My favorites would be:

THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE - Kaplan
SHORE LEAVE - Fried
AMOK TIME - Fried
THE ENEMY WITHIN - Kaplan
SPECTRE OF THE GUN - Fielding
THE CORBOMITE MANUEVER - Steiner
TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES - Fielding
THE PARADISE SYNDROME - Fried
WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF - Steiner

Are there any favorites that have yet to make onto an album?
There are still episodes I haven't seen of the original series, such as DAY OF THE DOVE and ENTERPRISE INCIDENT which apparently have great scores, but I am trying to catch up. I miss this style of Trek scoring, really kick-ass, complicated, rich, and expressive.

By the way, did anyone catch RUN FOR THE SUN on Turner Classics the week before last--in a letterboxed print of all things? This variation on "The Most Dangerous Game" contains what is arguably Steiner's best FILM score (next to another under-appreciated Richard Widmark picture, TIME LIMIT). It features some neat Central American ethnic percussion and fine chase and suspense music, including that great massed-high stings-rising-to-infinty cue for the plane crash. No doubt the masters to this unremarked treasure are no where to be found in this day and age to enable a belated FSM release.

It's almost a shame that someday (and I hope it's a long way off) Steiner's epitaph will most likely be that he wrote the theme for PERRY MASON.

But, I do digress.

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THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE - Kaplan
AMOK TIME - Fried
THE ENEMY WITHIN - Kaplan
THE CORBOMITE MANUEVER - Steiner

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EXACTLY!

What great music this is. What a shame that none of the new Trek comes anywhere near the same galaxy as Classic Trek for musical character.

I was watching one of the Trek shows a few nights ago (I honestly don't remember which one it was, ST:TNG, Voyager, or Enterprise) and thinking how incredibly bland the "music" was.

I don't blame the composers, not directy> But I do blame the notorious Rick Berman for relentlessly imposing his limp sensibilites on the music.

Take a lesson from the Classic Trek scores. That was REAL music!

ot: Last Night's Enterprise was among the most tedious of Star Trek exercises ever. A classic plot, the space lifeboat, completely drained of all drama. Embarrassing. Of course, no one individual is at fault. There may have been a great script once upon a time but was run through the scrip grinder and turned into ... it's just too horrible to contemplate. Happy thoughts ...

a.) hair and fingernails keep growing after death. That's an OLD, old wive's tail that just ain't true.

and

I thought at first that Trip was yanking his chain about the beard-growing-post-mortem but then he stopped shaving! Dopes! Maybe in the future everybody has improved hair that keeps on growing. Yeah, that's the explanation.

As to momentum and its conservation ... how about that T'Pol, huh? I bet she's a goer! Eh? Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge! Know what I mean? Say no more!

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So, I am curious to know if there are fans out there who can let me know some examples of where the episodes have been edited.

Many of the episodes I recorded, however, cut those bits, which may account for the loss of about...what, a couple of minute's footage at most? But as some episodes clocked in at only 44 minutes, I suppose there must have been more stuff edited out.

Thinking again about the pre-credits sequences, I don't think they actually ever were cut out, but the Beeb used to stick them on AFTER the titles...or something like that.

Someone took a stab at making the cuts somewhat sensible, but they are brutal. They are not suitable for any kind of archiving, even of the most casual sort, and they are not at all suitable if you don't know the eps already. I don't know who should watch them - probably no one.

I have to say that the Crescendo disc of "The Doomsday Machine" and "Amok Time" was a dream come true. I just wish that Fred Steiner's contribution to the series wasn't relegated to a suite on the second "Best of" disc. He deserved better as the primary musical voice of Star Trek.

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Originally posted by Chris Kinsinger:
I love the Original [b]Star Trek, but it's been years since I've had an opportunity to watch them again.
Along with many of the favorites listed above, I seem to recall that Plato's Stepchildren featured a wonderful musical score. I have no idea who compsed it, or even if it was an original score, or a retread.[/B]

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Regarding CHARLIE X: Like Monsieur Kinsinger, I haven't seen it since Eisenhower carried his own golf clubs. But I remember being impressed by one of those 4-second fly-by shots of the Enterprise. First they show a female redshirt whose face has been blanked out by Charlie. Then they immediately segue to the fly-by shot. It's a breathtaking juxtaposition.