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TIL the punk rocker on the San Francisco city bus blasting "I Hate You" in the 1986 movie "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" was actually a crew member, associate producer Kirk Thatcher. He convinced director Leonard Nimoy to let him write a punk music song and perform it.

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