ST09 Tidbits (T-21): More Score Clips + New Online Games + South Park Trek + more April 16, 2009
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Great Links, Star Trek (2009 film) , trackback
This mornings Tidbits for the Star Trek movie bring you a even more music clips from the Giacchino score. Plus Paramount has released a new free online game (and Kellogg’s has one too). Trek is also inspring some deep thinking and a new South Park episode. We have all that and much more below.
More Giacchino music
Yesterday we pointed to four clips from the Star Trek soundtrack at the German soundtrack site, Colosseum.de. Now there are more at Cinemusic.net. And thanks to YouTuber ImperatorAquila you can listen to all the music clips in the player below:
The Soundtrack is available for pre-order at Amazon and should be released on May 5th. Closer to the release, TrekMovie will hold a contest to give away five copies of the soundtrack.
New free online game
Yesterday Paramount announced a new ‘Addicting Game’ called the "Star Trek Academy Trainer." The game is a series of harder and harder puzzles, using imagery from the new Star Trek movie. Check it out at addictinggames.com.
Get addicted
Kellogg’s advertgame
A few fans have sent in tips that they have seen a ‘beam up badge’ game embedded in advertisements for Kellogg’s Star Trek products. It has been spotted on the Nickelodeon website and at Yahoo Movies so far.
Beam up Badge Adver-game popping up around the web
Kellogg’s data cards
Speaking of Kellogg’s, there is a new element to their Star Trek promotion. Some cereals are now coming with ‘Data Cards.’
New Star Trek Data Cards on select Kelloggs Cereals
Star Trek seen as a return to 60s optimism
There has been a lot written about the new Star Trek movie in the mainstream media, analyzing its box office potential, appeal to various demographics, reviews of the film itself, etc. But the UK Times has a new article titled Star Trek boldly goes into the Obama era, looking at the film as it sits in history.
Here is an excerpt:
The first teasing trailer for the new Star Trek movie in January last year showed glimpses of a shiny new USS Enterprise “under construction”. In the background President Kennedy was famously speechifying about space and Neil Armstrong’s crackly “One small step for Man” was heard. And then came the voice of a much more famous figure: Mr Spock, speaking the immortal, still spine-tingling line: “Space, the final frontier . . .”
As things turned out, a year or so later it wasn’t just the Enterprise that was “under construction”. It wasn’t just the most successful TV and film franchise to date being rebooted — it was also the USA that was hitting the “reset” button. And what is the default setting? That Sixties optimism. They believed in the future back then.
South Park homage to First Contact
In another ‘Trek in the zeitgeist’ moment, last night’s South Park was titled "First Contact" and was a parody to the hit Star Trek movie from 1996. Here is a clip:
More early May 7 show times
More and more theaters are adding showings for Star Trek between 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM on May 7th. Go to Fandango.com to find your local listings
Star Trek ARG clues?
Intrepid TrekMovie readers have spotted what they think is new clue to the Star Trek viral Alternative Reality Game. The new clue is on a French website with a post related to an intersection that was found on another viral site. There is also a new URL that has been found related to the game. Our previous story has been updated with this new information.
Collins on Ayel
Clifton Collins plays lead henchman to Eric Bana’s Nero in the new Star Trek. In a new interview about his latest project, Trek came up, here is what he had to say:
Wolcott: …You’re also in the new Star Trek. What’s that like?
Collins: It’s a little surreal. I had a lot of fun working with J.J. Abrams. You can trust a person like J.J. And it’s fun to be a part of the revamping of the Paramount franchise.
Wolcott: I try not to learn much about a movie before I see it so I know very little about the film. You have a pretty central role in the plot don’t you?
Collins: Eric Bana and I are Romulans, and we have a bit of a beef with some of the folks on the Enterprise.
Thanks to all the tipsters, too many to count
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Great Music!
Cereal can be fun again!
