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I will definitely buy this and I'm grateful to Varese for releasing it, but I will admit I do feel a slight twinge of disappointment not seeing Lukas Kendall as co-producer on this one, after Star Trek: Nemesis. I'm guessing that probably also means no Jeff Bond liner notes. 
Yavar
God forbid that Mr. Townsend who been producing soundtrack albums since the mid-1980's (more then decade before Mr. Kendall) should be involved in such a project that he helped the same record label release......
Do you get my point?
Ford A. Thaxton
While Mr. Townsend's accomplishments and producing skills are generally unquestioned, there are reasons for skepticism here.
There were some minor issues with the Star Trek Deluxe Edition release, including missing instrumental overlays, strange cross-track partitions, and missing choir (perfectly understandable due to union rules), as well as packaging that many do not like.
This, plus the outstanding value that Lukas Kendall et al. have brought to the complete Star Trek movie and TOS releases, means that this is a reasonable concern.
One MINOR point that you failed to take into account...
The Composer was very involved in the project as well.
But what's that to having Mr. Kendall on board.
GET MY POINT?
Ford A. Thaxton
My guess is that Yavar prefers the results from Mr. Kendall to those seen from Mr. Townson re: expanded Star Trek releases, and likes Jeff Bond's liner notes.
Lukas Kendall, in case this has gone unnoticed, often worked with Jeff Bond on the soundtrack releases, Lukas producing or co-producing, and Jeff Bond writing liner notes.
I was unaware of Michael Giacchino's involvement, and I cannot speak to any aspect of that, only the name in the credits, like everyone else.
Also, like everyone else, it's the results that are being assessed here.
Personally, I'm optimistic, but that does not invalidate the concern, nor does it invalidate the preferences based on the history of the Star Trek DE and past complete score releases.
If these concerns are unfounded, I'd love to hear your logical reasoning as to why, and invite the logical reason that any/all of the concerns are invalid.
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Does the piano theme pop up much in the rest of the score not on the OST? Love Giacchino in piano mode^
If you mean the London's Calling piano theme, then yes.
I'm guessing London's Falling would be the cue for the girl's father entering the Kelvin archive, dropping the ring in the water, after his daughter is saved by Harrison's blood.
There's a great interplay with the piano theme and Harrison's theme in there that's fantastic, IMHO.
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There goes Riotengine's 'profit' from COMIC CON
brm
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Y'know, Ford, Robert's name was also on the Nemesis DE right next to Lukas's, so it's not like they can't BOTH work on it!
Thanks OneBuck -- you've got my motivations pegged. However much longer Robert has been at this job, Lukas brings a level of perfectionism and completeness to what he works on that few can match. I met Robert back when I lived in L.A. (Richard Kraft introduced us) and had several nice conversations with him at the Hollywood Bowl. He's a great guy and we all owe him a debt for all the work he's done over the years. He's certainly produced many more score albums than Lukas.
That said, in terms of packaging, liner notes, and attention to detail making sure everything is just right music-wise, I think Lukas Kendall wins a competition hands-down. This is the guy who, when the chorus was slightly mis-aligned for one track on The Egyptian, went to the trouble to include the corrected track on the later Demetrius and the Gladiators release. Whenever Lukas has messed up he's gone to great lengths to fix it. LaLaLand too has done this, most recently with their making full replacements to add the alternate with mixing bowls on their reissue of Goldsmith's The Challenge. On the other hand Robert would just as soon move on to the next project and forget about past mistakes.
How else could one explain, for example, the GLARING mistake of the missing dulcimer on the Main Title for the otherwise perfect Varese release of Mancini's wonderful Thorn Birds? Varese didn't even acknowledge the mistake (publicly or to people who inquired via email) much less try and correct it. (Thankfully for those who are determined to get it correct it's available as a bonus CD with the book written about the score, but that's pretty pricey to get a fixed version of one track.)
And yes, Jeff Bond is a big factor too. He's written wonderful notes for most of the Trek releases. It's a shame he wasn't brought onto this one (or the '09 one, the DE of which had practically nothing for liner notes, just a lot of unnecessary pictures!)
Yavar
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struck me with this particular score is how incredibly shrill and loud it is. It's like being beaten over the head with a hammer for much of its length.
This is how I feel about most Giacchino scores anymore. His Medal Of Honor scores didn't have those dun-dun-DAHHHHHHHHHHHHH moments that plague most of his work these days, or maybe I'm misremembering. The Medal Of Honor scores sounded so much better, though.
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