I got to shake hands with Jerry Goldsmith, 40 years ago this month after a concert in OKC. He was very polite and happily signed my program. A great memory.
I seen the motion picture on opening night. Everyone there cheered as the cast came on one at a time. But when the shuttle craft turned and we seen the Enterprise, everyone started to cry. Including myself. Felt like homecoming of friends. I’ve never had that with any other film. Star Trek forever.
@@drake.707 it is literally called Star Trek the Motion Picture, it was the first star trek movie so instead of calling it the “film” or the “movie” they chose the “motion picture” which sounds much better
People today don't understand why that sequence is as long as it is. Back then, for fans discovering the new Enterprise after they had thought Star Trek would be dead forever, that sequence was perfect.
@@mhsenoiazei6401 In France, his death was ignored, I was revolted. Five years later, I made some tribute : creatures-imagination.blogspot.com/2009/07/lhomme-qui-faisait-chanter-les-mogwai.html
"Space...the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new lives and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!!"
Enterprise...no one but no one has ever composed such a fantastic theme about a ship ever. God bless Gerry Goldsmith! And yes he should have got the Oscar for this theme!
Jerry Goldsmith wrote and composed an original score for this scene, but it was rejected by Robert Wise. This score was his second attempt.Beautiful and breath taking.fits the scene like a glove.
Definitely. This piece of music is a love song to one of the most beautiful starships ever seen -- the refitted Enterprise -- as it is reunited with its captain (and us). An important bit of character development for Kirk in the story and a moment or six for the audience to appreciate the sheer beauty of his (and our) beloved vessel.
Watch all the other new Star Trek series .....they all Lack one Thing The 8th Charakter .....the Ships like the Enterprise the Defiant the Voyager ....they all carried their own Weight in the show
I listened to this with my eyes closed and I could see the scene play out in my mind, dialog included, and when those horns cut in at 3:13 I felt a rush of goosebumps race down my spine.
I did listen to this music every night before sleeping when I was a kid. It made me love orchestral music. Today, 30 years later, I listened to it again and it made me cry. It is so beautiful, so complex. Jerry Goldsmith was a truly beautiful mind. Thank you Sir, you brighten my life.
@@donbrynelsen2157 “Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? [ . . .] Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse, but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down. Tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.” -- Captain Malcolm Reynolds
At the end, during the applause, I muttered to myself, "Permission to come aboard." Love their rendition. I grew up loving Goldsmith, Williams, and Barry. Movie music is my fave.
I agree. The movie wasn't great, but it was nice to see my heroes alive again. I might have been thrilled if they'd done nothing but have lunch together. I missed "the gang" from Star Trek.
I got to see STTMP when it first premiered in the base theater at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The theater was mostly us sailors from CVN-65, which was in drydock there. About the time the Klingons made their appearance, some knucklehead in the back started what sounded like the beginnings of a running commentary. Most of the theater just turned around and gave him a hard look. He was quiet for the rest of the movie.
You have to hear Goldsmith talk about how tough it was for him to write this score. And the fact that the first cue was rejected by Robert Wise really put an enormous amount of pressure on him. A true master.
"They gave her back to me Scotty." "Gave her back? I doubt it that easy with Nogura." "Yer rrright!" "Any man that could do that: I wouldnae dare disappoint. She launch on time sir - and she'll be ready!" Love that scene and the score.
Up until this point in the movie, no one had seen the new Enterprise. This theme perfectly captured the awe and wonder of the new ship design. The beautiful new curves, more feminine design, and pristine beauty. Even the little things like the worker shuttle pods and refit technicians in space suits are captured in this piece. So lovely.
True, but it wasn't just the beauty of the design. She looked REAL. MASSIVE. And her extraordinary appearance in an extraordinary-looking motion picture was a validation of a lot of fans whom most other people thought of as crazy, who thought science fiction was "gadget writing" and a second-rate art form and who thought all of those things combined together in Star Trek to be massively overrated or a strange cult phenomenon.
One could picture Warspite or Renown, or perhaps more appositely, Missouri or New Jersey having this effect after their rebuilds/modernizations on a Captain or Flag Officer who had served on her years before. Speaking of ships that should have been saved, the previous two Enterprise's (CV 6 & CV 65) are certainly among them- the spectacular war service of the former and the magnificent power of the later inspired the starship
Gene: Jerry, I need an orchestral score… Jerry: We’ll, you came to the right man, Gene. Gene: of course, of course. But you see, I need a *special* score. Jerry: I’m intrigued. How special? Gene: Well, I’m bringing Star Trek to the big screen. And the studios gave me enough in the budget to build a proper model of The Enterprise… Jerry: Oh… Gene: We’re going to do a five minute fly by to show her off for the fans. No dialogue. You think you can compose something epic enough for that? Jerry: Say no more, Gene. Say no more.
The look on Kirk's face when the shuttle swings around to the front of Enterprise as if he's been reunited with his lost love. The crescendo of music immediately as Kirk sees the front of the Enterprise was perfect.
Goldsmith, Horner and John Williams. The composers from our time whose music will still be there 100 years from now. When rap and hip hop and whatever thump thump crap is gone, they will remain. Beautiful, heart grabbing, moving, tear jerking, they've got it!
@ Disco Dave. Well said! I couldn't agree more about the lasting magnificence of John Williams', James Horner's and Jerry Goldsmith's (and also John Barry's) movie music score compositions and that the so-called "music" of today , which so sadly is for the most part just a pile of garbage, will eventually be consigned to the dustbins of history.
