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Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman , Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor . It originally aired from January 16, 1995, to May 23, 2001, on UPN , with 172 episodes over seven seasons. It is the fifth series in the Star Trek franchise. Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets , it follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager as it attempts to return home to the Alpha Quadrant after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Paramount Pictures commissioned the series after the cancellation of Star Trek: The Next Generation to accompany the ongoing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . They wanted it to help launch UPN, their new network. Berman, Piller, and Taylor devised the series to chronologically overlap with Deep Space Nine and to maintain thematic continuity with elements that had been introduced in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. The complex relationship between Starfleet and ex-Federation colonists known as the Maquis was one such element and a persistent central theme. Voyager was the first Star Trek series to feature a female commanding officer, Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ), as the lead character. Berman was head executive producer in charge of the overall production, assisted by a series of executive producers: Piller, Taylor, Brannon Braga , and Kenneth Biller .
Set in a different part of the galaxy from preceding Star Trek shows, Voyager gave the series' writers space to introduce new alien species as recurring characters, namely the Kazon , Vidiians , Hirogen , and Species 8472 . During the later seasons, the Borg —a species created for The Next Generation —were introduced as the main antagonists. During Voyager ' s run, various episode novelizations and tie-in video games were produced; after it ended, various novels continued the series' narrative.
As Star Trek: The Next Generation ended, Paramount Pictures wanted to continue to have a second Star Trek TV series to accompany Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . The studio also planned to start a new television network , and wanted the new series to help it succeed. [3]
Initial work on Star Trek: Voyager began in 1993, when the seventh and final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the second season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine were in production. Seeds for Voyager ' s backstory, including the development of the Maquis , were placed in several The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine episodes. Voyager was shot on the stages The Next Generation had used, and where the Voyager pilot " Caretaker " was shot in September 1994. Costume designer Robert Blackman decided that the uniforms of Voyager ' s crew would be the same as those on Deep Space Nine .
Star Trek: Voyager was the first Star Trek series to use computer-generated imagery (CGI), rather than models, for exterior space shots. [4] Babylon 5 and seaQuest DSV had previously used CGI to avoid the expense of models, but the Star Trek television department continued using models because they felt they were more realistic. Amblin Imaging won an Emmy for Voyager ' s opening CGI title visuals, but the weekly episode exteriors were captured with hand-built miniatures of Voyager , its shuttlecraft, and other ships. This changed when Voyager went fully CGI for certain types of shots midway through season three (late 1996). [5] Foundation Imaging was the studio responsible for special effects during Babylon 5 ' s first three seasons. Season three's " The Swarm " was the first episode to use Foundation's effects exclusively. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine began using Foundation Imaging in conjunction with Digital Muse in season six. In its later seasons, Voyager featured visual effects from Foundation Imaging and Digital Muse. The digital effects were produced at standard television resolution and some have speculated that it cannot be re-released in HD format without re-creating the special effects. [6] However, Enterprise has been released in HD, but the special effects were rendered in 480p and upscaled. [7]
Unlike The Next Generation , where composer Jerry Goldsmith 's theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture was reused, Goldsmith composed and conducted an entirely new main theme for Voyager . As done with The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine , a soundtrack album of the series' pilot episode "Caretaker" and a CD single containing three variations of the main theme were released by Crescendo Records in 1995 between seasons one and two. [8] [9] In 1996, the theme was also released as a piano solo songbook. [10]
In 2017, La-La Land Records issued Star Trek: Voyager Collection, Volume 1 , a four-disc limited-edition release containing Goldsmith's theme music and tracks from Jay Chattaway 's "Rise", "Night", the two-parter "Equinox", "Pathfinder", "Spirit Folk", "The Haunting of Deck Twelve", "Shattered", "The Void", and the two-parter "Scorpion"; Dennis McCarthy 's "The 37's", the two-parter "Basics", "The Q and the Gray", "Concerning Flight", "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy", and the two-parters "Workforce" and "Year of Hell"; David Bell 's "Dark Frontier"; and Paul Baillargeon's "Lifesigns". [11]
In 2020, Newsweek magazine said that the Voyager theme by Goldsmith was the best of all Star Trek television series' themes. [12] The article elaborates, "... Voyager recaptures some of the spacey ethereality of Courage's original vocal melody, while adding a deep space resonance that evoked the series' lost explorers, far from home among uncharted stars." [12]
In August 2015, the main cast members (except Jennifer Lien , who had retired from acting in 2002) appeared together onstage in Las Vegas for the 20th anniversary of Star Trek: Voyager at the 2015 Las Vegas Star Trek convention. [13]
Following a path set by Leonard Nimoy , the first Star Trek actor to also direct in the franchise, [14] Robert Duncan McNeill (Paris) and Roxann Dawson (Torres) went on to direct episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise , while Jonathan Frakes , LeVar Burton , and Andrew Robinson (Garak of Deep Space Nine ) all directed episodes of Star Trek: Voyager . [14]
The sets used for USS Voyager were reused for the Deep Space Nine episode " Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges " for her sister Intrepid -class ship USS Bellerophon (NCC-74705). The sickbay set of USS Voyager was also used as the Enterprise -E sickbay in the films Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection . The Voyager ready room and the engineering set were also used as rooms aboard the Enterprise- E in Insurrection .
Production of episodes ran from June or July to March or April each year, with each episode typically taking about seven days to shoot. [15] Shooting started at 7 a.m. each weekday and continued until finished for the day. [15] The pilot episode "Caretaker" took 31 days to shoot and was one of the most expensive television pilots shot to that date. [16]
In the pilot episode, " Caretaker ", USS Voyager , under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway , departs the Deep Space Nine space station on a mission into the treacherous Badlands . They are searching for a missing ship piloted by a team of Maquis rebels, which Voyager ' s security officer, the Vulcan Lieutenant Tuvok , has secretly infiltrated. Tom Paris , a disgraced former Starfleet officer who joined the Maquis and was subsequently arrested, agrees to help find the Maquis ship in exchange for his freedom. While in the Badlands, Voyager is enveloped by a powerful energy wave that kills several of its crew, damages the ship, and strands it in the galaxy's Delta Quadrant , more than 70,000 light-years from Earth. The wave was not a natural phenomenon. In fact, it was used by an alien entity known as the Caretaker to pull Voyager into the Delta Quadrant. The Caretaker is responsible for the continued care of the Ocampa, a race of aliens native to the Delta Quadrant, and has been abducting other species from around the galaxy in an effort to find a successor.
The Maquis ship was also pulled into the Delta Quadrant, and eventually the two crews reluctantly agree to join forces after the Caretaker space station is destroyed in a pitched space battle with another local alien species, the Kazon . Chakotay , leader of the Maquis group, is made Voyager ' s first officer. B'Elanna Torres , a half-human/half- Klingon Maquis, becomes chief engineer, and Paris becomes Voyager ' s helm officer. Due to the deaths of the ship's entire medical staff, the Doctor , an emergency medical hologram designed only for short-term use, is employed as the ship's full-time chief medical officer. Delta Quadrant natives Neelix , a Talaxian scavenger, and Kes , a young Ocampa , are welcomed aboard as the ship's chef/morale officer and the Doctor's medical assistant, respectively.
Due to its great distance from Federation space , the Delta Quadrant is unexplored by Starfleet , and Voyager is truly going where no human has gone before. As they set out on their projected 75-year journey home, the crew passes through regions belonging to various species: the barbaric and belligerent Kazon ; the organ-harvesting, disease-ravaged Vidiians ; the nomadic hunter race the Hirogen ; the fearsome Species 8472 from fluidic space; and most notably the Borg , who control large areas of space that Voyager has to move through in later seasons. They also encounter perilous natural phenomena, a nebulous area called the Nekrit Expanse (" Fair Trade ", third season), a large area of empty space called the Void (" Night ", fifth season), wormholes , dangerous nebulae and other anomalies.
