I played horn on this soundtrack and it was unusual, especially for the time. First a whole overture to the composer while nothing but stars were on the screen. Second the subtle way Jerry Goldsmith worked in the original Sandy Courage theme from the TV show. Third, the scene of Scotty & Jim flying to join the ship -- again several minutes of music w/o dialogue or sound effects to compete. Goldsmith wrote this scene first, then morphed the music into a march for the main title. Fourth, the extensive music as the Enterprise enters the force field Lastly, the slow pace that the film evolves is a huge plus in my book. Compare this score to the dregs that accompany the newest Star Trek Movies.
How cool to be a horn player on a score like this. Is that you on that Klingon attack track.....I thought that would work pretty well for Vikings sailing a longship too. ha ha. I agree with you on the pacing for this picture, I don't mind it at all. I wouldn't want every film to be like that, but it's fine to take your time sometimes, "2001" for another example. Sibelius symphonies are a bit like that too. Don't be in a hurry, and it pays off. I wish there were more documentary films of film music being recorded. I would love to see the musicians as they were recording those great Rozsa, or Herrmann, or Moross scores. The Fred Steiner TV scores would be cool too. Thanks for the great horn playing!
This is Goldsmiths greatest soundtrack in my opinion. I think this films march is even better than the TOS series theme and I love that too. This is majestic and cemented Star Trek as a legendary property....until the dark times..
The only thing that keeps Jerry Goldsmith from going down in history as one of the greatest composers is himself, he wrote way too many scores. It is easy to think of perhaps 60 truly great Goldsmith scores right off the top of your head but there are a number of mediocre ones that were created just for a pay check.
You're not the only one. 2022 ended very badly for me. Great music like this helps remind me of better times (when everythingseemed more stable & the family was larger), and that there is much to still look forward to (pardon the pun). Needless to say; it helps give me resolve to have a family, so I can introduce them to Trek, as it was to me in the '90's
This film came out 6 days shy of 6 months exactly after I was born, and has been one of my favorite movies of all time. It’s only gotten better with the years.
As a youth, I loved the Enterprise theme. I still do, but as an Adult, it is Illia's Theme that i love. It encapsulates the 70s, and their hopes for a progressive future, in a way I can hardly describe, in a lush, romantic verse. Goldsmith's finest work.
It's hard to believe that Star Trek:The Motion Picture came out in theatres back in December 7th 1979,and to this complete soundtrack by the late Jerry Goldsmith,I personally think is one the of the few of the world's best composers of all time R.I.P. Jerry 1929-2004.
Imho, Star Trek the motion picture is the best Star Trek movie ever. Why? Because just like the television series it made you think and made you wonder.
As great a director as Robert Wise was, he didn't know how to make the characters of Star Trek likeable. The score by Jerry Goldsmith was the only redeeming feature. That scene flying through V'ger's innards was a butt-numbing experience.
@@aarongranda7825 according to Leonard Nimoy, that's exactly what the.director was aiming for, but he missed the mark. Nimoy (and many others) regard it as a flop. Stilted acting, and a lack of chemistry. It's what is generally referred to as, "The Curse Of The Odd-numbered Trek Movies." Again, great score and introduction to the Enterprise, in drydock.
@@MLK-KAEFENTERPRISES the movie was a huge disappointment for me. I even watched it two times in a row, on the first day of release, to make sure it was as bad as I initially thought. I was thankful for the original cast, Goldsmith's score, the drydock sequence, and the fact that they got the franchise off the ground. As a plot, it was just a rehash of the Nomad episode. Decker and Ilea were an annoying addition. The acting was stiff and lacking the charm and camaraderie of the series. For example, the scene with Kirk telling Bones "Bones...I need you....BADLY." Awful. Just awful. I knew every episode by name. I knew a ton of trivia about TOS. Movies 1, 3, and 5, were not as good as 2, 4, and 6. The cast admits this. I really wish I could've enjoyed it as much as you.
Definitely... Star Trek:TMP is one of my favourites too... But I too can remember Space Odyssey... Imagine Star Wars without dialogue for the first half hour...!!
This is such a beautiful, evocative soundtrack and it completely consumed me as a child when I first saw this movie. I was utterly spellbound and even at that age I didn't mind the slow pace of the film. I was enthralled, and love this movie just as much as I did back then. I know TMP gets a fair amount of stick, some of which I guess comes from the fact that it was released a couple of years after Star Wars and inevitably gets compared with it (wrongly - it's a totally different kind of movie!), but it's a beautiful piece of art and the score is such an intrinsic part of what makes it that way.
