Warp 11 is a rock

Rock music

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 band from Sacramento

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, California

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 that performs original songs with lyrics entirely about Star Trek

Star Trek

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. Warp 11 music covers a range of styles including alternative

Alternative rock

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, classic rock

Classic rock

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, punk

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, country

Country music

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 and blues

Blues

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. Their lyrics are humorous and sometimes profane. Warp 11 was interviewed in the Paramount Pictures

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 documentary Trekkies 2

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. The Warp 11 song "Everything I Do, I Do With William Shatner" was included in the television broadcast of the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner.

Early years

In 1996, Karl Miller was working for an internet broadcasting company, Play TV, making a streaming internet video show about Star Trek

Star Trek

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. Karl decided to form a band that only sang songs about Star Trek to fill time on the show. He had already been in bands with Jeff Hewitt as a teenager and the rest of the band fell into place. Warp 11 formed in 1999 with Karl Miller, Brian Moore, Jeff Hewitt, and Kiki Stockhammer.

A New Drummer

John Merlino, although not an official member of Warp 11, could often be seen playing drums for Warp 11 during concerts to allow Jeff to take center stage (or to relieve him when he was too injured to play a full set—Warp 11's sets average close to two hours) and was unofficially given the rank of Ensign in 2005. At a September 2007 performance in San Francisco, Karl hinted that Jeff had left the band due to physical problems resulting from numerous injuries. John Merlino was promoted from Ensign to "Number One" (aka Commander or First Officer) at that show. Karl stated that Jeff may return occasionally to lend his vocal talents, which he did for the CD Release performance of "Suck My Spock Some More".

Band members

Current Members

Captain Karl Miller - bass and vocals

Chief Engineer Brian Moore - guitar and vocals

Chief Science Officer Kiki Stockhammer - keyboards and vocals

Commander John Merlino - drums

Former Members

Chief Medical Officer Jeff Hewitt - drums and vocals 1999-2007

Discography

Warp 11 has released five studio albums to date, with their sixth album currently in production.

• Suck My Spock (2000) - The final song of the album, "Montalban", is commonly the final song played at Warp 11 concerts. Like all of their albums, this first Warp 11 album features songs with Star Trek
  Star Trek
  Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
  
   as the subject matter. Suck My Spock has met with some resistance by Star Trek
  Star Trek
  Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
  
  fans due to the crude sound of the album title.
• Red Alert (2002)
• Boldly Go Down On Me (2005)
• It's Dead, Jim (2007)
• Suck My Spock Some More (2008) - This album features remastered and remixed songs from "Suck My Spock" as well as two newly recorded songs.
• I Don't Want to Go to Heaven as Long as They Have Vulcans in Hell (2009) - SyFy Channel says of this album "Best played loud, Vulcans in Hell is hard-driving and muscular, laced with raunchy sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll humor and profanity."
• Borgasm (2011)

External links

• Warp 11 official site
• Interview: Warp 11 (Badmouth.net)
• [ AllMusic.com page]