Star Trek: The Motion Picture [ENHANCED] [SOUNDTRACK] [BOX SET]

Jerry Goldsmith, Star Trek (Related Recordings)

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 26, 1999)
• Original Release Date: September 8, 1966
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack, Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000FC5P
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,936 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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After a decade of nascent cult fanaticism, Star Trek was finally reborn in 1979, given new life by an epic-sized feature-film production that all but squashed the quaint humanity that had been one of the original television series' most compelling elements (the producers got it right on Wrath of Khan and seldom looked back). Jerry Goldsmith's score, alternating robust heroics with alien mystique, is arguably the most memorable element of Star Trek: The Motion Picture; indeed, its main theme has heralded the voyages of the Enterprise in TV and film adventures ever since. This slipcased new edition resequences Goldsmith's music and supplements it with 25 minutes of previously unreleased, typically masterful cues. The set's "bonus" disc, Inside Star Trek with Gene Roddenberry, appeals to more polarized audiences: veteran Trekkers and shameless lovers of pop-culture kitsch. This 1976 artifact (previously unreleased on CD) was one of the first "official" efforts to address the show's burgeoning postcancellation popularity and features Trek creator Roddenberry ruminating earnestly about the show's origins and meanings with the likes of William Shatner and DeForest Kelley (who gives an eerily prescient lecture on the foibles of modern health care). Also features new narration by Nichelle "Uhuru" Nichols. Bonus points: Shatner doesn't sing! --Jerry McCulley

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the Star Trek scores..., September 11, 2002

By	Ilker Yucel "Kryptych" (Annapolis, MD United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Jerry Goldsmith is one of the most well-known and accomplished musicians in the field of modern classical film scores. Always pushing the envelope, blending styles and instruments, with this, his score to the 1979 film "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," he creates one of the most memorable themes in sci-fi film history, and some of the most eerie music ques ever heard. In several interviews, Goldsmith states his difficulty with making film scores because of his initial lack of a theme...but when he finally comes upon a theme, it's something to behold. The fanfare theme is as recognizable as the original Alexander Courage theme for the TV show...so much so, it was even used on "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," and even "Star Trek: The Next Generation." The theme for the planet Vulcan in "Total Logic" recalls the atmosphere created by the original TV series, as well as gives a sense of a culture that has as much in common with ancient Oriental mysticism as it does with scientific logic. The true gems are the V'Ger themes, first showcased in the "Klingon Battle," and further explored with "The Cloud," "V'Ger Flyover," and "Force Field." The use of the blaster beam is very powerful and very alien (I don't think it's ever been used on another film score, at least not to the degree to which it was used here). That sounds instantly grabs the listener's ears and induces everything from dread and fear to curiosity and awe. It's a beautifully menacing sound. Despite the fact that several cues are still missing from this CD, it is still a must-have for soundtrack enthusiasts, Trekkers and Trekkies alike, and fans of neo-classical music. It is without a doubt a triumph for Jerry Goldsmith, and is certainly an underappreciated gem of a soundtrack.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the Best Film Score Ever!, December 16, 1999

By	Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Ranking up there with Bernard Herrmann's score for "Vertigo" and John Williams's original "Star Wars" as the best of all music for film is Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." The film which launched the movie series was mediocre, at best, but the superlative music made the movie better than it actually was. The hauntingly melodic "Illya's Theme" is one of the most beautiful compositions ever done for film, equal to "Laura" and "As Time Goes By," earlier classics from Hollywood's "Golden Age." The dynamic theme, later adapted for the Next Generation television series, is here in all its thunderous glory. This disc features cues omitted from the original release, a welcome addition to an already magnificent score. If there had been justice, the 1980 Academy Award for best score would have gone to this monumental recording. A "gotta-have" for Goldsmith fans and others who appreciate the fine art of film scoring.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply mesmerizing., April 11, 2006

By	lighten_up_already2 "lighten_up_already2" (Kirkland, WA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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I can't think of any other movie that I've ever seen where the soundtrack did so much to make the movie special (except perhaps for "Forbidden Planet" with its brilliant electronic score).

Where would Star Trek: The Motion Picture be without this music? About an hour too long maybe? A subject of ridicule on some future revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000? I don't know.

There's a lot to be critical of in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but all the criticism turns to awe when we get to the subject of the music. Really, I think if this soundtrack was released just as a musical composition then someone would have to make a movie just to use the music.

I own a lot of CDs, but there are precious few of them where I can just put them in the player, kick back near one of my two stereo systems, or put on a nice set of heaphones, and be transported away from everything I obsess over and worry about. This is the kind of music that can do that.

If people are still watching this movie 100 years from now on their holographic movie crystals, or whatever, it will likely be thanks to this brilliant soundtrack.