Spockera

Spockera: noun. An opera featuring the Star Trek character Spock. The role is quite often a minor one, for example in Verdi´s Aida, he only features behind the croud of singing Egyptians trying to zap a space alien with a laser gun. In another production, the Bartered Bride, the stage directions have Spock hiding behind the wide dresses of buxom Bohemian women, slowly crawling towards the spaceship parked in Jeník´s (the main protagonist´s) back yard. When given a singing role, as in the case of the famous opera Batman and the Spacemonkeys by Philip Glass, Spock is a baritone, but this is not necessarily the rule since Johann Strauss junior had a very young spock sing a lovely mezzo-soprano aria on a flying saucer in the operetta Fuchs du hast die Gans gestohlen.