Well, wonder no more: IMAscore has now revealed a fifteen-track collection of music from the Trek ride, available for purchase now direct to the public.
“Star Trek™: Operation Enterprise – Der Offizielle Soundtrack” combines renown themes from the successful TV series and movies, with new pieces of music, exclusively composed for Movie Park German’s rollercoaster “Star Trek: Operation Enterprise.”
Even the already existing themes from the original Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager are unique, as they have been re-arranged and recorded by IMAscore and the Budapest Film Orchestra exclusively for this soundtrack CD, together with four more tracks, including the rides’ main theme.
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1. Star Trek: Operation Enterprise Theme
2. Star Trek Theme
3. Floating In Space
4. Vakompire
5. An Unexpected Journey
6. Star Trek: The Next Generation Theme
7. Wherever We Go
8. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Theme
9. Endeavor
10. The Final Frontier
11. Ex Astris Scientia
12. Star Trek: Voyager Theme
13. Starfleet Academy
14. Red Alert
15. Enter Warp Speed
IMAscore has also featured a seven-minute preview of the upcoming soundtrack:
We’ve finally recovered from our away mission to the 2017 Las Vegas Star Trek convention, and while we shared with many of you our favorite costume efforts from the STLV floor last week on social media, we wanted to make sure the rest of you got to share our joy in these wonderful fan creations!
Click through our gallery below for all the best Trek outfits from the week:
But it wasn’t just fans taking part in the Trek transformation, as panel moderator and Engage: The Official Star Trek Podcast host Jordan Hoffman beamed down as the half-black, half-white citizen of the planet Cheron…
…while Trek guest actress Natalia Nogulich made an appearance in costume as her in-universe alter ego, Admiral Alynna Nechayev at both her on-stage panel and fan photo op session.
Fans also went the extra mile and began cosplaying as Star Trek creatives this year, with facsimiles of Ira Behr, Michael Piller, and Larry Nemecek popping up throughout the weekend.
But perhaps the most fun came at the Saturday evening costume contest, where Star Trek: Discovery actress Mary Chieffo (L’Rell) and Discovery creature designer Neville Page joined Trek alumni Terry Farrell and Michael Westmore as judges for the yearly exhibition.
Chieffo and Farrell review selfies while Westmore and Page look on.
A short story is a beautiful thing, regardless of the medium.
That’s what Tony Shasteen and Mike Johnson have given us in this month’s offering of Star Trek: Boldly Go #10, and even if you aren’t a Kelvin Timeline fan, you have to love the structure, the composition and the art of this comic.
First of all, the story is told from an alien viewpoint, which makes it stand out as a distinctive way to start the story. The alien’s viewpoint is the obscure perspective of Kevin, the tiny Teenaxi alien who beamed aboard the Enterprise with Captain Kirk at the opening of Star Trek Beyond.
Back in the late 1970’s and early 80’s, there were a number of Star Trek novelists who began the whole adaptation process of extrapolating what they thought were the best way to represent the various alien species mentioned by the original Trek canon. In this case, Johnson has the entire new Kelvin Timeline to play with and for sure, he chooses to make an entire story about the Teenaxian.
And it’s great! It’s a case of when the comic reading audience gets a chance to see the Kelvin Timeline from an altogether wholly unique perspective: a pure Trek story that focuses on interspecies relationships, loyalties, compromise and rebuilding the Enterprise – which has a long way to go — and is nothing but fun.
I’ve accepted the Kelvin Timeline to be an alternate way of looking at Star Trek. But regardless of the players and the timeline, it still tries to keep to those values of Trek in a whole and consistent manner. I think a lot of fans have easily dismissed the trappings of the “New Trek” in a knee-jerk fashion.
In this comic, we see the beginnings of the Enterprise-A under construction at Yorktown, and meet a new alien addition who discovers the value of the Federation principles, which, to be fair, I think have been very easily under-emphasized in the Kelvin Timeline. In this comic though, we see those values reinforced and it’s by exploring and extrapolating from a minor aspect of the third film. That’s the uncertainty and that’s what James Blish, Sondra Marshak and other writers of Trek novels from the seventies and eighties did that reinforced those values and made them evident.
