It almost has to be Star Trek. Announcing Bond would be cool, but why at a Trek convention?
If it IS Trek it has to be bigger than ALL SIX TOS MOVIES. It has to be bigger than the Ron Jones Box. Much as it would make some fans astonishingly happy, a complete DS9, Voyager, or Enterprise would not be bigger than those.
So I suppose it could be THE REST OF TNG.
But it sure smells like THE COMPLETE STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES.
Oh, I'm going to be SO depressed tomorrow night, aren't I?
But it sure smells like THE COMPLETE STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES.
Oh, I'm going to be SO depressed tomorrow night, aren't I?
I'm sure this info's somewhere out there on the FSM board, but I'm insufficiently proficient with the search engine to look it up. Assuming that the announcement is some kind of TOS boxset (which I think is very likely), how many hours of original (not tracked) music were recorded for TOS? How many disks would that need? 10 or so?
I'm going to do the uber-obnoxious nerd thing of speculating on a product that isn't released or even announced yet and say that I hope that the project is released a set of episodic suites rather than every single cue ever recorded for the show. As much as I like the Ron Jones set, I had to spend a considerable amount of time editing the set down into a 4 hour or so best of set.
While I'd certainly snap up something like a 4 cd best of TOS set, I'm not sure I'd want another complete 10+ cd set.
I could have sworn this "biggest release ever" was debunked. Some one mixed up what the label wrote and what a member wrote on FB? So I don't expect this announcement to be the biggest news in score history, what ever it is.
Sorry, Mr. Holmes (and others) but I stand by my point. Some TOS music just isn't that stellar. I owned GNP's The Cage / Where No Man Has Gone before and found it to be terribly dull. I've no idea if that was the complete score for those episodes or not, but it was too much! Now, The Doomsday Machine / Amok Time album on the other hand is stellar.
But then again, I didn't grow up with these scores. I grew up with TNG and DS9 and my appreciation for TOS largely comes from the (mostly excellent) movies. I've always thought that the movie scores were heads and shoulders above the series scores!
But, back to the idea of how these should be presented. What about something like Intrada's doing with an "album" and "extras" section. The extras could include all of the short "stinger" like cues. That way everyone wins.
As much as I like the Ron Jones set, I had to spend a considerable amount of time editing the set down into a 4 hour or so best of set.
Would you care to share your track list for that, Chris? I'm always interested when someone has taken the time to distil a daunting, unwieldy set like the Ron Jones release into something more manageable.