Damn! Can’t get those flash games to work -.-
no comments on tonight’s Trek theme CSI? Based on the previews…the whole episode revolves around a murder at a Star Trek convention. (though its not called star trek)
Those end credits sure sound purrty!
Yipee! I just bought my tickets for the first showing in Lexington KY on May 7th! First?
D`oh!
South Park! I wish I had known about the episode.
Enterprising Young Man is very reminiscent of “Kirk’s Explosive Reply” from WOK… “You go right on quoting regulations, Mr. Saavik!”
end credits sound a lot like ID4
I think it is funny how an ancillary character like Uhura is garnering a rather large piece of the marketing for this movie. Especially compared to a more major character such as Bones. I guess the whole sex appeal of the actress playing her was too good to pass up by the studio heads.
>>Enterprising Young Man is very reminiscent of “Kirk’s Explosive Reply” from WOK<<
I was intrigued , so I listened to both, and I do fail to see how it’s reminiscent to it.
Its a pitty that they trusted the frachise not enough to make a “proper ” Star Trek game on great platforms like PS3 and Xbox360 soundtrak sounds better and better!
KMKPROD
They re-run South Park like a dozen times in the week
Haha, Family Guy, South Park, what’s next! Love seeing Trek in pop culture.
“First Contact” must be a favorite for the South Park writers. I remember another reference from the episode where Jesus fought Satan in a boxing ring.
Stan gave Jesus a pep-talk by saying, “Don’t try to be a great man, just be a man.” Kyle asked Stan something like, “You’ve read the bible?” Stan, “Nah, it’s from Star Trek!”
The music’s staccato brass and percussion elements really remind me of some of the best 1960s soundtrack music, including the original series–it’s brash, bold, and a little hip and cool, too. Great stuff!
Very impressed by that end theme especially!
Listen to those end credits!! Wow. Brought a tear to my eye.
Mixed feelings here… Music seems very standard. Maybe it’ll be more rousing in a theater, but right now, except for the”Hella Bar Talk” music on the web site, it seems to be missing something. I’ve read COUNTDOWN and the Nero music, for me, just doesn’t seem to convey that sense of tragedy that I think it should. I don’t know, maybe I’m being too critical.
20.. maybe you and quite a few people who visit this site…
I’ve always enjoyed MIchael Giacchino’s music — nice variety, good sense of texture and rhythm, and knows when to let the diegetic ‘music’ of dialoge and sound effects to take center stage. Looking forward to getting my own copy of this one…
17. rdb – April 16, 2009
The music’s staccato brass and percussion elements really remind me of some of the best 1960s soundtrack music, including the original series–it’s brash, bold, and a little hip and cool, too. Great stuff
Yes, I totally agree.
Geez marion joles. Besides Uhura, are there ANY other female characters in this movie? I feel like J.J. just decided to do away with his talent of writing female characters that actually do something and went all male characters on us.
21 – agreed. lol
Trek press preview in London and premiere in Berlin on the way. Will be checking out twitters later
25. not agreed. lol even harder
Music is pretty good. I was worried we’d get Garageband-esque stuff like from Pirates of the Carribean!
Hmmm. Very standard, neoromatic, generic film score. Courage, especially his orchestrations, was avante garde with his instrumentation and harmonizations (think of all those cool tetrachords and brass heavy wind ensembles with then cutting edge cool electronic organ). He carried this over into his subcontract work for Goldsmith, whose opus speaks for itself, and helped carry much of the “otherworldliness” befitting a Star Trek.
On the plus side, I like his recognizable and prominent melodies, both stepwise and arpeggiated contra the “sonic wall paper” of the B&B era. I also like how he transformed the Star Trek theme into his own semi-grupetto leitmotif. It demonstrated a similarity in style I had not expected, very marine in the same way Courage’s “Beyond the Blue Horizon” inspiration worked. (Why is it that nautical episodes are always scored with rolling melodies and busy harmonizations? Could Die Moldau have been that influential???? I guess the answer is obvious!)
