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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: peter0302 (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:53:47 on Nov 01, 2007

Agreed! And even ST:VI and Gens. incorporated the Courage Fanfare at some point (in Gens it was the VERY end of the end credits, but it was beautifully imposed over the Generations theme itself).

The booming french horns playing the Courage fanfare that became the trademark of every Goldsmith-penned ST score except TMP (i.e., F.F., F.C., Insur., and Nem.) is, to me, as quintessential to a Star Trek movie as the booming BbM chord at the beginning of every Star Wars movie.

The rest of the TOS theme can be incorporated but cannot be the main title theme. It is indeed too dated. I would vote for the Goldsmith TMP/TNG theme following the courage fanfare, exactly as ih the ST:V opening credits music. The Courage fanfare / Goldsmith TMP combo is so effective and links the entire TOS/Movie/TNG universe together that it really should be adopted as the standard much as John Williams' main title was virtually identical in all 6 SW movies.

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RE: [insert wailing soprano here] by Glassman Cometh @ 13:06:19 on Nov 01
    RE: [insert wailing soprano here] by peter0302 @ 07:57:19 on Nov 02

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By: Glassman Cometh (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:01:48 on Nov 01, 2007

It's dated??

That is the laziest answer I have ever heard. The score was arranged to sound like that in the 60s. I have heard a JOHN WILLIAMS arrangement of the score, done about 10 years ago, that brings it totally into what you would consider 'post-Star Wars' sound.

If these guys can't sit down and make a new arrangement then they are not that good at all. Heck, I have heard JINGLE BELLS done by everyone from Elvis, to Davie Bowie, To Barry Manilow and Josh Groban, and George Strait, and all those different versions were...different...

The Alexander Courage theme, all of it, should be used.

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