"Anything Goes" was a song from the 20th century United States, which was collected, among other compositions, in the Great American Songbook.
In 2259, Ensign Nyota Uhura transmitted "Anything Goes" into a subspace fold, for an experiment in increasing the speed of subspace communication. The action of doing so triggers the anomaly that causes the Enterprise crew (and many others) to begin breaking into song. (SNW: "Subspace Rhapsody")
Lyrics[]
- In olden days a glimpse of stocking
- Was looked on as something shocking
- But now, God knows, anything goes
- Good authors, too, who once knew better words
- Now only use four-letter words
- Writing prose
- Anything goes
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Background information[]
"Anything Goes" was written by Cole Porter for his 1934 Broadway musical of the same name.
The version of the song that Uhura selects in Subspace Rhapsody is the 1962 cast recording by Eileen Rodgers. Kenneth Mars, who played Colyus in DS9: "Shadowplay", was part of the main cast in the the 1962 production.