I don't know who you are, or what your professional background is, but one thing is for sure: you have Art in your veins. I have studied Music and Drama and yet I wouldn't be able to do what you have done with all these compilations. This requires a profound knowledge in orchestral music as well as possessing some composing skills. Of course, all this music came from elsewhere and was originally composed by some of the most gifted and talented composers of our time, but you managed to assemble them into one homogeneous group, as if, at one point, they did actually work together at a specific piece of music. This also requires a deep understanding of the intentions a composer did put in his music, or at least, an uncommon intuition only a musical person can actually possess. I doubt that something like this will ever be duplicated live in a concert hall. It would require a huge orchestra and a conductor who knows intimately all these pieces of music. Believe me, as a proud owner of most of the original soundtracks (but not the newest and gigantic compilations by LaLa Land, since I don't have the means to afford them), I can only say that this collection of yours will fit royally among those I already have. Your Megasuites are so original that even though one already may have the original CDs, one might also discover a completely new way at listening to them and taste some of the finest film music ever written. I salute you, Tyrannicus, whomever you may be, and wish you only the best. Thank you for your generous contribution to what is the Universe of Gene Roddenberry. Live Long and Prosper
Wow, thank you so much for the compliments, I really appreciate it. I actually have no background in music or composing - though I did play percussion and drums in middle school concert, marching and jazz bands haha. I grew up always listening to movie themes and soundtracks and even used an old Talkboy to record them from my TV and create a playlist of themes on audio cassette. I always loved the music of Star Trek (my first ever CD purchase being the soundtrack to Star Trek Generations) and ever since Enterprise came out, I thought it would be great to hear them in chronological order as a medley. After learning Garage Band in college, I found Mixcraft for PC and began to experiment. This particular suite was me wanting to update an old Star Trek medley MIDI file I've had on my PC since the early internet fansites with animated starship gifs were the hot new thing. I'm very pleased to hear that you and others enjoying these mega suites. I mix together things I'd like to hear and hope that others might enjoy them, so it's very gratifying that I'm not alone on that. LLAP
Well, I grew up on Star Trek - The Original Series (as it is called these days), and this may reveal to you (more or less) how old I am, but the dream to have a world like in Star Trek never left me. Concerning recording themes from Television, I did the same when TVs and Tape recorders were not as yet compatible, and this with one of those simple Philips tape recorders that first came out. Of course the sound was terrible and lousy to say the least, but back then, I remember, they didn't seem so very bad after all. Little did I know that just a decade later we would already have tape recorders that could be connected to a TV set to at least record the sound directly, and shortly afterwards, also VHS tape recorders that would also record the image, together with the sound... We are indeed blessed by the digital revolution, and for once, this is a good thing that the industry has done for us. Memories of any kind, but especially the good and nice ones, can be finally stored somewhere with little hassle and if carefully stored, dished up every time we feel like recalling them, and perhaps, why not, also share them with others who might appreciate them. This is indeed where culture mixes up with the social factor and this is indeed important, not just for ourselves, but for generations to come also. Keeping a valuable memory alive is as important as planning for the future. It's like the passing of the baton in a relay competition. And as Spock would say: "The need of the many outweigh the need of the few,... or the one". Jolan'tru, or as Vulcans say, Live Long and Prosper.
You may have had no background in music but maybe you missed your calling because you certainly have a great ear; and nowadays making music can be more about that than the ability to play an instrument since one can make music digitally and you seem to have the technological know-how. As Patrick here has commented, it's by no means everyone who can mix music like this.
I once read, that the greatest stories ever told didn't start with "Once Upon a Time" or "A Long Time ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away", it began with "Space, the Final Frontier"
May have been inspired by President JFK. He had the New Frontier program and often used the word "frontier" to start or end his speeches. The last speech written for him was never delivered, because on the day it was to be spoken, JFK was assassinated. Note card 36 included "...Let us stand together with renewed confidence in our cause--united in our heritage of the past and our hopes for the future--and determined that this land we love shall lead all mankind into new frontiers..."
Star Trek instilled in me a hope for humanity to have a better tomorrow, to improve ourselves day by day and to never give up on our shared challenge we call life.
I honestly believe that if more people watched original Star Trek and really paid attention to the lessons, the world would be a better place. My parents raised me right Trek is in my blood.