Voyager is the third Star Trek series to feature Q , an omnipotent alien—and the second on a recurring basis, as Q made only one appearance on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Starfleet Command learns of Voyager ' s survival when the crew discovers an ancient interstellar communications network, claimed by the Hirogen, into which they can tap. This relay network is later disabled, but due to the efforts of Earth-based Lieutenant Reginald Barclay , Starfleet eventually establishes regular contact in the season-six episode " Pathfinder ", using a communications array and micro-wormhole technology.
In the first two episodes of the show's fourth season, Kes leaves the ship in the wake of an extreme transformation of her mental abilities, while Seven of Nine (known colloquially as Seven), a Borg drone who was assimilated as a six-year-old human girl, is liberated from the collective and joins the Voyager crew. As the series progresses, Seven begins to regain her humanity with the ongoing help of Captain Janeway, who shows her that emotions, friendship, love, and caring are more important than the sterile "perfection" the Borg espouse. The Doctor also becomes more human-like, due in part to a mobile holo-emitter the crew obtains in the third season which allows the Doctor to leave the confines of sickbay and even the ship itself. He discovers his love of music and art, which he demonstrates in the episode " Virtuoso ". In the sixth season, the crew discovers a group of adolescent aliens assimilated by the Borg, but prematurely released from their maturation chambers due to a malfunction on their Borg cube. As he did with Seven of Nine, the Doctor rehumanizes the children; Azan, Rebi and Mezoti , three of them eventually find a new adoptive home while the fourth, Icheb , chooses to stay aboard Voyager.
Life for the Voyager crew evolves during their long journey. Traitors Seska and Michael Jonas are uncovered in the early months (" State of Flux ", " Investigations "); loyal crew members are lost late in the journey; and other wayward Starfleet officers are integrated into the crew. In the second season, the first child is born aboard the ship to Ensign Samantha Wildman; as she quickly grows up due to alien biology, Naomi Wildman becomes great friends with her godfather, Neelix, and develops an unexpected and close relationship with Seven of Nine. Early in the seventh season, Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres marry after a long courtship, and Torres gives birth to their child, Miral Paris , in the series finale. Late in the seventh season, the crew finds a colony of Talaxians on a makeshift settlement in an asteroid field, and Neelix chooses to bid Voyager farewell and live once again among his people.
Over the course of the series, the Voyager crew finds various ways to reduce their 75-year journey by up to five decades (barring any other delays they may encounter): shortcuts, in the episodes " Year of Hell ", " Night " and " Q2 "; technology boosts in " The Voyager Conspiracy ", " Dark Frontier ", " Timeless " and " Hope and Fear "; a subspace corridor in " Dragon's Teeth "; and a mind-powered push from a powerful former shipmate in " The Gift ". Several other trip-shortening attempts are unsuccessful, as seen in the episodes " Eye of the Needle ", " Prime Factors ", " Future's End ", " Course: Oblivion ", and " Inside Man ". After traveling for seven years, a current (yet returning) shipmate helps instigate a series of complex efforts which shortens the remainder of the journey to a few minutes in the series finale, " Endgame ".
- Geneviève Bujold , originally cast as Janeway, quit a day and a half into shooting the pilot " Caretaker " and was replaced by Kate Mulgrew. [17]
- Prince Abdullah of Jordan (now king ) played an unnamed ensign (science officer) in the episode " Investigations ". [18]
- Musician Tom Morello played Crewman Mitchell, seen when Captain Janeway asks him for directions on Deck 15, in " Good Shepherd ". [19]
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- Jason Alexander played Kurros, the spokesperson for a group of alien scholars, in " Think Tank ".
- John Aniston played the Quarren Ambassador in the two-part episode " Workforce ".
- Ed Begley Jr. portrayed Henry Starling, an unscrupulous 20th-century industrialist, in " Future's End " parts 1 and 2.
- Dan Butler played Steth in " Vis à Vis ".
- Robert Curtis Brown portrayed Neezar, the Ledosian ambassador, in " Natural Law ".
- David Clennon played Dr. Crell Moset in the episode " Nothing Human ".
- Henry Darrow appears in the episodes "Tattoo" and "Basics: Part I" as Chakotay's father.
- Andy Dick plays the Emergency Medical Hologram Mark 2 on USS Prometheus in " Message in a Bottle ".
- David Graf appeared as Fred Noonan , Amelia Earhart 's navigator in the episode " The 37's ".
- Gary Graham , who portrayed Ambassador Soval on Star Trek: Enterprise , played Ocampan community leader Tanis in the season-two episode " Cold Fire ".
- Gerrit Graham played a member of the Q Continuum called Quinn in " Death Wish " who sought asylum on Voyager .
- Joel Grey played Caylem, in " Resistance ".
- Lori Hallier played Riley Frazier, one of a group of former Borg drones, in " Unity ".
- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson portrayed the Pendari Champion with whom Seven of Nine and Tuvok are forced to compete in the episode " Tsunkatse ".
- Leslie Jordan played Kol, a Ferengi, in the episode “ False Profits ”.
- Alice Krige and Susanna Thompson both played the Borg Queen. Krige, who had originated the role in the movie Star Trek: First Contact , returned for Voyager's series finale; Thompson had portrayed the character earlier in the show's run.
- Sharon Lawrence played the famous aviator Amelia Earhart in the episode "The 37's".
- Michael McKean plays a maniacal clown character in a simulation in which the crew's minds are held hostage in the episode " The Thaw ".
- Virginia Madsen played Kellin, a Ramuran tracer, in " Unforgettable ".
- Marjorie Monaghan played Freya, a shieldmaiden , in " Heroes and Demons ".
- Leland Orser played Dejaren, an unstable hologram, in " Revulsion "
- John Savage plays Captain Rudolph Ransom of the USS Equinox , another Federation starship that Voyager encountered in the Delta Quadrant, in " Equinox " parts 1 and 2.
- Lori Petty played Noss in the episode "Gravity". Tuvok and Tom become stranded on a planet and befriend Noss, an alien stranded there many years before.
- John Rhys-Davies plays Leonardo da Vinci in Janeway's holodeck program. He appeared in " Scorpion: Part I " and " Concerning Flight ".
- W. Morgan Sheppard appeared as Qatai, an alien trapped by a telepathic "pitcher plant" anomaly masquerading as Voyager's savior, in " Bliss ".
- Sarah Silverman appeared as Rain Robinson, a young astronomer who finds Voyager in orbit of 20th-century Earth, in " Future's End " parts 1 and 2.
- Kurtwood Smith , who played the Federation president in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , played Annorax, a Krenim scientist who was determined to restore his original timeline, in " Year of Hell " parts 1 and 2.
- Comedian Scott Thompson played the alien Tomin in " Someone to Watch Over Me ".
- Ray Walston , who appeared as Starfleet Academy groundskeeper Boothby in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The First Duty", reprised the role in the episodes " In the Flesh " and " The Fight ".
- Songwriter Paul Williams played Prelate Koru in " Virtuoso ".
- Titus Welliver played Lieutenant Maxwell Burke in "Equinox" parts 1 and 2.
- Joseph Will played Tellis in " Muse ".
- Ray Wise played Arturis in " Hope and Fear ". He also had an appearance in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called " Who Watches the Watchers ".
- Tom Wright appeared as Tuvix in " Tuvix ".
As with other Star Trek series, the original Star Trek ' s Vulcans, Klingons, and Romulans appear in Star Trek: Voyager . [21] Voyager had appearances by several other races who initially appear in The Next Generation : the Q, the Borg, Cardassians, Bajorans, Betazoids, and Ferengi , along with Deep Space Nine ' s Jem'Hadar (via hologram), as well as the Maquis resistance movement, previously established in episodes of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine . [21]
One notable connection between Voyager and The Next Generation appears regarding a wormhole and the Ferengi. In The Next Generation season-three episode " The Price ", bidding takes place for rights to a wormhole. The Ferengi send a delegation to the bidding. When the Enterprise and Ferengi vessel each send shuttles into the wormhole, they appear in the Delta Quadrant, where the Ferengi shuttle becomes trapped. In the Voyager season-three episode " False Profits ", the Ferengi who were trapped have since landed on a nearby planet, and begun exploiting the inhabitants for profit.