Still powerful after 45 years. Never thought Bob Wise was the right pick to direct, but he certainly knew that Jerry could do better after hearing the initial score.
My absolute favourite Star Trek film. I even love 5 to the maximum. 3 is great as well. 2,3, & 4 were a trilogy of course and I felt it worked perfectly. 5 was just a testament to Shatner attempting to imitate what an episode of T.O.S would be and 6... well, 6 is the perfect send off in the way "All Good Things" was a beautifully perfect end cap for T.N.G. There were times in which Star Trek very much saved my life.. too many times to count.
I have the vinyl record for this. When I was 14 I would play it in the background as I worked with clay this music was very inspirational. Many hours of relaxing and letting imagination run wild. Although the movie I remember most was Rath, saw that with my dad and he was an electrical/mechanic engineer. To see his reaction when the ships fought was priceless. You could tell he was disturbed to see so much technology and hard work being destroyed. Oh and how much power the ships had. My dad used to design propulsion systems for torpedoes for the Govt. He loved engineering and his job, but I know later in life he felt bad knowing what death and destruction was caused by things using his designs. But he put food on the table and a roof over all our heads. Of course China got ahold of many of his US patents and ideas.
I remember seeing this movie opening day. After the series ended so abruptly. I knew when I saw the enterprise in the space dock all refitted, I knew at that moment star trek was back and this time it was back for good and there would be no stopping it.👍
When we all die we all will experience going where no one has gone before, I want star trek played at my funeral only I won't be there to enjoy it so I enjoy it now
I was born in the late 2000s and the first Star Trek movie I saw was Star Trek 3, and watching the Enterprise exit spacedock just imprinted a never wavering connection. It still remains my favorite Trek film as of today. On top of that, James Horners score. TMP is just not my cup of coffee I guess, but I do love the music.❤
@@scottm5425 no I don't like the Klingon style warp engines I prefer the round ones with the swirly glass globes. The picture on my amt model box had boring orange globes on the engines which was wrong!
Goldsmith rose to the occasion with this one, although he had to be goaded by Wise to drop some of his earlier musical drafts and expand his thinking a bit. The end result was the redeeming feature of the movie. Compare this to the score Alex North wrote for the vast dialogue-free sequences in 2001 and one can see why Kubrick wanted none of it. Goldsmith was a talented composer and a genuine craftsman.
Hard to remember now just how much impact this score had at the time. It's too familiar after 40 years and it's difficult to listen to with fresh ears.
Fantastic, however I feel there is one score missing. I think its just after Kirk meets with Sonak at Star Fleet headquarters (Sonak later ends up mush in the transporter malfunction). Just after Kirk tells Sonak he is going to meet him as commander on the Enterprise there is a shot of a space station with what looks like cargo ships moving around. This scene with its score I think is one of the best from the film.
There are 🌟 Star Trek fans like ME who measures life by the Star Trek movies. Every 2 years, a new Trek movie would brighten Millions of lives, & will do so FOREVER!-. Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet 🎺 (ret.), Georgia Perimeter College & GSU
I think that we expect a lot out of Star trek because at it's heights, it can be excellent. Fans like myself tend to forget that the movie people are mortals, too.
Wind sock dipped in concrete and if you know what I am talking about you are a true fan. Does it bother anyone that the tos ship has turbolift directly behind bridge but during bridge scenes turbolift is offset? That means Kirk etc are flying through space facing at a 45 degree angle. Psych!
In the tradition of the great Gene Rodenberry the five year voyage continues "Where no species has gone before". I present to Star Trek fans the next adventure Star Trek Foreward Commanded by "Captain Jamie Quest" and her crew on board the Mirage Vector Class Starship Cruiser NCC 92104 USS Foreward. Named for "Rear Admiral Teagla M. Foreward" who commanded the NCC Copernius in the battle of the Keslar 732. Which broke the back of the Borg once and for all saving thousands of Federations worlds with one swift blow the Borg Hive never saw it coming. With the help of species 8472 also known as the "Undinian", thanks to Federation "Admiral Kathern Janeway" and her first and subsequent contacts with that species. Into the Hydra Quadrant they go to set up diplomatic relations with the advance worlds spread throughout this vast galaxy. Under a new propulsion system called "Gravity Flux Drive Warp System" nacelles and core engine. The adventure continues ever forward . . . . .
I go with the general opinion that one, three and five are not as good as two , four and six. That said, one was lovingly crafted and as a TV movie, which is how I saw it, it was very good. Remember, it was the springboard for all the rest. I say that even a subpar trek movie is better than anything else in the Cineplex.