I'm never one to put down music because of preference. I like all music that aim for one goal which is to evoke a feeling. For me a lot that came from Goldsmith, Horner and Williams, it also came from a lot of what's now considered old school rhymesayers, Nas, Biggie, Tupac, Luda, Twista, Em, Rakim and many others. Also in that mix are bagpipers and Latin chorals and hymns. Music is everywhere, just open your mind. That hip hop head, might be sampling classic music for the next generation to learn about.
I got chills when I saw and heard this part in the movie theater, I bought an 8 track tape of the movie sound track and played this when I was driving a young patient in an ambulance to Shands teaching Hospital in Gainesville, and the kid went wild when this piece ended at the same time I finished backing the ambulance up to the patient loading area. My partner an I also wore the green medical insignia that McCoy had on his ST:TMP uniform.
Can you imagine a mainstream movie being made with a scene like this, with music like this? The movie even has an overture! One of the reasons why STTMP is one of my favourite ones of the series.
This scene and score were a love letter to the fans in 1979. Honestly if the entire movie had been that one scene, it would have been worth the price of admission.
+Gwen King They'll be composing together with masters like Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Wagner, filling the heavens with divine music... I'm not religious, but that would be pretty close to heaven for me.
+Stand4Liberty there are very few pieces that evoke the exact emotion that I think the director was striving for but this piece from a genius like Goldsmith plus Wise's brilliant direction did just that. This one piece managed to become everything I think humanity could be as a spacefaring race if we would just try harder
Back again a year later...still have this marked in my favorites and listen to it constantly! Brings back the wonder and amazement I felt every day when I worked in the film as an Enterprise crew member. BRAVO!
I was in college when the movie came out . Someone in the dorm didn't like that they "spent too much time looking at the ship". My friend's reply, " I've waited 10 years to see that ship"
I watch this wonderful clip at least once a week...LOVE IT! Even more meaningful for me because I actually had the honor of working in this film as an Enterprise crew member. Wish it could have lasted forever!
The beauty about Goldsmith is a lot of the modern film composers you can hear their influences such as Holst, Respighi, Wagner etc...but Goldsmith had originality and was rarely repetitive.
The greatest award this music could have is that so many people love it. We will forget who won the Oscar for the best score in whatever year, but we don't forget music that has so moved us. We run out and get the original soundtrack recording, and we also get a CD anthology of movie music themes composed by Jerry Goldsmith, and that's what we remember!
Can you imagine the original studio orchestra practicing their individual parts and then coming together to hear what they'd been practicing? I bet some of them even teared up! Jerry Goldsmith was definitely the man!
I have often heard that the first movie was not a good one ... but I liked it! I was in the 6th grade when the original series started in '66. Have watched virtually everything since ... and like it all.
When it hits the crescendo at 3:12 it's like fuck yeah! That bit really gives me chills. And you can tell Mr Goldsmith is really enjoying it. Bloody awesome film score. Even non-Trekkies can appreciate this.
"And you can tell Mr Goldsmith is really enjoying it." How can you tell, Keith, considering Jerry Goldsmith wasn't in attendance due to a prior commitment of being deceased, roughly four years before this concert.
+Deuterium2H Well I didn't know that then, but I do now. It's still an awesome soundtrack & that's just what I was trying to say. Truth be known, I don't even know what Mr Goldsmith looked like now I know he croaked. But I'm not going to put myself out in order to find out.
Ça rappel de bon souvenir, lorsque j ai vu pour la 1er fois Star trek en cinéma de plein air au sud de la France, la musique magnifie le vaisseau Entreprise, superbe.
This is one reason why ST TMP is my favorite of the ST films the only one that really presented us with the beauty and majesty of space travel in the future.
I was fortunate enough to work in the film as a Science Officer, and totally think this is one of Jerry Goldsmith's best scores! It has to be a nice pan and really shows the new refitted Enterprise...WELL DONE!!
+Brian Bois Gilbert LOL All I can say is when I visited the set of the original series, everything was made like you could do it yourself in your garage for a project...when you stood on the transporter pad and looked up, there were three Sylvania light bulbs. Spock's viewer was a blue light bulb. When I was in LA working as an extra and sometimes just watching them shoot ST:TMP, it was AMAZING! Everything worked. Even though it was top secret, they trusted me and I got some amazing photos. That was the most fun I have ever had working on a film as an extra.
LTWeezie Man, you're a REAL buzz kill. Kidding, kidding, No man really, I appreciate you sharing memories, must've been magic and a learning experience at the same time. Also nice to know that there's still those who have a sense of integrity and loyalty to those they work for. A rare thing in these times.
This is a wedding theme when you really listen to it. Kirk, the Groom is the horns. Enterprise, the Bride, the strings. This is them meeting at the altar. A man and his true love.
Very well said. I don't think you could have described it more perfectly. Especially the moment when the shuttlepod swings round to the front and he see his beautiful lady in all her beauty.
it does have naval roots, but mainly it is to complement the beauty of the newly commishined enterprise. Go and watch the actual clip this music was intended for and you will see what I mean.
I am not really a crazy Star Trek fan but when I saw STTMP in the theater I felt like crying when the Enterprise was revealed. Jerry's music was so huge and so reverential. It was just an absolute lovefest for the Enterprise. "there she is!! WOW" Goldsmiths music was shiver inducing.
