In the early 1990s, local television network affiliates across North America aired this promotional advertisement for *The Next Generation*, featuring a song sung to the tune of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDk3eaeao8E

    Jean-Luc 
    Geordi's specs 
    Mysteries on the holodecks 

    Asteroids 
    Triple droids 
    Telepathic Betazoids 

    Transporter 
    Deadly claw
    Visitor from L.A. Law 

    Photons
    No Kirk
    Captain who has gone berserk 

    Shuttlecraft
    Counselor Troi
    Doctor Crusher's little boy 

    Klingon rites
    Parasites
    New heights
    Phaser fights
    Data's head
    Tasha's dead
    Riker's hangin' by a thread 

    Celebration
    Transformation
    Everyone to battle stations 

    We didn't start the series
    It's the Next Generation 
    on your favourite station 

    We didn't start the series
    But when we are gone it will 
    still be on and on and on... 

    We didn't start the series... 

**Who performed this song?**

I haven't been able to find a web site or other source with this information.

(Bonus: Who wrote the lyrics?)