- Michael Ansara , who played the Klingon commander Kang on the original series (" Day of the Dove ") and Deep Space Nine (" Blood Oath ") also appeared as Kang on Voyager ("Flashback").
- Vaughn Armstrong , who portrayed a wide variety of guest characters throughout the show's run, later went on to portray Admiral Forrest in Star Trek: Enterprise .
- Majel Barrett voices the ship's computer, having performed the same role in previous Star Trek series. [21]
- LeVar Burton , who played Geordi La Forge on The Next Generation , appeared as Captain LaForge of USS Challenger in an alternate future in the episode "Timeless".
- Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun and Brunt of Deep Space Nine and Shran of Enterprise ) appeared in "Tsunkatse" as Norcadian Penk.
- Leonard Crofoot , who appeared in "Virtuoso" as a Qomar spectator, [22] appeared in The Next Generation episodes " Angel One " and as the prototype version of Data's daughter Lal in " The Offspring ".
- John de Lancie plays the mischievous Q, who also annoyed Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the Enterprise and Commander Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space Nine in the Deep Space Nine episode " Q-Less ". He appeared in " Death Wish ", " The Q and the Grey " and " Q2 ".
- Aron Eisenberg (Nog of Deep Space Nine ) appeared in " Initiations " as a Kazon adolescent named Kar.
- Jonathan Frakes played Commander William Riker from The Next Generation , appearing in " Death Wish ".
- Gerrit Graham , who played the Hunter in a Deep Space Nine episode called " Captive Pursuit ", and later played a Q (Quinn) in the Voyager episode " Death Wish ".
- J. G. Hertzler (Martok of Deep Space Nine and Klingon advocate Kolos in the Enterprise episode: "Judgement") appeared in "Tsunkatse" as an unnamed Hirogen.
- Suzie Plakson , who portrayed Dr. Selar in The Next Generation episode The Schizoid Man " as well as Ambassador K'Ehleyr , Worf 's mate in "The Emissary" and " Reunion ", appeared as the female Q in the episode "The Q and the Grey".
- Joseph Ruskin played a Vulcan Master in the episode "Gravity". Ruskin also played Galt in the Star Trek Original Series episode " Gamesters of Triskelion ", the Klingon Tumek Deep Space Nine episodes " House of Quark " and " Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places ", a Cardassian informant in the Deep Space Nine episode " Improbable Cause ", and a Suliban doctor in the Enterprise episode " Broken Bow ".
- Dwight Schultz played Reginald Barclay on Star Trek: The Next Generation and in the film Star Trek: First Contact . He appeared in the following Voyager episodes: " Projections ", " Pathfinder ", " Life Line ", " Inside Man ", " Author, Author " and "Endgame".
- Mark Allen Shepherd also appeared uncredited as Morn , alongside Quark in the pilot.
- Armin Shimerman , who portrayed Quark on Deep Space Nine , appeared in the pilot "Caretaker".
- Dan Shor , who appeared as the Ferengi Dr. Arridor in The Next Generation episode "The Price", reprised the role in Voyager episode "False Profits", having become stranded in the Delta Quadrant at the end of the Next Generation episode.
- Marina Sirtis , as Counselor Deanna Troi from The Next Generation , appears in "Pathfinder", "Life Line", and "Inside Man".
- James Sloyan portrayed Alidar Jarok (a defecting Romulan admiral) in " The Defector " and Alexander Rozhenko (Worf's son) as an adult in the future in "Firstborn", both Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , he portrayed the Bajoran scientist Mora Pol and Odo's "father" in the episodes "The Begotten" and "The Alternate". The Star Trek: Voyager episode entitled "Jetrel" featured Sloyan as the title character.
- Kurtwood Smith , who plays Annorax in "Year of Hell", appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Things Past" as Thrax. Before this, he also appeared in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as the president of the Federation.
- George Takei from the Original Series reprised his role as Hikaru Sulu , who became Captain of USS Excelsior in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country . He appeared in Voyager episode "Flashback", commemorating the 30th anniversary of Star Trek . [23]
- Tony Todd , who played Worf 's brother Kurn in The Next Generation episodes " Sins of the Father ", " Redemption ", parts 1 and 2 and the Deep Space Nine episode " Sons of Mogh ", also the adult Jake Sisko in the Deep Space Nine episode " The Visitor ", played an unnamed Hirogen in the Voyager episode " Prey ".
- Gwynyth Walsh (B'Etor of The Next Generation and Generations ) appeared in " Random Thoughts " as Chief Examiner Nimira.
- Grace Lee Whitney from Original Series reprised her role as Janice Rand in Voyager episode " Flashback ", commemorating the 30th anniversary of Star Trek . [23]
- Martha Hackett (Seska) appeared in deleted scenes from the finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation , " All Good Things... ", and as Romulan Subcommander T'Rul in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine two-part episode " The Search ".
- Robert Duncan McNeill (Paris) appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The First Duty " as Cadet Nicolas Locarno. The character of Locarno was used as a template for Tom Paris. [24] He also appeared as Tom Paris in the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "We'll Always Have Tom Paris".
- Kate Mulgrew appeared again as Kathryn Janeway, now promoted to vice admiral, in Star Trek: Nemesis . [25] Mulgrew also voiced Admiral Janeway and a training hologram based on Janeway in the animated series Star Trek: Prodigy . [26] [27]
- Ethan Phillips (Neelix) was featured in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Ménage à Troi" as Farek, the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Acquisition" as Ulis, and in Star Trek: First Contact as the maître d' in the Dixon Hill holodeck program. He voiced a docent for the decommissioned USS Voyager in the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Twovix" in season 4.
- Robert Picardo (The Doctor) appeared in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" as Dr. Lewis Zimmerman and an EMH Mark I, and made a cameo appearance in the film Star Trek: First Contact as the EMH aboard the Enterprise -E.
- Tim Russ (Tuvok) appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Starship Mine ", the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes " Invasive Procedures " and " Through the Looking Glass " (in the latter as a mirror version of Tuvok), and Star Trek: Generations . He appeared first as a Changeling impersonating Tuvok and then as the real Tuvok in the episodes "Surrender" and "The Last Generation" of Star Trek: Picard respectively.
- Jeri Ryan appeared as Seven of Nine as a regular cast member in Star Trek: Picard. [28]
- Robert Beltran appeared as Captain Chakotay of the USS Protostar in Star Trek: Prodigy . [29]
The series consists of 172 episodes, all 45 minutes in length, excluding advertisement breaks. Four episodes, "Caretaker", "Dark Frontier", "Flesh and Blood" and "Endgame" originally aired as 90 minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks). In syndication these four episodes are each split into two episodes (45 minutes in length).
A total of 26 numbered books were released during the series' original run from 1995 to 2001. [30] They include novelizations of the first episode, "Caretaker", "The Escape", "Violations", "Ragnarok", and novelizations of the episodes "Flashback", " Day of Honor ", "Equinox" and "Endgame". Also, "unnumbered books", which are still part of the series, were released, though not part of the official release. These novels consist of episode novelizations except for Caretaker , Mosaic (a biography of Kathryn Janeway), Pathways (a novel in which the biography of various crew members, including all of the senior staff, is given); and The Nanotech War , a novel released in 2002, one year after the series' finale.
