"It knows only that it needs, Commander. But, like so many of us… it does not know what."

[swashbuckler332]

EDIT: This album was updated on July 2, 2012 in order to take advantage of the better quality sources provided for the material from Star Trek: The Motion Picture because of the new La-La Land set, and that of Star Trek: First Contact, courtesy of the new GNP Crescendo release, and a new edit of "Let's Get Out of Here" from Star Trek V: The Final

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[glenniebun]

It does make sense to revise this mix now, since until last winter The Final Frontier was one of only a few Trek movies left without either a legitimate expanded edition or a reasonably good-sounding bootleg. (Of the others, The Voyage Home looks like it wouldn't yield much in the way of significant additions and Generations has long been the neglected stepchild of Trek scores.) And of course, its expansion did reveal many new highlights.

This as well as the mentions of your Lord of the Rings mix--much anticipated on my end--remind me that I've left my last completed mix to languish since the spring for want of completed notes. (I was trying to make them as spoiler-free as possible, knowing that you'd likely be the only person interested in them and you've not seen Lost, which understandably grows more difficult for music from the show's ending.) This shall be rectified soon. Is your mailing address still the one you sent out shortly after you moved?

[swashbuckler332]

If the address you have is a P.O. Box, then you have my current mailing address.

The new music from The Final Frontier is vital to the new mix; I don't miss what I've dropped in favor of what I've added. Also, what I've kept the same (including the album versions of certain cues). There was also a cleaned-up version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture that a fan made from the session tapes that sounds much better than what I had previously.

I'll be honest, the biggest reason I'm revisiting this is because of the La-La-Land Star Trek: The Next Generation set and because Netflix is the Star Trek fan's best friend now. I've gone through The Next Generation, Enterprise and am now on season 3 of Deep Space Nine. The girl I've been dating is a huge Star Trek nut too, so I've had Star Trek on the brain.

The work on the LOTR mix is complete, I'm just working on the liner notes, which are the most detailed and intricate I've ever worked on (why should they be any different from the mix itself?). As polished as I feel this disc is in comparison

[glenniebun]

Very good then. In that case, in order to spur myself into finally finishing my notes, I sent your copy out to you this afternoon. Look for that in the next couple of days.

It's interesting to see how a few additions and subtractions change the tenor of the whole. Some gentler cues from the essential The Final Frontier expansion, a new title & cover (which, like ehowton says, is lovely...and the Enterprise-E is not a ship I've ever particularly cared for), and I expect you're right that the disc takes on a more introspective tone. Which also means that the older versions still have their uses, of course.

I had been thinking of taking another run through The Next Generation sometime soon. I grew sick of it some years ago and avoided it for a long time, but after catching some episodes on television I remembered just how good the show was, especially the more consistent "Masterpiece Theatre in Space" years. And obviously, between the Ron Jones box and LLL's new set the last year-plus has been a great time for TNG music. I'd given some

[swashbuckler332]

It's interesting how everybody has different favorites. My all-time favorite Enterprise is the refit, my least favorite (outside of the brief image of the Enterprise-J we see in an episode of Enterprise) being the Enterprise-D because it was too much an ocean liner in space ("Number One, set a course for romance!"). That said, I'd rather serve aboard the Enterprise-D for the exact same reason.

One of the other big changes other than the Star Trek V cues is a change I made to how First Contact was represented; I dropped "Red Alert" in favor of "Evacuate," which I felt added more to the compilation (particularly the reprise of the 'First Contact' theme) than the brass Borg variation and demonstrating that the Klingon theme returned in the Next Generation movies for Worf (more variations of which weren't really needed for this mix).

Watching The Next Generation again had a large influence on the shape of this compilation (particularly "Side One"), as I tried to make it more of a Star Trek compilation. Trek is, after all, one of the few

[ehowton]

And once again your chosen artwork is stunning!

[swashbuckler332]

Thank you! The idea was to emphasize the sense of exploration and wonder represented by the Star Trek future.