Star Trek Mega Suite 1: Space, The Final Frontier

The first part of a chronological Star Trek Mega Suite I've started. UPDATE AT BOTTOM.

Since I'm starting chronologically, it starts with First Contact. Then it moves on to Enterprise, and ends with a hint of Star Trek (2009) and a wonderful medley that Dennis McCarthy wrote to end the last episode of Enterprise. I put in the hint of the opening of Star Trek (2009) to hint at the very undeveloped era between Enterprise and TOS/2009, such as the U.S.S. Kelvin's era.

I tried to focus mainly on the themes for each era/story, so I didn't put a lot of battle music from Enterprise to represent the Temporal Cold War/Xindi Arc/Romulan War. Instead I used some sad/ominous music McCarthy wrote for "These Are The Voyages" and instead focused on the formation of the Federation.

For those interested, I'll continue this in more parts, following the Original Series, Movies I-VI and the early part of Generations, then TNG, DS9 and VOY, with TNG movies interspersed. Finally, I'll end with a sort of music segue back in time to Star Trek (2009). For First Contact in the TNG part, I'll focus more on the Borg music, but with some reprises of the First Contact theme.

I'm not 100% happy with all the music transitions and cross-fades, but I think it turned out pretty well over all. Enjoy.

Music From:
-Star Trek: First Contact by Jerry Goldsmith
-Enterprise - "Broken Bow" by Dennis McCarthy
-Star Trek: Enterprise - "These Are The Voyages" by Dennis McCarthy
-Star Trek (2009) by Michael Giacchino


Suite done in Mixcraft 5.
Art by The Lightworks.
Original Soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith, Dennis McCarthy and Michael Giacchino.
No copyright infringement intended. This is just a medley made for fun.

UPDATE: I'm looking for suggestions for future installments. Here's what I'm currently thinking (may change):

2. These Are the Voyages - TOS, maybe TAS?, TMP
3. Of the Starship Enterprise - II, III, IV
4. It's Continuing Mission - V, VI, Part of Generations (23rd century)
5. To Explore Strange New Worlds - TNG, Generations (24th century)
6. To Seek Out New Life - First Contact (more Borg/TNG focused), DS9
7. And New Civilizations - Insurrection, VOY
8. To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before - Nemesis, 2009

I'm particularly looking for good/memorable TOS, TNG, DS9, & VOY episode cues to use too. Especially DS9 as I don't know it as well as the others. I'm also considering doing some additional "themed" tracks after all of these, focusing on music involving space battles, villains, exploration, and even some species/cultures like Vulcan-themed, Borg-themed, Romulan-themed, etc. I may even do a few for expanded universe music like Starfleet Academy, Elite Force and Star Trek Online. Any suggestions are appreciated.

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[robsherrard]

Well done! Where did you find them tho? Not all these pieces have been released as stand alone tracks have they? The suite from DS9 Tears of the Prophets would be cool!

[TyrannicalFascist1]

@robsherrard Enterprise seems to be a unique case where several composers have released demo cds with music from episodes on it. Sadly both Deep Space Nine and Voyager have had no such releases besides the official ones.

[ZgubilemBulke]

That's an NX-01 isn't it? Where can I get this wallpaper?

[TyrannicalFascist1]

@ZgubilemBulke

It's in my description - a site called The Lightworks. They have lots of really nice Star Trek wallpapers.

[MoosieMooProductions]

wat is this

[Idazmi7]

@KevServo Ease the crap UP. Let other people enjoy what they like, and you can simply listen to someting else. Star Trek would be better off as a franchise if the fans would take "oops" moments in a bit of a better stride. (Like they did between Star Trek: the Motion Picture and Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan) Also, Dennis McCarthy is getting PAID for his music- are you? If so, how much? Less than $10,000 a piece? If so, you can't even critisize the work.

Jerk.

[koenan1]

Argue about which cast you like best, which ship looks the coolest, etc.

Agree that Goldsmith's First Contact is the most touching, classy, and elegant music in all of Star Trek.

[FishfilmInc]

@TyrannicalFascist1 I have a complete score edit for TOS, all 3 seasons

[holodock]

Still... ST2009 is feeling kind of like an alien among these classical ST themes.

[electricpower61785]

as I'm watching through the series again on DVD, I'm actually finding it i like it more. The first two seasons were were the wide eyed explorers and that is probably where it lost a lot of viewers. Then season 3 came along and changed everything with the Xindi arc, then in season 4 they actually started accomplishing something and laying the groundwork for the federation. I really liked where they were heading. Really makes me wish it hadn't gotten canceled. The last episode on the other hand...

[electricpower61785]

wow amazing!

[trashboysj]

Check out the DS9 episode "Sanctuary" for a scene in which Bajoran musician Varani is mesmerizing the crowd at Quark's...it's not very long, and I don't know if it can be separated, but the music reveals that the DS9 theme is actually very related to Bajoran music. If you can find out who composed the music Varani is playing, you might be able to get more (I'll bet it's Dennis McCarthy). DS9 has a tremendous amount of fantastic and stirring battle music, and of course, there's Vic Fontaine.:-)