Book relaunch
A series of novels focusing on the continuing adventures of Voyager following the television series finale was implemented in 2003, much as Pocket Books did with the Deep Space Nine relaunch novel series, which features stories placed after the finale of that show. In the relaunch, several characters are reassigned while others are promoted but stay aboard Voyager . These changes include Janeway's promotion to admiral, Chakotay becoming captain of Voyager and breaking up with Seven of Nine, Tuvok leaving the ship to serve as tactical officer under William Riker, and Tom Paris's promotion to first officer on the Voyager . The series also introduces several new characters.
The series began with Homecoming and The Farther Shore in 2003, a direct sequel to the series' finale, "Endgame". These were followed in 2004 by Spirit Walk: Old Wounds and Spirit Walk: Enemy of My Enemy . Under the direction of a new author, 2009 brought forth two more additions to the series: Full Circle and Unworthy . In 2011, another book by the same author called Children of the Storm was released. Other novels—some set during the relaunch period, others during the show's broadcast run—have been published.
Three video games based specifically on Voyager were released: Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force for PC (2000) and PS2 (2001), the arcade game Star Trek: Voyager – The Arcade Game (2002) and Star Trek: Elite Force II (2003), a sequel to Elite Force . The PS2 game Star Trek: Encounters (2006) also features the ship and characters from the show. Voyager was a graphic adventure video game developed by Looking Glass Technologies but it was cancelled in 1997.
Star Trek: Voyager – Elite Force drew revenues of $15 million and sold roughly 300,000 units worldwide by 2003. [31]
Star Trek: Voyager launched on UPN with repeats entering into syndication . [32] The two hour long debut " Caretaker " was seen by 21.3 million people in January 1995. [33]
The series is available, Sunday through Friday evenings, on the broadcast network Heroes and Icons. It is also available for streaming in the United States on Paramount+ and Amazon Prime Video .
Pluto TV also has two Star Trek channels which air the various series. The 'Star Trek' channel airs The Original Series and The Next Generation and has also aired Lower Decks, Picard and various specials and documentaries. The 'More Star Trek' channel airs Voyager and Deep Space Nine. Most of the time the series which is currently airing plays the series in order, from start to finish.
In 2016, in a listing that included each Star Trek film and TV series separately, Voyager was ranked 6th by the L.A. Times . [34] In 2017, Vulture ranked Star Trek: Voyager the 4th best live-action Star Trek television show, prior to Star Trek: Discovery . [35] In 2019, Nerdist ranked this show the 5th best Star Trek series, in between Enterprise and Star Trek: Discovery . [36] Also in 2019, MovieFone ranked it the fifth best live-action Star Trek series. [37]
In 2019, CBR ranked Season 5 the 4th best season of a Star Trek show, and Season 4, the 8th best. [38] In 2019, Popular Mechanics ranked Star Trek: Voyager the 36th best science fiction television show ever. [39] Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the show a rating of 77% overall of the seven seasons based on 49 reviews. [40] Metacritic gives Star Trek: Voyager a score of 66 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [41] In 2021, Variety ranked it the fourth best installment of Star Trek , counting series and movies together, placing it ahead of all television series to-date except the original. [42]
Voyager is notable for being the most gender-balanced Star Trek series with the first female lead character and strong female supporting characters, [43] with a review of the different series giving Voyager the highest Bechdel test rating. [43] Critical and scholarly accounts noted the prevalence of women in leadership roles and with scientific expertise, but also the series' adherence to the gender binary and heterosexual norms . [44] [45] [46] [47]
In an article about Voyager , Ian Grey wrote: "It was a rare heavy-hardware science fiction fantasy not built around a strong man, and more audaciously, it didn't seem to trouble itself over how fans would receive this. On Voyager , female authority was assumed and unquestioned; women conveyed sexual power without shame and anger without guilt. Even more so than Buffy , which debuted two years later, it was the most feminist show in American TV history." [48]
About her years on Voyager , Kate Mulgrew said: "The best thing was simply the privilege and the challenge of being able to take a shot at the first female captain, transcending stereotypes that I was very familiar with. I was able to do that in front of millions of viewers. That was a remarkable experience—and it continues to resonate." [49]
In 2015, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti tweeted a Janeway quote from the episode " The Cloud ", "There's coffee in that nebula", from the International Space Station . [25] The station was getting a shipment of supplies which triggered a chance to say how coffee really was in the incoming spacecraft (a Dragon cargo spacecraft ). [25] The spacecraft was carrying the ISSpresso machine which would allow coffee beverages to be made aboard the actual Space Station. [50] The popular tweet was accompanied by her wearing a Star Trek uniform also. [50]
The series was released on DVD in 2004 and again in 2017. [32] In addition to the episodes, the DVDs also include some extra videos related to the show. [32] There was an extra bonus video with the DVD set from the store Best Buy in 2004. [32] Voyager had releases of episodes on VHS format, such as a collectors set with a special display box for the tapes. [51]
By the 2010s, the episodes were made available on various streaming services including the owners CBS All Access [52] [53] In 2016 Netflix made an agreement with CBS for worldwide distribution of all then existing 727 Star Trek episodes (including Voyager). [53] Voyager has 172 episodes and has been reviewed as a binge watch, with the whole series taking about three months, as rate of two episodes per day on weekdays and three episodes per day on weekends. [54] As of 2015 services known to carry the series include Netflix , Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes, and CBS.com. [54]
Star Trek: Voyager has not been remastered in high definition and there are no plans to do so, due to the costs of reassembling each episode from the film negatives and recreating visual effects. [55]
Voyager won 20 different awards and was nominated for 70.
In 1995 for example, Jerry Goldsmith won an Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music [56] and the series also won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects. [56]
The following episodes won Emmy awards, "Caretaker", "Threshold", "Fair Trade", "Dark Frontier", and "Endgame". [57]
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, the cast of Voyager reunited for a live virtual event. [58] The reunion broke the Stars in the House single-episode fundraising record, drawing donations totaling $19,225 for The Actors Fund's efforts to assist entertainment professionals in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous Stars in the House record was set by a Glee reunion episode that raised $13,910. [59]
In 2021, plans for a Star Trek: Voyager documentary made news when it raised over $638,000 in the first two weeks of its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. [60] The film is being produced by 455 Films which also produced the 2018 reunion documentary What We Left Behind about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , as well as other documentaries. [60] Production of the film started in 2020 and included cast member interviews prior to kicking off crowdfunding to take the film to full production. [61] By the end of March 2021 they had raised over $1.2 million from over 11 thousand donators to make it the most funded crowdfunded documentary ever, [62] and announced the name To The Journey: Looking Back At Star Trek: Voyager for the documentary, [62] [63] which will include HD remastered footage (pending approval from ViacomCBS). [64] [65] The fundraising campaign was noted for getting support from Nana Visitor, Kate Mulgrew, William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, and others. [62] [66]
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Star Trek has featured a multitude of soaring, iconic theme songs over the years, scoring the final frontier through thrilling orchestral marches.
Star Trek has featured some of the most iconic theme songs of all time, generally scoring the final frontier with thrilling orchestral marches. From the very beginning, with Star Trek: The Original Series , the music was an important part of the show. And while the types of music used to score the actual episodes has evolved over the years, the theme song remains consistent - in all but one case, an orchestral composition laid atop a title sequence listing the main cast members.
While the importance of an opening tune may not always be obvious, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry certainly understood the value of the theme song. Roddenberry wrote lyrics to the TOS theme song so he could collect half the royalties, damaging his relationship with composer Alexander Courage. Many of Star Trek 's theme songs have become so iconic they're part of the cultural lexicon, while a select few are widely reviled.
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12 Star Trek: Enterprise
A prequel set a century before the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek: Enterprise features the most infamous theme song in the entire franchise. Rather than a traditional orchestral theme song, Enterprise was headlined by "Where My Heart Will Take Me," a saccharine pop ballad by Russell Watson. Using a pop song for a Star Trek theme is not an inherently bad idea, but "Where My Heart Will Take Me" is a substandard power ballad that doesn't fit with the spirit of Star Trek . Enterprise 's theme was almost U2's Beautiful Day , which would have been a huge improvement.