Jerry Goldsmith's compositions are absolutely beautiful. Vale, Jerry Goldsmith, Gene Roddenberry, James Horner, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, and DeForest Kelley. To quote Nimoy, "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"
This orchestral performance always makes me cry a little, with tears of joy, awe, and hope for humanity's future ( Roddenberry dream). It's so beautifully done. I can visualize the Enterprise ( Star Trek The Motion Picture's flyby 'beauty shot' exterior close-ups). I fantasize that I'm a Captain in Starfleet on a Constellation Class Starship, in my dreams....... pathetic, huh? I know I just really need to get a life. I'm just a knucklehead fanboy, apologies. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, yes......'Constitution' Class Starship....... and "Live Long And Prosper". A couple of typos, and folks get all itchy, and uppity. Roddenberry's dream of the future is supposed to make us better people than that, and above all that nit picking, and ass biting. Just joking. LOL. What's the other Vulcan adage....."Peace Be With You", or something like that? Or, better yet, how about a big fat "Q'Plagh'!". Trekkers Rule!
This is one of the best Star Trek Theme ever made. Thank You Jerry for this masterpiece. I hope we can hear it on "Star Trek: Picard" or next Star Trek Movie.
Along with the Pan Am scenes in 2001:A Space Odyssey, The Enterprise scene in TMP are the greatest space scenes ever put to film. They are the epitome of the space opera that is lost in today's Star Trek and Star Wars re-boots.
One of the most beautiful tracks I've ever heard in my life! I remember seeing the movie in the theater! I know that entire scene.. and even the entire movie... gets complaints for being "slow". But I was in awe at the entire scene, thanks to the music! (Yeah, seeing the Enterprise on a massive screen with little men in space suits floating around it was pretty cool too.) For me, at least, this song (and that movie segment) really captured Kirk's love affair with the Enterprise (and mine)!
+David Raasch I love Star Trek The Motion Picture. This music is Awesome!! We had not seen the folks together since '69. This was so Brilliant !!! Still love this movie today.. ;-)
There was something magical about seeing that scene in the theatre... that beautiful USS Enterprise... 25 feet tall... that swelling score... The Enterprise LOOKED real ! When I showed my Son this movie, this particular scene I had to tell him, "imagine this scene in a darkened theatre on a 30 foot high screen with theatre sound... magic is the word to describe it" That scene was my first "nerd-gasm" lol
Bloody awesome! That is one of my all time favourite film scores. I bet when the orchestra got told they were going to play that, they were like "holy shit, we're doing Star Trek!" They must've been very proud to be selected to play that.
Also, the image of the Enterprise in Spacedock was one of the most beautiful cinematic shots I have ever seen. Plus, this whole sequence, at the time, it may not longer be true, was the longest continuous special effects shot in movie history.
Trekkers and Trekkies had waited 10 years to see that ship again. That glorious tracking shot and the music caused the collective nerdgasm to shift the Earth's orbit. We.Were.Amused.
I remember being in the theater seeing the Enterprise being unveiled and the happiness I felt as the director took the time to give us all a good look at it while Goldsmith's incredible theme unfolded in all it's glory. It was a great moment in sci-fi history.
Masterpiece! Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack is absolutely masterpiece! There is no another movie music like that! THE BIGGEST MISTAKE in Oscar history! Jerry Goldsmith should win Oscar for this miracle! It’s clear - in 1979 there was some “political reason” why he didn’t win. I am a big fan of movie music and this one - from the beginning till end - amazing! 😍😍😍😍
Goosebumps from 1:33 - indescribable musical talent. The 1979 soundtrack was my comedown after a tough college day. ST:TMP soundtrack holds up 36+ years later.
I think that anyone who really "gets" Star Trek can't help but fall in love with it. Sure it isn't the hardest scifi, it isn't even internally consistent. The writing can sometimes be lackluster, the acting is sometimes (but not always) groan inducing. But none of that matters. Beneath all of that, the soul of the franchise is something more, something beautiful and joyful and hopeful. It says, "Hey, you. You have the power to make tomorrow better than today. Set aside your petty grudges and look up at the stars. They're waiting for us."
What a great composer. All the sense of yearning, and beauty, and possibility. He completely captured it. They were so wise to use this as the theme for Next Generation.
SCOTT: "the crew havent had near enough transition time with all that new equipment, and the engines havent even been tested at warp power...AND an untried captain..." KIRK: "two and a half years as chief of starfleet operations may have made me a little stale but i wouldnt consider myself 'untried'. They gave her back to me, Scotty" SCOTT: "GAVE her back, sir? I doubt it was that easy with Nogura" KIRK: "Yer rrright" SCOTT: "ahh, any man who could acomplish such a feat i woud na dare dissapoint. She'll launch on time, sir. And she'll be ready"
+cchill68 strewth. Those two hated each other but this is a heartwarming dialogue, really evoked by the acting. I've thought of that myself from time to time when watching this scene.
+Doug19752533 Scotty always got some of the best lines. "Admiral! There be whales here!", "Laddie, shouldn't you rephrase that?", "Up your shaft!" and of course, "It's green." Fair winds and following seas, Mr Scott.
+Richard Poteat Best engineer in the fleet. I'm betting that in his quarters there's the framed quote of the SeaBees: The difficult we do right away; the impossible will take a little longer.
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This made me cry. Only the '77 Star Wars soundtrack even cones close to this.
Been a hardcore Trekkie since 74. We had to wait from 69 to 79 for a new Star trek if you exclude the cartoon show. This means a lot.
I got to shake hands with Jerry Goldsmith, 40 years ago this month after a concert in OKC. He was very polite and happily signed my program. A great memory.