Sincerely,
C.S. Lewis
PS: The Imax Experience at King of Prussia still has no show times!
#11, #24
Once again proving you can’t please everyone. Or maybe even anyone.
“I’m a Doctor, Not a Physicist” That’s the line I’m waiting for. Directed at Spock?
Finally! That extended cut of the End credits is the stuff I’m looking for in a trek soundtrack! Glad as hell I preordered this CD!
The new snippet of end credit music actually reminds me of a swashbuckling pirate adventure.
Perfect music for reading TrekMovie Tidbits!
CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR IT IN SURROUND SOUND OR SKYWALKER SOUND OR WHATEVER… THE TOS THEME IN THE END CREDITS IS AWESOME..BROUGHT A TEAR TO ME EYE AS WELL!!
What the hell trek movie. The southpark ep is not called first contact, the clip is called first contact. The ep is based around a first contact in the southpark universe but has about as much to do with startrek first contact in plot terms as it does with the movie ‘contact’.
ITS A FAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEE
Wow! There are things I dislike about this upcoming movie but the music isn’t one of them. Great job IMO. Especially like the way the Courage score was “blended” into the end credits as opposed to being “stand-alone” like is often done.
The South Park duo are huge trekkies. If anyone hasn’t seen “Roger Ebert should lay off the fatty foods” yet you must, its a word for word homage to Dagger in the Mind.
I am pro-cereal.
I wanted more Goldsmith in the score — this has a Horner feel to it. Hopefully if there are Klingons in the next movie, Giacchino will use the Klingon motif that Goldsmith created back for ST:TMP and used in other movies.
Well, now we know the McCoyism in the movie, at least!
IRL, I get to use the converse, “I’m a physicist, not a physician” ;)
You know as I listen to
“Enterpriseign Young Man” I think back to the scene in ST II where the Enterprise leaves dock.
End Titles sounds like the orchestra at the Oscars playing it when someone comes up for their award…
Nero Death Experience, I think glacier scene in ST VI
Seems like these guys have at least done some homework or at least have a good feal for the “adventure” side of it all.
Not that it matters but I like it alright ! Its not the opening Titles to ST IV or “Stealing the Enterprise” from ST III but its good.
Enterprising Young Man is the same song that has been playing on startrekmovie.com for the past few months!!
love his interpretation of the AC theme – not enough though!
Anyone else hear echoes of The High Chapperal in the beginning of Enterprising Young Men?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu4g-N8bQKE
score is not bad
but not as good as the master Jerry Goldsmith
I agree there aren’t any truly memorable themes in the score, but I still think it works exceptionally well..
It’s big, bombastic, exciting– and most importantly, doesn’t sound like all the OTHER Star Trek movie scores. Goldsmith definitely did some good work over the years, but by the end his music was sounding way too predictable. Every new theme was just a mishmash of a previous one.
the new music is fantastic. i can’t wait for the album
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Really?
Damnit, I wanted to quote:
Goldsmith definitely did some good work over the years, but by the end his music was sounding way too predictable. Every new theme was just a mishmash of a previous one.
ugh. that music is FANTASTIC.
is it nerdy to say i just got chills? :D love it!
I got tingles when the origonal theme played for the end creidts but was still new and then it changed. I’m so glad that they did that.
#50 (Jarod): “Goldsmith definitely did some good work over the years, but by the end his music was sounding way too predictable.”
I totally second that. I’m a huge Goldsmith fan, but I never really liked his Star Trek work as much as his other scores. The ST:TMP score however was gorgeous, one of the best film scores ever. If he had only composed a different main title. ;) I’m probably one of the few hardcore fans who doesn’t like that composition.
epic score and music, holy smokes.
13. Tiberious100 –
“Its a pitty that they trusted the frachise not enough to make a “proper ” Star Trek game on great platforms like PS3 and Xbox360 soundtrak sounds better and better!”