11 Star Trek: The Animated Series
Star Trek: The Animated Series was something of a half measure. While Star Trek: The Original Series began to explode in popularity in syndication in the 1970s, it still wasn't yet financially feasible to fully revive the series. A cheaper, safer option was Star Trek: The Animated Series . The entire TOS cast, except for Walter Koenig, returned to voice their characters, largely thanks to Leonard Nimoy. The opening theme is a weak retread of the TOS theme song, created by Funimation's in-house composers. Like everything else about The Animated Series , the song is largely forgettable, a Star Trek footnote at best.
10 Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Discovery , the adventures of mutineer-turned-Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), borrows a bit of Alexander Courage's iconic fanfare before twisting the melody slightly and storming off into new territory. Jeff Russo's theme is propulsive and pretty, but apart from the Courage flourishes, it feels like it could be the theme song to any CBS legal drama. It's a song that could soundtrack multiple relatively mundane scenarios, but maybe not a space epic. It's an understated piece that never quite takes flight in a satisfying, stirring way, ironically mirroring Star Trek: Discovery 's occasional narrative issues in executing its lofty ambitions.
9 Star Trek: The Original Series
Alexander Courage's fanfare that introduces Captain Kirk's "Space, the final frontier..." narration is one of the single most iconic musical cues in modern pop culture. The theme song that actually follows that fanfare is just sort of passable. The theme for Captain Kirk and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is very dated sounding, clearly a product of the 1960s, and the theme itself is not strong enough to overcome the old-fashioned production. There are a few different mixes of the song, but the most infamous is the one that cranks the female soprano singer's voice to the forefront, which is somewhat cringe-inducing.
8 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
For the pre-Kirk adventures of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) aboard the USS Enterprise, composer Jeff Russo reimagined the theme song from Star Trek: The Original Series . The fanfare is still great, and the theme song itself is much improved in this new form, featuring a more sophisticated arrangement and big, foreboding strings. The use of the theremin at the end of the theme is a nice nod to TOS. Like many aspects of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , the TOS theme song has been freshened up and made appealing for modern audiences.
7 Star Trek: Picard (Seasons 1 & 2)
The surprise return of Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Star Trek: Picard was again given its theme song by composer Jeff Russo. It's a lovely, twinkling, slightly sad theme, as violins swirl around the signature flute piece, an homage to Picard's experience in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light." It's not exactly thrilling, but it's emotionally resonant, and it sets the stage perfectly for Picard's late life adventure to save Commander Data's (Brent Spiner) synthetic offspring Soji (Isa Briones).
6 Star Trek: Lower Decks
The adult animated comedy Star Trek: Lower Decks is often thought of as a lovingly irreverent spoof, but in many ways it understands Star Trek as well as any series in the franchise. Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) may be an anxious neurotic, but he also understands what Starfleet stands for about as well as anyone. Composer Chris Westlake's theme song is clearly channeling the Star Trek series of the 1990s, structured and composed in ways that would make old school Star Trek producer Rick Berman proud.
5 Star Trek: Prodigy
One of the most impressive aspects of the alternate reality Kelvin timeline films was the score, composed by current Hollywood powerhouse Michael Giacchino. He returned to the franchise to lend his talents to the theme song for Star Trek: Prodigy , Paramount+'s first series aimed squarely at children and families. Giacchino doesn't disappoint, providing a confident, galloping theme song that feels like a thrilling companion piece to his Kelvin timeline Star Trek work . It immediately became one of Star Trek 's finest themes.
4 Star Trek: Picard (Season 3)
Star Trek: Picard season 3 made some sweeping changes to the series, most notably putting Admiral Picard back on a Federation starship and reuniting him with his command crew from the USS Enterprise-D. The show's music also made a change; the opening credits were moved to the end of each episode, and Jeff Russo's theme was replaced by a new arrangement of the late Jerry Goldsmith's main theme from Star Trek: First Contact . Goldsmith's First Contact piece is one of the most beautiful in all of Star Trek , and hearing it while viewing the dazzling LCARS screens all over the bridge of the USS TItan-A is a nerdy delight.
3 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has a reputation for being one of the darkest entries in Star Trek , and the theme song somewhat backs that up. The somber, reflective theme song begins with a single echoing horn, a fitting metaphor for the space station's position in a relatively remote part of space. The simple, mournful theme song got a musical overhaul at the beginning of season 4, beefing up the melodrama and intensity at the dawn of the brutal Dominion War.
2 Star Trek: Voyager
An argument can be made that the best thing about Star Trek: Voyager is its theme song. Written by legendary Star Trek composer Jerry Goldsmith, Voyager's theme song is all bombastic strings and horns, a dramatic melody that underscores how dire the situation is for Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and her surviving crew. It also manages to shoot that tension through with the sort of hopefulness that defines the best of Star Trek . it's one of Goldsmith's most affecting pieces of Star Trek music, which is saying something.
1 Star Trek: The Next Generation
The original plan was for Star Trek: The Next Generation to have a fully original theme song, but late in pre-production it was decided to use a combination of Alexander Courage's fanfare from Star Trek: The Original Series and Jerry Goldsmith's main theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture . The result is the single most iconic theme song in all of Star Trek , a confident march that hits every note with intense purpose. For many Star Trek fans, it's the defining sound of adventure and space exploration.
Theme from Star Trek
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The "Theme from Star Trek " (originally scored under the title "Where No Man Has Gone Before" [1] and also known informally as the " Star Trek Fanfare ") is the instrumental theme music composed for Star Trek: The Original Series by Alexander Courage . First recorded in 1964 , it is played in its entirety during the opening title sequences of each episode. It is also played over the closing credits, albeit without its signature opening fanfare.
During the opening credits, the theme's opening fanfare is accompanied by the now-famous "Space: the final frontier" monologue spoken by William Shatner (with the exception of the pilot episodes, " The Cage " and " Where No Man Has Gone Before "). Throughout the opening credits, the theme is punctuated at several points by the USS Enterprise flying towards and past the camera. These "fly-bys" are accompanied by a "whoosh" sound effect created vocally by Courage himself. (Documentary: Music Takes Courage: A Tribute to Alexander Courage )
- 1 Conception and original use
- 2 Vocalization and lyrics
- 3 Later use
- 4 Other recordings and uses
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Conception and original use [ ]
Creator Gene Roddenberry originally approached composer Jerry Goldsmith to write the theme for Star Trek . Goldsmith, however, had other commitments and instead recommended Alexander Courage. ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture (The Director's Edition) commentary)
Courage was not a science fiction fan, referring to the genre as "marvelous malarkey." He thus saw the theme he was writing as "marvelous malarkey music." Courage composed, orchestrated and conducted the theme in one week. He drew inspiration from a Richard A. Whiting song he heard on the radio as a child called "Beyond the Blue Horizon". This song had a drawn-out tune with a steady, fast-paced beat underneath it, which Courage emulated when composing the theme. (Documentary: Music Takes Courage )
The theme used in " The Cage " – the unaired first pilot – featured a wordless melody line by soprano Loulie Jean Norman supported by electronic underpinnings. When a second pilot was ordered and the series was picked up, Norman's vocalizations were dropped from the theme.
The first season of The Original Series used two versions of the theme. On the original NBC and syndicated runs, five episodes – "Where No Man has Gone Before", the second pilot, along with " The Man Trap ", " Charlie X ", " The Naked Time ", and " Mudd's Women " – used a mixed electronic/orchestral arrangement for the opening credits, with the main melody line created electronically and accompanied by more traditional instrumentation, including a flute and an organ for both the opening and closing themes. When the series was remastered for video in the early 1980s, only "Where No Man Has Gone Before" retained this version of the theme over both the opening and closing credits, while the opening was restored to the other four episodes and placed on five others when the series was remastered again for DVD release. The closing credits for the other nine episodes, however, used a version that had only an orchestral arrangement. The mixed arrangement was first heard on " The Corbomite Maneuver " (the tenth episode aired, although it was the second episode produced), after which the show opened with the orchestral-only arrangement.
