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NOTE: For brevity's sake, only the liner notes for the three Star Trek selections are provided here.
Star Trek
The Menagerie Suite
The Enterprise is diverted to Starbase 6. After arriving there Spock takes the Enterprise, with her badly injured former Captain, Christopher Pike, to Talos IV--an "off limits" planet under the Federation's general order no. 7 (the only Starfleet order carrying a death sentence). Kirk follows Spock in the shuttle but runs out of fuel. Spock rescues Kirk and submits himself to arrest and trial.
Alexander Courage composed his now famous theme for THE CAGE, the pilot episode of STAR TREK--scenes from this episode were later used in programmes 11 and 12 of the first series and screened as the two-parter THE MENAGERIE. Beside this main theme, with its memorable yet mysterious horn anthem, much of the other thematic material (as with all TV scores) resurfaced in numerous subsequent episodes, especially for Kirk's more romantic and amorous interludes.
Starfleet Academy
A computer game in which you play a young cadet training at the Academy to become a Starfleet officer, whilst having additional adventures including commanding a starship and fighting battles in space. The 'Opening Music' for this game was written by Ron Jones, a composer familiar with the STAR TREK oeuvre having scored many NEXT GENERATION episodes, as well as music for shows like THE FLINTSTONES, SCOOBY DOO, MAGNUM P.I., and HUNTER. The music is presented here in a new orchestration by the composer for full orchestra.
Star Trek: Insurrection
End Title Suite
When the crew of the Enterprise learn of a Starfleet plot against a planet with 'magical properties,' Captain Picard, risking court-martial, sets himself up as the rebel's leader, defending the planet as well as the very ideals on which the Federation was founded.
After a few lackluster films STAR TREK: INSURRECTION, the ninth in the series, proved to be one of the best. The often uncomfortable blend of action, romance, comedy and philosophizing worked a treat, although the pace of the film was rather too hectic at times.
Veteran of five STAR TREK films, composer Jerry Goldsmith, as usual in the 'End Title Suite' featured his rousing, swaggering main march theme but this time with a romantic middle section delicately scored for solo trumpet, harp, woodwind and strings.
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