Strange Love a Star Woman Teaches?
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Nobody thinks those lyrics sound good, do they?
Arrrrrgh! Lies, slander (libel?), and calumny!
Courage scored all three seasons of Star Trek AND did orchestration for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. (I think he also worked on V, FC, INS, and NEM.) He wasn't as involved in season two because he was working on a movie. (Doctor Doolittle.)
The end of Private Little War? Courage. Kirk's speech to Mirror Spock at the end of Mirror Mirror? Courage. Kirk's fight with the Orion spy? Courage. He didn't score an episode but he recorded a bunch of library cues that could be used wherever people wanted them. These included about 30 minutes of new music as well as re-recordings of his music from the two pilots and his seasons one scores. When he was done working on Doctor Doolittle he came back and scored two full scores for season three.
This seems to have started with Herb Solow and Robert Justman's book where Solow states that Solow decided to get rid of the vocal for royalties reasons. Except season 1 doesn't have the vocal and seasons 2 and 3 do. And who conducted the opening credits for season two? Courage.
IIRC, didn't he record the library of cues back during Season 1?
By union rules at the time, they had to re-record them each season; even the same exact piece of music.
True. But he also wrote original music for season 2 that was intended to be used wherever it was needed.
June 16th, 1967. He also re-recorded several cues from his own season 1 episodes as well as Mudd's Women, Charlie X, and What Are Little Girls Made Of? by Fred Steiner and one from Shore Leave by Gerald Fried.
I don't know if that's when he recorded the season 2 titles but it seems likely.
Memory Alpha says "A livid Courage left the production immediately, never to return except for two third-season episode scores as a courtesy to Justman." But he only did two episodes the first season as well!
Courage had the last word. Literally. Dan Rather used to signal him every night on the CBS Evening News.
No, they're pretty bad.
I adore TOS with the fire of a hundred supernovas, but the lyrics to this theme are so mediocre I'm surprised McDonald's didn't try to acquire the rights and change words to make a new jingle.
Good heavens! I didn't even notice! The Noive!I do believe you're accidentally channeling a very famous movie lion.
It'd probably take any one of us a maximum of ten minutes to think up the lyrics for the 1984 DUNE's opening theme. But since I'm prematurately ejecting as we speak......
Cool your jets. I was misremembering, and I was swiftly corrected.
The uncool jets are just because you could have easily looked it up and come up with the exact same answer you gave. It's become "common knowledge". Snopes will even tell you that AC left because of Roddenberry's shenanigans.
But you knew that.
Thankfully we never actually heard or saw the lyrics in the show.
I seem to remember one of the TOS comic books having a character sing them. Maybe 1980s DC run?
Kor
Good Gods... a disco beat! 
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