Vocalization and lyrics [ ]
For the second and third seasons , Loulie Jean Norman's wordless accompaniment was re-added to the theme. However, Norman's voice was made more prominent than it was for "The Cage".
When originally written (and as heard in "The Cage"), Courage had Norman's vocalizations and the various instruments mixed equally to produce a unique sound. According to Courage, however, Gene Roddenberry had it re-recorded with Norman's accompaniment at a higher volume above the instruments, after which Courage felt the theme sounded like a soprano solo. Roddenberry's version can be heard during the opening credits of each episode in the second and third seasons; Courage's version is heard during the closing credits.
Further souring the relationship between Roddenberry and Courage, Roddenberry wrote lyrics to the theme without Courage's knowledge – not in the expectation that they would ever be sung, but in order to claim a 50% share of the music's performance royalties. Although there was never any litigation, Courage commented that he believed Roddenberry's conduct was unethical, to which Roddenberry responded, " Hey, I have to get some money somewhere. I'm sure not going to get it out of the profits of Star Trek . " [2] Although the lyrics were never included on the series, they have been printed in several "TV Theme" songbooks over the years.
Later use [ ]
Portions of the Theme from Star Trek have been used in all 13 Star Trek feature films . Most of the Star Trek films' opening themes start by quoting the opening fanfare from Courage's theme, before seguéing into the film's own theme. However, there are multiple exceptions to this tradition. Star Trek: The Motion Picture did not use the fanfare at all in the opening or closing music, although a subdued version of the Theme from Star Trek was created by Courage at the request of the film's main composer, Jerry Goldsmith . [3] This arrangement of the theme was used for the " Captain's Log " cues. The theme was quoted again in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , most extensively in the final scenes.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , scored by Cliff Eidelman , broke with the tradition again. The Theme from Star Trek did not appear in the opening music, although it was used towards the end. Star Trek Generations , scored by Dennis McCarthy , on the other hand, did use the fanfare in the opening credits (and extensively throughout the score) but it did not appear until the end of the main title music.
The score for Star Trek , composed by Michael Giacchino , again did not use the fanfare in the opening title music: instead, Giacchino subtly quoted the opening notes and various other Star Trek themes from past films throughout his score. For the end credits, a re-arranged version of the Theme from Star Trek , fully orchestrated and with The Page La Studio Voices accompanying the melody line, was used. This version was also used for the end credits of Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond .
The theme's opening fanfare was adapted by Dennis McCarthy as the opening for the Star Trek: The Next Generation theme (the remainder of which was an adaptation of Goldsmith's theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture ). Courage's original theme can also be heard in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Trials and Tribble-ations ", the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Shattered ", and the Star Trek: Enterprise series finale, " These Are the Voyages... "
Courage's theme was re-recorded for the remastered Star Trek episodes , with Elin Carlson emulating Norman's wordless vocalization.
Star Trek: Discovery composer Jeff Russo included Courage's fanfare at the end of the Discovery main titles. The theme returned in full at the end of the Season 1 finale, " Will You Take My Hand? ", playing over the closing credits after the USS Discovery intercepts a distress call from the USS Enterprise .
In the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode " Spock Amok ", at least a portion of the theme became diegetic (heard in the fictional universe) when a few notes of the fanfare could be heard on the PADD used to keep track of tasks for " Enterprise bingo ".
Other recordings and uses [ ]
TOS star Nichelle Nichols recorded a disco version of the theme. However, Nichols used different lyrics than those written by Gene Roddenberry. The late jazz musician Maynard Ferguson and his band also recorded a rendition of the song, a fusion version that was released on his 1977 album Conquistador . Ferguson's version was used as the opening theme for The Larry King Show on the Mutual Radio Network. The satirical rock band Tenacious D and the lounge band Love Jones recorded versions of the theme, as well, using Gene Roddenberry's lyrics.
Roy Orbison was a Star Trek fan and often opened his concerts with his band jamming to theme. [4]
The 1992 Paramount Pictures comedy Wayne's World was the first non- Trek film to use Courage's theme. In the film, the character of Garth Algar (played by Dana Carvey ) whistles the theme while he and Wayne Campbell ( Mike Myers ) lie on the hood of Wayne's car, looking up at the stars. When Garth finishes the tune, he tells Wayne, " Sometimes I wish I could boldly go where no one's gone before. But I'll probably just stay in Aurora. " The theme can also be heard in the films Muppets from Space (1999, starring F. Murray Abraham ) and RV (2006, starring Robin Williams and featuring Brian Markinson ).
At the 2005 Primetime Emmy Awards, TOS star William Shatner and opera 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.
In 2009, the theme was used as the wake-up call for the crew of mission STS-125 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis .
For the 2021 inauguration of US President Joe Biden , acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma played the fanfare of the theme as a prelude to his performance of another song significant to Star Trek , " Amazing Grace ". [5]
External link [ ]
- Theme from Star Trek at Wikipedia
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See ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3 Orchestra Pay Homage To Jerry Goldsmith, With Score From New Composer
| August 3, 2022 | By: Anthony Pascale 41 comments so far
Since the big Comic-Con reveal , Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas has been discussing and teasing the upcoming third and final season, which features the return of the main cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation . And since our last update, he has continued posting, including a little preview of some of the music, which will pay tribute to the work of late composer Jerry Goldsmith.
Goldsmith love in Picard season 3
Over the weekend Matalas shared a short video of music being recorded for Picard season three at the Warner Brothers Scoring Stage in Burbank, CA.
All about that Goldsmith love! #StarTrekPicard Season 3 score. @ComposerBarton @freddiewiedmann pic.twitter.com/t5Y5oB7Lj4 — Terry Matalas (@TerryMatalas) July 31, 2022
Matalas called out the “Goldsmith love” referring to how the music evokes “The Enterprise” theme from Jerry Goldsmith’s Oscar-nominated score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Goldsmith himself would evoke this theme in the scores of future Star Trek films including the three TNG-era films he scored ( First Contact , Insurrection , and Nemesis ). Goldsmith is also known for the main theme for Star Trek: The Next Generation , which was taken from his main theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture . The legendary composer has been credited in a number of Picard episodes that have used elements of his music, including his Emmy-winning theme from Star Trek: Voyager .
Earlier in July. Matalas revealed that season three of Picard will honor Goldsmith’s work “in a big way.” He also confirmed they will be paying homage to Goldsmith’s TNG theme.
Let’s just say that Season 3 of #StarTrekPicard will honor him in a big way… 🤫 https://t.co/bqtHoT0RQ0 — Terry Matalas (@TerryMatalas) July 22, 2022
New composer
Matalas’ tweet links to two new composers for Star Trek: Stephen Barton and Freddie Wiedman, who both now list Picard among their work. Barton is the main composer for season three. Matalas worked with Barton on his previous series 12 Monkees . He is also known for his work on a number of video games, including Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order , for which he was nominated and won several awards. Frederik “Freddie” Wiedmann is providing some additional music for season three. Wiedmann’s credits go back over two decades, including live action and a lot of animated work, garnering him a number of Annie Awards nominations and an Emmy win.
Barton also shared an image from the season three recording, revealing they are using an 80-piece orchestra, which is on the larger side for a television show. He tagged both Matalas and Picard editor Drew Nichols who attended the scoring session.
Conducting 80 of the finest orchestral musicians in the world, at WB with @TerryMatalas @DruicedUp pic.twitter.com/jaCTB28C7S — Stephen Barton (@ComposerBarton) July 28, 2022
Matalas did not mention Jeff Russo, who has composed the themes and music for both of the previous seasons of Picard . It is not known what role, if any, he will have in season three.
