Does anyone have the know the correct order for all of the tracks for 'Survivors' from Vol 1 & 2?
This is the order in the actual episode:
1. LaGrange Point 2. Telepathic / unbridged 3. One Entity / conscience
The music box is heard throughout the first half of the episode so it would fit in in different places. The waltz version is not used in the finished episode.
Finally received my copy . I think the track selection on this album is really great overall. It's nice to have so much of Dennis McCarthy's early season action material included, which makes for a fantastic listening experience. The scores have so much variety compared to later TNG seasons. Cause and Effect is a great choice from later season TNG though, it has a very haunting score. The action material from Peak Performance and The Survivors is just superb! Also Chattaway's disc has a great track selection with pretty much no skippable tracks whatsoever, which was one of my complaints on Vol.1 (not that it was bad). I would say this is my absolute favorite Star Trek box set to date. A big Thank you to everyone involved in creating this album!
I would say this is so far my absolute favorite Star Trek box set to date.
It's good, but those might be fightin' words. The TOS boxset has no equal and the ST:TMP 3 CD set is quite seriously fantastic.
Hence the wording MY favorite . Nothing against TOS, but im my books nothing beats McCarthy's powerful MacGyver-style dramatic underscoring from the late 80s. All a matter of personal preference of course .
I'm chiming in again to say how much I am enjoying this set as well. In addition to the highlights I mentioned earlier, I also have really liked all the additional cues on disc 3, such as those from "Hide & Q" and "The Child". I had thought that the short suites on the earlier volume had been sufficient, but these extended suites are really engaging. I think when it comes to music for TNG, Ron Jones still set the gold standard, but McCarthy's music I've also always enjoyed greatly. Their styles and sounds may be diametrically opposed, not unlike the differences between Goldsmith's and Horner's TREK scores, but there's room for both of them on my listening plate.
I'm definitely having to pick and choose tracks on this release more than with Vol. 1. The Chattaway in disc in particular is loaded with that wallpaper sound that I strongly disliked from later-TNG scores.
(But man, that "Frame of Mind" track is killer. Chattaway always did great work with the psychological episodes.)
The Chattaway in disc in particular is loaded with that wallpaper sound that I strongly disliked from later-TNG scores.
I didn’t received my copy yet but the words wallpaper sound are more suitable for McCarthys music. I don’t understand why McCarthys music is so popular in this forum. His action cues always have the same sound.
Ok Chattaways and later David Bells scores are similar to each other too thanks to Berman but there are more distinguishable than McCarthys music.
This set is a pretty engaging listen. The selection from Family might be the earliest example I've heard of McCarthy drafting ideas that would coalesce in Generations.
The Chattaway in disc in particular is loaded with that wallpaper sound that I strongly disliked from later-TNG scores.
I didn’t received my copy yet but the words wallpaper sound are more suitable for McCarthys music. I don’t understand why McCarthys music is so popular in this forum. His action cues always have the same sound.
I don't much care for McCarthy's action music either. His emotional cues can be excellent, though.
I don't much care for McCarthy's action music either. His emotional cues can be excellent, though.
Yea. The Visitor is really good and some action cues for example from Unification or Yesterdays Enterprise. But for example All good things, Generations, The die is cast or Way of the warrior always sound so similar.
I don't much care for McCarthy's action music either. His emotional cues can be excellent, though.
Yea. The Visitor is really good and some action cues for example from Unification or Yesterdays Enterprise. But for example All good things, Generations, The die is cast or Way of the warrior always sound so similar.
I think Dennis' approach to harmonic tension and release is quite unique, at least in terms of non-concert music.
I finished listening to the set last night. This volume is far superior to the first in terms of having specific cues I wanted.
I'd been dreaming of releases for "Home Soil", "Pen Pals", and "Peak Performance" since I saw them in reruns after school years ago. Flash forward to the present and the tracks selected for this album were exactly the ones that caught my attention in their respective episodes!
Seeing "Hide and Q" repeatedly as a kid, it soon became a favorite TNG score of mine. I was thrilled to finally have the music for Q's line: "Games? Did somebody say games!" Add to that the music for Q's explanation of the penalty box, the wonderfully emotional cue for Riker's anguish at being unable to resurrect the girl, and Q's return as a monk and you've got one of the most rewarding listens I've had in a while.
Finally having the music for the act-out when Admiral Quinn beams to the Enterprise in "Conspiracy" was great too.
Hell, this set is just fantastic. Even "Too Short a Season" was enjoyable (far better on its own than in the episode).
Thank you La-La-Land and Lukas. If this is any indication of the Star Trek-y goodness that awaits us later in the year I'm going to be broke by December.
I've also been greatly enjoying this set, although when it concerns the George Romanis score for "Too Short A Season" it gets points for being so different in tone and style than other TNG scores, but other than the action cue "Sick Bay" I find it kind of a slog to listen to in its entirety.
I've also been greatly enjoying this set, although when it concerns the George Romanis score for "Too Short A Season" it gets points for being so different in tone and style than other TNG scores, but other than the action cue "Sick Bay" I find it kind of a slog to listen to in its entirety.
I'll be the first one to say this score just feels "Odd", it's just so different in tone then just about any other score for the series, The Synth work is very "80's".
I've also been greatly enjoying this set, although when it concerns the George Romanis score for "Too Short A Season" it gets points for being so different in tone and style than other TNG scores, but other than the action cue "Sick Bay" I find it kind of a slog to listen to in its entirety.
I'll be the first one to say this score just feels "Odd", it's just so different in tone then just about any other score for the series, The Synth work is very "80's".
However, it's also a very odd episode as well.
I'm glad we were able to include it at long last.
Ford A. Thaxton
Agreed, I'm pleased it's on disc so all the composers who contributed to TNG are represented and I appreciate it's different tonal quality, but unfortunately it doesn't sustain as much interest as the rest.
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The TOS boxset has no equal and the ST:TMP 3 CD set is quite seriously fantastic. 
