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Generations had very little scoring. First Contact and Insurrection I wasn't terribly impressed by, but then I'm not a big fan of Goldsmith (GASP!). I love his TMP/TNG theme, and his Klingon theme, but think they've been overused as thematic elements. And I've not yet been able to sit all the way through Nemesis, and have been too distracted by the abysmal story to notice the score.
That said, most of latter TNG, DS9, and VOY had as forgettable a collective score as Generations. To be perfectly honest, I can't remember any of the music from Generations beyond the opening title theme. I think that says something...
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The extremely cool Mahler-inspired Nexus music, maybe?
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Well, to me, in Generations it was the last time we heard a truly triumphant main theme... well, not the actual opening theme, but its expanded version. By 'triumphant' I mean something like TNG theme, with Enterprise soaring through the screen.
In First Contact and Insurrection main theme was very calm, and Nemesis score was downright depressing. It's not what I expect from Star Trek movies. I want "optimism, captain!"
Back to the original thread, I liked "Faith of the Heart". I actually remember lyrics now Changing the theme will mean that shuttle Enterprise (along with the cast of TOS thats supposed to be in this particular shot) will be gone, further decreasing "trekness factor" of Enterprise
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About DS9: I liked both versions of the titles. Actually I don't know which one I prefer. I am currently in the process of watching all DS9 espisodes in the correct order on DVD, and have rarely fastforwarded the titles.
However I really hate "Faith of the heart" - as Enterprise theme song or otherwise. Just not my kind of music. If it has to be that cheesy, then rather have Aerosmith do some kind of song like "I don't wanna miss a thing" (The "rock" version of course).
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Didn't we already sorta agree that this isn't the real shuttle Enterprise, but a retouch of one of the flightworthy orbiters? And that this isn't a big roll-out scene anyway, but rather some mundane towing out of an OPF?
If they went to that much trouble, then I'm sure they did insert the TOS cast, too. I can *almost* recognize the neck of George Takei on that helmet-and-coverall guy third from the right. Or is it the fourth? And Nichelle Nichols is looking from the orbiter window. Or mooning us. Hard to tell since they went overboard with all that obviously fake "glare".
It's still faith of the heart. I think the only difference is that there is an electric guitar, bass guitar, and some type of drums dubbed on top of the original track. Better, but The Calling could beat it.
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It's horrible. They ruined it! I liked the old version of "Faith of the Heart," but now because of complaining fanboys, it's been changed. To this! Aaahhh!
Well, at least I still have the first episode of "Enterprise" on tape, so if I want to hear the original theme again, I can just watch it there.
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Reaching back ever so slightly in the thread, I was shocked to learn that it was Chattaway that had done "Tin Man". I first started paying attention to him in the later seasons of TNG.
That is when he had started making sure that the orchestra would never ever shut the f^ck up for a single moment. The instruments were always chatting away with one another (if you'll pardon the all too correct pun), no matter what.
Important dialogue? "Shit, play it loud." A quiet, somber moment? "Shit, play it loud. And make it suspenseful!" Action scene? "W00t! Orgy-stra!"
I hate Jay Chattaway.
But he was cool on Tin Man. And Inner Light. But that's probably it. Bastard. They'd have done better to re-cut TOS music.
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Well... I think the new instruments don't exactly follow the flow of existing music (especially in the middle of the song), but I must say I rather like overall effect
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