TAS Music Soundtrack - Available?

[Ptrope]

I know a lot of Trek's music is on CD, but what about the various themes and cues of TAS? In contemplating my "Reanimated" project, and hearing the same voices of Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan and George Takei over and over in the same episode as different characters, I've wondered if maybe it might be feasible to re-record the aliens' dialogue, but still use the correct musical cue in the background so it integrates with the scenes in which the main characters appear.

Am I just dreaming, or is the music out there?

 

[Michael]

I wish it was, but I haven't found it yet myself. It hasn't been officially released, but I guess it is out there on someone's hard disc.

 

[Christopher]

I don't think the music tracks would be available "clean." My understanding is that the original audio masters have been lost, and that in the episodes themselves the music and sound effects are combined on one track (so that the Secrets of Isis DVDs have an isolated music/FX track but not a pure music track, and the documentaries on Filmation DVDs have to cycle through the shows' theme music ad nauseam because there are so few clean tracks available of the background music).

Given how much the cues were recycled in TAS and other Filmation shows, maybe if you could isolate the music/FX tracks, it would be possible to cut together clean portions of the various cues and reconstruct them whole. But it would be quite an effort.

 

[plynch]

Given the few cues and the number of times they're repeated (I swear, I can hum all three of them just sitting here), you'd have a CD about four minutes long.

 

[Christopher]

^There were significantly more than three cues. Heck, I can think of half a dozen cues that were variations on the main title theme alone. Those were TAS-specific, as was the usual episode-ending fanfare. As for more general Ray Ellis cues that were used in multiple Filmation series, TAS routinely used at least four "action" cues, several "tension" cues, several "atmosphere" cues, sometimes one or two comedy cues, two or three "stings," etc.