Punk from The Voyage Home in Star Trek Picard ( Kirk Thatcher cameo) very funny

 

I’ve been watching the second season of Star Trek Picard, which is a better season, and I noticed they did a very clever callback to Star Trek IV. They brought the actual punk rocker from the bus in Star Trek IV. Spock nerve-pinched him back in the 80s in San Francisco.  Thirty-plus years later, in another, this punk rocker had an encounter with another group from the future, and he has flashbacks to Spock.  You can see him grab his neck and sheepishly relent.   

Kirk R. Thatcher is a creature-maker and director.  He has worked for The Muppets, Star Wars, and Star Trek over the years.  He is also the one that wrote and performed the song, with some crew of Star Trek IV, I Hate You.  Likewise, he also played the Punk on Bus, and he reprised his role some 37 years later,  He even wrote a sequel song to his first “hit”.  

In-universe, this punk is still riding a bus and dressing the same and listening to the same damn music…just slightly updated.  He has been doing it for over 30 years, too.  Sounds a lot like my life…actually.  It has been 30 years and I still wear the same shit I had three decades ago. 

Here's the full song. By the way, they sang and recorded the song poorly because they wanted it to sound like a shitty indie record.

BTW, the Punk does make an appearance in some non-North American posters.