Has the original Star Trek theme tune ever been performed on any episode of TNG or any of its follow-up series (Voyager, DS9, et al)? If so, was it ever sung with Gene Roddenberry's "joke" lyrics which he wrote in order to entitle himself to 50 percent of the profits of the song? ~Ben
I think I heard in on DS9 episode Trials and Tribbleations (which I just re-watched a few days ago), but I would have to re-watch it again to be sure.
Yupper, I just rewatched the beginning of that episode and it is lightly quoted about 2 minutes in as Sisko starts his story and then in full bloom about 4 and a half mites in as the Enterprise is reveled. I imagine it may pop up more times, but I remember smiling when it came up in this episode.
Not the TOS theme in TNG any time I recall, but Goldsmith's ST: TMP theme appeared about half a dozen times in Ron Jones' work. Part of the TOS theme did appear once or twice in the Generations score.
I believe that the first few seconds of TNG's theme are a sped-up version of TOS's theme, before starting into the TMP theme, with the TOS theme being continued in brass section.
Yeah, technically anytime the 'opening fanfare' is used (you all know which bit this is, the "Space, The Final Frontier" motif) its a use of Alexander Courage's TOS theme, even if not in it's entirety. For TNG's theme, Denis McCarthy melded the TOS fanfare to the TMP theme (and Goldsmith himself later did it in his own scores for TFF, FC, INS and NEM.) Even in it's briefest quotations the fanfare is a section of the TOS theme. Needless to say the fanfare gets used a lot. The larger part of the TOS theme is heard much less frequently. It pops up behind the Captain's Logs in TMP, and again at the ends of both TSFS and TVH. The Kelvin-verse movies also use it on the end credits.
I would have to watch it again, but I would think that it probably appears in Relics at some point, since that was TNG's ode to TOS episode. I recall that they had the TOS transporter effect in Relics.
The TOS fanfare definitely appears in Ron Jones' score for "The Best of Both Worlds". Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when it does, too.
If memory serves, the TOS Theme is actually two parts: the fanfare is called, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", and the main theme, "Theme from Star Trek". I read that in a Trek book at one time, but now not remembering which one! I always like when it's appeared in incidental music through TNG. One I like is during the beginning of "Yesterday's Enterprise", around when Riker says, "Looks like she's had a rough ride!", you can make out the fanfare briefly.