I personally don’t give two craps whether or not a ‘decent’ game is made in connection with the movie. Any game made to tie in with a summer blockbuster would almost certainly be rushed and therefore disappointing. But I’m not a gamer so who cares about my opinion anyway?
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There’s certainly something very “Goldsmithic” in what I could hear from the tiny music clips…
The hons, the drums, the dramticity, even the choirs, all quite original yet similar…! Maybe it is ALL unintentional… but there’s a stylistic resemblance, I think… Old and dear Jerry would be certanly proud…! ;o)
And the “orignal theme” – in the clip – got a pompous and HEAVY new version that is superb – or so it seems…!
In all, I put together mentaly this clips with the scenes of the treilers and I guess the movie will be quite an emotional exprience…!!!
I’m an “old school” fan… But I’m lookig forward to see this movie…!!
Buzz
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America has hit the reset button, alright. Back to the era of Jimmy Carter and “our country sucks”. Obama has done NOTHING but make matters worse. Let’s keep politics out of Star Trek, shall we?
29. C.S. Lewis –
Your nerd is showing. Just kidding I thought of Smetana’s Moldau as well.
49: Jarod
yes i think the music is fantastic. more so with the choir
“Nero Sighted” really gives me James Horner memories of both Khan and Kruge.Awesome. Love the bit of end credits we’ve been given, too.
57. Amanda –
“America has hit the reset button, alright. Back to the era of Jimmy Carter and “our country sucks”. Obama has done NOTHING but make matters worse. Let’s keep politics out of Star Trek, shall we?”
Hypocritical much? Thanks for your opinion of our president, Johnny Reb.
Damn this game. It’s hard. I’m also terribad at spotting the differences between pictures.
Haha, I like that SP episode. xD Reminds me a little of the First Contact show in “In a Mirror, Darkly”.
#57; Amanda :: Hey, do you mind? I and many people happen to be big supporters of President Obama. It’s not his fault he came into the oval office at a really bad time in our economic history. I’m almost positive he’s doing the best job he can, considering the circumstances.
And I’m not listening to that music ’til May 7th/8th. xD I want to be WOWED the day OF the premiere!
I think I just threw up a little in excitement of the end titles.
#61, Izbot:
It was there, therefore I commented on it. I’m not going to lay down and take it. But I would much rather NOT see it and NOT comment on it (politics).
65. Amanda –
“#61, Izbot:
It was there, therefore I commented on it. I’m not going to lay down and take it. But I would much rather NOT see it and NOT comment on it (politics).”
It’s nice of you to say that. Many of us who spoke our mind during Bush’s first term ran the risk of being called unpatriotic or unAmerican because we disagreed with his agenda. Look where he got us: in the very mess Obama is tasked with cleaning up. Give him a break.
Stupid gameses. We HATES it.
I think Mr Obama may just mark the start of the era of optimism that Star Trek always extolled…. give the guy a chance! He has to clean up the almighty mess made by the last guy first – THAT’S going to take time…
@DavidJ
As for Goldsmith sounding predictable and “mish-mashed”, I’m sure that the recycling is just the use of motifs. I really will miss the “Klingon” motif/theme that was used for Klingons in The Motion Picture and for the Defiant in First Contact. I hope that it will be used if they bring back Klingons in another movie.
@Buzz Lancaster
Funny — I hear a Horner influence in the score.
68. Mugz -
My thoughts exactly. Despite the grim news I feel optimistic about where we can go from here. And It’s serendipidous that the new Star Trek movie is coming out when it is. The Eugenics Wars, World War 3 and the Romulan War are behind us — the golden age of Starfleet and the Federation loom before us. A new frontier and all that. Exciting stuff but also time to hunker down and get our hands dirty. Some folks would rather someone else do the hunkering down rather than pull their own weight.
End of soapbox.
lol @ companies thinking that trek is going to appeal the kids.
End credits music FTW!!
69
Actually the Klingon theme is the perfect example of how predictable and overused a lot of the music felt to me.