Nice
Wow. I hope you've got that program under lock and key.
@@richardhart9204 It's on my wall, next to my Mancini autograph!
@@Camop-iz9kt It's up to you, but you may want to keep them locked up and away from light exposure, which could fade them.
@@richardhart9204 They're not in direct light
I seen the motion picture on opening night. Everyone there cheered as the cast came on one at a time. But when the shuttle craft turned and we seen the Enterprise, everyone started to cry. Including myself. Felt like homecoming of friends. I’ve never had that with any other film. Star Trek forever.
I did too back in 1979.
Nerd. Motion picture 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@drake.707 it is literally called Star Trek the Motion Picture, it was the first star trek movie so instead of calling it the “film” or the “movie” they chose the “motion picture” which sounds much better
@@drake.707 You come off as a total imbecile.
People today don't understand why that sequence is as long as it is. Back then, for fans discovering the new Enterprise after they had thought Star Trek would be dead forever, that sequence was perfect.
This is forever the real Oscar winner. Didn't it?
It sounds like seeing the first girl you loved again 20 years later..and she’s as beautiful as you remember
Yes, she is.
Except it's 30 years, dude. Technically it's over 40 years since this is from the Motion Picture.
Definitely ❤
🙌
Shes a Lady ....treat her Like that ...and she always brings you home😢
If you don't get emotional listening this piece of art you are not human, and also you don't like movies.
This is Kirk's 'walk around.'
Jerry Goldsmith deserves better than an acknowledgement.
that was one of the injustices of life! His music has something special!
SO much great work for decades.
@@mhsenoiazei6401 In France, his death was ignored, I was revolted. Five years later, I made some tribute : creatures-imagination.blogspot.com/2009/07/lhomme-qui-faisait-chanter-les-mogwai.html
Goldsmith should definitely be in the film score hall of fame.
Yes he deserves the accolades!
"Let's make sure that history never forgets the name... Enterprise."
Alonzo Branson “That will be the day”
I thi k its a safe bet history will never forget the name Enterprise. Star Trek will live on for ever. We Trekkers will see to that.
"Space...the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new lives and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!!"
Dr McCoy to Data: "She's got the right name. Now, you remember that, you hear? You treat her like a lady. And she'll always bring you home."
(Raises an eyebrow). Indeed.
Enterprise...no one but no one has ever composed such a fantastic theme about a ship ever. God bless Gerry Goldsmith! And yes he should have got the Oscar for this theme!
Well i would find that very strange, because Gerry has nothing to do with it, but Jerry surley would have earnt it
Amen
@@hansbier5198 Why would Jerry have surley earnt it? Surely he would've been happy.
This is the Real Star Trek.
may history never forget the name.. ENTERPRISE...
Make it so.
They just started building the real Enterprise #9 for the USN
When I first saw the movie I was five years old. I have, and will, never forget this music.
It was an absolute disgrace Jerry Goldsmith never won the Oscar for this composition.
agree totally.
He was allegedly pretty proud of it. And rightfully. It's one of the best things he ever wrote - and by extension, one of the best soundtracks ever.
But he can say that he wrote this. This is worth more than 100 Oscars :-)
This and Superman were passed over for Midnight Express, seems like they got ripped off.
Utterly Iconic.
The Enterprise.. the most beautiful starship ever created.. and this theme really fits with it..
Damn right Bones. She's a Lady. Treat her like a Lady and she'll always bring you home
You, sir, could not be more right! 🖖😀
The enterprise would be nothing without Scotty
The SSV Normandy is a close second
The refit is the most beautiful ship out there
A love song to a starship.
Jerry Goldsmith wrote and composed an original score for this scene, but it was rejected by Robert Wise. This score was his second attempt.Beautiful and breath taking.fits the scene like a glove.
That's our beautiful lady! It's her!
I first heard it in 1979, now it's 2021 , still as timeless and beautiful as ever.
I was 19 then and now soon to be 61..
Thank you, Jerry Goldsmith.
We will never see her like again...
Dr McCoy to Data: "She's got the right name. Now, you remember that, you hear? You treat her like a lady. And she'll always bring you home."
the perfect theme for the captain being reunited with his ship
Yes ❤️
Definitely. This piece of music is a love song to one of the most beautiful starships ever seen -- the refitted Enterprise -- as it is reunited with its captain (and us). An important bit of character development for Kirk in the story and a moment or six for the audience to appreciate the sheer beauty of his (and our) beloved vessel.
in 3000 years, we Will play this Song to travel in The Space ,
You know who the main character of the Star Trek franchise really is? It's the Enterprise.
I'd say third after Spock then Kirk.
Majel Roddenberry, Nichelle Nicholas, George Taki, et al. as well
I agree that it’s The Enterprise. Without her there is no achievement ❤️
Absolutely 😊
Watch all the other new Star Trek series .....they all Lack one Thing The 8th Charakter .....the Ships like the Enterprise the Defiant the Voyager ....they all carried their own Weight in the show
I listened to this with my eyes closed and I could see the scene play out in my mind, dialog included, and when those horns cut in at 3:13 I felt a rush of goosebumps race down my spine.
I love the solo trumpet at 1:28 then immediately followed by those unimaginable strings.... Sends shivers ..but the whole piece is incredible!
Agree
I did listen to this music every night before sleeping when I was a kid. It made me love orchestral music. Today, 30 years later, I listened to it again and it made me cry. It is so beautiful, so complex. Jerry Goldsmith was a truly beautiful mind. Thank you Sir, you brighten my life.
