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Hear 13 iconic Star Trek sounds created by the late Douglas Grindstaff

Listen to a Tribble cooing and a phaser blasting and remember the man who made it happen.

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The Tribbles' distinctive coos were created by Douglas Grindstaff.

Douglas Grindstaff, the man responsible for many of the signature sounds in the original Star Trek TV series, died July 23 at age 87, StarTrek.com reported .

"Please join us in remembering Douglas Grindstaff, the award-winning sound editor and designer behind many iconic  #StarTrek  sounds," reads a tweet from the show's official Twitter account.

Please join us in remembering Douglas Grindstaff, the award-winning sound editor and designer behind many iconic #StarTrek sounds #TOS #StarTrekFamily #StarTrekRemembers https://t.co/J0qxlSo1AQ pic.twitter.com/XncRDozxmT — Star Trek (@StarTrek) July 25, 2018

Grindstaff and co-workers Joseph Sorokin and Jack Finlay teamed up to deliver all the background sounds and effects on the fabled CBS show, which ran from 1966-1969. (CBS is CNET's parent company.)  In 1967, Grindstaff was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Individual Achievements in Film and Sound Editing category.

Fans appreciated Grindstaff's work. "He made the Enterprise come alive," wrote Twitter user Kelly Key. "The background buzz on the bridge always reminded me of crickets and cicadas from a field on a summer night -- full of life and activity."

He made the Enterprise come alive. The background buzz on the bridge always reminded me of crickets and cicadas from a field on a summer night-full of life and activity. — Kelly Key (@KellywrtrKey) July 25, 2018

May the stars always shine brightly down on DG. May the songs of the universe call his name. — Ann Flynt (@AnnFlynt) July 25, 2018

a talented man - RIP : were his beautiful ambient sounds ever available on some kind of mp3 ? did they ever do that - its very theraputic stuff - please advize — JonjackJones (@JackJohnCarter) July 25, 2018

Why must all the great people die...RIP Douglas ♡ — san || 🖖 (@triwizardkirk) July 26, 2018

Grindstaff is survived by his wife Marcia, his three children and her three children, and by 16 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren, with more on the way. Grindstaff, a Korean War combat veteran, also worked on such shows as The Brady Bunch, Dallas and Mission: Impossible.

Take a listen to some of the memorable sounds Grindstaff helped bring to life.

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3. Tribbles cooing

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4. Phasers firing

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11. Warp drive

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The original  Star Trek  series, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969, boldly went where no series had gone before in terms of sound effects editing.  The universe of the USS Enterprise was alive with sound, much of it musical in nature: computer banks, phasers, transporters, photon torpedoes, communicators, and alien and creature vocals.  Much of that was due to the singular vision of writer/producer Gene Roddenberry, along with the inventiveness of Douglas H. Grindstaff, who served as the show’s supervising sound effects editor for the entire 80-episode run.

Grindstaff, who entered the industry in 1954 after service in the Korean War, won five Emmy Awards for his television sound work as well as the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.  He also headed the sound departments at Paramount Studios, Lorimar Telepictures, Columbia Studios and Pacific Sound before his retirement in 1990.

“When I went to work on the series, Gene described to me what he wanted the Enterprise to sound like,” Grindstaff recalls.  “I asked him if he didn’t think we were getting a little too ‘cartoony’ with the sound effects, and he told me, ‘Doug, I want you to think like an artist and paint everything with sound.’  That’s what he wanted, and that’s why the show sounded the way it did.  He had a very strong vision; you had to give him what he wanted, but you also had to use your own instinct about what should be.  You were either on his wavelength or you weren’t.”

Grindstaff and his crew built their tracks mainly from some material in the Paramount and Desilu sound effects libraries, as well as their own personal libraries.  Additional sounds came from Paramount’s 1953 version of  War of the Worlds .  Sadly, the library he meticulously created, bundled and catalogued is now lost to history.

Working with small TV budgets, Grindstaff maximized what he had.  For example, to create the shimmering, musical sound of the Enterprise transporter, he blended together a few musical effects and electric generator sounds.  Then, on a Moviola, he would create his own fades by shaving the mag sound with a razor blade at the desired point, a technique he learned from the late George Emich, who was Fred Astaire’s music editor at RKO, and who is co-credited with applying the click track to music editing.  “I created my own fades because I didn’t trust the mixers to get it the way I wanted it,” Grindstaff laughed.  “We also did all our own Foley and ADR looping.”

Other sounds were just as inventive.  At Roddenberry’s insistence, each planet visited by the Enterprise had to have its own sound, and for these, Grindstaff would use variations of an orchestra tuning up.  In one legendary episode, “The Trouble with Tribbles,” Grindstaff used screech-owls, doves and rat “vocals” for the voices of the furry pets, who came aboard the Enterprise and began reproducing at an alarming rate.  “I had to go from a single Tribble to the sounds of thousands of them filling the ship,” he says.  “I ran them backwards and forwards, put them on the variable speeder and edited loops, so I could have multiple tracks and mix them at different levels for different spots in the ship.”