It felt completely out of place in FC, and didn’t fit the Worf character at all (what, just because he’s a Klingon??). Not to mention the countless times we heard it in the Klingon episodes of TNG and DS9.
Enough already.
I definitely love his scores for TMP and TFF, but his others just didn’t do much for me.
You know, I may be off, but I think the new theme’s chords correspond to the first 4 notes played in the original fanfare….you know, the part before “Space…the Final Frontier”
But I may be off.
Michael Giacchino music sounds so generic… lame
11…
Uhura may have been an ancilliary character on the original series, but from what I’m seeing and hearing, she’s got a rather decent sized role. Big enough, I’m guessing, to make Nichelle sit at home and say WTF?!!?
The music sounds too much like Lost, he should stop making music with a “bontempi”.
I would’ve liked to hear a Trek movie soundtrack composed by Bear McCreary, that guy is a genius.
47. DavidJ – “Goldsmith definitely did some good work over the years, but by the end his music was sounding way too predictable. Every new theme was just a mishmash of a previous one.”
Yeah, like John Williams… always the same style.
77
I would be elated if Uhura finally gets her due in the new franchise, especially since she was rather short changed in the original. BUT, NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF SUCH STAPLE CHARACTERS AS McCOY OR SCOTTY.
Agree with me or not, I’m not being belligerent, just stating facts: they are using the fact that this actress is GORGEOUS as a promotion for this movie. I’m not bashing them for it, just stating simple facts here.
If you want to jump on somebody on this thread, jump on the idiots trying to have a political discussion about Obama! Get your priorities straight.
MH,
Please do not accuse me of “jumping on you”. I’ve jumped on no one yet. I have a habit of making it PAINFULLY clear when I am jumping on someone. I simply stated that it was looking like Uhura has quite a decent role in the film, a large enough role that would make Nichelle Nichols wish she’d been given that kind of material.
My remarks were as follows: “Uhura may have been an ancilliary character on the original series, but from what I’m seeing and hearing, she’s got a rather decent sized role. Big enough, I’m guessing, to make Nichelle sit at home and say WTF?!!?”
If this is jumping on anyone, will a third party please let me know?
As for the marketing of Uhura (a point I’ve infuriated you about while having never commented on), there is no doubt in my mind that Zoe Saldana/Uhura are being heavily marketed. Zoe is a a gorgeous young woman, and a gorgeous African American woman: bombarding the audience with a young beautiful face — and an African American one to boo — is a brilliant move on Paramount’s part, as they’re reaching out to a wider demographic than if they just plastered Kirk, Spock and Bones everywhere.
So rest assured, my priorities are absolutely, completely straight and I stand by my original post as a calm, respectful comment.
It’s terrible that they keep putting Uhura on all the ads and completely ignoring “Bones”.
“Bones” always got ignored too in the old days during the old movies. De Forest Kelley even mentioned it in an interview back in the 80s saying that it would always break his heart when he would see the posters and they rarely ever featured “Bones”. I can understand they might want to use Zoe’s appeal in order to bring in the young male audience, but at least figure out a way to keep “Bones” in there too.
-Nostalgic-G
treknostalgia.blogspot
81. My sentiments exactly.
80. Many apologies, just stating an opinion, more of a comment really, on the marketing trend of movies.
Hmmm… that first clip (which supposedly is the end credit theme) sounds kinda melancholy… but that second clip sounds AWWWWWESOME!!
83
I agree with you here. Is it me or does the second clip sound reminiscent of a Western. Kinda like scores from the epic Westerns from the 1950s and 60s- How the West Was Won-ish. Very bombastic and true to Roddenberry’s vision of Trek being a Space Western-Wagon Train to the Stars.
The last track the one at the site I’ve heard it before and I really like it. Not sure about the other pieces, but I guess one has to really hear it along with the movie and more of it before I can make judgment.
Urp, never mind… got the clips confused. When is May 8 going to hurry up and get here… I’m getting all addled from the waiting!!