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That sounds wise. Barton and Wiedman obviously replacing Jeff Russo… I’m not opposed to that. I have mixed feelings about Russo’s work. He has his moments. I like his original PIC theme and the imperial mirror universe theme from DSC, but his scores are half-baked and bland in parts.
He’s especially bad with including well-known themes from other shows. They always sound a tad off, almost fake… I don’t what it is exactly, but… So I guess Barton and Wiedman will do a better job honoring the classic scores.
Hello, Garth. I’m not opposed to that, either. The question remains is this: will we still hear Jeff Russo’s opening and closing theme tunes or not?
Good question.
Have to agree. Some of Russo’s work is actually pretty good — his Season 1 “Picard” theme was moody and elegiac, very appropriate for a show about a former hero in his declining years. But Season 2 was a total mess, and his episodic work is spotty and mostly not all that memorable. Nami Melumad’s compositions for “Strange New Worlds” have at least been more colorful and fun, as befits the show. I still wish they’d use a variety of composers to best suit the needs of the episode a la TOS, but I suspect those days are long gone.
It’s embarrassing to admit, but I’ve rarely even noticed the music on these recent series, except to dislike most of the title cues — exception being when they reference Goldsmith cues, which seemed to happen a lot toward the end of Ps2. When I do take notice, it is usually to think, ‘just another Marvel wall of noise,’ because melody seems absent, or buried. I guess that’s my biggest problem with the last couple decades of scoring — a memorable cue seems a thing of the past. Then again, I play Goldsmith, Barry, Williams, Bernstein and various other late 20th Century film composers in the car and in my office all the time, so basically any comparison is going to favor those gems.
It’s not embarrassing. Most of the music is pretty bland and forgettable. The only reason the SNW theme works is that is has the melodic heart (even if in a minor key) of Courage’s theme.
Well, film music is a strong interest of mine, and I’ve always used it as an inspiration for my writing. I used to live in the Bay Area, and KFJC had a terrific 3 hour soundtrack show in the 80s and early 90s, hosted by a guy named Robert Emory, which was spectacularly entertaining and informative, and his catch phrase was something about listening to what you watch, which kind of always informed my take on movies.
They wouldn’t just play title tracks like THE SCORE does (am not a fan of that program even though it is local up here in NW public broadcasting … though apparently popular nationwide, is error-ridden (the John Hurt sounding guy claimed Deep Space Nine was a base set on a planet, to give you an idea of how little research is done), and the cheapness of usually playing from compilation CDs rather than originals has always been evident.
Basically ever since PATTON when I was a little kid, I paid attention to film music (and took special note when CHINA SYNDROME and a lot of 70s era Lumet didn’t use any music, which is a neat trick when so many flicks rely heavily on underscore to make up for what they don’t deliver in-camera.)
I remember how struck I was the first time I saw NETWORK and realized that it had no score (except for the deliberately awful theme music for “The Howard Beale Show”), not even tracked contemporary pop music. And it worked really well, for that particular kind of film.
Getting back to TOS, one of the things that has convinced me Bob Justman was its unsung MVP was his unerring instinct for selecting composers whose style would best suit a particular episode. So far as I can tell, the man had a hand in just about every given aspect of Trek’s production; it’s amazing to me that he found any time to sleep at night.
NETWORK is the first movie where i consciously noticed the lack of music (2nd viewing), but then Bridges’ THE CHINA SYNDROME was the one that was a huge wakeup call to me to take note, because that seems like a movie which shouldn’t be able to work as well as it does w/o underscore. VHS was coming in then, so I quickly noticed a lot of Lumet films, going back to FAIL-SAFE, succeeding sans score.
I have often figured that doing a soundfx only mix for a space film, cutting from sound inside to silence outside, was the way to be both honest and suspenseful, but few have really managed or even dared try. GRAVITY apparently has a no-music version, and i wish I liked the movie more, because I’d probably give it another try (not knocking it, but after 3x in theater — the last movie I ever saw multiple times in a theater — the thrill is largely gone, except or the wonderful space VFX.)
It’s a very contrary situation for me, because I also love film music so dearly … recently I’ve rewritten the ending of an old script based on an unused cue from Goldsmith’s EXTREME PREJUDICE, and it got me very excited about screenwriting again, to the point that I think I’m going to try to finish off my ‘formation of ILM’ script and send it out (swore I wouldn’t try to write anything fun till I got that out of the way, many years and ADHD diagnoses back) and jump right back into my old CRITICAL ORBIT universe, even though FIREFLY has eclipsed some of what I wanted to do back in the early 90s when I was on fire with the writing, before I fell into the journalism-only rut.
“I guess that’s my biggest problem with the last couple decades of scoring — a memorable cue seems a thing of the past.”
This! A thousand times, this! And I think it started with TNG. I know your comment isn’t confined to Star Trek music, but I remember reading an interview with, I think it was McCarthy, where he tried to use a recurring theme and was told in no uncertain terms that “We don’t do that here.” That was such a crime, because the music of Trek until that point had been one of its true high points.
It seems like bland music spread from Trek to pretty much everywhere. Even John Williams’ score for the new Star Wars trilogy only had a couple of memorable cues.
Thanks, Rick Berman!
The closing theme of the season one final would have been the perfect maintheme for the series.
I wonder: If Russo is actually sidelined now, maybe this is the reason we haven’t gotten a soundtrack release for DSC S4 yet… I don’t know, just a thought.
Bet you $10 that little 10 second snip we heard will be played during the reveal of the Enterprise-F.
I was thinking exactly that.
It sounds like Picard S3 will be very cinematic. I love Jeff Russo’s work. I listen to it all the time in my Star Trek Into Music playlist, but if these two guys want to give Trek a shot, then I wish them all the best. Looking forward to S3 of Picard!
Why re-arrange perfection?
To make it fit the mood of the scene? Not every scene using that theme would benefit from a (as Nick Meyer put it) “rum-te-tum-tum” march.
Hopefully, they restore the Season 1 theme, or replace it. The changes to the theme for Season 2 were not great, yet I came to love Season 1’s theme.
My guess is we’ll hear dialogue about a USS Goldsmith in season 3. And/or the opening credits theme will include the famous TNG/TMP fanfare — seasons 1 & 2 had different themes played during credits, no reason not to expect a new or new-ish season 3 theme as well.
Anyone know when the soundtrack to Strange New Worlds will be out? I keep thinking it will be any day…
Yeah, it’s really a nuisance. It was “announced” for laze June / early July. Now it’s early August! I need this so much… Damn it, I need it! :-)
Great to hear Jerry Goldsmith is sharing the limelight in Season 3! Star Trek Voyager theme is one of the most beautiful themes ever written. The remix his son Joel did on a compilation CD, along with the Deep Space Nine theme and others, was a great interpretation as well. Of course the Motion Picture/Next Gen theme was truly at it’s best over the end credits of ‘First Contact’ orchestrated by the master himself. .
That “First Contact” theme…. I’ve left a note with my living will stipulating it get played at my funeral. Such a heart-felt, emotional piece. I get teary-eyed whenever I hear it played. And will again in about 30 seconds when I pull it up on YouTube.
i feel what you mean. i guess i watched FC as often as possible just BECAUSE of that main touching, eerie main theme. a masterful piece of music for all times.
Joel Goldsmith also did fantastic Work over on Stargate. And he died way too young …
Its weird but I always thought Jeff Russo’s music would have been the exact kind of music that Rick Berman wanted for his shows, bland, stoic, wallpaperish. I did enjoy his main themes but his episodic music to he honest aren’t very memorable. Hopefully these new guys can infuse some more energy into the music and it looks like they are on the right track by incorporating the great Goldsmith themes.
And you’re probably right :-D
My feeling grows exponentially that Terry Matalas indeed TRULY loves TNG the way I, and many others do!!!! Seems like finally the right man took the helm… The only one thing left I hope is that he also feels that TNG is only truly TNG when Data is included ..