The schedule was brutal.  “You were making things every week, and that was the tough part,” he recalls.  “I’d try and get as much ready as I could a couple of weeks before we got an episode, so that when the show was turned over to the editors, I had the sound effects pretty well set, and could tell them the right spots to put everything.  I also always insisted on having a sound effects editor at every mix.”

Nearly ten years after the Enterprise concluded its five-year mission, Grindstaff was offered a job by Roddenberry on Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).  He turned it down.  “Not long before that, I had gone to see Star Wars , and I flipped out,” he says.  “I just said to myself, ‘Man, we blew it; we should have made a Star Trek movie a lot sooner.’  But I sure intend to go see this one.”  Was he aware that he was creating something entirely new in sci-fi sound effects?  “Hardly; I was too busy working for Gene.”

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"I looked for primary sources that showed what life was like because I feel like that humanizes it a lot more," Lee explains. She found some color photographs taken by Bill Manbo, who had smuggled his camera into the internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. "While I was painting the book, I tried as much to depict George and his family just going about their lives under these really difficult circumstances."

Takei says he was impressed with how Lee managed to capture his parents: his father, the reluctant leader and his mother, a fashion icon in her hats and furs. "This has been the first time that I've had to depict real people," Lee adds.

To get a feel for 1940s fashion, Lee says she looked at old Sears catalogues. "What are people wearing? All the men are wearing suits. What kind of colors were clothes back then."

But a lot of information has also been lost — Lee wasn't able to see, for example, where Takei and his family lived in Arkansas because the barracks at Camp Rohwer have been torn down — there's a museum there now. "I didn't actually come across too many photos of the interior of the barracks," says Lee. "The ones I did come across were very staged."

She did, however, find the original floor plans for the barracks at Jerome Camp, also in Arkansas. "I actually printed the floorplan out and then built up a little model just to see what the space was actually like," Lee says. "I think it just emphasized how small of a space this is that whole families were crammed into."

One illustration in the book shows the work that Takei's mother put in to make that barrack — no more than tar paper and boards stuck together — a home.

"She gathered rags and tore them up into strips and braided them into rugs so that we would be stepping on something warm," Takei remembers. She found army surplus fabrics and sewed curtains for the windows. She took plant branches that had fallen off the nearby trees and made decorative sculptures. She asked a friendly neighbor to build a table and chairs.

"You drew the home that my mother made out of that raw space, Takei tells Lee. "That was wonderful."

Michelle Lee painted the art for My Lost Freedom using watercolor, gouache and colored pencils. Most of the illustrations have a very warm palette, but ever-present are the barbed wire fences and the guard towers. "There's a lot of fencing and bars," Lee explains. "That was kind of the motif that I was using throughout the book... A lot of vertical and horizontal patterns to kind of emphasize just how overbearing it was."

Takei says one of his favorite drawings in the book is a scene of him and his brother, Henry, playing by a culvert.

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"Camp Rohwer was a strange and magical place," Takei writes. "We'd never seen trees rising out of murky waters or such colorful butterflies. Our block was surrounded by a drainage ditch, home to tiny, wiggly black fishies. I scooped them up into a jar.

One morning they had funny bumps. Then they lost their tails and their legs popped out. They turned into frogs!"

"They're just two children among many children who were imprisoned at these camps," says Lee, "and to them, perhaps, aspects of being there were just fun." The illustration depicts both childlike wonder and — still, always — a sense of foreboding. Butterflies fly around a barbed wire fence. A bright sun shines on large, dark swamp trees. Kids play in the shadow of a guard tower.

"There's so much that you tell in that one picture," says Takei. "That's the art."

"So many of your memories are of how perceptive you are to things that are going on around you," adds Lee, "but also still approaching things from a child's perspective."

Even though the events in My Lost Freedom took place more than 80 years ago, illustrator Michelle Lee and author George Takei say the story is still very relevant today.

"These themes of displacement and uprooting of communities from one place to another — these are things that are constantly happening," says Lee. Because of war and because of political decisions ... those themes aren't uncommon. They're universal."

Takei agrees. "People need to know the lessons and learn that lesson and apply it to hard times today. And we hope that a lot of people get the book and read it to their children or read it to other children and act on it."

He's done his job, he says, now the readers have their job.

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Starship Simulator is More Star Trek than Star Citizen

Built on a foundation of real-world space science and architectural design, Fleetyard Studios’ upcoming Starship Simulator promises an entire galaxy to explore on a realistic and detailed ship and a campaign charting the future of human space exploration. It's something that should be right up any Sci-Fi or simulation game fans' alley, and that's clear in how successful its Kickstarter has been, with it far exceeding its initial goal.

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Players can take their ship out into the vastness of space and take on the roles of various potential crew positions while using concepts from actual physics in pursuit of the popular subgenre of hard science fiction . For instance, ships in Starship Simulator are able to leap from system to system using the faster-than-light drive theory proposed by Miguel Alcubierre and honed by Erik Lentz. Distances between stars are accurate, and so many research papers were consulted in the game’s design. Game Rant recently spoke with Fleetyard’s director, Dan Govier, about this entire approach to Starship Simulator and the number of comparisons it has drawn.

