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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is getting some homage in the latest Picard series – but there’s another take on it coming to New York.

Khan!!! The Musical is set to open later this year. “It is 2366, and Data the Android presents his campy musical adaptation of The Wrath of Khan. In this sci-fi send-up, an older Captain Kirk is experiencing a ‘coming of middle age’ story when his nemesis Khan escapes exile and vows revenge. The ensuing cat-and-mouse game sparks an adventure that includes Vulcan tap dancing, Kirk’s long-lost son (a William Shatner impersonator), and of course… mutant space chickens!”

The “unauthorized Star Trek parody” will run from May 4 to June 4, at The Players Theatre, directed by John Lampe. It’s co-written by Brent Black, who also composed the show, and was also co-conceived by Alina Morgan. According to Black, “Something about a Wrath of Khan musical kept nagging at me, eventually my friend Alina came up with the idea that the musical itself could be a simulation within the universe of Star Trek, which led to the concept of Data the Android presenting a ‘holographic’ musical that he programmed himself. A lot of episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation feature storylines where Data has to learn something through trial and error, usually going a little too far or taking things a bit too literally; the idea that he would write a musical after studying classic Broadway shows of the past opened the concept of the show even wider to include sendups of classic musicals.”

Tickets are available here.