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The score in the heaviest rotation is The Man Trap. It sounds like an episode of the Twilight Zone, which is a supreme compliment from Onya Birri's humble perspective.
There is truly something for everyone. I've found The Man Trap to be the toughest first season score to get through. I can appreciate it, but I don't necessarily enjoy it. 
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Has anyone yet gone through the huge task of assembling track lists for all 79 episodes? It would be really interesting to see what that looks like...
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Has anyone yet gone through the huge task of assembling track lists for all 79 episodes? It would be really interesting to see what that looks like...
I started Balance of Terror. Never finished it. Like you said, it's a huge task.
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Returned to the set after a hiatus, with "What Are Little Girls Made Of?". For mono cues, these sound awesome. Especially the Ruk music. If I recall correctly, the end of the first "Ruk Attacks" cue, with the trombones really blasting, was reused in "Arena" after the Metrons stop the Enterprise and the Gorn ships, where it really gave a feeling of interstellar, unseen menace.
That was the great thing about TOS music. It could often be used in a gothic context, like "Little Girls", or a galactic context, like "Arena", and be equally effective.
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. . . but "awesome" does?
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It could also have just not be to Bob Justman's liking for the scene it was written for. A few episodes had music dropped but used in others. The Man Trap, for example, dialed out a bunch of music that wound up in other episodes. Gene Roddenberry actually hated The Man Trap score, feeling it was exactly opposite to the kind of music he wanted.
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wait, was Lukas saying this set originated from stolen masters? were they returned to CBS/paramount?
No. The masters were in private hands until GNP/Crescendo obtained them in the late 80's and cared for them over the years. They were in excellent condition which is why this set is so awesome! :-)
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The tapes were "disappeared" from Paramount in the early 1970s (exactly how, why and when, I don't know, but it was a different era and a lot of Star Trek stuff was "walked off" by fans). A (2nd) collector—a very good guy who believes in archival preservation—saw a classified ad offering them and purchased them from the first guy. GNP Crescendo acquired them from the (2nd) collector circa 1990 so they could be used for CDs. After the La La Land box set they were returned to CBS and EVERYBODY IS HAPPY as far as I can tell.
Lukas
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I always thought the story of the guys opening the box in England that had the original Superman tapes was amazing. This tops that. And seems much less likely. Certainly true. Just really improbable.
I mean, there are SHIPS that no one knows where they are at, and we were lucky enough to keep all of the music and in good shape, too.
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