Change my mind: SNW, SFA should fire their music departments and replace them with Chris Westlake!!! š
from data1701d@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website on 14 Jan 01:57
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from data1701d@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website on 14 Jan 01:57
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Okay, the title may be a bit of comedic overstatement. What I really mean is I love the Lower Decks soundtrack and think Westlake may have been meant for Star Trek. I donāt know what it is, but it truly evokes TNG era background music but on steroids.
I canāt wait for the second volume. RIP Lower Decks - may the next few years prove to be the āSearch for Lower Decksā (minus the butchering of a good Vulcan character, the pointless deathā¦ okay, maybe that wasnāt the most apt comparison).
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If David Bell isnāt retired, Iād like him to score some episodes. I really liked his scores of Sacrifice of Angels and Dark Frontier.
No man, you just gotta have faith of the heart
Youāre right. I gotta be going where my heart will take me.
lol I was gonna try and continue the joke but i went to look up the lyrics and this amused the shit out of me. Itās apparently more popularly known as āthat song from star trek enterpriseā than as a rod stewart song! <img alt="" src="https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/06cd72c5-ec24-4cda-acc2-49a949e9f8e8.png">
Westlake is great, but so is Nami Melumad (who does the music for Strange New Worlds and Prodigy), so Iām absolutely not behind a call to have her fired, whether that call is meant to be tongue-in-cheek or not.
I need to give those a harder listen. I do like how the Prodigy theme combines cinematic and TAS vibes. Also, I like how SNW riffs on the TOS theme.
Also, my ācallā is indeed a tongue-in-cheek way to say I hope that Westlake can continue in Star Trek. Admittedly, I probably should have communicated that in a more precise, less melodramatic mode.
To clarify, Melumad does the incidental music in Prodigy, but the theme is by Michael Giacchino. He also scored, among many other things, the three Kelvin Timeline films, so he probably brings that ācinematicā feel youāre describing.
Melumad does occasionally integrate part of Giacchinoās Kelvin Timeline themes. For example, I want to say it appears toward the beginning of Prodigy 1x11.