Same here; its a powerful score–very grim, while the mutants’ deliberately off-key singing (to the missile) underscored just how twisted they were.

Re: others’ comments on TOS scores: yes, its too bad the wealth of great, memorable music from TOS has not been treated to a proper release..but Jeff Bond’s suggestion about MP3s may be the only solution for the moment.

This was one of the first soundtracks I bought on cassette. I remember ripping off the plastic wrap and shoving the tape into my walkman as my father drove me home from the store. I was transfixed then, and listened to it constantly for a week. To this day, STIV is the only Trek movie I’ll watch through the end credits, just to hear the end title track.

My only regret is that the soundtrack doesn’t include the musical cues when we see StarFleet HQ and the Bird of Prey on Vulcan.

A great score, and a wonderful tribute by Mr. Bond. Thank you.

Leonard Rosenman may be gone, but he left a legacy of great music. He will not be forgotten.

Not only Trek music, but also the scores from such blockbusters as Superman serve as ready audio pick-me-ups when the need arises.

Some people — including yours truly — love driving the open road and vast spaces between urban centers in this great country of ours and particularly when soundtracking it with music that inspires confidence and good feeling. Cranking up Whitesnake’s “Here I Go,” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKTiwCez6Zs ) is a fine thing to do when you tour the countryside; the Trek soundracks do the same for me, too.

Agreed, agreed, agreed on a release of the TOS scores. There’s some great stuff available from Varese Sarabande (they have a Vol 1 and Vol 2 featuring some good stuff from TOS):

Same goes for GNP Crescendo; they have a STAR TREK page:

If memory serves, the GNP stuff is original whereas the Varese catalog is new(er) recordings.

What I would really like to see is a TOS-R type of re-recording/re-mastering of TOS scores.

Be careful, though, there are a few collections of TOS music that are IMO well below par (the two Label X releases, again IMO only).

As for the remaining unreleased Trek scores, this has been the dream of many people and many soundtrack labels for many years–there have been many attempts to do it and it has always been an exercise in frustration. For those of you who are technically minded, it’s possible to rip MP3s from the rear channel of the TOS DVDs and get the music and effects tracks free of dialogue, and this will get you a great deal of the music in pretty clear form. There’s still a chance that the rest of the music will be put out somewhere in conjunction with the release of the new film. But Paramount has always been extraordinarily difficult to deal with for this kind of stuff–we put a proposal forward at Film Score Monthly and many other labels have tried to do it, and Neil Norman and Crescendo still has some physical control over some of the sources as far as I understand it. The good news is if you watch what has happened over the past year, many of the studios that have been regarded as the most difficult to deal with for this stuff, namely Disney and Universal, have finally started opening up–Paramount isn’t among them yet, but at least there’s hope, and I know that the original music sources for a number of the remaining TOS scores have been preserved in good condition, so there is always hope. Believe me, it’s a dream of mine too!