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R.I.P. Gerald Fried at 95

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Composer Gerald Fried, who won an Emmy for the landmark miniseries “Roots” and whose 1960s scores, from “Star Trek” to “Gilligan’s Island,” left an indelible impression on a generation of TV watchers, died of pneumonia Friday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Ct. He was 95.

The prolific Fried scored approximately 40 films, some three dozen TV-movies and miniseries, and episodes of another 40 TV series during a career that spanned more than six decades.

Among his most famous TV series music was from the original “Star Trek.” He scored five episodes of the series, most famously the Spock-in-heat episode “Amok Time,” which featured his Vulcan-battle music that was often used on the series and later parodied on shows like “The Simpsons” and movies including “The Cable Guy.”
 
Star Trek scores and soundtracks are just as important to me (and many others) as the modelling/CGI, makeup, set design and even actors work. A good Star Trek score can even make a bad plot or storyline in an episode seem amazing and epic. Actually, Star Trek’s legacy often lives on more to me in the score than it does in the visual realisations of the episodes and movies. I *loved* The Ancient Battle and the 2nd Kroykah. I was looking forward to hearing the reimagining of these tracks again in the Strange New World’s soundtrack release which is yet TBC. Rest in Peace, Gerald Fried… you are still very much alive in your musical legacy. I will drive to work on Monday listening to your Amok Time contributions .

I know that this is not Gerald’s work, but listen to what he musically inspired in recent years…
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Obviously the thing that's in all the articles about his passing is the battle music from Amok Time. It's a bit of a cultural icon.

But he wrote that theme for Spock on the bass guitar that has never been equaled. When you wonder why no one other than Nimoy quite gets the character it is because they don't act like that music sounds.
 
mb22 said:
Sandra Gimpel (83), who supposedly played a Talosian is still alive, as is Carey Foster (79), who played a serving girl in Orion footage cut from the finished film. Perhaps some extras as well (bridge crew??...beach blanket bingo couple in the corridor?? etc.).
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That's why I said actors. Sadly we may never know the fate of all those extras.
 
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Grant said:
Yep. I always forget about him. Amazing the very first director of anything Trek in November 1964 is still with us.
Not one of the actors he directed in that episode is still alive.
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I was just looking at Memory Alpha, which states that the crewwoman sitting at the bridge science station (despite Pike's statement about not being used to having a woman on the bridge) was played by Carol Daniels Dement, better known for playing the "evil" Zora (under makeup) in "The Savage Curtain". She is apparently still alive at age 87.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Carol_Daniels_Dement
 
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