@@bradrouillier4458 I just said I saw it on TV in the tv format. I never saw it in the theater or letterbox format. I'm not dissing it but I do think it was awfully long and lacked humour and spontaneity.
I played horn on this soundtrack and it was unusual, especially for the time. First a whole overture to the composer while nothing but stars were on the screen. Second the subtle way Jerry Goldsmith worked in the original Sandy Courage theme from the TV show. Third, the scene of Scotty & Jim flying to join the ship -- again several minutes of music w/o dialogue or sound effects to compete. Goldsmith wrote this scene first, then morphed the music into a march for the main title. Fourth, the extensive music as the Enterprise enters the force field Lastly, the slow pace that the film evolves is a huge plus in my book. Compare this score to the dregs that accompany the newest Star Trek Movies.
Thank you for your reply and sharing some insights into the recording of this incredible score. So cool you played on this.
How cool to be a horn player on a score like this. Is that you on that Klingon attack track.....I thought that would work pretty well for Vikings sailing a longship too. ha ha.
I agree with you on the pacing for this picture, I don't mind it at all. I wouldn't want every film to be like that, but it's fine to take your time sometimes, "2001" for another example. Sibelius symphonies are a bit like that too. Don't be in a hurry, and it pays off.
I wish there were more documentary films of film music being recorded. I would love to see the musicians as they were recording those great Rozsa, or Herrmann, or Moross scores. The Fred Steiner TV scores would be cool too.
Thanks for the great horn playing!
This is Goldsmiths greatest soundtrack in my opinion. I think this films march is even better than the TOS series theme and I love that too. This is majestic and cemented Star Trek as a legendary property....until the dark times..
The la la land records three Cd set of this is incredible with different mixes and outtakes. Be sure to pick it up
@@Nerdporeal Ilia's Theme is a beautiful piece of work.
Goldsmith will go down in history as one of the greatest composers of all time
The only thing that keeps Jerry Goldsmith from going down in history as one of the greatest composers is himself, he wrote way too many scores. It is easy to think of perhaps 60 truly great Goldsmith scores right off the top of your head but there are a number of mediocre ones that were created just for a pay check.
My Step-Dad's younger sister's husband was in the LSO as a violinist, his first job was on the score to 'The Empire Strikes Back'.
I listen to this several times a week, lately. It is often the only thing that lifts me above a suicidally-bad depression.
Hope you’re doing all right.
You're not the only one. 2022 ended very badly for me. Great music like this helps remind me of better times (when everythingseemed more stable & the family was larger), and that there is much to still look forward to (pardon the pun).
Needless to say; it helps give me resolve to have a family, so I can introduce them to Trek, as it was to me in the '90's
Hang on. Star Trek preaches hope.
This film came out 6 days shy of 6 months exactly after I was born, and has been one of my favorite movies of all time. It’s only gotten better with the years.
As a youth, I loved the Enterprise theme. I still do, but as an Adult, it is Illia's Theme that i love. It encapsulates the 70s, and their hopes for a progressive future, in a way I can hardly describe, in a lush, romantic verse. Goldsmith's finest work.
It's hard to believe that Star Trek:The Motion Picture came out in theatres back in December 7th 1979,and to this complete soundtrack by the late Jerry Goldsmith,I personally think is one the of the few of the world's best composers of all time R.I.P. Jerry 1929-2004.
Totally true
You have no idea how we felt that first time in the cinema. We had waited so very long.
Imho, Star Trek the motion picture is the best Star Trek movie ever. Why? Because just like the television series it made you think and made you wonder.
As great a director as Robert Wise was, he didn't know how to make the characters of Star Trek likeable. The score by Jerry Goldsmith was the only redeeming feature. That scene flying through V'ger's innards was a butt-numbing experience.
@@petemoss8522 disagree. I think it was a beautiful sequence sort of like 2001, and the craftspeople worked hard on it.
@@aarongranda7825 according to Leonard Nimoy, that's exactly what the.director was aiming for, but he missed the mark. Nimoy (and many others) regard it as a flop. Stilted acting, and a lack of chemistry. It's what is generally referred to as, "The Curse Of The Odd-numbered Trek Movies." Again, great score and introduction to the Enterprise, in drydock.
@@MrChrispy777 Actually Nimoy said that the film was excellently crafted but more emphasis was placed on special effects and not the characters.
