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I don't think two discs would do TMP justice - you would need 3 discs for the complete score and all the alternate cues.
Wrong. The complete score is 88:21. Then there are 50:32 of alternates, for a total of 138:44. Just short enough to fit on two discs!
But do we need the alternate cues? There were no alternate cues on the FSM Star Treks.
If you've ever heard them then yes, yes we do. Especially for the early version of "The Enterprise" and one of the alternate "Ilia's Theme" alone. Besides the complete score is too long to fit on one disc anyway, so might as well fill up that second disc!
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But do we need the alternate cues? There were no alternate cues on the FSM Star Treks.
Yes, we need the alternates -- they are wonderful but quite *significantly* different from the final versions.
And you're wrong about the FSM Star Treks -- Wrath of Khan had one alternate, namely the original version of the finale before the shots of Spock's coffin on Genesis were added to the film and needed to be scored. And Search for Spock had no less than *four* alternates (totaling 26 minutes, by the way) -- they were presented on disc 2 in the original album presentation (Prologue/Main Title, Klingons, Stealing the Enterprise, and Returning to Vulcan). While previously released they are to varying degrees (sometimes quite extreme as in the case of Klingons) noticeably different from the film versions, which were released for the first time by FSM.
Yavar
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But do we need the alternate cues? There were no alternate cues on the FSM Star Treks.
For Star Trek 2, there was absolutely an alternate included - the Epilogue at the end of the disc.
And Star Trek 3 has an entire second disc of alternates!
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I just thought of something, MV mentioned there was a 2 for 1 coming with the rejected score paired with the actual score.
That might take 2 discs, say Wolfen. 
I don't know if Wolfen would be considered a "big", comic-con worthy release. I think that's more likely to be one of the grails MV mentioned could be coming between August and November.
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I'm guessing Elfman's Batman is not among the comic con titles, as that should fit on once disc. It should also be unlimited, as all re-use fees were paid for for the OST except for the small portion of missing music.
Wrong.
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I'm guessing Elfman's Batman is not among the comic con titles, as that should fit on once disc. It should also be unlimited, as all re-use fees were paid for for the OST except for the small portion of missing music.
Wrong.
Care to elaborate?
I also wrote that before I learned that it was recorded in London.
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As much as I love STAR TREK: TMP's score, having it spread out over three discs is just going to make it boring. Filling out just two discs is seriously pushing it. Stretching it out with material that wasn't even in the film and imperceptibly different alternate takes and edits (the same cue again but just stopped earlier or bolted onto another cue) is just anal-renentive fanwank idiocy. More is not necessarily better, a film or a book is not better because it's longer.
And by dint of being stretched out over three discs, you're doubling the price. For something that doesn't need it. Indeed: if I didn't have the existent expansion, and they annouced a 3-disc set of STAR TREK TMP, I wouldn't touch it. I'd rather go without than pay twice as much and be bored by it.
We are not the custodians of this music, and we have no duty to preserve every last chord.
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As I've said a few times, it all fits on 2 discs.
I think BDM's set contains re-recordings done by other orchestras at other times tacked on, I've seen that on a few boots.
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Could the rejected score mean Goldsmith's alternates from TMP on their own disc?
I don't think he meant that, no
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