That “Run and Shoot” track sounds like an homage to TOS ffight/combat music. I really like the score (what very very little we have heard of it) and I especially like the orchestrations on the website music. I could listen to that all night!
the clips from cinemusic.net got taken down:(
AS I’ve said, Giaccino has out-Goldsmithed Goldsmith!
Especially in comparison to the FC/INS/NEM trilogy of repetition he degenerated into in his later years. Sad but true.
But for now, I’m VERY enthusiastic about this score.
My analysis of the scores.
Labor of Love: I’m not sure what vibes I getting exactly from this one. It sounds good and makes sense where I think it goes (Kirk’s Birth). I don’t know.
Enterprising Young Man: I really get a James Horner feel with this music. Very TWOK/TSFS in sound.
Does it still McFly?: This piece isn’t grabbing my attention much. I’ll have to wait and see what the context is.
Nero Sighted: Getting a vibe of both Cliff Eidelmanm, Alan Silvestri and even Hans Zimmer a little bit. Really good.
Run and Shoot Offense: Sounds like John Williams a bit, mostly from his score for Minority Report. Awesome.
Nero Death Experience: Again I get a bit of Alan Silvestri in tone. I like it alot.
Hella Bar Talk: Sounds good. I think it will work for the inspirational Part in the movie (Pike’s speech).
End Credits: Just Awesome Giacchino fused with Courage. Just awesome.
Giacchino for me has always mangaged to capure old style themes and update and put his own spin on them. This sounds really good an I personally think this will be counted among the better Star Trek Soundtracks.
#11 – of course they will highlight Uhura, she is beautiful, and not in a bimbo way like 7 and T’Pol.
If you want a wide audience, it makes sense not to put 4-5 guys on the poster.
Not to get drawn into a political debate but I thought the comparison article on the political vibe of the country and the sitting presidents was interesting…
I think its hysterical all the people trying to sound all uber smart about music lol… I don’t know that mush about it and won’t pretend I do… What I do know is that I like it.
Ok. I’m sold on the musical score! It’s great!!!
Can’t wait to hear it in the context of the movie!
#74 —
I’m as big of a fan of Goldsmith’s music as their could be…and I agree with you on his last two Trek scores.
However, I blame that on Berman more than Goldsmith. I have evidence to back this up too as the soundtrack for The Mummy — composed around the same time as the last two Trek scores — is FAR superior to the Trek scores.
Goldsmith wasn’t washed up — he just either was not inspired by those last two films or Berman kept a tight leash.
I think it was Berman!
Hell………freaking……yes!
I own Where Nomad Has Gone Before on DVD, and although it wasn’t the best Trek movie, I DID like the score, especially the opening theme which was re-used and re-used and re-used….
To me, that theme IS the Trek theme, not the one from TOS….I was hoping they would re-vamp it and use it again, but I really like the Courage-esque ending credits theme…that gave me more chills than the trailers…I liked the kitschy early promotinal posters, and that ending theme is just perfect…it has an air of nostalgia, and yet somehow it fits well with the whole “this isn’t your father’s Trek” motif
One thing I would say though…As much as I think TMP could have been better, I really liked the opening pre-lude with the long instrumental against the backdrop of the moving star field…I know that opening a film that way is old school, but I like big, epic movies and I really wish they could do something similiar for Star Trek…I know I ‘m dreaming, but a man can dream…
A man…can dream….
@81
Well, its probably by rank. Isn’t Uhura 3rd in the chain of command?
They should put Bones in a poster though.
But the same thing always happened in Star Trek: TNG movies. You’d see Picard and Data, but never Riker.
Okay, for some reason I just love that track name, “Does It Still McFly?”
It’s just so delightfully weird….
#87 I was thinking the same thing!! Reminds me of Shatner with his conveniently ripped shirt rolling around with some baddie in the California desert…I mean, on an alien planet…very kitsche and yet still cool…
WOO HOO!!! My local theater is having the first showing of Star Trek on Thursday May 7th at 4:10 PM….I’ll be there!!!
