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Star Trek: Original Television Soundtrack (The Cage, Where No Man Has Gone Before) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Alexander Courage
Label: Gnp Crescendo
Category: Music
Buy New: $13.98
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 68391
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 052824800625
EAN: 0052824800625
ASIN: B000001OZY
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Star Trek Theme (Main Title) | | • | Doctor Bartender | | • | Survivors | | • | Prime Specimen | | • | Bottled | | • | Probed | | • | Monster Illusion | | • | Monster Fight | | • | The Kibitzers | | • | Vena's Punishment | | • | Pike's Punishment | | • | Picnic | | • | True Love | | • | Vena's Dance | | • | Torchy Girl | | • | To Catch a T. | | • | Going Up | | • | Max's Factor | | • | Star Trek Theme (End Title) | | • | Where No Man Has Gone Before | | • | Episode Titles | | • | Force Field | | • | Silvery Orbs | | • | Crippled Ship | | • | Speedy Reader | | • | Hit the Button | | • | On Delta-Vega | | • | When Your Eyes Have Turned to Silver | | • | Instant Paradise |
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| Similar Items:
| • | Star Trek: Original Television Soundtrack, Volume Two (The Doomsday Machine, Amok Time) | | • | Star Trek: Original Television Soundtrack, Volume Three (Shore Leave, The Naked Time) | | • | Star Trek: Newly Recorded Music From Selected Episodes Of The Paramount TV Series (Charlie X, The Carbomite Maneuver, Mudd's Women, The Doomsday Machine) | | • | Star Trek: Sound Effects from the Original TV Soundtrack | | • | Star Trek, Volume Two: Newly Recorded Music From Selected Episodes Of The Paramount TV Series (Mirror Mirror, By Any Other Name, The Trouble With Tribbles, The Empath) |
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Courage Classic November 3, 2008
During the airing of the original TV series, a number of albums were released with the music from a number of episodes. The score by Alexander Courage for The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before stand alone as magnificent artistry.
The numbers cannot be dismissed as simply a background to the scenes; the music tells a story through its pace and presentation, as if the writers were using the textured canvas of Courage to shape the episodes.
One only needs to be a fan of outstanding music to enjoy this special collection from the iconic series.
 a couple glaring problems November 11, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Accolades aside for the music itself, there are two reasons to be miffed by this cd, though the problems stem from the original LP release: tape hiss and distortion (like someone blowing into the microphone) when the music peaks out. The cd insert (from the LP) mentions these problems, though of course they aren't apparent in the TV episodes...
Secondly, while "The Cage" seems complete (thankfully the music during warp-speed is omitted), "Where no man..." is not. The music to the climactic 5-10 minute battle between Kirk and Gary is omitted! The insert says the master tapes were unedited. Was it that LP's were limited to 45 minutes (the album runs 43 min)? Whatever the reason, it's a disappointing result.
While I'm glad for the music available and have gotten used to the problems, I wish they could have at least corrected the omission when they released the cd.
"Alexander Courage...one of the great pioneers in early TV" January 8, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Alexander Courage was a pioneer in the scoring of early television beyond anyone's comprehension during that time...his creativity and music would have such an impact on future series and composers now coming into an age electronic wonders...not on the same scale as Bernard Herrmann, but very close to his edge of scoring...if you know what I mean.Not unlike Herrmann, Courage has a way with orchestration and arrangements...take for instance the cues on "THE CAGE", each a theme within a theme, never-ending and moving onto yet another segment as in "PIKE'S PUNISHMENT"...counterpoints blending within various themes transferring from one to the other...very much like Herrmann, a style that is very contagious...gotta love it. Another Cosmic event from Neil Norman(executive album producer) under his watchful eye we can depend on original releases for all early STAR TREK FANS, who have made collecting any and everything their favorite past time...thank you GNP/Crescendo for bringing a little ray of sunshine into our lives...keep up the good work! Total Time: 43:21 on 35 Tracks ~ GNP/Crescendo GNPD-8006 ~ (1985/1989)
listening to it now.. June 30, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have most movie, TNG, DS9 and VOY soundtracks, and am a film score lover. Definitely nostalgic, vintage, makes you feel you're back in the sixties, the very beginning of Trek..and yet somewhere else somehow, on another planet. It's like watching the episodes without the dialouge, while working. I can hear it very clearly in my headphones (though I'm sure there's some distortions), every odd but..right note. With this score, you become an alien. Get caught in the cage. It's a pleasurable feeling to a time when I wasn't yet born.
 This is the "ne plus ultra" for Trek fans everywhere. July 3, 1998
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is it. The ne plus ultra. The Ur source. The Holy Grail of Trekdom.If not for the less-than-perfect (but still acceptable) recording quality, this album would rate a full five stars. (Presumably, this recording was copied directly from the original, optical soundtrack recordings.) I especially enjoy the pure, simple but sad and melancholy melodies Courage used in the score for "The Cage". Unclouded by dialog and special effects, the sublime oboe/clarinet duet in "Doctor Bartender" is seldom matched in any genre. Most fans will notice the original theme music in an early orchestration right off the bat. But only the astute will recognize the new, alternative theme written for "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Both scores, heard in their entirety, bring a new dimension to one's appreciation of the artistry of the old series. These are well thought out works that could be credibly played in a contemporary concert hall anywhere in America. In fact, I prefer them, clunky optical recording and all, to much of what passes for music in those concert halls today! Fans of the later Star Trek franchises might be lead to a new appreciation for the wind symphony (Courage primarily wrote for winds in these scores, augmented with electronic tonalities) and find it a refreshing alternative to the dreary sludge of contemporary television's synthesized anti-melodic schmaltz. All-in-all, this is a "must have" for the serious Star Trek fan and for lovers of good music everywhere.
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