Unfortunately we don’t have polls in lemmy. Nonetheless I’d love to hear from you: What’s your favourite Star Trek theme and/or your favourite scene with special (background) music?

For example: My favourite theme is TNG and my favourite scene is Cochrane’s warp speed flight in First Contact with Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Ride”.

  • @[email protected]
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    28 months ago

    TNG is also my favourite theme, but my favourite scene with music is the flute song Picard plays for his son’s birth in “The Inner Light” (especially the reprise at the end with the real flute from the probe).

  • @[email protected]
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    18 months ago

    It isn’t a main theme, but my favourite cue is Ilia’s Theme. So sweeping and majestic.

  • JonC
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    148 months ago

    First Contact main theme > all

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      Agreed. I’d say that Nemesis theme with Blue Skies is a close second. “A New Ending”

    • DominusOfMegadeus
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      28 months ago

      It’s quite a lovely piece. Which is completely incongruous with the tone of the film.

  • @[email protected]
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    98 months ago

    I don’t really care about music, but my fiancee loves the SNW theme so much that whenever I’m rewatching the show without her, she’ll hear it, and come watch it with me, so that one

  • observantTrapezium
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    8 months ago

    My top intro music shows: TNG, VOY, DS9, DIS, SNW, LD
    Honorable mention: ENT
    Top movie theme: First Contact

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      Now I have the ahhh ahhh in my head again. I like the OG opening, but hate the choral part.

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        17 months ago

        Every 60s show seems to be scored as though the camera could pan out any time and reveal whatever setting you thought you were in was in fact a black-tie ballroom party with a big band ensemble.

  • data1701d (He/Him)
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    58 months ago

    DS9, but I also have a fondness for LD.

    I gotta agree with Magic Carpet Ride, but otherwise, I enjoy that weird campy music Fear plays in VOY: The Thaw.

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      18 months ago

      Lower Decks is the best one of all the post kelvin Treks, for sure, but that might be because it’s borrowing so heavily from TNG/TMP.

      • data1701d (He/Him)
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        18 months ago

        I think that’s part of it. I do think they deserve some credit, though, for the way the note drops down at the end of each repetition of the main motif, mirroring how the Cerritos doesn’t have the same confidence as the Enterprise.

        Also, while I don’t necessarily like the newer cinematic themes as much, I do respect the use of the Inner Light flute in the Picard theme. Also, although still not a top tier theme, Strange New Worlds’s theme is at least memorable, though probably in part because of its borrowings from the TOS theme. The Prodigy theme feels like a blend of cinematic, TAS, and TNG-style themes.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    38 months ago

    Wrath of Khan. It is objectively superior. All others kneel before the superior intellect!

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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    98 months ago

    Enterprise theme song is GOAT

    I haven’t been awake long and can’t think of a specific scene with background music