#81
I’d need to see proof of that, as Dee Kelly rarely griped about anything. Seems very out of character for him to complain about not being on a poster.
I’ve been listening to the score clips over and over. Judging by the score, we’re in for one HELL of a ride !!!
I finally figured out what bugs me most about the score: the endless repetition of the four bars of “main theme” Giacchino condescended to throw on paper, coupled with their almost offensively stale chord progression. If it weren’t for that passage (and the 10298374 further iterations thereof), it would merely be passable generic summer action flick music.
Well, I guess the clips were nice while they lasted. :-( Fortunately, I still had the end theme clip opened when they removed the clips. ;-)
Fantastic music. Pays glorious homage to Korngold, the sweepingly, desperately Romantic massed orchestras… bravo. Michael Giacchino, respect.
first trek sound track i would consider buying, i can tell you that.
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“first trek sound track i would consider buying, i can tell you that.”
Why that?
awsome soundtrack. main theme is very inspiring, cant wait for the movie
With regard to the music snippets, the original theme during the end credits is a welcome addition and I’m sure I’ll get choked up when it’s played on the big screen, most likely to some shot of the Enterprise warping away. However, Giacchino’s bridge in that piece before the reprise of the Star Trek theme is a little odd and too…cheery? That bridge that’s played sounds like something from Speed Racer and seems a little out of place.
The rest of the music seems OK but somewhat generic to me. It’ll probably fit the scenes in the movie but I don’t hear any memorable melodies. It reminds me of a comment by Gerry Goldsmith on one of the ST:TMP documentaries. He’d prepared a piece of mucic for when Scotty takes Kirk to the Enterprise in the Travel Pod. Upon playing it for Robert Wise, Wise was less than enthusiastic. When Goldsmith asked him what was wrong with the piece, Wise said it had no melody. That’s what I get from the snippets of Giacchino’s original score: sweeping music but no particular melody.
Nero Sighted sound really cool. Some people have compared it to Horner, but it sounds more like music that could have actually come from a TOS episode to me.
Like I said many times before, the recurring theme running in the soundtrack (or rather, what we’ve heard so far) is very “Batman Forever”-ish. I still need to get past that, but I do like “Hella Bar Talk” because it’s subtle and driving at the same time.
Music feels a bit underwhelming but I’ll have to hear it matched with the film. Sounds extrememely similar to Cliff Eidelman’s Trek VI score which has really grown on me. Not Jerry Goldsmith’s TMP score but then again that was the best SCi-Fi score of all time including anything John Williams ever did
I would dare say Goldsmith far exceeds Williams in the complexity of his music, tonal quality, etc. Williams has repeated the same few themes for the last 30 years. Goldsmith was always more evocative and showed more depth. This score likely matches the film nicely, and since Abrams & Giacchino work together so well, it should match the feel of the movie. I’m enjoying the TOS theme in full orchestration, as well as the “Enterprising Young Man” cut.
Tickets are purchased for Thursday, May 7, 7pm… Not sure I’ll be able to contain my primitive emotions until then…
Got my tickets today for the May 7th IMAX showing here in Houston, TX at 9:55 pm…I cannot wait…in the words of Eric Cartman, “nah nah nah nah nah nah, ha ha ha ha ha ha!”
And #109, he said that the score reminded him of “sailing ships”, which is hopefully NOT what this score will wind up doing…at least I hope not
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thanks for linking to my videos. sadly I had to remove them because of a copyright claim by varese sarabande. full copies of giacchino’s score have been appearing on youtube. that’s why they’re “boldly” taking down all content without bothering, even my videos that contained just a few snippets already released elsewhere as promotion. sorry, but not my fault.
Has anyone else played the online Academy Trainer game? LOVE it! And I finally made it to the rank of Commander. Ahem!