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Lets get REAL nerdy. Your favorite deep cut music cue

Dale Sams

Dale Sams

Fleet Captain
Fleet Captain
Deep cut so no 'Baba bumm bumm bumm bumm bumm bum bum bum bum." or "Dana da na da na nuh nuh"

ok ok...as fun as it would be for us to make a whole thread of our spelled out cues....no Amok Time fight scene or Doomsday Machine countdown cues.

Mine's real early in TOS, At 1:41 in when Charlie leaves.

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Edit: Anyone know of any other uses of that cue? After the first half season, TOS mostly stopped doing "Dead civilization episodes" like Man Trap and What are Little Girls Made of...where such a haunting musical cue would likely be seen
 
The ending is reused when the landing party beam aboard Botany Bay.

Off the top of my head, its reused in its re-recorded form during Daystroms breakdown, when Adam dies on Eden, the opening of Act I of Mark of Gideon, and perhaps most effectively on the Defiant in The Tholian Web.
 
Methuselah Flint said:
The ending is reused when the landing party beam aboard Botany Bay.

Off the top of my head, its reused in its re-recorded form during Daystroms breakdown, when Adam dies on Eden, the opening of Act I of Mark of Gideon, and perhaps most effectively on the Defiant in The Tholian Web.
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Oh thanks...I definitely should have remembered Daystroms breakdown.
 
I've always been captivated "Dr. Bartender" from "The Cage"
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I remember holding it in my head and memorizing it (just the ending of it, actually) before I got my first audio cassette recorder. And of course, I grew up to be a big fan of film music and TV scoring.
 
Spock's Barber said:
My favorite opening music cue is from Act 1 of Spock’s Brain....

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Mine too! Very much a late season three opening cue, of which were the first episodes I remember watching.

I also empathise with Doctor Bartender ; it sums up Star Trek in its struggle and upheaval, with ultimate peace.

I love Duning's Metamorphosis, Return to Tomorrow and Empath scores.

The Enterprise Incident piece when the Commander gives orders to destroy the Enterprise, is a timeless, slightly psychological piece too, with its mildly repetitive, but stimulatingly effective sinister melody.
 
The music cue from "That Which Survives" when Losira appears in the ancient recording is one of my favorites in all of Trek. It appears a few times in the series. I think it's used in "Requiem for Methuselah " when Flint gives his "I am Brahams" speech.

I also love the theme they use for Miranda Jones in "Is There in Teuth No Beauty"

Season 3 has some really amazing music cues.
 
Vger23 said:
The music cue from "That Which Survives" when Losira appears in the ancient recording is one of my favorites in all of Trek. It appears a few times in the series. I think it's used in "Requiem for Methuselah " when Flint gives his "I am Brahams" speech.

I also love the theme they use for Miranda Jones in "Is There in Teuth No Beauty"

Season 3 has some really amazing music cues.
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Thats a great choice. I couldn't pick it out of my brain til i saw a pic of Losira.
 
Vger23 said:
The music cue from "That Which Survives" when Losira appears in the ancient recording is one of my favorites in all of Trek. It appears a few times in the series. I think it's used in "Requiem for Methuselah " when Flint gives his "I am Brahams" speech.

I also love the theme they use for Miranda Jones in "Is There in Teuth No Beauty"

Season 3 has some really amazing music cues.
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I always call that the history music. Because it is always used in conjunction with a speech about something or someone from long ago and how terrible times were back then! :techman:
JB
 
My favorite TOS cue is "Kirk's command." (The first 40 seconds of this video.) It's such a strong cue. It always conveys a sense of awe and wonder but also the feeling that some serious stuff is going to go down. I would have loved to have heard it rearranged in the TOS films.
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If we're looking for deep cuts from the various scores from TOS, I'm going to chose first from "The Conscience of the King", composed by Joseph Mullendore. I was never that enamored with it from what was available in suite form on the re-recordings from the 1980, but once I heard the complete scores on the massive TOS box set from La-La Land, it swiftly became a favorite. I love cues such as "Spaceship Titles", "Kirk and Lenore" and "Phaser Overload".

I'm also a big fan of everything Gerald Fried wrote for TOS - not just "Amok Time" but great cues such as "Mace Fight" from "Catspaw", "Arrows" from "Friday's Child" and all the Finnegan fight music from "Shore Leave".
 
If I had to choose one story's cues only, it would be Spock's Brain. One of the least popular episodes, has some of the best music.

The opening cues to both the teaser and Act I have a sense of greatness, with our vessel flying through the stars.

The subtle "No mind" cue is used countless times throughout the season, all used in perfect situations.

The cue when McCoy is given the teacher's knowledge is magnificent, used probably at its best when Kirk is saved at the end of The Tholian Web.
 
Although I've been a Duning fan for 50 years, my single favorite cue is Fried's "Friday's Child" title music, the beginning of act 1 accompanying the long Enterprise-in-orbit shot (which is also one of my favorite remastered shots).

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I believe it was used in other episodes first - that is, "Friday's Child" was produced relatively early in the season but was held over in broadcast order. The end-credits version of the same cue was also used over the freeze-frame that ends "A Piece of the Action."
 
I think that opening cue was only used one other time, albeit edited, to open Act 1 of The Changeling.

As you say, the end cue ended A Piece of The Action. It may have ended a few others, but I would have to check.
 
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