The Enterprise-- Star Trek: The Motion Picture

"The Enterprise" by Jerry Goldsmith, as played by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In 1979, Goldsmith took the original score to the RSNO and conducted them. It has a different feel from the official track used in the movie; more brassy.

The audio quality is not too good in this video, so if you would like to know where to find a better quality version, just message me!

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[tripsadelica]

This is one of the finest pieces ever written by Goldsmith and the embodiment of the reverence with which Star Trek attempts to depict a Utopian future.

From a musical standpoint, I much prefer the original soundtrack recording as Alfred Newman did a wonderful job in extracting every nuance of the score. This version sounds a bit "muddy" during the louder brass pieces. Goldsmith, God bless him, was a master composer but Newman was always the better conductor.

[Superare1]

@tripsadelica I must agree that this is muddier ... I think why I like this piece over the original is because of the sustained brass note at 3:25, the first part of the main theme that leads to the next part. In the original, the two parts seem more separate.

[alshakur1]

does anybody know a way to find the music from the star trek 70's animated show? it was used in several of filmations cartoons afterwards but would be great to hear just by itself.

[Superare1]

@alshakur1 The intro is on Youtube, but they all seem to have the voiceover, are you looking for the intro without the voiceover? Actually, I've been looking for the cues for the animated Star Trek for a while, but I don't think they were ever released or even made available to download.

[punkwasher]

The Starship Enterprise should be THE goal that all of mankind works towards.

[MauledVader]

WOW!...Almost THIRTY YEARS (???!!!) of listening to the original 1979 soundtrack, I FINALLY heard this version! INCREDIBLE! This scene was my FAVORITE one in ST:TMP 'cos it showed the ship that Kirk loved and brought back safely from it's 5 year mission being reborn! It's the ONLY time the Enterprise was given a time to shine! In alot of the sequels and the new HD TV version, it looks more like it's supposed to zip around like an X-wing fighter! This is THE QUINTESSENTIAL STARSHIP!

[SPeacock]

This piece reminds me of Disney's "Fantasia" - odd, but hey :) Aside from the main theme in Star Trek: TMP, this is my favourite cue in the film.

[epichorns]

I actually like this "A" thing a lot over the regular G->C->E standard theme thing... Gotta love the 7th chord sound it creates...

[SergioTheComposer]

Woah..... At 4:59 ....incorrect note. The Violins played an "A" instead of a "C." Something went wrong during the copyist session. ...Anyone? lol

[Cococrash11]

Sound okay.

[KiCreativeStudio]

@FishfilmInc Yes, yes, I stand corrected.

[HunterR909]

Ohh Sure, Utopian future, problem is, Man, on his own may only be able to make a facade of utopia, because man, present and in the future is imperfect.

This song is NOT the title song, this is the sequence song of the first time that Admiral Kirk sees and inspects the re-fit enterprise.

[tripsadelica]

@punkwasher

Yes! So true! If today's superficial generation could just be made to understand that!

[tripsadelica]

@FishfilmInc ...No...I wasn't refering to the clarity of the music uploaded here...just the tempo and timing of the brass section of this piece. As I wrote previously, Goldsmith was a genius as a composer but his conducting could vary at times. Newman conducted the soundtrack recording in Hollywood with the finest session musicians and produced an awe-inspiring piece of work. Newman was a brilliant arranger, conductor and composer in his own right.

[FishfilmInc]

@KiCreativeStudio No, Alfred was the guy who composed the Fox fanfare.

[FishfilmInc]

@tripsadelica It sounds muddy because its in 240p.