One of my favorite shots is when the camera wheeled around him in close-up in a meadow in This Side of Paradise while he's speaking into the communicator. But the extended love theme (a/k/a "Ruth") underscoring the "I am what I am, Leila" sequence...(sigh)
"He's really not dead... as long as we remember him."
When the landing party beams aboard the Evil Enterprise, the camera zooms in on bearded Spock's face and we hear Fred Steiner's re-used Romulan theme. It's perfect.
I don't know the name of the cue, but it plays as Spock describes the Pon-Farr to Kirk in AMOK TIME. Magnfcent music by Getald Fried for a truly magnificent character.
Has Spock ever been badly scored? I was thinking of this the other week that he's the one character in Trek movies that's gotten his own special thematic treatment. And it's always been different, but always something great... I think that's quite the testament to the actor and to the character.
Nimoy will be deeply missed. He was always the classiest of the original cast and he always came off as a very thoughtful, kind soul.
"Spock's Arrival" from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" by Jerry Goldsmith
Double that ditto. Can 'hear' it. But at that very moment when the door opens--refresh my memory--who was it that greeted him in astonishment?
Oh and Adam B., I see your F. Steiner "wager" and raise you with another: City on the Edge of Forever when he says, "Interesting. And where do you estimate we belong, Miss Keeler?"
...just wanted to add hope all you Star Trek and Leonard Nimoy fans out there are doing OK. Really feeling this one - gutted doesn't come close. Grew up watching this guy and over the decades he (along with the other cast members) kind of felt like part of the family. The character of Mr Spock shaped my own personality in certain respects too, so I have a lot to thank Mr Nimoy for... LLAP.
The Journey to Babel cue is "More Soup" from Amok Time. I'm certainly feeling that cue today. My favorite Spock moment, and really my favorite moment in all of Star Trek, is Spock turning around to find Kirk alive in Amok Time. Very lightly, but flawlessly, scored by Gerald Fried. Fried "got" Spock more than any other composer I think, even though many others wrote wonderful music for the character. Fried's music IS Spock and ever shall be to me.
Somewhere here there's a thread about the TOS Spock leitmotif, the one on strange electric bass guitar (or whatever it was). A very good, brooding theme that made it to quite a few episodes.
I've always appreciated the quiet use of harp to close out the track "Spock" (which plays quietly under Kirk and Spock's dialogue about assuming command of the ship) in Wrath of Khan.
Plus you can't beat Horner's nod to the Original Series' main themes in the finale of Search for Spock when his shipmates gather around him to close out the movie.
The Journey to Babel cue is "More Soup" from Amok Time. I'm certainly feeling that cue today. My favorite Spock moment, and really my favorite moment in all of Star Trek, is Spock turning around to find Kirk alive in Amok Time. Very lightly, but flawlessly, scored by Gerald Fried. Fried "got" Spock more than any other composer I think, even though many others wrote wonderful music for the character. Fried's music IS Spock and ever shall be to me.
