by Mr. Jim on 11/18/2000
 
All newly-recorded music in spectacular digital sound from Glasgow's Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Seattle's Symphony Orchestra, including performances conducted by Jerry Goldsmith, Cliff Eidelman, Fred Steiner and Frederic Talgorn. It's an international all-star tribute to Gene Roddenbery's classic science fiction masterpiece!

One of the most successful franchises in both film and television history continues to renew and reinvent itself to this day. The world of Star Trek has been through 35 years of metamorphoses. We've seen generations come and go... Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy.... Captain Picard, Ryker and Data... Commander Sisko and Captain Janeway. We've seen the Enterprise, Deep Space Nine and the Voyager... the Klingons, the Romulans, the Cardassians and the Borg... all have a special place in this "Ultimate" collection of scores!

Jerry Goldsmith has been the musical captain of the Star Trek universe for some twenty years now, having penned Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Final Frontier, First Contact, Insurrection and "Voyager" - all these represent Goldsmith at his finest hour, he's a living icon. Next, James Horner's famous theme from The Wrath of Khan. Finally, no Star Trek compilation would be complete without the famous theme from the classic original television series by Alexander Courage.

Varese Sarabande's release, just in time for the celebration for the completion of Paramount's issue of all nine Star Trek motion pictures on DVD (and the studio's continued series of "Star Trek" television episode DVDs, as we look back to the Star Trek lore), includes some of the most famous music ever composed for television or motion pictures. This is a "movie music" collector's dream come true on a 20-bit digital CD. This major event recording is dedicated to the memory of cover artist Bob Peak (1927-1992) for his contributions to "The Art of Star Trek"!