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The 'Theme from Star Trek' (originally scored under the title 'Where No Man Has Gone Before')[1] is an instrumental musical piece composed by Alexander Courage for Star Trek, the science fictiontelevision series created by Gene Roddenberry and originally aired between September 8, 1966, and June 3, 1969.

History[edit]

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The music was played over both the opening and closing credits of the original series. The opening credits begin with the now-famous 'where no man has gone before' monologue recited by series star William Shatner, accompanied by an opening fanfare. The main theme begins, punctuated at several points by the Enterprise flying toward and past the camera with a 'whoosh' sound for dramatic effect, created vocally by Courage himself.[2] A slightly longer version of the theme, minus the eight-note fanfare, was played over the closing credits, which were overlaid on a series of stills from various episodes.

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Courage has said his inspiration for the main part of the theme was the Richard Whiting song 'Beyond the Blue Horizon,' giving him the idea for a song which was a 'long thing that..keeps going out into space..over a fast moving accompaniment.'[3]

The unaired pilot 'The Cage' used a wordless rendition of the melody line, sung by sopranoLoulie Jean Norman with flute and organ, over an orchestral arrangement. Sheek louch da cook up download full. When originally composed (and as heard in 'The Cage'), Courage had Norman's vocalizations and the various instruments mixed equally to produce what Courage described as a unique 'what is that that I'm hearing?' sound.'[4] According to Courage, however, Gene Roddenberry had the mix changed to bring up the female vocal, after which Courage felt the theme sounded like a soprano solo. Finally, for the third season it was remixed again, this time emphasizing the organ.

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The first several episodes, sans all vocals, was a concerto-like solo of an electric violin playing the melodic line. Norman's vocal was restored for the remainder of the season. Producer Herbert Solow recalled that Norman had been hired under a Screen Actors Guild agreement and that she would receive rerun fees for her part in the theme. For the second season onwards, her vocalization was dropped from the theme. Solow regretted the choice and composer Courage was not informed until twenty-seven years later.[5]

The unaired version of the second pilot episode used an entirely different main title theme (Star Trek was the first series in American television history for which a network, NBC in this case, requested and paid for a second pilot episode)[disputed], also composed by Courage. This version of the theme never aired for when the second pilot was re-edited for broadcast it received the series standard titles and the original theme, minus the William Shatner opening narration (this was changed for home video) .

In 2006, CBS began syndicating a 'remastered' version of the series with numerous changes, including a re-recording of the theme music, which was used for all episodes of the series. Elin Carlson, a professional singer and lifetime Star Trek fan, recorded the replacement for Norman's vocalization.[6]

Over time, the show's theme music has become immediately recognizable, even by many people who have never seen the program. Portions of the original theme have been used in subsequent Star Trek series and motion pictures. For 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture, scored by Jerry Goldsmith, Alexander Courage provided additional cues featuring his theme, where it softly accompanies the 'captain's log' scenes. Dennis McCarthy reused the original theme's fanfare when he reworked Goldsmith's main theme for use as Star Trek: The Next Generation's theme music, where the fanfare precedes Goldsmith's theme. Most of the subsequent Star Trek motion pictures' main title themes started with the fanfare before segueing into music composed specially for the given film. 2009's Star Trek broke with this tradition; instead, composer Michael Giacchino used the opening notes sparingly in the movie, but featured an arrangement of the theme in the film's end credits. All the Star Trek feature films to date use the fanfare at some point.

Lyrics[edit]

Without Courage's knowledge, Roddenberry wrote lyrics to the theme — not in the expectation that they would ever be sung, or indeed ever be made publicly available, but so that he could be officially registered as the lyricist of the theme and hence claim half the performance royalties. Although there was never any litigation, Courage later commented that he considered Roddenberry's conduct unethical. Roddenberry was quoted as responding, 'Hey, I have to get some money somewhere. I'm sure not gonna get it out of the profits of Star Trek.'.[7] These lyrics were published in the book The Making of Star Trek by Roddenberry and Stephen Whitfield, and were featured in an issue of the DC ComicsStar Trek comic book, 'performed' by the character Uhura.