@@MLK-KAEFENTERPRISES the movie was a huge disappointment for me. I even watched it two times in a row, on the first day of release, to make sure it was as bad as I initially thought. I was thankful for the original cast, Goldsmith's score, the drydock sequence, and the fact that they got the franchise off the ground. As a plot, it was just a rehash of the Nomad episode. Decker and Ilea were an annoying addition. The acting was stiff and lacking the charm and camaraderie of the series. For example, the scene with Kirk telling Bones
"Bones...I need you....BADLY." Awful. Just awful. I knew every episode by name. I knew a ton of trivia about TOS. Movies 1, 3, and 5, were not as good as 2, 4, and 6. The cast admits this. I really wish I could've enjoyed it as much as you.
the best Star trek soundtrack
To me Star Trek the motion picture is definitely up there with 2001.
Definitely... Star Trek:TMP is one of my favourites too... But I too can remember Space Odyssey... Imagine Star Wars without dialogue for the first half hour...!!
It is slow like 2001 and Close Encounters. Love all three. I recommend to normies to watch The Motion Picture last though.
Especially in its Robert Wise Director's Edition. Its previously clunky pace has been refined in editing to razor-sharp perfection.
Far better paced than 2001
My Favourite Star Trek score, Jerry Goldsmith was truly one of a kind.
The most beautiful Star Trek ever!!!
When this came out, I saw it in Honolulu. I was a sailor and my senior Chief Petty Officer was named Roddenberry...Gene's cousin in fact.
Wow! That's an amazing story, sir!
didn't ask
^ Don't comment then 😝
The klingon battle - The most EPIC slow-paced space battle ever.
This is such a beautiful, evocative soundtrack and it completely consumed me as a child when I first saw this movie. I was utterly spellbound and even at that age I didn't mind the slow pace of the film. I was enthralled, and love this movie just as much as I did back then. I know TMP gets a fair amount of stick, some of which I guess comes from the fact that it was released a couple of years after Star Wars and inevitably gets compared with it (wrongly - it's a totally different kind of movie!), but it's a beautiful piece of art and the score is such an intrinsic part of what makes it that way.
Still powerful after 45 years. Never thought Bob Wise was the right pick to direct, but he certainly knew that Jerry could do better after hearing the initial score.
What a great picture of the Enterprise
My absolute favourite Star Trek film. I even love 5 to the maximum. 3 is great as well. 2,3, & 4 were a trilogy of course and I felt it worked perfectly. 5 was just a testament to Shatner attempting to imitate what an episode of T.O.S would be and 6... well, 6 is the perfect send off in the way "All Good Things" was a beautifully perfect end cap for T.N.G. There were times in which Star Trek very much saved my life.. too many times to count.
Likewise, Star Trek has helped me through adolescence. I have state a bunch of the same thing in my How to Watch The Star Treks Films video.
I have the vinyl record for this. When I was 14 I would play it in the background as I worked with clay this music was very inspirational. Many hours of relaxing and letting imagination run wild. Although the movie I remember most was Rath, saw that with my dad and he was an electrical/mechanic engineer. To see his reaction when the ships fought was priceless. You could tell he was disturbed to see so much technology and hard work being destroyed. Oh and how much power the ships had. My dad used to design propulsion systems for torpedoes for the Govt. He loved engineering and his job, but I know later in life he felt bad knowing what death and destruction was caused by things using his designs. But he put food on the table and a roof over all our heads. Of course China got ahold of many of his US patents and ideas.
I remember seeing this movie opening day. After the series ended so abruptly. I knew when I saw the enterprise in the space dock all refitted, I knew at that moment star trek was back and this time it was back for good and there would be no stopping it.👍
The Enterprise is my all time favorite cue, along with the opening Klingon Battle theme. This is my favorite Star Trek score
When we all die we all will experience going where no one has gone before, I want star trek played at my funeral only I won't be there to enjoy it so I enjoy it now
I was born in the late 2000s and the first Star Trek movie I saw was Star Trek 3, and watching the Enterprise exit spacedock just imprinted a never wavering connection. It still remains my favorite Trek film as of today. On top of that, James Horners score. TMP is just not my cup of coffee I guess, but I do love the music.❤
The prelude music was one of the coolest things I've seen. Love that theme.
Ilya's theme (love theme)
I have always thought the uss Enterprise starship is beautiful. I was fascinated by the shape of it when I started watching the show in 74.
Totally agree, I hope the real spaceships of the future are as elegant. The refit was imo the best looking of the lot.
@@scottm5425 no I don't like the Klingon style warp engines I prefer the round ones with the swirly glass globes. The picture on my amt model box had boring orange globes on the engines which was wrong!
This is my most favorite Enterprise EVER.
That theme so good it should be used in a TV show. 🤔
この作品を映画館でみた時の感動は今でも思い出します。オリジナルキャスト！夢みたいな時間でした、ありがとう。
This epic score showcased the eerie twangs of the Blaster Beam.
