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"A book I would love to buy just as soon as it's available as an ebook."
I dare say you're not alone in that. That's always been on the table, as it were, and perhaps the time for it has come. Keep watching this space.
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"Spock's Ruby What?!"
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The discussion about whether or not to buy the score ostensibly seems to refer to the original LP/CD. For the record, anybody who is interested in buying the ST-TMP music should get its most recent incarnation as a 3-disc set.
(And FWIW, I personally share none of the ambivalence I've been reading here. IMHO, JG's ST-TMP is definitely one of the all-time great film scores, and may even be the composer's masterpiece.)
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"A book I would love to buy just as soon as it's available as an ebook."
I dare say you're not alone in that. That's always been on the table, as it were, and perhaps the time for it has come. Keep watching this space.
This is most exciting and promising, Preston! I will purchase Return to Tomorrow on kindle day one (or wherever it is that I can translate to kindle). And frankly couldn't care less if it is the same 29.95 price - not a cost-savings issue at all, just that hardware size, font size, lighted (but not backlit screen), and carrying around hundreds of books - that's how I read these days. (Was so delighted to find on kindle your piece on Salter in one of those terrific B-movie interview/profile compilations that I cannot recall the name of at all.)
RE the TMP soundtrack: I still think the original LP program is a perfect suite from the score, and if someone doesn't want to dive in too deep, it's a great starter. But given what Onya has said, I don't think it's for him in any case. Though the love theme would I think fit in nicely with a number of the light music albums Onya declares love for around these parts. And the V'Ger sections do have a bit of the exotica/space music mashup vibe Onya craves, though more aligned with Debussy/Ravel and other early 20th C concert music. So there might be something there after all for him for short dough, as one of our luminaries likes to say. 
And yes, JimP, me too on Nightforce! (And looking at Camelot 3000 too, though I haven't posted in the DC thread for awhile. I haven't had anything worthwhile to add to that discussion, unlike this one, where I'm brilliant post after post! )
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"The clincher will be how often that godawful main them does or does not intrude into the overall program."
Jim is probably right in warning you away. That theme I love does indeed intrude into the overall program, thank God(awful).
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Jim is not wrong, but there are 3-4 solid cues that are not theme focused. Cloud on side one, and Ilia's Theme and Vejur Flyover on side 2. Most of the Meld cue on side two would I think also be up your alley, but it does quote the theme at the end, so that's probably no good.
So that's about 15 minutes that might work for you. Maybe worth $2 maybe not, no big deal either way.
And here's what I think is the issue with the theme, and what it shares in common with the original Star Wars theme -
it tells you what to think and feel. It's a little too on the nose, as Jerry G. said (rightly I think) about his Papillon theme. And I say this as someone who has grown to love it.
All that said - Leaving Drydock is one of my favorite Goldsmith cues ever, just because he could show what he could do with the theme, so I've made my peace with it.
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Thanks for the heads up on the Trek comic strip books. They look sooo appealing! 
The quality of the books is very high, the art in the first volume anyway is first rate, and the stories are...prolonged. And repetitive. And repetitive. And repeat a lot. Typical for the genre of daily newspaper story strips.
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Thread title changed to: "How Extensively Marketed was ST: TMP to Onyabirri?"
I missed this sentence earlier, Jim. Priceless. Post of the week.
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Ouch. "Intrude" seems a bit nasty. And yet I too felt more aware than ever of its reverb in my latest viewing (recently completed). I dunno. Couldn't get enough of the Lara theme in YouKnowWhat that many folks got too much of.
That's a good comparison, Howard. I've never been able to get through the Dr. Zhivago soundtrack album in one sitting (well, the expanded one anyway) for just that thematic overkill. And yet I can listen to Grand Prix first to last happily - the mystery of why one theme works for me and another doesn't has never been solvable. I'm just glad I've learned to love Jerry's STTMP theme.
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