Breaking News: Michael Giacchino Wants To Add TOS Music Into New Movie

[TorontoTrekker]

Re: Breaking News: Michael Giacchino Wants To Add TOS Music Into New M

but I think by this point it's become enough of a pop-culture meme that it would more likely evoke laughter from the audience than the desired mood.

Don't be blinded by fandom. Nobody in the so called "general audience" knows it.

On the contrary -- it's been referenced widely in pop culture. Aside from the use in The Cable Guy mentioned above, it's been used as a gag in The Simpsons, Futurama, the Chris Elliott sitcom Get a Life, and Warehouse 13. There was also a Dexter's Laboratory cartoon that used a pastiche of the music in a "Gamesters of Triskelion" parody sequence set at an SF convention, and I'm sure there have been other pastiches as well.

I've heard it played in arenas when fights break out during NHL games.

 

[trekker670]

Re: Breaking News: Michael Giacchino Wants To Add TOS Music Into New M

Don't be blinded by fandom. Nobody in the so called "general audience" knows it.

On the contrary -- it's been referenced widely in pop culture. Aside from the use in The Cable Guy mentioned above, it's been used as a gag in The Simpsons, Futurama, the Chris Elliott sitcom Get a Life, and Warehouse 13. There was also a Dexter's Laboratory cartoon that used a pastiche of the music in a "Gamesters of Triskelion" parody sequence set at an SF convention, and I'm sure there have been other pastiches as well.

I've heard it played in arenas when fights break out during NHL games.

That's awesome. I've never heard that, but that's amazing!

 

[Ovation]

Re: Breaking News: Michael Giacchino Wants To Add TOS Music Into New M

On the contrary -- it's been referenced widely in pop culture. Aside from the use in The Cable Guy mentioned above, it's been used as a gag in The Simpsons, Futurama, the Chris Elliott sitcom Get a Life, and Warehouse 13. There was also a Dexter's Laboratory cartoon that used a pastiche of the music in a "Gamesters of Triskelion" parody sequence set at an SF convention, and I'm sure there have been other pastiches as well.

I've heard it played in arenas when fights break out during NHL games.

That's awesome. I've never heard that, but that's amazing!

Might be quite a while before it happens again, though.

 

[The Doctor]

Re: Breaking News: Michael Giacchino Wants To Add TOS Music Into New M

What Christopher calls "The long-line 'song' portion of the Courage theme" was, I thought, badly used in Trek '09 - I especially loathed the repetition of it. It's not a verse of a longer song (despite the existence of the Roddenberry lyrics); the "second verse, same as the first" treatment was all wrong.

I loved it to death when I heard it. It was the cherry on top of the love-letter to TOS that this movie represented. An unrepentant and glorious affirmation of Star Trek's roots.

Seriously. I got chills.