Star Trek 6

 (30 customer reviews)

The music possesses a dark grandeur. I enjoyed the film, and still think the soundtrack may be its best element. The CD's front cover folds out into six small pages, containing four still shots from the film, one picture of the original cast members posing in their Star Trek VI uniforms on the bridge of the Enterprise-A, and an approximately 200-word testimonial from Nicholas Meyer, the film's co-writer and director, to his wonderful working relationship with composer Cliff Eidelman. The first still shot shows an unhappy General Chang sitting in the captain's chair aboard his Bird-of-Prey. In the second shot we see Spock and Valeris at the peace conference, with Chekov and delegates in the background. In the third shot Kirk and McCoy stand trial on Chronos. The final shot shows a slightly-blurry Enterprise-A moving away from space dock at impulse.Eidelman has produced a brooding and moody soundtrack. Almost entirely original, it fittingly contains periodic...Read more

You don't have to be a fan of Star Trek to enjoy this music. Cliff Eidelman has composed and orchestrated, in my opinion, some of the most thrilling movie music ever to be produced to date. And I have collected a lot of it over the years. You don't believe me? Just check out the Overture, trak #3: Clear All Moorings, trak #7: Rura Penthe, trak 11: The Battle For Peace, and the final trak: Star Trek VI Suite. The music oscillates between brooding darkness and triumph of the spirit. Eidelman creatively blends and balances traditional western orchestral instrumentation with a non-lyrical chorus and a variety of what sound like African and South American percussions and pipe instruments. With each listening, I look for something that I have not previously heard. I don't even think of the movie at all(though it is an entertaining film). This work rivals the best efforts of other great movie score composers like Bernard Hermann, Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, and John...Read more

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - I consider this to be the best of all the Trek scores. It is much, much darker than any other (First Contact doesn't even come close) and it has that freshness that many cd's have when it is one of a composer's first efforts.First of all, it should be noted that this cd sounds extremely close at times to "The Planets" suite bu Gustav Holst, especially to the amazing "Mars, The Bringer of War". This is not bad, especially since I like the score to the movie better. It seems more like a homage than a rip-off.The main theme in this movie, while possibly not as epic as Goldsmith's Star Trek: The Motion Picture theme, is just as beautiful and strong. It is only used in a few tracks here, but they are great. The best use by far is the "Sign Off" sequence at the end. The music quiets down as Kirk gives his final "Captain's Log", then flows into one of the two best uses of the TV fanfare ever...Read more