Editing Star Trek: The Original Series (section)

==Music==

===Theme tune===
{{Main|Theme from Star Trek}}

The show's theme tune was written by [[Alexander Courage]] and has been featured in several ''Star Trek'' spin-off episodes and motion pictures. Gene Roddenberry subsequently wrote a set of accompanying lyrics, even though the lyrics were never used in the series, nor did Roddenberry ever intend them to be; this allowed him to claim co-composer credit and hence 50% of the theme's performance royalties. Courage considered Roddenberry's actions, while entirely legal, to be unethical.<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> Series producer [[Robert H. Justman|Robert Justman]] noted in the book ''Inside Star Trek: The Real Story'', that work on the film ''[[Doctor Dolittle (1967 film)|Doctor Dolittle]]'' kept Courage from working on more than two episodes of the first season. However, Justman also believed that Courage lost enthusiasm for the series because of the "royalty" issue.<ref name="solow1997" />{{rp|185}} Courage did not score any episodes of the second season; however, he did conduct a recording session for about 30 minutes of "library cues" for the second season, on June 16, 1967.<ref name="BondLiner">Bond, Jeff. Liner notes for the Original Series Soundtrack Collection box set. La-La Land Records, 2012, season 2, pp. 29, 31.</ref> Courage returned to score two episodes of the third season.

Later episodes used stock recordings from Courage's earlier work. Jazz trumpeter [[Maynard Ferguson]] recorded a [[jazz fusion]] version of the tune with his band during the late 1970s, and Nichelle Nichols performed the song live complete with lyrics.

The lyrics for the song are:

{{poem quote|
Beyond the rim of the starlight
My love is wandering in star flight
I know he'll find
In star clustered reaches
Love, strange love
A starwoman teaches

I know his journey ends never
His Star Trek will go on forever
But tell him while
He wanders his starry sea
Remember
Remember me<ref>{{cite web |title=Star Trek Theme Lyrics |url=https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/startreklyrics.html |publisher=Lyrics On Demand |access-date=8 April 2019 |archive-date=June 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622223155/https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/startreklyrics.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

===Dramatic underscore===
For budgetary reasons, this series made significant use of "tracked" music, or music written for other episodes that was reused in later episodes. Of the 79 episodes that were broadcast, only 31 had complete or partial original dramatic underscores created specifically for them. The remainder of the music in any episode was tracked from other episodes and from cues recorded for the music library. Which episodes would have new music was mostly the decision of Robert H. Justman, the Associate Producer during the first two seasons.

Screen credits for the composers were given based on the amount of music composed for, or composed and reused in, the episode. Some of these final music credits were occasionally incorrect.

Beyond the short works of [[Source music|"source" music]] (music whose source is seen or acknowledged onscreen) created for specific episodes, eight composers were contracted to create original dramatic underscore during the series run: [[Alexander Courage]], [[George Duning]], [[Jerry Fielding]], [[Gerald Fried]], [[Sol Kaplan]], Samuel Matlovsky, Joseph Mullendore, and [[Fred Steiner]]. The composers conducted their own music. Of these composers, Steiner composed the original music for thirteen episodes and it is his instrumental arrangement of Alexander Courage's main theme that is heard over many of the end title credits of the series.

The tracked musical underscores were chosen and edited to the episode by the music editors, principal of whom were Robert Raff (most of Season One), Jim Henrikson (Season One and Two), and Richard Lapham (Season Three).<ref>{{cite book |last=Steiner |first=Fred |chapter=Music for Star Trek: Scoring a Television Show in the Sixties |editor1-last=Newsom | editor1-first=Iris |title=Wonderful inventions: motion pictures, broadcasting, and recorded sound at the Library of Congress |location=Washington |publisher=Library of Congress |year=1985 |oclc=10374960}}</ref>

Some of the original recordings of the music were released in the United States commercially on the [[GNP Crescendo Record Co.]] label. Music for a number of the episodes was re-recorded by [[Fred Steiner]] and the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]] for the ''[[Varèse Sarabande]]'' label; and by Tony Bremner with the Royal Philharmonic for the ''Label X'' label. Finally in December 2012, the complete original recordings were released by La-La Land Records as a 15-CD [[Box set#Music box sets|box set]], with liner notes by Jeff Bond.<ref name="Lalaland_TOS">{{cite web | url=http://www.lalalandrecords.com/STTOS.html | title=Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection: Limited Edition| access-date=January 6, 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101064424/http://www.lalalandrecords.com/STTOS.html | archive-date=January 1, 2013 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>

===Episodes with original music===
Listed in production order. Episodes that were only partially scored are in italics.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bond|first=Jeff|chapter=''Star Trek'' Episode Production Guide|title=The Music Of ''Star Trek''|location=Los Angeles |publisher=Lone Eagle Publishing Company|year=1999|isbn=1-58065-012-0}}</ref>

''Season 1'':
# "The Cage"/"The Menagerie" ([[Alexander Courage]])
# "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (Alexander Courage)
# ''"The Corbomite Maneuver" ([[Fred Steiner]])''
# "Mudd's Women" (Fred Steiner)
# "The Enemy Within" ([[Sol Kaplan]])
# "The Man Trap" (Alexander Courage)
# "The Naked Time" (Alexander Courage)
# "Charlie X" (Fred Steiner)
# ''"Balance of Terror" (Fred Steiner)''
# ''"What Are Little Girls Made Of?" (Fred Steiner)''
# "The Conscience of the King" (Joseph Mullendore)
# "Shore Leave" ([[Gerald Fried]])
# ''"The City on the Edge of Forever" (Fred Steiner)''

''Season 2'':
# "Catspaw" (Gerald Fried)
# "Metamorphosis" ([[George Duning]])
# "Friday's Child" (Gerald Fried)
# "Who Mourns for Adonais?" (Fred Steiner)
# "Amok Time" (Gerald Fried)
# "The Doomsday Machine" (Sol Kaplan)
# ''"Mirror, Mirror" (Fred Steiner)''
# ''"I, Mudd" (Samuel Matlovsky)''
# "The Trouble with Tribbles" ([[Jerry Fielding]])
# ''"By Any Other Name" (Fred Steiner)''
# ''"Patterns of Force" (George Duning)''
# ''"The Omega Glory" (Fred Steiner)''
# ''"Return to Tomorrow" (George Duning)''

''Season 3'':
# "Spectre of the Gun" (Jerry Fielding)
# "Elaan of Troyius" (Fred Steiner)
# "The Paradise Syndrome" (Gerald Fried)
# "The Enterprise Incident" (Alexander Courage)
# "And the Children Shall Lead" (George Duning)
# "Spock's Brain" (Fred Steiner) 
# "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (George Duning)
# "The Empath" (George Duning)
# "Plato's Stepchildren" (Alexander Courage)

''Note'': Although "The Way to Eden" had no original score, the episode had special musical material by Arthur Heinemann (the episode's writer), guest star [[Charles Napier (actor)|Charles Napier]] and Craig Robertson. "Requiem for Methuselah" contains a [[Johannes Brahms]] interpretation by Ivan Ditmars.