So wonderful!
The Anthem of Earth. When Humankind is finally in peace.
Enterprise is not just a mere lady. She's the Grand Lady of the Galaxy, a loving mother.
"You treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home" (Admiral Leonard "Bones" McCoy)
@@donbrynelsen2157 “Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? [ . . .] Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse, but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down. Tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.” -- Captain Malcolm Reynolds
Magnificent is insufficient to describe this piece of music. Mr. Goldsmith you were an absolute master of your craft.
At the end, during the applause, I muttered to myself, "Permission to come aboard." Love their rendition. I grew up loving Goldsmith, Williams, and Barry. Movie music is my fave.
Me too, Jerry Goldsmith is my favourite composer of all time, John Barry is up there too but no one wrote music quite like Jerry.
Permission granted, Sir.
When Star Trek the Movie came out, I freely admit that I came out of the theater thinking how nice it was to spend time with a bunch of old friends.
I agree. The movie wasn't great, but it was nice to see my heroes alive again. I might have been thrilled if they'd done nothing but have lunch together. I missed "the gang" from Star Trek.
Disco Dave I miss them even more now.
I waited in line for eight hours JUST for that reason.
(Only one theater as playing it in my city)
I got to see STTMP when it first premiered in the base theater at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The theater was mostly us sailors from CVN-65, which was in drydock there. About the time the Klingons made their appearance, some knucklehead in the back started what sounded like the beginnings of a running commentary. Most of the theater just turned around and gave him a hard look. He was quiet for the rest of the movie.
@@johnmothershead1690 I bet those CVN-65 sailors were proud as fuck when Star Trek IV debuted
To compose that...!
Only a genius...!
❤️❤️
Indeed
Jerry Goldsmith was an authentic genius.
He learned with Richard Wagner.
So were james Horner, and michael glacchino.
Jerry was one of if not the best film tv score/theme composers of all time
He’s underrated for sure
You have to hear Goldsmith talk about how tough it was for him to write this score. And the fact that the first cue was rejected by Robert Wise really put an enormous amount of pressure on him. A true master.
"They gave her back to me Scotty."
"Gave her back? I doubt it that easy with Nogura."
"Yer rrright!"
"Any man that could do that: I wouldnae dare disappoint. She launch on time sir - and she'll be ready!"
Love that scene and the score.
Up until this point in the movie, no one had seen the new Enterprise. This theme perfectly captured the awe and wonder of the new ship design. The beautiful new curves, more feminine design, and pristine beauty. Even the little things like the worker shuttle pods and refit technicians in space suits are captured in this piece. So lovely.
The way she was meant to be seen.
"She's a beauty, Scotty. It's good to be back home."
"Aye Captain."
True, but it wasn't just the beauty of the design. She looked REAL. MASSIVE. And her extraordinary appearance in an extraordinary-looking motion picture was a validation of a lot of fans whom most other people thought of as crazy, who thought science fiction was "gadget writing" and a second-rate art form and who thought all of those things combined together in Star Trek to be massively overrated or a strange cult phenomenon.
The scene still takes my breath away
One could picture Warspite or Renown, or perhaps more appositely, Missouri or New Jersey having this effect after their rebuilds/modernizations on a Captain or Flag Officer who had served on her years before.
Speaking of ships that should have been saved, the previous two Enterprise's (CV 6 & CV 65) are certainly among them- the spectacular war service of the former and the magnificent power of the later inspired the starship
Gene: Jerry, I need an orchestral score…
Jerry: We’ll, you came to the right man, Gene.
Gene: of course, of course. But you see, I need a *special* score.
Jerry: I’m intrigued. How special?
Gene: Well, I’m bringing Star Trek to the big screen. And the studios gave me enough in the budget to build a proper model of The Enterprise…
Jerry: Oh…
Gene: We’re going to do a five minute fly by to show her off for the fans. No dialogue. You think you can compose something epic enough for that?
Jerry: Say no more, Gene. Say no more.
The look on Kirk's face when the shuttle swings around to the front of Enterprise as if he's been reunited with his lost love. The crescendo of music immediately as Kirk sees the front of the Enterprise was perfect.
This has power the 2009 era Trek movies could only dream of.
The slow build-up to 3:14 and the triumphant shift of tone is just excellent.
The most harmonic masterpiece of all times! - Especially the warm strings(1st,2nd violins, violas)(and the metallic brass sounds!)
Yes! Absolutely
Agreed
Goldsmith, Horner and John Williams. The composers from our time whose music will still be there 100 years from now. When rap and hip hop and whatever thump thump crap is gone, they will remain. Beautiful, heart grabbing, moving, tear jerking, they've got it!
I would add elfman to that
@ Disco Dave. Well said! I couldn't agree more about the lasting magnificence of John Williams', James Horner's and Jerry Goldsmith's (and also John Barry's) movie music score compositions and that the so-called "music" of today , which so sadly is for the most part just a pile of garbage, will eventually be consigned to the dustbins of history.
I'm never one to put down music because of preference. I like all music that aim for one goal which is to evoke a feeling. For me a lot that came from Goldsmith, Horner and Williams, it also came from a lot of what's now considered old school rhymesayers, Nas, Biggie, Tupac, Luda, Twista, Em, Rakim and many others. Also in that mix are bagpipers and Latin chorals and hymns. Music is everywhere, just open your mind. That hip hop head, might be sampling classic music for the next generation to learn about.
@@humblebugg5270 and please' dont forget Basil Poledouris...
