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From the Creator of Star Trek:
In the years before, we had watched science fiction fail time and again in film and television. We believed it was because it had been too often centered mainly on science and gadgetry. Thus our first request to the Star Trek composer: "Don't give us electronic beep-beep-beep music: give us Captain Blood!" It was a shorthand way of saying that our new television series was to be about what satisfying drama is always about…which is people. In all fiction, including science fiction, happenings become entertaining only as they impact upon us through the invented emotions or invented characters with whom we are identifying. Perhaps the most remarkable of music's mysteries is its power to transport us in this way into other bodies and events and places, letting is magically overcome the limits of our own identities. The success with which our composers worked this magic and their major contribution to Star Trek's success is recorded here in this album. —Gene Roddenberry
A Personal Note from the Conductor:
This album, the first in Varese Sarabande's projected series of authoritative new recordings of music from various episodes of the original Star Trek television series, represents not only the fulfillment of one of my long-held aspirations, but also accomplishes two other, perhaps more important objectives. First and foremost, it aims to satisfy the many Star Trek devotes who have often wondered when and where recordings of the music might be available. Secondly, this and subsequent recordings should be of particular interest to those who want to know more about the music itself, who have been curious to learn the identity and origination of some of the pieces they have heard used and reused so many times in so many episodes, and who want to know who composed them.
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