hug*

[no-detective.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you for linking to these again; I totally missed them.

This vid is like balm upon my Midnight in Paris-endured soul. It tells the same story with more spirit, humor, and bittersweet depth. ♥

[eloiserummaging.livejournal.com]

Hey, this is awesome! Great idea & perfect song choice. :D

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Midnight in Paris lacked Cardassians in and out of makeup, not to mention Bashir playing dressup with O'Brien and Garak, so I see your problem already. :) Also: yay you liked it!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Thanks so much. I tried to find a song for a couple of months and ended up going with the one that I'd thought of originally... the loose interpretation of many of the words worked out pretty well, but I still believe there is a perfect song out there! But at least I you all didn't have to suffer through the second choice, which was a lo-fi song about playing pretend from a British children's show. :)

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

Love it!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Hooray! It was so lovely to go back through the discs and put this together, and it is now equally as lovely to see a few people enjoying the outcome.

[canadian-plant.livejournal.com]

asdfghjkl; This is fantastic! I don't have anything constructive to say, just that it made me all smiley and gleeful :-D

[softestbullet (from livejournal.com)]

I love this! It gives a wonderful nostalgic feeling. <3

[endeni]

Oh, this is greatness! What a charming vid, thank you for sharing! :)

[killthwight.livejournal.com]

Loved it! :D

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yay! I am so glad to hear it.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely, lovely. It made me feel nostalgic to make it so it's excellent to hear that it had the same effect on you (or maybe you mean that it shows how nostalgic the characters feel - which is also true!).

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the comment! I'm so glad you found it charming. It was a lot of fun to make, and to go through all those episodes again.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yay! *waves to Bashir in your icon*

[softestbullet (from livejournal.com)]

Both, but mostly I felt nostalgic for my silly DS9. :D

[killthwight.livejournal.com]

*waves to RSL* <3

[conceptofzero.livejournal.com]

This is just perfect. I think I smiled the whole way through.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am so glad to hear that! Thank you for the comment.

[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

Aaah, this was so much fun! Gorgeous!