Series associate producer Robert Justman noted that work on the film Doctor Dolittle kept Courage from working on more than two episodes of the first season. Justman claims he was unable to convince Courage to return for the second season and believed that Courage lost enthusiasm for the series due to the 'royalty' issue.[8] This is factually incorrect as Courage did work on the show before the show's second season, on June 16, 1967 he conducted thirty minutes of library music (much of it newly composed), including a new arrangement of the Star Trek theme.[9] He returned again for the third season to score the episodes 'The Enterprise Incident' and 'Plato's Stepchildren'.

Other recordings and uses[edit]

  • Contrary to many claims, part of the theme was not copied for use in the television series Twelve O'Clock High. While there is a recurring musical motif by Dominic Frontiere that sounds quite similar to eight notes of the Star Trek theme, that motif is appeared as early as the fifth episode of that series ('Climate of Doubt') which aired October 23, 1964,[10] two months before the Star Trek pilot episode 'The Cage' commenced production. As such, it is not the Trek theme as it pre-dates the scoring of that pilot.
  • In the 1970s, Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed Uhura on the original series, recorded a disco version of the song with lyrics different from Roddenberry's.
  • Van McCoy released an instrumental disco version of the song on his 1976 album The Real McCoy.
  • Todd Rundgren's band, Utopia, released a disco version of the song on their 1976 album, Disco Jets.
  • Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson recorded a fusion version of the tune with his big band, first released on his Conquistador album in January 1977. This recording was later used as the opening theme for The Larry King Show on the Mutual Radio Network, and was so popular that King would occasionally play the entire song at the end of the show.
  • The theme was used as the breakaway music for the aircraft carrier Enterprise for many years, until it was replaced by the theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
  • In 1992, Austrian dance act Edelweiss had a hit with the number 'Starship Edelweiss,' which used the theme as its melodic base.
  • In the movie Wayne's World, Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) is heard whistling the Star Trek theme while lying on top of the hood of an AMC Pacer. While looking at the stars, he says, 'Sometimes I wish I could boldly go where no one's gone before.'
  • At the 2005 Emmys, Shatner and operatic singer Frederica von Stade performed a live version of the theme, with Shatner reciting the opening monologue and von Stade singing the wordless melody line.
  • The 2003 release Magical Moods of the Theremin, by lounge act Project: Pimento, includes the theme performed with lyrics, and a theremin. (The title theme recordings for the TV series are often erroneously believed to feature a theremin.)
  • In the 2006 film RV,Jeff Daniels's character has an RV with a horn that uses a snippet of the theme.
  • In 2007, some TV ads for the Hummer H3 featured the theme recording used in the second and third seasons.
  • In 2009, the theme was used as the wake-up call for the crew of mission STS-125 aboard the space shuttleAtlantis.
  • On March 7, 2011, Shatner, in character as Kirk, voiced a wake-up call for the crew of STS-133 in the Space Shuttle Discovery on its final day docked to the International Space Station. His call at 0723 UTC, reminiscent of the over-voicing on the original Star Trek series, was backed by the theme as he said, 'Space, the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Her 30 year mission: To seek out new science. To build new outposts. To bring nations together on the final frontier. To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before.'[11]
  • Tenacious D has covered the theme live, with the original lyrics, on several occasions.

In at least one episode of 'Big Bang Theory' Sheldon is seen playing the theme song on a Theremin

References[edit]

