Borg Engaged - Star Trek TNG OST by Ron Jones

[Hartzilla2007]

Back when the Borg were scary

[TheOneUntakenName]

"Joker, dispatch a message to the Citadel. We have engaged the Reapers."

[Audioquest56]

It's amazing how the music in TNG went from truly original to absolutely mundane by season 5. Personally, I love some of the earliest season 1 episodes scored by Ron Jones (Where No One Has Gone Before is excellent).

[SNK038]

Everyone knows Berman is an idiot. He thought the music was distracting people from the story of Star Trek. That's why Voyager and DS9 have elevator music. Berman also personally instructed the Voyager actors playing humans to "act less" because if the human acting was too good, it would take away from the Alien performances... facepalm.

[AlabamaSlammer007]

Your lives, as it has been, is over...

[LtRacjack12]

Rick Berman started to run Star Trek to the ground when he got rid of this awesome composer and gave us ELEVATOR music for the final seasons of TNG and Generations.

[clark85]

@LtRacjack12 so thats wut happened. I always wondered what happened to the great theme music from the middle seasons. Voyager even worse!

[LtRacjack12]

@clark85 of course according to the Rick Berman school of logic in television, music adds nothing to the scenes. Season 3-4 were the very best of TNG with good writing and music, by season 5 it started to decline for good.

[clark85]

@LtRacjack12 All this time I thought it was my imagination. Thanks for clearing that up.

[Kguy985]

Awesome work. I loved his music. Rick Berman was an idiot for firing him. I think thats a general consensus. We were left with palatable music after and very mediocre. Music has always defined star trek im not sure what Berman was thinking.

[philyburkhill1]

Fuck Rick Berman

[saquist]

It's hard to believe they FIRED this MAN for Making music that "OVERSHADOWED" the scenes!!!!!!! Berman is a MORON!

[TromboneConductor767]

It's amazing how big of a sound he got from such a small orchestra. Ron Jones is a fantastic composer. It would have been nice if he had stayed on for DS9 and Voyager!! The music would've been great!

[CynicalVision]

"Sir...the vessel has already changed course to intercept us. Approaching at warp 9.3....entering visual range."

"..on screen"

[nightreaper999]

i still dont understand why they chose the least aerodynamic shape for their ship lol. still a good song

[CynicalVision]

@nightreaper999

Would being aerodynamic even matter in space?

[nummydoughnuts]

1:06 T_T

[nummydoughnuts]

Holy shit ive been looking for this!

[m981236]

I love the chorus!

[MegabyteUnleashed]

This episode had the best soundtrack of TNG's entire run.

[DELTA1978THETA]

@MegabyteUnleashed I agree with you on that

[accountwithoutrules]

"Mr. Worf, dispatch a sub space message to Admiral Hanson."

"We have Engaged the Borg"

[sundragonra412]

This theme sends chills down my spine every time I hear it. It is amazing!

[mb111488]

@sundragonra412

Same here. I think it even hold up to Jerry Goldsmiths music from First Contact which for me gave the same chill with a different sound.

[PrfMoriarty]

@sundragonra412 It's criminal how they fired Ron and his work after season four. Berman wanted "atmospheric" music that faded into the background like boring sonic wallpaper, rather than music that was an active part of the storytelling.

Name one TNG episode after season four with a memorable soundtrack. With the possible exception of "The Inner Light", I'll bet you can't.

[jjakucyk]

Absolutely brilliant, one of the most fantastic bits of music scoring on TV. The only thing better is the buildup to Commander Riker's order to fire at the end of this same episode. Ron Jones is a genius.