Bernard herrmann GENIUS
Jerry Goldsmith was one of my favorite composers of all time. What a career.
Takes me right back to the first time I saw this scene in 1979. I was barely a teenager, but what a memory.
Yes
I got chills when I saw and heard this part in the movie theater, I bought an 8 track tape of the movie sound track and played this when I was driving a young patient in an ambulance to Shands teaching Hospital in Gainesville, and the kid went wild when this piece ended at the same time I finished backing the ambulance up to the patient loading area. My partner an I also wore the green medical insignia that McCoy had on his ST:TMP uniform.
Nice touch.
Jerry Goldsmith was brilliant I’ve got so many of his soundtracks, Ilia’s theme is beautiful
Can you imagine a mainstream movie being made with a scene like this, with music like this? The movie even has an overture! One of the reasons why STTMP is one of my favourite ones of the series.
If I was a director or producer, I would demand a powerful leitmotif as well as an overture no matter what the movie company says.
I so agree !
Who didn't like this? Somebody has their phaser set on Stupid....
+VTV SD Yep. Some people are just transporter accidents waiting to happen.
+NorthForkFisherman "What we got back didn't live long ... fortunately."
Grace Skerp + NorthForkFisherman "And it exploded..."
VTV SD"It's the simple things in life you treasure."
Grace Skerp words of wisdom right there....
Whoever gave this a thumbs down needs to have a Ceti eel in their ears
Or be transported to a Borg ship?
Yeah really. Face the wrath of Khan.
Lol!
This scene and score were a love letter to the fans in 1979.
Honestly if the entire movie had been that one scene, it would have been worth the price of admission.
STtMP is one of Goldmith´s masterpieces. A very nice live performance thanks to the good orchestra and the honest and efficient conducting!
He also composed the main theme for Star Trek: Voyager, which is equally beautiful.
Clearly one of the milestone of film music. And he had to rush it to recording, all in 10 DAYS!!!!
Correction: this is his masterpiece.
@@johntracy72 yes agree
His ability to match sweep, melody and majesty were perhaps unmatched in the world of soundtracks.
Yes
My god, this piece always shivers my whole body with strong emotions every time I see/hear it. And you? What do you feel?
I feel the exact same way, brother.
Me too. This music is so important for showing the new Enterprise that I can't imagine any other soundtrack
Lump in the throat every time.
The same way !
I also feel like I'm on a star trek.
I hope Goldsmith and Horner are up there making beautiful music :)
+Gwen King Truly a loss for all of us...
+LTWeezie I know people are not going to believe me but I had a premonition about Horner dying
+Gwen King They'll be composing together with masters like Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Wagner, filling the heavens with divine music...
I'm not religious, but that would be pretty close to heaven for me.
+Gwen King Yes but look what they have left us!
+Stand4Liberty there are very few pieces that evoke the exact emotion that I think the director was striving for but this piece from a genius like Goldsmith plus Wise's brilliant direction did just that. This one piece managed to become everything I think humanity could be as a spacefaring race if we would just try harder
Back again a year later...still have this marked in my favorites and listen to it constantly! Brings back the wonder and amazement I felt every day when I worked in the film as an Enterprise crew member. BRAVO!
How cool!
I was in college when the movie came out . Someone in the dorm didn't like that they "spent too much time looking at the ship". My friend's reply, " I've waited 10 years to see that ship"
I watch this wonderful clip at least once a week...LOVE IT! Even more meaningful for me because I actually had the honor of working in this film as an Enterprise crew member. Wish it could have lasted forever!
OMgosh how cool!
A superb score. Most definitely deserved an Oscar®.
The Oscars are trash So are Video Game awards. Just a circle jerk of ideologues and their buddies.
The beauty about Goldsmith is a lot of the modern film composers you can hear their influences such as Holst, Respighi, Wagner etc...but Goldsmith had originality and was rarely repetitive.
Agree
The greatest award this music could have is that so many people love it. We will forget who won the Oscar for the best score in whatever year, but we don't forget music that has so moved us. We run out and get the original soundtrack recording, and we also get a CD anthology of movie music themes composed by Jerry Goldsmith, and that's what we remember!
This is true!😊
Can you imagine the original studio orchestra practicing their individual parts and then coming together to hear what they'd been practicing? I bet some of them even teared up! Jerry Goldsmith was definitely the man!
Absolutely
I have often heard that the first movie was not a good one ... but I liked it!
I was in the 6th grade when the original series started in '66. Have watched virtually everything since ... and like it all.
Sweet Lord, that was beautiful. I know it's just some music written for a Sci-Fi movie, but it seems like so much more than that.
Exactly. It was music written to actually communicate to the audience.
Indeed old Jerry Goldsmith wrote all of the music for Star Trek and his pieces are indeed masterpieces happy birthday Star Trek #StarTrek50
Aaron Peavler/Geomodelrailroader Railroad Photography He wrote a lot of music for Star Trek: he didn't write all of it.
It was. It was seeing the beloved Enterprise again after many years.
Classical music was just music composed to amuse kings, and now it is revered.
I took days off from work to see two movies on their opening days, this and Alien…
Great memories from all those years ago…
Wonderful music to one of my favorite scenes in a Star Trek movie
When it hits the crescendo at 3:12 it's like fuck yeah! That bit really gives me chills. And you can tell Mr Goldsmith is really enjoying it. Bloody awesome film score. Even non-Trekkies can appreciate this.
"And you can tell Mr Goldsmith is really enjoying it."