  1. ^Tim Grant Engle (editor, writer), Bob Klein (producer) (March 2006). Malibu Celebration of Film Presents Music Takes Courage: A Tribute to Alexander Courage (part 1) (video). Event occurs at 0:39. Retrieved May 20, 2007.
  2. ^Tim Grant Engle (editor, writer), Bob Klein (producer) (March 2006). Malibu Celebration of Film Presents Music Takes Courage: A Tribute to Alexander Courage (part 4) (video). Event occurs at 2:39. Retrieved May 20, 2007. So I went out on the stage and watched the screen, and as it went by, there was the microphone. I just went 'whooosh,' and that's what they used.
  3. ^Star Trek Stories – Alexander Courage on writing the theme song (video). Archive of American Television. February 2000. Event occurs at 0:24. Retrieved May 25, 2009.
  4. ^Tim Grant Engle (editor, writer), Bob Klein (producer) (March 2006). Malibu Celebration of Film Presents Music Takes Courage: A Tribute to Alexander Courage (part 4) (video). Event occurs at 2:06. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
  5. ^Herbert Solow, Robert H. Justman (1997). Inside Star Trek The Real Story. Simon & Schuster. pp. 351–352. ISBN0-671-00974-5.
  6. ^Elin Carlson. 'The Re-recording of the Original Star Trek Theme'. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
  7. ^'Unthemely Behavior'. Urban Legends Reference Pages. March 10, 1999. Retrieved May 20, 2007.
  8. ^Herbert Solow, Robert H. Justman (1997). Inside Star Trek The Real Story. June: Simon & Schuster. pp. 185. ISBN0-671-00974-5.
  9. ^'Star Trek Fact Check'. startrekfactcheck.blogspot.com. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  10. ^Twelve O'Clock High : S1E05 Climate of Doubt, retrieved September 17, 2019
  11. ^'Star Trek' moment for Earth-bound shuttle Discovery. space-travel.com, March 7, 2011, accessed March 9, 2011

External links[edit]

  • 'Theme from Star Trek' at Memory Alpha (a Star Trekwiki)
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'11001001'
Star Trek: The Next Generation episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 15
Directed byPaul Lynch
Written by
Featured musicRon Jones
Cinematography byEdward R. Brown
Production code116
Original air dateFebruary 1, 1988
Guest appearance(s)
  • Carolyn McCormick as Minuet
  • Gene Dynarski as Orfil Quinteros
  • Katy Boyer as Zero One
  • Alexandra Johnson as One Zero
  • Iva Lane as Zero Zero
  • Kelli Ann McNally as One One
  • Jack Sheldon as Piano Player
  • Abdul Salaam El Razzac as Bass Player
  • Ron Brown as Drummer[1]
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'11001001' is the fifteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was first broadcast on February 1, 1988, in the United States in broadcast syndication. It was written by Maurice Hurley and Robert Lewin, and directed by Paul Lynch.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, members of an alien race called the Bynars hijack a nearly evacuated Enterprise while retrofitting the computer in space dock.

Make-up supervisor Michael Westmore created the look of the Bynars, who were four women in extensive make-up. The musical score was scored by Ron Jones. Reviewers praised the Bynars themselves, and the response to the episode was generally positive, with one critic calling it the best of the season. It was awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series.

Plot[edit]

The FederationstarshipEnterprise arrives at Starbase 74 for a routine maintenance check. Nexus vst plugin for fl studio 10 free download. Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Commander William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) greet Starbase Commander Quinteros (Gene Dynarski) and two pairs of small humanoid aliens known as Bynars; the Bynars heavily rely on their computer technology and work in pairs for best efficiency. Much of the crew take shore leave while Picard, Riker and a skeleton crew remain aboard. Riker is intrigued by the Bynars' claimed upgrades to the holodeck and starts a program in a jazz bar. The program includes a woman named Minuet (Carolyn McCormick), by whom Riker is fascinated, both as a beautiful and charming woman, but also by the level of sophistication in her responses. Riker shortly returns, and Picard walks in on him kissing Minuet, and he too is amazed by the simulation.

Meanwhile, the Bynars discreetly create a catastrophic failure in the ship's warp core. Lt. Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner) and Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) are unable to locate Picard or Riker and, assuming them to already be on the Starbase, order an emergency evacuation. They set the ship to leave the Starbase and warp to a safe location before it would explode. However, once they are clear of the dock, the failure disappears and the ship sets course for the Bynar system, the planet Bynaus orbiting Beta Magellan. Data, La Forge, and Quinteros realize that the Bynars are still aboard the ship, but there are currently no other working vessels to follow them. Back on the Enterprise, Riker and Picard leave the simulation to find the ship empty and at warp to the Bynar system, with the ship's controls locked to the bridge. Fearing that the Bynars have taken over the ship for nefarious purposes, they set the ship to self-destruct in 5 minutes and then take the bridge by inter-ship transporter beam and find the Bynars there unconscious.

