Sounds on Screen #6 (Star Trek)

With all of the festivities surrounding Star Trek's 50th anniversary, I decided to go back and listen to Michael Giacchino's original score for the first reboot film.  Giacchino creates a dramatic entrance with the brass theme that opens the movie, leading us into space in a grand fashion.  Symphonic melodies are put together to create a new theme for an iconic franchise.  Giacchino respectfully contributes a new score full of string suspense and strong brass elements.  The brass works really well for in the context of space.  Percussion is also added at times to give odd rhythms that deliver us into the unknown worlds that the Enterprise crew continue to explore.  A choir also attributes to the strangeness of space as a sort of homage to Gustav Holst's compositions.  For those of you unfamiliar with Holst, he is the composer of The Planets.  The Planets is one of the most commonly used pieces of music in cinema, especially with any film revolving around the subject of space.  Finally, we get to hear the original theme at the very end of the film, leaving our palette satiated with a return to Star Trek: The Original Series.

Notable Tracks:
"Star Trek"
"Nailin' the Kelvin"
"Enterprising Young Men"
"Nero Death Experience"
"End Credits"

Image credit: ​By Cristiano Del Riccio →This image, which was originally posted to Flickr.com, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 22:28, 16 March 2010 (UTC) by Tabercil (talk). On that date it was licensed under the license below. - →This file has been extracted from another file: Michael Giacchino.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20441701

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