Either this is an ironic coincidence or an intentional homage, but this song was performed by a Doctor in another science fiction franchise.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/La_donna_%C3%A8_mobile
In Star Trek: Voyager, the ship's doctor (also simply known as "the Doctor") performs this song in the episode "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy."
Two sci-fi shows, two Doctors, the same song. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Starsoldier2400 (talk • contribs) .
- "La donna è mobile" is, along with "Nessun Dorma", arguably the most recognisable aria on the planet. He was singing the one song that almost all of the audience were guaranteed to view as "operatic".
- It's unlikely the writers of "Tinker Tenor Soldier Spy" specified that "La donna è mobile" be sung by Robert Picardo because they were thinking fondly of Pertwee. It's far more likely that they chose a song that Picardo could sing, and that they were capitalising upon the 1990s fad of The Three Tenors, whose number one albums which contained traditional arias and songs like "La donna è mobile", had made opera marginally cool again. "La donna è mobile" is just a bog standard piece of opera that's had a huge number of recoreded covers. Think of it as the "Yesterday" of opera, or the "White Christmas" of Christmas songs. It's pure coincidence — that is, an unrelated happenstance — that Pertwee, Picardo and, um, Tito have all sung the song on screen.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 05:32: Wed 15 Aug 2012