All of us have different favorites, diferent favorite captains... different shows... differnet movies... but it's still the same magical world that brought us all together... it's a beautiful hope and future for Humanity. Live Long and Prosper Friends. May we have another 50 years.
@@antonbrakhage490Lower Decks S1 was kinda meh, but then the later seasons kind of got a grip on what really defines Trek. All while also making fun of tropes throughout Trek like evil Starfleet admirals, Ferengi being hypercapitalist, Orion pheromones and all that stuff Not to mention we even saw actual development from the main characters, too
@@tektoastium7241 Lower Decks was likely pitched to the network as basically Rick and Morty with a Star Trek coat of paint (the creator used to work on R&M), and it shows a bit, especially in the first few episodes, though I don't hate them or anything. Once it grows into it's own thing, starts really developing it's characters and plots and getting into the Trek lore, it takes off. But it's in good company in this respect- TNG for example had a notoriously weak first season. Heck, weak starts are practically a Trek tradition. It also takes some old ideas and reworks or elaborates on them in genuinely interesting ways. Some of it really only works as parody, but the show has lots of ideas that actually substantially contribute to Trek canon.
@andrewwaldock it's getting back there, Strange New Worlds has been alright. Not the best, but certainly better than anything that came out of Discovery. The first two seasons of Picard weren't great, but the last Season was good. Lower Decks had some struggles in the first season, but since then has actually leaned into what makes trek great, and honestly the Nickelodeon show Prodigy has actually been some of the best Trek I've seen since since the early 2000's.
A wonderful Overture. I am 55 and Star trek accompenied me through life. I saw all series and films and love the music. I close my Eyes and all memorys come back.
Jared Whitley I think he would just get a stern talking to by HR, not banned. And I think they’d want to talk to him anyway about his racist comments about Vulcans.
Star Trek is probably the most influential TV show I've ever watched. I've watched the prequel and all the sequels and movies, many times, and each one of them holds an equal place in my heart, except for Star Trek IV, The Journey Home. I admit I have watched that movie over and over. It pretty much sums up all that makes the Star Trek franchise so great. It reminds me that people, from vastly different walks of life, can work together to accomplish incredible things. It gives me hope that one day that will be a reality for the people of Earth and beyond.
Everybody who loves ST thinks the same ... there are millions of us. Instead, in these 2020s, we face what we face. Something has to change, wouldn't you say? First step, more love and truth, less evil and lies...
That one, and the closing credits of Star Trek VI make me choke up every time, especially if I don't know they're coming and don't have a chance to prepare myself. So much beautiful music! I've noticed that about myself: a lot of my "favorite" movies are ones where the theme music is worth listening to on repeat, and has little to do with how good or bad the actual show is. :) And whadayaknow? Voyager makes me tear up, too. Such beautiful music, it's so sad that these shows eventually had to come to an end. As The Next Generation alluded to in their finale: "All Good Things....."
Whenever I listen to these iconic sounds, I feel a connection between the universe and myself, both uplifted and also melancholic. This music represents maybe the biggest and boldest vision of a better future humans ever dared to think of. And - Star Trek truly stands for ideas that inspred generations. What a pity that so little of it has ever made an impact on our societies. But, there's still hope, beause... the needs of the many...
