What's your favourite Star Trek theme? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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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".

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[-] jonc211@programming.dev 14 points 3 months ago

First Contact main theme > all

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Indy@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Agreed. I'd say that Nemesis theme with Blue Skies is a close second. "A New Ending"

[-] Lwaxana@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

Voyager!

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 8 points 3 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

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

Enterprise theme song is GOAT

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

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's been a looong road...

[-] Itisreallyboring@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

... getting from there to here....

[-] purplepants29@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

I love it too! There are dozens of us!

[-] ClockworkN@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 5 points 3 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.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 points 3 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@startrek.website 1 points 3 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.

[-] stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

My favorite theme is definitely Deep Space Nine!

Favorite scene is a little harder though. I'll probably have to go with the montage scene in the last DS9 episode, which had a slow instrumental medley of The Way You Look Tonight and the DS9 incidental music.

I also think the scene in DS9: The Siege of AR-558 where Bashir is playing the recording of I'll Be Seeing You is really good too. It works even better on a rewatch after you see how important the song becomes to Nog.

[-] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] honc@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 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).

[-] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Does the intro of Galaxy Quest count?

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] impynchimpy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Spock's theme is perfect. Epilogue is insane.

[-] Frederic@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

TOS of course, will never skip it

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I like the opening credits theme to Star Trek IV. In fact that whole movie had a great soundtrack, including the fake punk rock song titled "I Hate You."

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

I'm partial to ENT and TNG, the first because it was novel and the second because it was my childhood Trek.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Anything but Enterprise.

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 points 3 months ago

Favorite song? The OG's opening.

But favorite intro altogether is the enterprise one.

[-] Indy@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 points 1 month 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.

[-] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

The theme to Star Trek IV. Underrated.

Also like the Klingon theme.

[-] impynchimpy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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

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