I would love to know, what his actual involvment in season 2 was. He only has writing credit for the first and half a wrting credit for the second episode, though he was technically showrunner.
Given, that those were the only somewhat decent episodes of the season, there’s a chance, Season 3 might not suck. But I’m really not exited for it.
He said on twitter a few months ago that he essentially left the day-to-day on season two about halfway through to work on season 3. Akiva pretty much ran the show for season 2
It seems that he left day-to-day production halfway through season 2. However, the season was developed, and many (or even all) scripts were written long before that. So he probably didn’t oversee filming and post production, but I’d argue that most of the problems many fans seem to have with season 2 are not with the execution, but rather with the story/scripts. And that’s where he probably was involved.
Serialized shows these days are very much developed as a group effort by the writers’ room. Sure, individual scripts are still written by individual writers, but they were probably hashed out by committee. Now, I don’t know how detailed this “breaking the season” is but the major story beats in each episode all probably clear before any one writer sits down to type out a script.
I guess that’s one of the reasons many writers are also credited as (executive) producers these days. Everyone contributes to every episode even if they aren’t credited as writers.
That’s not really “nowadays” … Hollywood has been doing it this way for more than 20 years. Without crediting anyone and everyone as producer.
And with new Trek it happened more than once that there might’ve been a plan but they changed it halfway through the season (DSC S2) or had to add whole storylines in Post or through reshoots (PIC S1) … and I wouldn’t be surprised, if something like that happened in PIC S2 as well. This just doesn’t feel like any thought went into this.
So maybe the difference is that they are now starting to actually credit people for their work? I’m not sure why some fans obsess so much about the number of producer titles. These shows involve a lot of creative talent. They always have. Why is it a problem if some people who might have previously been mentioned only in the end credits now receive a more prominent credit in the title sequence?
As for Picard season 2: Akiva Goldsman doesn’t have any writing credits on the middle part of the season either. He shares credit with Matalas on the opening episodes and has co-written the season finale. So it seems like neither Matalas nor Goldsman want to take credit for the middle part of the season ;-) What’s interesting is that most of the middle part was written by people who had never worked on Star Trek Picard (or any Star Trek) before. Episode 3 was co-written by a writers’ room assistant from season 1, and episode 8 was co-written by Kirsten Beyer (co-creator of Picard). But aside from these two everybody else credited as writing episodes 3 – 9 seems to have been new to Trek. They basically handed off the whole season except for the opener and the finale to a team with no prior Star Trek writing experience.
As someone who LOVES TNG on such a grand level I really want to believe that too. I was very excited when I heard he was coming in for season 2 and especially after how disappointed I was with season 1. I told myself if nothing else it has to be BETTER than first season (which was already a super low bar) and it felt worse! Yeah he loves TNG and this era of Star Trek but season 2 was not anywhere close to a love letter to the show, put it that way.
For the first time, ever, I was depressed watching a Star Trek show, because it hurt to see them get this show so wrong after so much fanfare. I was OK if the Kelvin movies or Discovery didn’t win me completely over, but those were different. They were new entities, zero attachments. So even if they disappointed me (which they did lol) it wasn’t the end of the world either. You just shrug it off and just hope it improves in the next go around. But Picard was my childhood. The show and character represented beyond just another Trek show and was part of my life for a long time. So it just really hurts when they didn’t get it right in either season for me. I’m really crossing my fingers for season 3, ALL the characters are back so it means even more to so many of us; but I’m still very nervous about it
Glad they’re finally getting rid of Russo. He did some great Work on other shows but his Star Trek Work was just so derivative and forgetable.
Looking at all of Kurztman Treck, it’s only really Chris Westlake who gets the music right. Though Giacchinos Theme for Prodigy is pretty great, too.
I absolutely LOVE and adore Nami Melumad’s work. So it’s not just Westlake. Russo is the only weak spot of the new era and even he isn’t with merit.
without of course :-)
Rewatching that clip and revisiting pieces of Picard’s season 1 score leave me with just one wish… that they’d quote more than 8 notes of the theme…. go ahead and play the damned thing! I’m not saying for 6 minutes like in “The Motion Picture”, but let us hear that beautiful music!!!
Could be penny-pinching. I’m not sure what the rules are exactly but they have to pay royalties to the original composers when they reuse older music. Maybe the amount they have to pay depends on how much they quote. I think Nami Melumad (composer of Prodigy and Strange New Worlds) once mentioned in an interview that she would sometimes sneak in little pieces that evoke previous scores but keep it short enough or slightly different from the original so they wouldn’t have to pay.
I’m not 100% positive here, but I’d think that if you pay for a song, you pay the same for 8 notes as you’d pay for the whole shebang.
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A visualization of the theme from the 90s TV show Star Trek: Voyager composed by Jerry Goldsmith.More at https://music.oliverbrown.me.uk
The iconic opening to Voyager (aka Star Trek: Voyager) opening theme (1995-2001)Theme music composer Jerry GoldsmithOriginal network: UPNProduction company(s...
Unlike The Next Generation, where composer Jerry Goldsmith's theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture was reused, Goldsmith composed and conducted an entirely new main theme for Voyager.As done with The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, a soundtrack album of the series' pilot episode "Caretaker" and a CD single containing three variations of the main theme were released by Crescendo Records ...
Star Trek: Voyager Collection soundtrack from 1995, composed by Paul Baillargeon, David Bell, Jay Chattaway, Jerry Goldsmith, Dennis McCarthy. Released by La-La Land Records in 2017 containing music from Star Trek: Voyager (1995). ... Voyager: Theme (Single)GNP Crescendo. Released: October 17, 1995. Format: CD (10 min) Star Trek: Voyager ...
* Tracks 1, 7 and 12 composed by Jerry Goldsmith / All other tracks composed by Jay Chattaway: Total Duration: 00:45:59 ... *Contains "Theme From Star Trek: Voyager" by Jerry Goldsmith - † Contains "Theme From Star Trek (TV Series)" by Alexander Courage and Gene Roddenberry: Total Duration: 05:05:09
1995 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music went to Jerry Goldsmith for the Star Trek: Voyager theme. IIRC, Jerry Goldsmith wrote it for that series specifically. His TNG theme was perfect for what it was but VOY had an original chart commissioned for it.
An argument can be made that the best thing about Star Trek: Voyager is its theme song. Written by legendary Star Trek composer Jerry Goldsmith, Voyager's theme song is all bombastic strings and horns, a dramatic melody that underscores how dire the situation is for Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and her surviving crew.
Jerry Goldsmith's Main Theme from Star Trek Voyager. Sequenced with Noteworthy Composer.
Paramount+'s recent Star Trek series Discovery and Picard have employed composer Jeff Russo to bring a modern edge to the shows ... for example, of the Voyager theme—because I find that to be ...
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The "Theme from Star Trek" (originally scored under the title "Where No Man Has Gone Before" [1] and also known informally as the "Star Trek Fanfare") is the instrumental theme music composed for Star Trek: The Original Series by Alexander Courage. First recorded in 1964, it is played in its entirety during the opening title sequences of each episode. It is also played over the closing credits ...
I really enjoyed the Star Trek Voyager series. The casting of Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway was a great choice. I also that the character Seven Of Nine als...
The legendary composer has been credited in a number of Picard episodes that have used elements of his music, including his Emmy-winning theme from Star Trek: Voyager. Earlier in July.
Adding Themes. The voyager-themes hook will look inside of the resources/themes folder for any folder that has a .json file inside of it with the same name. (You can change the theme folder location in the config) As an example if you have a folder called sample-theme and inside that folder you have another file called sample-theme.json with ...
You know what the Star Trek: Voyager opening theme music needs? LYRICS!See also "Gilligan's Quadrant": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivRd6NPERMU