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Star Trek Composer Alexander Courage Dies at 88

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By GustavoLeao / 13:53, 28 May 2008 / General Star Trek

According to Film Music Society, Alexander Courage, composer of the original Star Trek theme and an Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated arranger for TV and movies, died May 15 at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, Calif. He was 88.

Courage's fanfare for the Starship Enterprise, written in 1965 for the first of two Star Trek pilots, "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before", was heard throughout the three original seasons of The Original Series and has been reprised in all of the Star Trek feature films, from The Motion Picture to Nemesis, and several of the TV series, especially Star Trek: The Next Generation in the 1980s and '90s.

Courage wrote the original score for the following TOS episodes

 

  • TOS Season 1:
    • "The Cage" (first pilot)
    • "The Man Trap"
    • "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (second pilot)
    • "The Naked Time"
  • TOS Season 3:
    • "The Enterprise Incident"
    • "Plato's Stepchildren"

    More info can be found here.



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    He'll be missed... | Report this post to moderator
    By: John Q (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:09:27 on May 28, 2008 | Edit History (1)

    Sorry for the double-post. I'll use this opportunity to post a link to Courage's IMBD page:

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006021/

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    He'll be missed... | Report this post to moderator
    By: John Q (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:09:19 on May 28, 2008

    Alexander Courage was a prodigious talent, who not only worked alongside greats like Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, but was a terrific composer in his own right. Film Score Monthly recently released his complete score to "Superman IV" as part of their Superman box set, and it's a revelation (even if Williams penned the themes).

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    RE: Courage Fanfare | Report this post to moderator
    By: plasmaboy (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 16:06:53 on May 28, 2008

    totally agree... those notes and the enterprise = trek.

    you can mix up most of the rest, but not them..and as they ain't broken...why bother.

    sad about Mr Courage ...maybe he wil get dedication on the new film.

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    " laffa while you can ,,, monkey-boy!"

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