How can you tell, Keith, considering Jerry Goldsmith wasn't in attendance due to a prior commitment of being deceased, roughly four years before this concert.
Deuterium2H, "...due to a prior commitment..." Priceless.
+Deuterium2H Well I didn't know that then, but I do now. It's still an awesome soundtrack & that's just what I was trying to say. Truth be known, I don't even know what Mr Goldsmith looked like now I know he croaked. But I'm not going to put myself out in order to find out.
+Keith Oakes here here! My sentiments exactly :)
"TREKKERS" is the appropriate term, unless they "love Dr. Spock's ears, they're so sexy" ... Trekkies get trekked, TREKKERS do the trekkin'.
Ça rappel de bon souvenir, lorsque j ai vu pour la 1er fois Star trek en cinéma de plein air au sud de la France, la musique magnifie le vaisseau Entreprise, superbe.
This is one reason why ST TMP is my favorite of the ST films the only one that really presented us with the beauty and majesty of space travel in the future.
Musical instruments being played at its ultimate best
I was fortunate enough to work in the film as a Science Officer, and totally think this is one of Jerry Goldsmith's best scores! It has to be a nice pan and really shows the new refitted Enterprise...WELL DONE!!
Nice! :)
LTWeezie Lucky.
+LTWeezie Don't talk to me. ;)
+Brian Bois Gilbert LOL All I can say is when I visited the set of the original series, everything was made like you could do it yourself in your garage for a project...when you stood on the transporter pad and looked up, there were three Sylvania light bulbs. Spock's viewer was a blue light bulb. When I was in LA working as an extra and sometimes just watching them shoot ST:TMP, it was AMAZING! Everything worked. Even though it was top secret, they trusted me and I got some amazing photos. That was the most fun I have ever had working on a film as an extra.
LTWeezie Man, you're a REAL buzz kill. Kidding, kidding,
No man really, I appreciate you sharing memories, must've been magic and a learning experience at the same time. Also nice to know that there's still those who have a sense of integrity and loyalty to those they work for. A rare thing in these times.
Star Trek The Motion Picture, What a beautiful movie....Used to watch it all the time growing up.....:'-)
BEAUTIFULLY EPIC! And this is coming from a Star Wars guy.
I like both Star Wars and Star Trek.
You can find John Williams doing the main theme to this film as a tribute to his friend and fellow composer here on RUclips.
Jerry Goldsmith is an absolute legend Star Trek wouldn't be the same without him
....thank you Mr. Scott.
What an amazing piece of music. Hairs on the back of the neck standing up!
Wow, ..how fitting for the Grand Dame of the galaxies! the music really tugs at the heartstrings!
Best orchestra composition in Star Trek The Motion Picture
This is a wedding theme when you really listen to it. Kirk, the Groom is the horns. Enterprise, the Bride, the strings. This is them meeting at the altar. A man and his true love.
"Damn. She is beautiful."
Very well said. I don't think you could have described it more perfectly. Especially the moment when the shuttlepod swings round to the front and he see his beautiful lady in all her beauty.
i can - just - buy this. it's definately a love theme
@@jaycegti2200 what about when we go behind to see her new, 'fat' bum [secondary hull]? btw i worship the refit Enterprise and this track!
Great analogy.
This song must be played when we launch the first starship to carry the name Enterprise!
DAMN TO THE RIGHT!
I can hear the naval influences, like a great ship in a vast ocean...conquering big waves! Very clever! lovely!
it does have naval roots, but mainly it is to complement the beauty of the newly commishined enterprise. Go and watch the actual clip this music was intended for and you will see what I mean.
+Well No Drr Gaming more the majesty of a modest yet strong vessel which by now was supposedly around 20 years old
correction: not newly commissioned, the new refit of the enterprise
+Well No Drr Gaming 👌
Set the sails !!
I am not really a crazy Star Trek fan but when I saw STTMP in the theater I felt like crying when the Enterprise was revealed. Jerry's music was so huge and so reverential. It was just an absolute lovefest for the Enterprise. "there she is!! WOW" Goldsmiths music was shiver inducing.
Wow! A magnificent composition! And performed by such a wonderfully skilled orchestra! Just: WOW!
Chokes me up and I don’t know why. But it’s so moving it kind of gets me in my chest. Long live the Enterprise
She’s a beauty 💫
Лично для меня Джерри Голдсмит один из самых гениальных композиторов за всю историю музыки.
Я согласен
Yes agree
Jerry Goldsmith's compositions are absolutely beautiful. Vale, Jerry Goldsmith, Gene Roddenberry, James Horner, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, and DeForest Kelley. To quote Nimoy, "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"
This orchestral performance always makes me cry a little, with tears of joy, awe, and hope for humanity's future ( Roddenberry dream). It's so beautifully done. I can visualize the Enterprise ( Star Trek The Motion Picture's flyby 'beauty shot' exterior close-ups). I fantasize that I'm a Captain in Starfleet on a Constellation Class Starship, in my dreams....... pathetic, huh? I know I just really need to get a life. I'm just a knucklehead fanboy, apologies. Thanks for sharing.
Enterprise is a Constitution. But I agree.
Really no need for apologies.
Live long and lrosper !
Xen1701 well, prosper is the word ;-)
Yes, yes......'Constitution' Class Starship....... and "Live Long And Prosper". A couple of typos, and folks get all itchy, and uppity. Roddenberry's dream of the future is supposed to make us better people than that, and above all that nit picking, and ass biting. Just joking. LOL. What's the other Vulcan adage....."Peace Be With You", or something like that? Or, better yet, how about a big fat "Q'Plagh'!". Trekkers Rule!
wasn't meant that way. I apologize for any offense. I was genuinely trying to help.