After cancelling the self-destruct, they find the Bynars have uploaded massive amounts of information to the Enterprise computers, but they are unable to decode it. Realizing that Minuet was purposely created by the Bynars as a distraction, Picard and Riker ask the simulation about what is going on as the ship nears the orbit of Bynar. Minuet explains that a star near the Bynar homeworld had gone supernova, and the EMP it emitted would knock out their computer systems, effectively killing the Bynars. They had used the Enterprise to upload their computer information for safekeeping and then planned to download it back to the Bynar computers after the threat of the EMP had passed. With Data's help, Picard and Riker successfully download the data, and the Bynars recover. They apologize for their actions, having feared that Starfleet would refuse to help, though Picard notes they only had to ask. As the Enterprise returns to Starbase, Riker returns to the holodeck to thank Minuet but finds that without the Bynar data, the simulation has regressed to the expected norm for the holodeck, and while Minuet still exists, she is not the same as before. Riker reports to Picard that Minuet is gone.

Production[edit]

The Bynars were portrayed by young actresses in extensive make-up.

The name '11001001' is a binary number, a contraction of the names of the Bynars (One One, Zero Zero, One Zero, and Zero One). The episode at one point was called '10101001'.[2] It was originally intended that this episode would take place prior to 'The Big Goodbye', with the Bynars' modifications causing the problems with the holodeck seen in that episode. Instead it was changed to the Bynars aiming to fix the holodeck to prevent those problems from recurring.[3] The Bynars themselves were played by young women.[1] Children were considered for the parts, but the production team thought that it would be too troublesome because of the limited time they could work each day and the need to hire teachers. Each actress was required to wear extensive make-up, which was created by make-up supervisor Michael Westmore. A large single-piece bald cap was made from the same mold for each actress, which required some customised trimming to get it to fit properly. To cover up problems with the seams of the cap, some fake hair was added on the Bynars' necks.[4] Each actress also controlled the flashing light inside the apparatus on the side of the headpiece through a battery pack attached to the waistband of their costumes.[4] To disguise their voices, the pitch was lowered in post production. It was originally planned to add subtitles over the Bynars' conversations between themselves.[5]

The image of the Starbase orbiting a planet was re-used from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.[5] The score was created by Ron Jones, who incorporated jazz themes composed by John Beasley.[6] The episode was written by Maurice Hurley and Robert Lewin. Hurley was pleased with the outcome of the episode, praising the work of Westmore on the Bynars' makeup and the performance of Jonathan Frakes. Frakes enjoyed the episode too, saying, 'A fabulous show. Those were the kind of chances we took first season that when they worked, they worked great. It was a very chancy show and I loved it.'[1] Director Paul Lynch also thought that the Bynars were 'great'.[1]Carolyn McCormick appeared as Minuet and subsequently became a regular cast member in Law and Order.[1] She returned to the role of Minuet in the season four episode 'Future Imperfect'. Gene Dynarski had previously appeared as Ben Childress in Star Trek: The Original Series episode 'Mudd's Women' and Krodak in 'The Mark of Gideon'.[5]

Reception[edit]

'11001001' aired in broadcast syndication during the week commencing February 7, 1988. It received Nielsen ratings of 10.7, reflecting the percentage of all households watching the episode during its timeslot. These ratings were lower than both the episodes broadcast both before and afterwards.[7] For their work in this episode, Bill Wistrom, Wilson Dyer, Mace Matiosian, James Wolvington, Gerry Sackman and Keith Bilderbeck were awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series.[8]TV Guide ranked it No. 6 on its list of the top 10 Star Trek episodes for the magazine's celebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary.[9]

Several reviewers re-watched the episode after the end of the series. James Hunt reviewed the episode for the website 'Den of Geek' in January 2013. He was surprised by the episode as he 'went in expecting something that was typically season one awful, and got something that was actually a lot of fun'. He thought that the theme of symbiosis between man and machine was 'interesting', stating it was the best episode up until that point in season one and one of the best of the season overall.[10] Zack Handlen watched the episode for The A.V. Club in May 2010. He too was surprised by what he found. Handlen said that 'last time I saw it, I thought Riker and Minuet's interactions were cheesy as hell. They didn't bother me so much now, because they don't go on very long, and there's something hilarious about a man trying to seduce a computer simulation designed to respond to his seductions'. But he said, 'I had fun with this, which I wasn't expecting', and 'thought this was solid'. He gave the episode a B grade.[11]

