Should "Discovery" embrace "TOS" style music?

[Ralphis]

I like Jeff Russo's work, both on Disco and on other projects, so I'm against getting rid of him if that's what we're talking about. I thought he did a great rendition of the TOS theme at the end of Disco's last episode of the season. If you wanted to bring Disco's soundtrack closer to a TOS-vibe, I think he'd be capable of doing it.

For what it's worth, I really liked Michael Giacchino's Star Trek Beyond soundtrack. It had a TOS-vibe, but still modern. I'd probably shoot for something like that.

 

[pst]

i was a big supporter of russo doing trek before i heard his output: bland, cheesy, cheap sounding, utterly lacking in personality outside of a few tracks (tilly and burnham jogging, burnham's season end speech).

i'd love something different and distinct, but please no TOS music.

 

[Jayson1]

My thoughts were more about trying to take the old music style and combine it with something new. I don't think remix is the right word but maybe something that evokes the bombastic feel but is also gritty in gritty in gritty episodes or funny in funny episodes or gritty moments or funny moments. You know a good example is the Kelvin Universe movies. They have a kind of bombastic feel to me but they also feel very modern.I especially like the music from the first movie of the Kelvin Universe. LIttle the opening moments or when the shuttecrafts are escaping after the Kelvin is destroyed.

Jason

 

[seigezunt]

I thought some of its music very reminiscent of TOS, especially the action sequences.

 

[seigezunt]

But if they want something different and retro, go for the best.

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[jaime]

But if they want something different and retro, go for the best.

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Funnily enough, I only really saw TAS a year or so ago...and maybe it’s Stockholm syndrome from little one watching Practical Joker over and over...but...it’s better than TOS music wise. It’s theme is better.

 

[Kor]

I don't want the exact same musical compositions and cues that were used in TOS. All the jazzy shades of sixties exotica and Bossa Nova just wouldn't fit with a contemporary show.

I would like something bold and brassy and memorable, much like we got with Giacchino's scores for the KelvinVerse movies. Identifiable leitmotifs and themes for particular characters and places would be nice.

Kor

 

[Mudd]

I'd rather have the jazz than more orchestral musak.

 

[Ronald Held]

Please no Kelvin music. TOS music would be preferred.

 

[Jayson1]

What about using more contemporary songs in the show from time to time. When Burnham is moping and being stoic play the song Hurt by Johnny Cash or "All We are is Dust in the Wind" by Kansas. Big action scene insert Kung Fu fighting or whatever it is called. Stamets and Culber reunited. "I honesty Love you" by Olivia Newton John. Lorca returns. His entrance of course has "Bad to the Bone" and if the ship travels thorough a weird space wormhole thingy then "Space Odity" by David Bowie.

Jason

 

[jaime]

What about using more contemporary songs in the show from time to time. When Burnham is moping and being stoic play the song Hurt by Johnny Cash or "All We are is Dust in the Wind" by Kansas. Big action scene insert Kung Fu fighting or whatever it is called. Stamets and Culber reunited. "I honesty Love you" by Olivia Newton John. Lorca returns. His entrance of course has "Bad to the Bone" and if the ship travels thorough a weird space wormhole thingy then "Space Odity" by David Bowie.

Jason

Contemporary?
Did those fall through the guardian of forever?

 

[Jayson1]

Contemporary?
Did those fall through the guardian of forever?

Any song that was created post 40's counts as contemporary. Still I can see I haven't provided enough good examples. How about "You're a Mean One,Mr Grinch" while Mudd sneaks aboard the Discovery to steal something. Actually it would have been a upgrade over the Bee Gee's remix song in his season 1 ep. Comfortably Numb by Pink FLoyd as Stamets has more spores put into him to use the spore drive again. A remix of Adam the Hippie's song about Eden from the "TOS" Hippie episode when we meet that primitive earth realigious colony. Any feel good background music from "My Girl" when we see young Burnham and young Spock playing together as kids. "That Boy is Mine" by Brandy and Monica when "L'Rell return's and Burnham and L'Rell have to rescue Tyler who has gotten himself into some kind of mess somewhere on some alien planet. Just to name a few more options.

Jason

 

[jaime]

Any song that was created post 40's counts as contemporary. Still I can see I haven't provided enough good examples. How about "You're a Mean One,Mr Grinch" while Mudd sneaks aboard the Discovery to steal something. Actually it would have been a upgrade over the Bee Gee's remix song in his season 1 ep. Comfortably Numb by Pink FLoyd as Stamets has more spores put into him to use the spore drive again. A remix of Adam the Hippie's song about Eden from the "TOS" Hippie episode when we meet that primitive earth realigious colony. Any feel good background music from "My Girl" when we see young Burnham and young Spock playing together as kids. "That Boy is Mine" by Brandy and Monica when "L'Rell return's and Burnham and L'Rell have to rescue Tyler who has gotten himself into some kind of mess somewhere on some alien planet. Just to name a few more options.

Jason

The bee gees remix was a chart hit from the nineties. In that vein and your own, I propose barbie girl by aqua for the Tilly/Killy transformation, and I need a miracle by Fragma for the finale. Dooms Night for the battle scenes obviously. We need something subtle and hip with the kids for Lorca, so how about Man in The Mirror by Michael Burnham..I mean Jackson.

 

[Qonundrum]

I don't think there should be any TOS Music or anything that sounds like it's from the Berman Era.

Maybe some cues, in updated form, when there are exterior shots of the Enterprise, if it fits the tone of the scene in question, but that's as far as I'd go.

Maybe a cue from the Alexander Courage theme and leave it at that, the way TNG had but slowly disused. Pandering to people with reusing old cues and thinking they'll watch just for a cheap squee only falls back into the current criticisms of the show lacking direction, discovery, being anything other than a generic action show, anything RLM has scathingly (but not entirely wrongly) put out, etc.

 

[Ronald Held]

Alexander Courage music would be highly welcome.

 

[The Wormhole]

When Burnham is moping and being stoic play the song Hurt by Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash makes everything better.

 

[BillJ]

Does no one want this show to have its own identity?

 

[The Wormhole]

Does no one want this show to have its own identity?

Sure, but it doesn't really seem to be trying.

 

[Jayson1]

Does no one want this show to have its own identity?

Modern music would play into that. Trek has never used pop or modern era songs to help tell stories. Which is funny because "Magic Carpet Ride" in "First Contact" is kind of a cool moment.

Jason

 

[Nerys Myk]

Someone should score the Burnham/Kol fight to the Amok Time music.