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The Musical Legacy of Star Trek: The Original Series

For the past two years, I’ve been developing a series of YouTube videos I call Scoring Star Trek. The viewer comments have impressed me and reveal a still-abiding appreciation for

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The Music Makers of Star Trek – Fred Steiner

A total of eight composers were hired to score and conduct the music used in all three seasons of the original Star Trek series. I’d like to look into the

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Strange New Worlds‘ Season 1 Soundtrack in Review

There’s nothing strange about the sounds of Strange New Worlds… Strange New Worlds may have seriously taken Star Trek fans by storm, but it doesn’t take itself too seriously, and

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The Music Makers of Star Trek: Alexander Courage

Whenever the original 1960s NBC TV series Star Trek is discussed, one aspect continues to emerge as a critical part of the show’s success — its music. Show creator Gene

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The Music Makers of Star Trek: Gerald Fried

The Star Trek universe has just lost the last of The Original Series’ music composers, Gerald Fried, who passed away 17th February 2023, just days after his 95th birthday. By

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Strange New Worlds Soundtrack Coming This Summer

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds composer Nami Melumad has told us that a soundtrack album for the first season of Strange New Worlds is on the way for the summer – possibly in

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Power Records’ Star Trek Adventures

One Christmas morning in the late 1970s, snow at the window (one of the few times I can remember an actual white Christmas in the UK), I tore open a

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Wil Wheaton’s Still Just a Geek in Review

Wil Wheaton’s new book Still Just a Geek is an annotated update of his 2002 book Just a Geek. I listened to the audio version of the book, narrated by

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Loving in View of Eternity: A Review of No Man’s Land

“Love isn’t something you find. It’s something you create.” — Professor Gillan At the very end of the Picard first season finale “Et in Arcadia, Ego, Part 2”, we get

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The Legacy of Jerry Goldsmith’s Star Trek Scores

As a young boy, I was mesmerized by the visual effects of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, completely captivated by the sight of the Enterprise in drydock as Admiral Kirk

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