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Michael Giacchino on New Star Trek Movie Score, Will Use Alexander Courage Theme

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By GustavoLeao / 00:49, 1 November 2007 / Star Trek: Nemesis

SciFi Wire posted a brief interview with longtime J.J. Abrams collaborator and new Star Trek movie composer Michael Giacchino, in which he says he will use Alexander Courage TOS theme in his score for the movie. Here are a few excerpts from the interview.

"I think that the thing to do would be to hold on to the only thing that does speak-that says Star Trek-universally, which is the [opening theme from the original series]," Giacchino said

Giacchino also revealed a few details about the top-secret film's plot and how the theme music fits in. "To me, that fanfare, boom, that says it all right there," he said. "And this film is about everything that came before that. So, yes, I want to keep that. But everything that was done after that, it shouldn't be about that. It needs to be about these characters now and how they met and all of these things. So it's a very kind of specific place and time."

"I grew up listening to all of that great [Trek] music, and that's part of what inspired me to do what I'm doing," Giacchino said.

The full interview is here.



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By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:48:43 on Nov 01, 2007

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this is so stupid. when people talk about the "alexander courage theme" they are only talking about the first few seconds and notes of the ENTIRE theme. even jerry goldsmith doesn't quote the ENTIRE theme with the singing. i hate it when even composers dunno wtf they are talking about! when you pay homage to a PART of an entire theme, say a part, not the ENTIRE theme. references to the alex courage theme should be about the ENTIRE length of the theme, not just the opening notes.

I was in orchestra for 8 years. I am a Star Trek fan. The only part of the Courage theme that is NOT dated is the opening notes... it makes the PERFECT intro to any modern score for a show or film that features a Starship Enterprise. Even if a modern composer only used those famous first 8 notes? Alexander Courage must still be credited. The easiest way to reference that intro is by calling it the "Alexander Courage theme".

As for using his entire score for the opening credits? Haha, yeah right. It is far too "60's TV Show", and would look out of place with the wailing soprano et al. I must say that other parts of the Courage score were sucessfully used in The Motion Picture when Kirk narrarates on Spock's contributions to engineering, and in Star Trek IV right after the Enterprise-A is revealed.

The only Trek films to NOT being with Courages's theme open was VI and Generations. As long as that theme is playing during the Paramount logo at the beginning? Goosebumps are assured :)

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