Star Trek

These Are The Musical Voyages…

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Spend the briefest length of time with me, and you’ll know that I love film music. I’ve been in love with film music for the better part of my life. It’s effectively permeated my DNA.

Spend a slightly longer length of time with me, and you’ll know that it all started with Jerry Goldsmith and his iconic score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Since I first heard “THE score” all those years ago, music has been a huge part of my Star Trek experience.

And last night, that experience took me to a whole new dimension.
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Film Music Friday: Like Composer, Like Son

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Hi again,

I’m trying something new with this post.  Much in the vein of my occasional Favorite “Forgotten” Films entries, I’m using today’s musings to launch a new series (to say nothing of further motivation to update this blog more regularly).

The title more or less speaks for itself; Film Music Friday will be my opportunity to share some of the scores I’ve collected and enjoyed over the years, along with some fun facts about their composition and recording.  Not so much reviews, these posts are really just fun you-gotta-hear-this stories.  Hope you enjoy them…

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On John Scalzi’s Redshirts, or: Ave, Captain, Morituri Te Salutant

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I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be,
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two…

– T.S. Eliot

There’s a character type, originally created to build drama, that has instead become the most enduring running gag in science fiction.

And there’s a particular clothing item, of a particular color, that has been forever ruined by said character type.

If you know anything of the genre, then you may have an idea of where I’m going with this.

Or you may not…
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