Amph [NERRRD] Observations, rhetorical questions, comments & 55 Years of Star Trek (General Thread)

There is a lot to like about Goldsmith's scores for the franchise. His work on TMP was stunning. I love everything about that score. The boldness with the brass instruments used in the arrangement of the main title for TMP really reminds me of Aaron Copeland's Fanfare of the Common Man, a composer that I believe Goldsmith cited as influence in his works.

 

His score was probably the best part of TMP.

 

You're welcome.

 

I always loved the contributions to the music of Trek that Jay Chattaway did.

 

Filming begins!

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...-at-the-squamish-boulders-in-british-columbia

 

The Voyage Home probably had the weakest of all the Trek scores if you ask me. Though that may be my general dislike for that film coming through.

 

Do you use colorful metaphors to describe the score?

 

Not just you, it's one of the least memorable for me. Actually, I can't remember any of the score at all.

 

ST4 is one of those love it or hate it affairs. It was the first ST thing I ever saw and I loved it. I think the score is brilliant, especially Hospital Chase. Rosenmann is pretty much a one-trick pony though. The score for Robocop 2 is so similar to this one.

ST6 has a thoroughly underrated score. The opening music is fantastic, as is Clear All Moorings.

Mind you, Nemesis aside, I don't think there's been a bad ST film score.

 

I...don't know.

I didn't think Nemesis' score was all that bad. Remus, Team Work and Lateral Run alone make it better than Voyage Home's.

TWOK, TUC, FC and Star Trek are my top four and also have the four best soundtracks.

 

I'd rate Into Darkness above Star Trek purely for London Calling. One of the greatest ST cues ever composed.

 

This post needs the music linked!

Overture

Clear All Moorings


Bonus: The Battle for Peace for the Battle of Khitomer. Also, here is Battle in the Mutara Nebula.

Eh.... Debatable.... The Nemesis score at least fit the more mysterious nature of the Romulans.

 

Mmmm, I never really liked the Into Darkness score. It's the only thing by Giacchino I've not loved. London Calling is good, but it's no Enterprising Young Men.

 

It would be dull if we all agreed

 

We can all agree at least that Enterprising Young Men is brilliant...right?

 

It would be better if he hadn't just stolen it from Batman Forever

 

More news:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/3...y-quinto-contracted-for-fourth-star-trek-film

 

Gotta make sure to lock down Quinto and Pine for at least 6 movies, and then Pine for a 7th for a cameo where he's killed off by a bridge.

Also Paramount secured the domain "startrekbeyond.com"

http://trekmovie.com/2015/06/24/breaking-paramount-has-likely-acquired-startrekbeyond-com/

which, if you remember the post a page ago, a guy had a fan-pitch website called Star Trek Beyond which became Star Trek Uncharted but he said he could pitch the TV series to Paramount. Which doesn't make much sense since TV Trek is controlled by CBS. (Fun fact, saw Ted 2 and there was TOS / TNG clips & merch in it and in the end credits it sez it was from CBS, not Paramount).

Oh and as for the Trek scores, they're generally more great ones than lackluster ones. Michael Giacchino is pretty amazing in everything and his last 2 Trek scores have been pretty great. As mentioned, that "London Calling" track which carries basically the entire emotional impact of the Section 31 schumck's meeting with "John Harrison" in the opening section of the movie.

Little known score, Brian Tyler (who has gone on to do a lot of Marvel stuff) did the score of Enterprise's "Regeneration" and it's pretty damn solid. Too bad he didn't score more of Enterprise, he only had 2 eps under his belt.

 

"It was *Shatnerian Pregnant Pause* fun."

 

Great quip in the "Generations" commentary track (awesome listen as Braga and Moore tear their own movie to shreds eventually by the third act) where they wrote the "It was ... fun" line and Shatner improv'd the "Oh my" bit. They say with "oh my" that it suddenly seems like Kirk went to hell.

 

One of the best moments from Generations is Data's Life Forms song.

 

Huh. I always interpreted that line as Kirk meeting his friends and family on the otherside in the afterlife.

 

Shatner's novel "the Return" retcons the "oh my" as Kirk was seeing some sort of resurrection wave whatever that took him out and put him into a new body and then he fought the Borg, or something, or maybe Borg and Romulans resurrected him because reasons. I forget the specifics, it was decades ago I read it. Check memory beta.

 

Yeah, I've been wondering about that. I figure that Paramount knows something we don't about CBS's TV option for Star Trek, like there's a loophole of some kind, that lets them some kind of project other than a TV show, say a webseries, like Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome or CBS's option is about to expire completely and Paramount is lining up potential ideas for a new Star Trek series. Another possibility is that Paramount has decided that the Milky Way has been pretty thoroughly mined in the Prime Universe, which it has been, and ATL Kirk's Five Year Mission is going to take place in a different galaxy. I admit that I am speculating, but the idea of a franchise fan pitching a series to a studio is just so unusual that I figure that there must be something that we don't know and Paramount does.

 

I own the book, but haven't read in awhile, I'll probably read it again this weekend to check.