I'm a sucker for warm/sad/tragic choral cues, so The Nexus/Christmas Hug from ST GENERATIONS has always been loved by me. But I have plenty more and will add them too...like plenty of stuff from Next Gen/DS9/Enterprise TV series. Let me think and remember them
For me it`s defenetly his "Picard`s Theme" (aka STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Alternate Main Theme).
I prefer it much more then the use of Goldsmith theme of ST:THE MOTION PICTURE for TNG, because Mcarthy`s theme was new and heroic and would have give the series his own tune.
Sadly, the producers aloud McCarthy to use this theme in the backround until the third or fourth season of the series.
Than, he never used it again, not even in GENERATIONS (were it would fit in several moments with Picard).
"Goodbyes / Lookin' Good" is, hands down, my favorite McCarthy cue. (Technically, I suppose it's just "Lookin' Good"--the cue that plays to Kira and Odo's final scene together on DS9.) The runner-up would be the final cue for DS9, "Farewell." Thanks a million times over, again, to LLL for putting the DS9 set out!
Well my personal favorite is a piece from the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode THE VISITOR entitled "One Last Visit", if this piece doesn't break your heart you're already dead.
For me it`s defenetly his "Picard`s Theme" (aka STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Alternate Main Theme).
I prefer it much more then the use of Goldsmith theme of ST:THE MOTION PICTURE for TNG, because Mcarthy`s theme was new and heroic and would have give the series his own tune.
It's a likeable theme. but NOT AT ALL a "heroic" one. Rather, it emphasises the nobility and somewhat stoic reserve of the character.
It was not at all suitable as the Main Titles either. The re-use of Goldsmith's TMP theme was a good and logical choice.
Well my personal favorite is a piece from the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode THE VISITOR entitled "One Last Visit", if this piece doesn't break your heart you're already dead.
I'm with you, Ford! (And I know you've listened to your fair share.) My favorite McCarthy score for a fantastic episode.
I've never been a huge fan of that alternate TNG main title. I like the melody well enough as used in scores, but the main title march version feels thin and obvious to me. I think McCarthy learned how to use the limited orchestra in a grander way as his time with the three series went on. He became quite expert, but at the beginning, I wasn't convinced.
I'm a sucker for warm/sad/tragic choral cues, so The Nexus/Christmas Hug from ST GENERATIONS has always been loved by me.
........By: the_limited_edition_2 "I would city that one as one of the very WORST McCarthy cues: A shapeless, featureless pudding of a cue" ------------------------ The OP asked what was YOUR favourite Dennis McCarthy cue, NOT what you didn't like about mine. But thanks for caring though.
Well my personal favorite is a piece from the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode THE VISITOR entitled "One Last Visit"
When I finally caught up with this episode a couple of years ago, I was having real trouble with it (because I knew that the story of what happens to Sisko's son would be a one-off, never followed up on, as it wasn't - so that the genuine pain and emotion the story tells was robbed of its meaning). But the music, in addition to the performances, really sold the heart of the story. This music is fine on its own, I had heard it on album for years, but it was seeing the episode that made me understand how strong this music is.
But my favorite (or favourite!) cue by McCarthy is the original setting of the DS 9 theme - I've come to see it as maybe the very best of all the Star Trek themes, encapsulating the ethos of the franchise (one of the very few franchises that really does have an ethos) - and wonderfully distilled and simple.
I'm a sucker for warm/sad/tragic choral cues, so The Nexus/Christmas Hug from ST GENERATIONS has always been loved by me.
........By: the_limited_edition_2 "[remark not worth repeating again]" ------------------------ The OP asked what was YOUR favourite Dennis McCarthy cue, NOT what you didn't like about mine. But thanks for caring though.
Amen, Kev! Instead of just poohing on someone else's choice, why not cite your own favorite? And if you don't have one, you can always do what I do in threads that don't speak to me - I just don't speak.
Well my personal favorite is a piece from the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode THE VISITOR entitled "One Last Visit", if this piece doesn't break your heart you're already dead.
This is a recording of this piece by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra done for SILVA SCREEN RECORDS
My favorite is from Voyager's "Year of Hell, Part II". It plays during Tuvok's farewell to Janeway, deeply moving cue and tragically unreleased. Hoping La-La Land is going to include it on the upcoming Voyager set!
My favorite is from Voyager's "Year of Hell, Part II". It plays during Tuvok's farewell to Janeway, deeply moving cue and tragically unreleased. Hoping La-La Land is going to include it on the upcoming Voyager set!
OMG I was thinking the same thing jb1234. I love that piece from beginning to end.
I have to say “One Last Visit” is also my favorite McCarthy cue.
But I also really like “Stardate,” the opening of “The Child,” the DS9 finale, and “A Christmas Hug,” and “Jumping the Ravine,” and many more. He really did rise to the occasion whenever he would get an episode that required him to really connect.
I love his score for “Haven.”
I also liked his forbidding title music from V: The Final Battle.
I don't know the name of the sequence, but it appears in the teaser of the TNG episode "Conundrum." Had a very different sound (for the show), steady pulse of two-part minor key woodwind crotchets (quarter notes) under soft muted horns, which Dennis would gradually add to with discordant low strings, brass. It was very cool.