Of course I get you! In my childhood, I had 3 big influences - a certain sad chaos and confusion at home (punctuated by great family travel), a love of nature, and (from age 5) Star Trek. A year or two later, kids at school began telling me that Trek was actually religious, as well as moral. I believed them, was a bit upset/embarrased (even!), only learning years later that Gene R was a huge humanist who did not want any of "that God stuff" in there. Meanwhile, because of the nature interest, I studied biology and ecology to PhD level, in the process (and thanks more than a little to Spock and McCoy) getting hugely into theoretical exobiology and the wondering about just how special this Earth of ours might be. All those ST aliens more or less went out of the picture - and there was the sense of crushing disappointment and being alone. Conceivably there are scraps of life out there, but intelligence is hugely rare, I suspect. So just how sad can the above music then be? But then, on 28-2-21 (having like all of us stayed at home and thought I was safe healthwise), I was broken and brought low by very shock health news ... and begged to Father, Son and Holy Spirit, not to be healed, but just to be cleansed of tainting sin before death. I WAS! I really knew it and felt it, and am changed. [I'm also still alive!!] Now I can't help but see God in the ST music (through the Holy Spirit), and realise that, if Roddenberry wanted to express his faith in humanity through the series, well so did God through His Son. He loves us. We know the series was/were more about humanity than about aliens, when all was said and done. Just as all great sci fi is ultimately about the human condition. The Holy Spirit was somewhere there in Trek, ensuring that some people HAD to see it as "religious", even if Gene wanted something else. I now know that happens all the time (not least with Copland's music "The Promise of Living" - which fits right in with the above, by the way). You think any human creation can be as INSPIRING as Trek without having something truly special? - "inspired" means "filled with the Spirit"... And the universe is NOT empty, because God is in it. And one day so will we be, if that is the right thing for us to do. And if the 2020s tell us that UFO-UAPs are real, then my feeling is that they are either angelic or demonic, or maybe some of each, because the Bible actually says that human beings are the only visible beings that can know God (where "visible" means corporeal - angels and demons who do know God are "invisible" in Biblical terms). Wouldn't mind being proved wrong on that, TBH, but do not think I will be - if the Deep-State elites have been keeping this stuff secret so successfully then there's nothing very great or divine about it (1 John 5:19) Last year I also realised for the first time that my parents (UNAWARES!!!) had had me baptised on the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi - patron of ecology, ecologists and nature-lovers. See the great movie "Brother Son and Sister Moon" just to add a little cosmic element. He paints the wayside flower, He lights the evening star... If you're beginning to get the message from this that it all boils down to God, and that that is OK, and enough; and that Gene's vision for us to love one another and work together for some great goal is part of that... WELL, IT DOES AND IT IS!!! So we drop the nostalgia as best we can, knowing that we have real work to do in this world, with God's help, and in His name, and with the help of the Holy Spirit... If anything from Star Trek helps with that - and in my view MANY things do, and VERY powerfully in our generation - then we know just how and why that is...
Love, Love, Love this music of Star Trek. Thanks for all your hard work. This music is especially endearing to me as Picard's final episode is this week and new series are being announced.
I always get emotional when I hear the first contact by Jerry Goldsmith. What a moment It will be when we really make that first contact. Star Trek makes me believe world peace is possible.
Yep. I don’t know what it is about this particular piece but it’s just so majestic yet personal. The fact that it’s paired with the best TNG movie helps a lot as well.
@@fabricesanchez9000 - And Yet - with morons like Putin and other war criminals around today - it makes me wonder - if humans can or will ever grow up ! ? 😮
I feel the same way about the "First Contact" theme as I do about the "Voyager" theme, maybe because they were both done by Jerry Goldsmith and they are reminiscent of each other.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!
Had to come back. Over two years ago I posted "Remember when Star Trek was beautiful, poetic, and optimistic?!" I'm happy to say it is again. I grew up with TNG (and TOS which my father watched when he was the age I was in the early 90s) and season 3 of Picard has renewed my hope that people today can make good Star Trek. What a lovely send off to my favorite crew & my favorite Captain. Lets see whats out there...Engage!
"First Contact" always has been and always will be my favourite, it is such a beautiful, haunting piece of music, I am so glad it is getting a reprise in Season 3 of "Picard"
Best line from star trek 6 was when sulu shows up to help destroy the Chang's ship and he says 'Target that explosion and fire!'. Love that whole scene. Goosebumps.
It's 2021, and many years have passed. And never like today we need what this music stands for. Firm reject for ignorance, obscurantism, violence. Being bold and gentle, firm and determined. Confident and defiant, open and fair. And boldly go forward together. We never needed Star Trek as much as we do today.
This made me cry through the whole thing. Star trek is literally a part of me. It holds me together spiritually. With all the bad things that have been happening to the franchises, I've forgotten my love for Star trek. Maybe I have found it again. Thanks.
I was born in 1966, the year the first ever episode of Star Trek was aired on television, and although many of the actors and characters are no longer with us, I, and future generations, will always have these gorgeous compositions to bring back the beautiful memories of the greatest science fiction ever created.
