Soundtrack Nerd Trivia
Here's an alternate version of the Enterprise cue from Jerry Goldsmith's Star Trek - The Motion Picture score. Julliarddropout fills us in on the cue's background:
"This was rejected by Wise because he thought the Enterprise needed a theme; which was something Jerry hadn't considered: so Goldsmith went back to the drawing board. Interestingly, the people who heard this cue in post all thought it sounded like a 'great big open prairie'. Trekkies will point-out that Sam Peeples once called 'Star Trek' a '
'Wagon Train to the Stars' (a comment stolen by Roddenberry at a dinner party); so the music, though discarded, is very appropriate."
posted by Jeff Pidgeon at
7:52 AM
4 Comments:
I Love Goldsmith! But i do agree with Wise. The second pass sound track really is all about the ship and at that time in the film with all the intros to actors we grew up with she needed to be seen.
Besides, I think De Forest Kelly's intro was next. Damn it Jim, How the heck are you going to bigger than that !?
It's a nice cue, but Wise called it right - the revised version is much better! Many themes and passages of the first cue are still intact - I think the new version feels less meandering, much more focused.
For what is with out a doubt the biggest model porn sequence in screen history, give Mr Wise a point! The editing of the images has so many sexual connotations, it's outright hysterical. And the soundtrack used only heightens the effect! Woo Hoo!
Not since the days of Gerry Anderson have models been lingered on so fetishistically. That's a word, right?
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