Some that I'd want to use:

TMP— Ilia's Theme, The Enterprise, Spock Walk, Floating Office, Vejur Flyover, Leaving Drydock

Warth of Khan— Main Title, Surprise Attack, Genesis Countdown

Search for Spock— Stealing The Enterprise, Returning to Vulcan, End Title

The Voyage Home— End Credits

The Final Frontier— The Mountain (2nd half), Without Help, A Busy Man, Life is a Dream

The Undiscovered Country— Star Trek VI Suite, The Battle For Peace, Sign Off, Escape from Rura Pente

Not in that order, of course, I'd like to make it pretty dynamic, and other tracks are possibilities, I guess I just didn't want some of them to be too repetetive, like both of Horner's might sound that way; the reason I only have one track from Trek IV is because I think that score would stick out like a sore thumb compared to the rest. Please give me some feeback, thanks!

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Originally posted by sean:
(is the "Astral Symphony" mix any good?). Has anyone here made one for these films, if so, what tracks did you use?

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Suffice it to say that since I bought the Astral Symphony, I haven't bothered making Star Trek compilations from the first 6 movies. The Astral Symphony is not definitive, it could be bettered, but it's good enough so as not to be worth the trouble of making my own compilation.

Franz,

I agree with you leaving off Generations from your list, but why would you put Rosenman's horrible music on there? I thought that music alone ruined what should have been a very fun Star Trek movie.

Having said that, I did grow up with STIV, and I find it hard not to chuckle when I listen to Astral Symphony and Chekhov's Escape, or the Hospital Chase come on. The Whaler cue is aggressive enough to rate as good action. And there is a very nice interpolation of the Alex Courage theme that has least often been integrated into the films in the STIV finale cue. Together with the suite performed on that Eidelman/Goldsmith-conducted compilation from the first nine films, these cues are enough for me and I've never tracked down the original score.

I think probably one of the strengths of the Star Trek scoring legacy as opposed to other franchises is that its musical lineage is extremely diffuse. While the movie 'trilogy' of Wrath of Kahn, Search for Spock and Voyage Home doubtless would been best scored in entirety by Horner, I doubt that he would have brought much in the way of new material to the table for his last go (though I'll always wonder). At the very least, Rosenman's music has an unmistakable personality, whereas McCarthey's Generations score rarely establishes any memorable impressions.

In the long run, the series belongs to Goldsmith, though perhaps he could do with a break for a little while. I can't remember the last time Howard Shore attempted a space epic - any thoughts?