This is one of the best Star Trek Theme ever made. Thank You Jerry for this masterpiece. I hope we can hear it on "Star Trek: Picard" or next Star Trek Movie.
Along with the Pan Am scenes in 2001:A Space Odyssey, The Enterprise scene in TMP are the greatest space scenes ever put to film. They are the epitome of the space opera that is lost in today's Star Trek and Star Wars re-boots.
Indeed
Maestro Jerry Goldsmith!
Jerry Goldsmith is a gifted composer and also a fantastic conductor. His technique and style are amazing.
One of the most beautiful tracks I've ever heard in my life! I remember seeing the movie in the theater! I know that entire scene.. and even the entire movie... gets complaints for being "slow". But I was in awe at the entire scene, thanks to the music! (Yeah, seeing the Enterprise on a massive screen with little men in space suits floating around it was pretty cool too.)
For me, at least, this song (and that movie segment) really captured Kirk's love affair with the Enterprise (and mine)!
+David Raasch I love Star Trek The Motion Picture. This music is Awesome!! We had not seen the folks together since '69. This was so Brilliant !!! Still love this movie today.. ;-)
+David Raasch The best part of the movie.
There was something magical about seeing that scene in the theatre... that beautiful USS Enterprise... 25 feet tall... that swelling score... The Enterprise LOOKED real ! When I showed my Son this movie, this particular scene I had to tell him, "imagine this scene in a darkened theatre on a 30 foot high screen with theatre sound... magic is the word to describe it"
That scene was my first "nerd-gasm" lol
I wholeheartedly agree!
Goosebumps!
Loved Mr. Goldsmith and miss him still! He and John Williams are in a class by themselves!!!!
Bloody awesome! That is one of my all time favourite film scores. I bet when the orchestra got told they were going to play that, they were like "holy shit, we're doing Star Trek!" They must've been very proud to be selected to play that.
Classic music.
Até hoje me emociono com a grandiosidade da obra de jerry Goldsmith...👍👍👍
The "Head-On" crescendo @ 3:15 is amazing! Goose-bumps every time!
Also, the image of the Enterprise in Spacedock was one of the most beautiful cinematic shots I have ever seen. Plus, this whole sequence, at the time, it may not longer be true, was the longest continuous special effects shot in movie history.
Trekkers and Trekkies had waited 10 years to see that ship again. That glorious tracking shot and the music caused the collective nerdgasm to shift the Earth's orbit. We.Were.Amused.
I remember being in the theater seeing the Enterprise being unveiled and the happiness I felt as the director took the time to give us all a good look at it while Goldsmith's incredible theme unfolded in all it's glory. It was a great moment in sci-fi history.
Masterpiece! Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack is absolutely masterpiece! There is no another movie music like that! THE BIGGEST MISTAKE in Oscar history! Jerry Goldsmith should win Oscar for this miracle! It’s clear - in 1979 there was some “political reason” why he didn’t win. I am a big fan of movie music and this one - from the beginning till end - amazing! 😍😍😍😍
I certainly agree. The ST TMP soundtrack should have gotten Best Original Score as it ranks as among the best soundtracks ever in cinematic history.
Another Masterpiece soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith, He was a musical genius, who stood apart from the rest.
He is greatly missed in the world of music.
Goosebumps from 1:33 - indescribable musical talent. The 1979 soundtrack was my comedown after a tough college day. ST:TMP soundtrack holds up 36+ years later.
Indeed it does
I think that anyone who really "gets" Star Trek can't help but fall in love with it. Sure it isn't the hardest scifi, it isn't even internally consistent. The writing can sometimes be lackluster, the acting is sometimes (but not always) groan inducing. But none of that matters. Beneath all of that, the soul of the franchise is something more, something beautiful and joyful and hopeful. It says, "Hey, you. You have the power to make tomorrow better than today. Set aside your petty grudges and look up at the stars. They're waiting for us."
What a great composer. All the sense of yearning, and beauty, and possibility. He completely captured it. They were so wise to use this as the theme for Next Generation.
The evokers of emotion
SCOTT: "the crew havent had near enough transition time with all that new equipment, and the engines havent even been tested at warp power...AND an untried captain..."
KIRK: "two and a half years as chief of starfleet operations may have made me a little stale but i wouldnt consider myself 'untried'. They gave her back to me, Scotty"
SCOTT: "GAVE her back, sir? I doubt it was that easy with Nogura"
KIRK: "Yer rrright"
SCOTT: "ahh, any man who could acomplish such a feat i woud na dare dissapoint. She'll launch on time, sir. And she'll be ready"
+cchill68 strewth. Those two hated each other but this is a heartwarming dialogue, really evoked by the acting. I've thought of that myself from time to time when watching this scene.
+Doug19752533 Scotty always got some of the best lines. "Admiral! There be whales here!", "Laddie, shouldn't you rephrase that?", "Up your shaft!" and of course, "It's green." Fair winds and following seas, Mr Scott.
+Grace Skerp " The more they rework the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain." is another good one
+Richard Poteat Best engineer in the fleet. I'm betting that in his quarters there's the framed quote of the SeaBees: The difficult we do right away; the impossible will take a little longer.
As much as Mr. Scott tried to be his usual miracle worker self and how She tried, our Lady wasn't ready to be thrust out there again