As we first reported in November, the first Star Trek: Discovery soundtrack album from composer Jeff Russo has been in the works for some time — and today, CBS has officially announced the release of Star Trek: Discovery — Season 1, Chapter 1 for this month.

For those of you who prefer digital downloads, presales will begin this Friday for an availability day of December 15; sales for physical media — both on CD and vinyl — will coming early in the new year.

Here’s the full listing from this first release:

Discovery producer Alex Kurtzman praised the composer’s score in the announcement:

Grand, glorious, hopeful, heartbreaking, intimate, bittersweet, tense, soaring, surprising. Over 51 years, in its many iterations, there’s been no shortage of adjectives to describe the music of Star Trek. On the other hand, the list of composers capable of capturing them all is short, and this is where Jeff Russo comes in.

Jeff manages to hold each note in beautiful balance, evoking the nostalgia of Alexander Courage’s original theme while scoring Discovery with his own unique ear and heart. We’re lucky to have him, and we hope you’ll love his music as much as we do.

The album will be coming from Lakeshore Records, the same label who has released some of Russo’s previous work.

We’ll bring you more on this release as it arrives, and our review when available!

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