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That probably sounds familiar, in that it's a premise that is reflected in plenty of major games, in particular games like Starfield , which also adopts a hard sci-fi approach to some degree. The idea of a space sandbox where realistic technology powers the future of human expansion is popular in games, and the idea of incorporating more accurate science has been a major selling point for the genre of space sandboxes itself.

Starship Simulator Takes Star Citizen Comparisons as a Compliment

In particular, the fact that Starship Simulato r is coming off a successful Kickstarter with grand ambitions and is funding itself in part through selling ships as DLC draws comparisons to the goliath project of Star Citizen . Govier doesn’t think it’s a particularly apt comparison. However, he does think the comparison flatters his comparatively smaller and less-funded team.

I mentioned to someone recently that being compared to Star Citizen , when we have a tiny team and a very, very small budget versus multiple studios with over half a billion dollars in funding, we take that as a compliment really, to be compared at that scale…We’re just completely separate products.

Instead of being an MMO live service game , explained Govier, Starship Simulator is a game where the player steps into the shoes of a member of a wider crew, some of whom could be other players in a multiplayer co-op environment. It can also be played entirely solo, using NPCs to fill out the rest of the crew.

For Starship Simulator to prevent the feature creep that has largely defined over a decade of alpha testing with Star Citizen , Fleetyard has taken pains to closely control the focus of its game’s development, including transparency in the studio’s process and a firmly-set roadmap through the game’s planned development. Govier said he doesn’t want to be waylaid by cool ideas, which is an understandable position.

Those differences permeate throughout the game far deeper, however. Govier explained that Star Citizen focuses on a personal journey seeking wealth and bigger and better ships through daring combat. By contrast, Starship Simulator is focused on the future of humanity as a whole and an individual’s place in it. Starship Simulator is more concerned with exploring space, engaging with the science upholding the universe, and meeting new alien races. Starship Simulator players would engage in combat as a result of failed diplomacy, instead of as a means to an end. The motivation of wealth is less important than the motivation of discovery.

We're more about being a part of a crew living and working in space. We focus on the exploration side of it, exploring the galaxy and seeing what's out there, with combat and conflict being generally a consequence of failed diplomacy, rather than the main gameplay loop…We want to be different. We want to focus on that science and that exploration and progressing humanity in that way.

In short, Starship Simulator wants its players to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Starship Simulator is 'Star Trek, but Realistic'

The more apt comparison for Govier is the idea that Starship Simulator is a more grounded Star Trek . Those influences can be seen throughout the game, leaving its fingerprints on things like ship architecture, crew dynamics, and uniform design. It also vibes more with the notions of exploration and wonder that have been characteristic of Star Trek at its best. This influence is pretty baked into the development of the game, with Star Trek ’s design for ships being a major piece of the design ethos of Starship Simulator ’s fleet, along with modern architects. The Alcubierre Drive that the game uses to power its faster-than-light flight even shares a lot of traits with Star Trek ’s warp drive , but it is adapted to actual physics.

I think you could probably describe what we're doing as Star Trek , but realistic. How would we really do it? If we wanted that Star Trek -style future for humanity, as it stands, how would we do that? I think, in some ways, many aspects of Star Trek aren't realistic, and they're perhaps a little too clean and not very human. We're looking at this from the perspective of being human. How would humans actually do this?

The focus Govier expressed on science and the wonder of space travel are also baked into the DNA of what makes Star Trek what it is. It’s no understatement to say that the passion Star Trek has inspired for science and technology is utterly unique and that influence is still prevalent today. Facts of everyday life like cell phones, touchscreens, 3D printers, and more gained popularity as part of Star Trek ’s vision of future technology to such an extent that the current era of the franchise had to update expectations of the 23rd century to still seem futuristic for Star Trek Discovery .

That, too, is something Govier hopes to be a part of. The amount of research Fleetyard put into the game means that just playing it can be passively educational, and there are hopes that Starship Simulator can even be used as a tool to teach and inspire space enthusiasts like Govier himself. The game’s O-type stars behave like O-type stars, its readouts are accurate, the electrical engineering on the ship is accurately designed, and even the layout of the galaxy is as accurate as it can be.

For someone who's coming into it maybe as a space enthusiast, but not as someone who knows those things yet, you can literally learn actual astrophysics just by playing the game. One of my dreams is to have an astronomer with a class of students all together on the ship, learning astronomy by actually flying around the solar system and looking at all the different planets. I think that would be really cool. I'd love to see the game used as an educational tool .

Science fiction in general has had a major role in inspiring people, from a love of space to designing tools and technology to exploring the frontiers of creativity. By its nature, science fiction asks people to imagine what the future will be. The future that Starship Simulator invites may be more grounded and human than Star Trek at its height, but it’s no less brazen in its advocacy for science and the bullish view it takes on human nature.

Starship Simulator will enter Early Access on Steam in late 2024/early 2025.