Keith DeCandido reviewed the episode for Tor.com in June 2011. He described it as 'one of the strongest first-season episodes', and the Bynars as 'one of the finest alien species Trek has provided'. He also thought that turning off the auto-destruct with two minutes to go instead of mere seconds neatly avoided a cliché, and gave it a score of seven out of ten.[3] Michelle Erica Green for TrekNation watched the episode in June 2007. She thought that it came 'very close to being a really good episode'. She also thought that Picard and Riker's actions were the 'most boneheaded joint behavior by the top two officers', in that they got distracted by a female character on the holodeck and didn't notice the ship being evacuated.[12] Jamahl Epsicokhan at his website 'Jammer's Reviews' described '11001001' as 'easily season one's best and most memorable episode'. He thought that it was the 'season's most solid sci-fi concept' and that the series was 'firing on all cylinders, with everything coming together, from plot to character, to sensible use of technology and action'. He gave it a score of four out of four.[13]

In 2011, this episode was noted by Forbes as one that explores the implications of advanced technology, especially the connection between people and technology.[14] They compare this to the later episode 'The Nth Degree'.[14] Also of note, they point out the modifications to the Enterprise D holodeck, allows it to pass an impromptu turing test by the character Commander Riker.[14]

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Home media release[edit]

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The first home media release of '11001001' was on VHS cassette, appearing on August 26, 1992, in the United States and Canada.[15] The episode was later included on the Star Trek: The Next Generation season one DVD box set, released in March 2002,[16] and then released as part of the season one Blu-ray set on July 24, 2012.[17]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ abcdeGross; Altman (1993): p. 163
  2. ^Hurley, Maurice; Lewin, Robert. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation '11001001''. Paramount Pictures. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  3. ^ abDeCandido, Keith (June 23, 2011). 'Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: '11001001''. Tor.com. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  4. ^ abWestmore; Nazzaro (1993): p. 59
  5. ^ abcNemecek (2003): p. 48
  6. ^Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Ron Jones Project (Media notes). Ron Jones. Film Score Monthly. 2010. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2013.CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^'Star Trek: The Next Generation Nielsen Ratings – Seasons 1–2'. TrekNation. UGO Networks. Archived from the original on October 5, 2000. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  8. ^'Primetime Emmy Award Database'. Emmys.com. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  9. ^Logan, Michael (August 24, 1996). '10 Truly Stellar Episodes'. TV Guide.
  10. ^Hunt, James (January 11, 2013). 'Revisiting Star Trek TNG: 11001001'. Den of Geek. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  11. ^Handlen, Zack (May 7, 2010). ''11001001'/'Too Short A Season'/'When The Bough Breaks''. The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  12. ^Green, Michelle Erica (June 8, 2007). '11001001'. TrekNation. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  13. ^Epsicokhan, Jamahl. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation '11001001''. Jammer's Reviews. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
  14. ^ abcKnapp, Alex. 'The 10 Best Singularity Themed Star Trek Episodes'. Forbes. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  15. ^'Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 16: 11001001 [VHS]'. Tower Video. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2013.
  16. ^Periguard, Mark A (March 24, 2002). ''Life as a House' rests on shaky foundation'. The Boston Herald. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2012.(subscription required)
  17. ^Shaffer, RL (April 30, 2012). 'Star Trek: The Next Generation Beams to Blu-ray'. IGN. Retrieved October 17, 2012.

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References[edit]

  • Gross, Edward; Altman, Mark A. (1993). Captain's Logs: The Complete Trek Voyages. London: Boxtree. ISBN978-1-85283-899-7.
  • Westmore, Michael G; Nazzaro, Joe (1993). Star Trek: The Next Generation Make-Up FX Journal. London: Titan. ISBN978-1-85286-491-0.
  • Nemecek, Larry (2003). Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion (3rd ed.). New York: Pocket Books. ISBN0-7434-5798-6.

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