Goldsmith was always looking for things that made strange new sounds to augment the traditional orchestra.
This music, along with the superb visuals, was instrumental (pun intended) in giving this first big screen incarnation of Star Trek its EPIC feel.
Jerry Goldsmiths greatest soundtrack in my opinion. I did a few videos on the classic Star Trek films and mention this.
❤ such a great score
An incredible score for an under rated movie. James Horner's Star Trek II score is my fave though.
Goldsmith rose to the occasion with this one, although he had to be goaded by Wise to drop some of his earlier musical drafts and expand his thinking a bit. The end result was the redeeming feature of the movie. Compare this to the score Alex North wrote for the vast dialogue-free sequences in 2001 and one can see why Kubrick wanted none of it. Goldsmith was a talented composer and a genuine craftsman.
Instead of comercials they should play overatures like this theme song before the movie while everyone gets the popcorn in Theaters
Love this soundtrack.
Thank you
Hard to remember now just how much impact this score had at the time. It's too familiar after 40 years and it's difficult to listen to with fresh ears.
It was startle your senses
Jerry Goldsmith and Hans Zimmer, two of the best composers.
Fantastic, however I feel there is one score missing. I think its just after Kirk meets with Sonak at Star Fleet headquarters (Sonak later ends up mush in the transporter malfunction). Just after Kirk tells Sonak he is going to meet him as commander on the Enterprise there is a shot of a space station with what looks like cargo ships moving around. This scene with its score I think is one of the best from the film.
,inspiring for ma work of writng science fiction
There are 🌟 Star Trek fans like ME who measures life by the Star Trek movies. Every 2 years, a new Trek movie would brighten Millions of lives, & will do so FOREVER!-. Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet 🎺 (ret.), Georgia Perimeter College & GSU
See them all! Kirk, Spock, McCoy- Immortal!
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I think that we expect a lot out of Star trek because at it's heights, it can be excellent. Fans like myself tend to forget that the movie people are mortals, too.
Wind sock dipped in concrete and if you know what I am talking about you are a true fan.
Does it bother anyone that the tos ship has turbolift directly behind bridge but during bridge scenes turbolift is offset? That means Kirk etc are flying through space facing at a 45 degree angle. Psych!
Excelent mi first movie startrek
First time I have I have ever heard the main title, I was like 'Damn, that's the TNG theme!'
... is PIC's theme just a remixed Ilia's Theme? I will never hate that music ever again.
Out there
I don't know what the hell it's called, but THAT sound needs to be used more.
It's called a blaster beam :)
The Movie Enterprise is THE Enterprise.
In the tradition of the great Gene Rodenberry the five year voyage continues "Where no species has gone before". I present to Star Trek fans the next adventure Star Trek Foreward Commanded by "Captain Jamie Quest" and her crew on board the Mirage Vector Class Starship Cruiser NCC 92104 USS Foreward. Named for "Rear Admiral Teagla M. Foreward" who commanded the NCC Copernius in the battle of the Keslar 732. Which broke the back of the Borg once and for all saving thousands of Federations worlds with one swift blow the Borg Hive never saw it coming. With the help of species 8472 also known as the "Undinian", thanks to Federation "Admiral Kathern Janeway" and her first and subsequent contacts with that species. Into the Hydra Quadrant they go to set up diplomatic relations with the advance worlds spread throughout this vast galaxy. Under a new propulsion system called "Gravity Flux Drive Warp System" nacelles and core engine. The adventure continues ever forward . . . . .
Ilia's theme is the only thing I like of Ilia.
❤🖖🏼
Better than starwars
Lol
😘👌❤
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I go with the general opinion that one, three and five are not as good as two , four and six. That said, one was lovingly crafted and as a TV movie, which is how I saw it, it was very good. Remember, it was the springboard for all the rest. I say that even a subpar trek movie is better than anything else in the Cineplex.
The Motion Picture Directors cut and Search for Spock were quite good, I don't get why they're lumped in with The Final Frontier as bad.
@@otterqueer It's because most people compare TMP to Star Wars... TMP should be thought of in comparison to 2001. As for The Voyage Home... Whales..!!
TV movie!? Are you kidding? TMP is the only true cinematic looking movie out of the whole franchise
@@bradrouillier4458 I just said I saw it on TV in the tv format. I never saw it in the theater or letterbox format. I'm not dissing it but I do think it was awfully long and lacked humour and spontaneity.
Worst line in the movie: what we got back didn't live long. Makes me giggle sorry.
Cpt Picard Com.Riker….
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stupid ads