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also, I'm getting a lot of tape hiss/noise
that is inherent right?
There's more of it in the earlier scores, I think. If I remember correctly, they didn't want to alter the sound with a lot of tinkering.
As I said above, I was very pleasantly surprised at how clean most of it sounds. "The Man Trap" and "The Conscience of the King" (a favorite of mine) sound like new, just to name a couple.
I'm at work now, but the only piece I can think of offhand with a hiss I really noticed was "Sad and Thoughtful on the Captain's Theme," a second season library cue that's so good you like it anyway.
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I've had this box since it came out in December and I still can't go more than a few days before I play it again. I really thought I'd be done by now, but nope! Love this. The cherry on my soundtrack cake.
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Oh! Almost forgot! Listen to The Enemy Within Today! 47 years later…
I'm not even the first post today. Wonderful! Nice job, Adam.
What a score! I talked about how definitively Stat Trek Charlie X was. But this score takes the music of the show to a new level. As terrific and iconic as The Doomsday Machine will be, this score might be better. It’s just that DM is more fun and has a more sweeping stage, I guess.
First off we start with Kaplan’s Enterprise fanfare. I haven’t been watching the show along with these, but it’s my recollection that this would be used in episodes that aired before TEW. It’s that awesome.
Kaplan seemed to get the BIG and AWESOME of the Enterprise mission. Other composers did great takes on the Ship and Her Crew but with Kaplan you can feel the space wind and almost hear Kirk’s teeth gleaming. Which he throws into counterpoint with whatever the tragedy of the week is.
His Bad Kirk theme has its low growly bits, but it’s mainly that big rumbly “let’s beat the snot out of that piano” that I think people remember.
Wow, The Tired Captain. It calls back a lot from Courage’s Doctor Bartender. Noble but gentle. And then we go into Brandy. Kick in the gut, roaming the ship looking for trouble. And we hear that ascending thing on the flutes. It’s played brash and dangerous, but it’s also played like a howling trapped dog. It’s my favorite thing.
Not surprisingly “Good” Kirk is built mostly off of Courage’s fanfare. Courage, Fried, and Steiner all wrote a separate motif for Kirk. Kaplan otoh played the fanfare for all it’s worth.
More “Bad” Kirk. Yeah, this is Gorn music, isn’t it?
Double Dog Death: Boy he could do the act breaks, couldn’t he?
Help Me is just about my favorite Star Trek cue of all time. (If I say that too much, throw a herring at me.) But wow it weeps, doesn’t it?
Those flutes half way through Evil Triumphs. So creepy. Run.
One Captain Kirk! Jaunty! Musically sums up Kirk in 3 seconds.
Ending with a very somber Fanfare (before we go out with the ship) that pretty well incorporates both of the Captains. Swell job, Mr. Kaplan.
I haven’t listened to this score all that much. But every time I do I remark on how terrific it is. Weird.
Big week next week! On Friday the 20th we have The Corbomite Maneuver, Balance of Terror, What Are Little Girls Made Of, AND the Library cues from disc 5! Yikes what a day that must have been!
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Chris, I’m not sure if there are cue “breaks” anywhere. They seem fairly well broken out, I mean there is a good amount of silence between cues. But you’re right, not always.
What a crazy day. THREE landmark scores (even if they are partials)! A bunch of library cues. Then we’re done until NOVEMBER.
(I just re-read Lukas’ post from above. Should I have posted this tomorrow?)
The Corbomite Maneuver.
I feel like I should have gone back and watched / listened to the episodes to hear what music these were tracked with. This would have been a much better series opener than The Man Trap (IMHO) but it not only aired much later, it gets a partial score. I love Steiner, he’s probably my favorite. But I do wonder what Courage might have done here. I do know that if you watch the series in production rather than aired order, the first music you would hear would be Kaplan!
Ahhhh, The Secret of NIMH! *ahem* sorry. That crazy spinning whirling cube music is just right for the “swashbuckling hard sci-fi” balance that Roddenberry wanted to hit. I love how Steiner’s Captain’s theme peeks in at the end of the “Captain-less teaser”, giving Kirk a big entrance.
(I wonder how early in the day they started recording these?)
Fesarius: Man I love how he gets rid of the xylophone pings and just lays on the theme with the brass. BIG ship!
Hideous Balok is one of my all-time faves. It was one of the first things I wanted to listen to when I got this box. Probably more for its use in Balance of Terror and City on the Edge of Forever.
Baby Balok. And that’s it!
Balance of Terror:
The Enteprise / In the Chapel. Boy Steiner really avoided the Courage Fanfare, didn’t he?
The Romulan Theme. Boy they used the daylights out of this thing in later seasons, didn’t they? And different composers, too. Also in Captain America! (Well, kinda.)
Damn, I love this episode!
Theme from Star Trek: Spoke too soon! OTOH, I looked at the liner notes and this is the first time Steiner used the theme. It’s actually the only time he uses it in the first season. But he made some lovely library cues out of it.
What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Not my favorite episode, but wow what a score! Andrea’s theme sounds much in the vein of Steiner’s other love themes but his music for Ruk sounds like nothing else he’d written before now. It still blows me away when I realize that they are THE SAME THEME!
And now Mr. Hatch’s library cues. (I gather these were probably NOT recorded on 9/20, but what can you do?)
Fairly generic, but using the Courage theme, so that’s nice. Humoresque: Was this used anywhere other than City on the Edge of Forever? That is it’s definitive moment, I think.
Well, that was quite a day. I can’t believe there isn’t any more until November!
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The Corbomite Maneuver. This would have been a much better series opener than The Man Trap
The producers agreed with you, but those damned effects took so long, it pushed the episode back 10 weeks.
Humoresque: Was this used anywhere other than City on the Edge of Forever?
Yup, Shore Leave after Spock tricks Kirk into taking a break. I'm pretty sure Tomorrow is Yesterday used it as well.
Sad we have to wait until November, I'm enjoying reading the feedback!
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FRIDAY'S CHILD, followed by CATSPAW. Best all-around listening program in the set.
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It just occurred to me that "production order" has nothing to do with when the episodes were READY to air, if Corbomite wasn't even scored until two weeks after Man Trap aired.
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"Cube Radiation" is one of my favorite ST cues. Back when Star Trek: Voyager was a going concern, I used to dream up hectic spaceflight scenes that could be scored with it. As a matter of fact, let's never mention that again.
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I honestly can't stop listening to this set. It's been almost 10 months since it hit my porch and I don't go more than one or two days - at most - without running some of it. Fricking nuts! So much joy in these discs.
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I honestly can't stop listening to this set. It's been almost 10 months since it hit my porch and I don't go more than one or two days - at most - without running some of it. Fricking nuts! So much joy in these discs.
Yeah, there's so much new stuff. I put Where No Man Has Gone Before on yesterday and I thought “You know, I used to play the GNP disc all the time. How come I don’t listen to this now?”
Still can’t get into third season so much.
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If anything, I listen to Where No Man more because it's finally complete and isn't as shrill as the original album. I actually find myself gravitating to the 3rd season Fred Steiner scores more than his second season music. I know Bob Justman preferred Steiner to everyone else, I am over the moon for Sol Kaplan's two scores and put him to the top of the list. Not a single "skip it" cue in either of them.
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Try Elaan of of Troyius.
I'd say the cream of the third season is
The Paradise Syndrome
Elaan of Troyius
Spock's Brain
The Empath
which is not to say that's all there is.
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