New Star Trek Theme song, slightly less disco
Posted By JM Bell on July 16, 2008
From my fellow geeks at TrekMovie.com:
Composer sees new Star Trek footage – inspired to create new TOS theme
Visual effects artist and composer Mike Verta was visiting at ILM last month and happened to see some of the effects work on JJ Abrams new Star Trek feature (he is not working Trek). He was inspired by the visuals to create a new version of the classic Alexander Courage theme which he posted on his website. It is a very interesting take. Verta tells TrekMovie:This was a speed-writing exercise, inspired by a recent visit to ILM where I happened to see Star Trek being worked on. I’d heard they were going to use the original series theme for the movie – that can be tricky, because it’s extremely club-lounge-like and dated sounding, especially to the uninitiated – so I wanted to take a shot at re-imagining it for a modern palette. I had 3 goals: 1) Use the original melody, 2) Make it feel like it belongs to the “family” of Star Trek movie themes and 3) Make it youthful and adventurous, to reflect the characters as seen in Star Trek.
Listen to Mike Verta’s take on the Trek theme
That’s a pretty decent take on the original theme song. I can’t wait until this movie comes out. I just really hope it isn’t disappointing!
Great tune! I wish I had it on my answering machine as an out going message, or even
in my cellphone as a ring tone, for no to little charge (but preferably no charge or a one time charge!). Are you a Star Trek fan? A fan club member? I am and I plan to see the movie, at least twice this year! By the way, the club I belong to, needs more members!
It’s interesting but lacks power. ST II, that theme was intense.