I read somewhere (Star Trek Magazine?) that Dennis McCarthy's theme from the end credits of Enterprise was originally going to be the main theme until someone upstairs made the call to use "Faith of the Heart" in an attempt to add a little "rock & roll" into the "Star Trek Symphony."
what do you mean transition from enterprise to voyager ... it was enterprise to enterprise because at the end of the series is was cmdr william riker speaking to troi and pickard about how great it would have been living in that time
The 2009 theme is special for me. I have been on Star Trek in cinema after all the years and when they showed enterprise with this music I nearly cried
The "Generations" theme is my all-time favorite piece of Star Trek music. Melancholic, yet heroic; it is truly befitting of Capt. Kirk's final Adventure. Voyager is a close second though.
Back when I did Star Trek simming, I wrote a scene where two characters listened to an old Captain's log from the NX-01 and I imagined, were it on TV, Archer's theme would have played softly in the background. :)
@@hollyrivney3638 The melody to the first theme grew on me (though the lyrics were god-awful cringeworthy), but the theme to seasons 3 and 4 was utter rubbish. I actually really liked the outro theme though, and ENT had some good music throughout it.
STAR TREK's Music - The BEST in ALL of Sci-Fi ! Love it all. Some of my favorites : Star Trek: First Contact by Jerry Goldsmith : Star Trek: Deep Space Nine by Dennis McCarthy , Star Trek: Voyager by Jerry Goldsmith, and of course Star Trek: The Original Series by Alexander Courage ! Thanks for this posting !
OMG, I've searched and waited for YEARS for someone to take it from MIDI form and make it into this orchestral masterpiece. Sir or Madam, you have done a great service for all of mankind. Your deed shall be remembered for generations to come, and for this, I thank you. LLAP.
Star Trek music always has that transcendent property that could always lift your soul to touch the stars and make vision of hope, peace and a better tomorrow a reality, I suppose that's why I love it so much. Fantastic arraignment of the orchestras.
The Inner Light, has to be the one that always garners the deepest emotional response. The pure and utter reaffirmation of life and its want to never be extinguished. I mean you also have the love of family, friends, and community that shines through even in a moment of what should be despair. I may be reading into the episode a touch more than I should, but that is the meaning I always took away from one of my favorite pieces of music and episodes in TNG.
God, I love Star Trek and this mix is perfect! Never have I watched a television series filled with so much hope, advancement, and better days for the future. Star Trek is what we should all aspire to be. When I'm upset with the cruel world, I put on Star Trek (any of them) and always feel much better. It's like a hug. Live long and prosper!
I always felt The Ba'Ku Villiage never got its due because it was in Insurrection. But that is a beautiful theme. Never fails to conjure feelings of peace and blissful joy. If Heaven had a theme, I would imagine it would sound something like this. Goldsmith as always, a master of his craft.
Star Trek beyond when they fly into the Starbase Yorktown was one of the most incredible scenes I've ever seen in a movie and wholly embodied the ethos of the Federation and the swelling music during that scene brought me to tears to think of what humanity could become if we get past religion and money.
The music even more than the films sometimes, portrays the nobility of Mankind, it's potential. Heart lifting to be sure. Inspiring undoubtedly. Modern classical masters at their finest. Thank you for this compilation.
Agreed! By the way, it’s actually an English horn, not an oboe. I don’t say that to sound like a music snob, but the English horn is a terrific instrument that is underutilized and needs more love.
Just, wow, man...No matter which Star Trek movies or shows you hate (and I like ALL the movies and ALL the shows, so the rest of you can piss off), each and every single incarnation has had wonderful, unique, diverse music to offer. New atmospheres, new emotions, new triumphs, new challenges, new joys, new sorrows. Long live the spirit of Gene Roddenberry...
Some of my favorite musical scores come from the worst movies - The Motion Picture and Final Frontier. Jerry Goldsmith was really in his prime back then, not only did he write the iconic main theme, but had instruments purposely invented in some cases (The Beam used to give V'Ger a cosmic resonance) and used the familiar themes to create completely different and alien surreal "audioscapes". Consider how haunting and powerful his compositions were in conveying the awesome size and scale of V'Ger. For Final Frontier, the majestic main theme transitions to a beautiful serene piece called "The Mountain" (the piece from ST V used in this video), and then juxtaposed with familiar Klingon battle themes, and the alien sounds of Nimbus III.
RIP to these legendary Trek actors: Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard, Anton Yelchin, Miss Jayne Wyatt, Brock Peters, De Forest Kelley, James Doohan, Ricardo Montalban and Persis Khambatta