Johnson is doing the same thing here, but the Kelvin Timeline lacks the same sort of historical legacy that the original Trek does in order for it to be received in the same way. Johnson is a pioneer, in that he is contributing to that extended universe that the mainstream Trek has been fortunate to have developed for it in the last fifty years and that needs to be recognized.
I had completely forgotten about the Teenaxians; they were a comic way of beginning Star Trek Beyond, and aside from a short callback at the end of the film, that was the whole of their story — but writers like Johnson have a gift for searching for the obscure and making an entire story out of it. Now they’re the entire subject of this stand-alone story and also shows us the universality of the principles that the Federation stands for. It’s nice to be reminded that we humans aren’t so bad after all.
The opening panels by Tony Shasteen are great. The book starts off mirroring the opening sequence of Star Trek Beyond to an exceptionally detailed precision. I’ve said this before, but Shasteen’s gift with likenesses is really something to behold and from what I’ve heard, the amount of time it takes him to complete work is also enviable among artists.
We have four cover variants for this book.
Cover A is another stylized one by George Caltsoudas. We see an interpretation of Montgomery Scott working with some sort of a virtual display panel. It’s completely Caltsoudas in that it avoids concrete representation of the show and its elements and focuses more on abstract notions and interpretations.
Cover B by Jason Badower is a great crew profile piece. You can’t have too many of these for my mind and I love the Federation insignia as a background; it emphasizes those principles I was talking about earlier and this has to be my favourite one of the lot.
The Retailer A-cover is another photograph, and I’ve mentioned my dislike of such photo covers in past reviews.
The Retailer B-cover by Cryssy Cheung is a decent profile of Karl Urban’s McCoy, probably the best actor in the cast who really knows how to channel a proper TOS attitude. Cheung manages to capture that expression in this cover.
The ending of this story is perfect. It ends in a way that most Star Trek devotees would expect it to and in a way that I think captures the spirit of the original Trek. What I like about Johnson’s work is that it brings the Kelvin Timeline into sync with those original values. That’s the function of this comic, as I see it.
But even if I’m wrong, Boldly Go #10is still one hell of a well-written story.
· Simon & Schuster for a worldwide publishing program
· IDW for comics
· Titan Entertainment for souvenir magazines
· Disruptor Beam for a mobile game update to “Star Trek: Timelines”
· Rubie’s for costumes
· Eaglemoss for die-cast ship models
· Trevco for t-shirts in the U.S.
· Anovos for replicas of the new Starfleet uniforms in the U.S.
· Rizzoli for calendars in the U.S.
· McFarlane for figures in the U.S.
· QMX for prop badges and replicas in the U.S.
· FanSets for pins in the U.S.
· Gentle Giant for 3D replicas in the U.S.
· Danilo for calendars in Europe
· Pyramid for posters, prints and fan gear in the U.K.
· Cotton Division for apparel and accessories in France
· Impact Rock for posters and prints in Australia.
CBS Consumer Products senior vice president Veronica Hart also released a statement along with the licensee list.
We are excited to bring the iconic world of ‘Star Trek’ back into fans’ homes through this fantastic new series and new product collections.
This impressive lineup of partners is just the beginning and fans can expect to see more as we prepare to beam up to the U.S.S. Discovery this fall.
Come back to TrekCore often for more Star Trek: Discovery news.
While he didn’t feature them on the panel aside from a brief glance on stage, Eaglemoss’ Ben Robinson showed off his prototype, unpainted sample designs of the USS Shenzhou and USS Discovery models at his STLV convention booth later that day.
The USS DISCOVERY prototype model.A few looks at the USS SHENZHOU prototype model.
Keep in mind these are early test models and do not feature final textures or details which are subject to change before the final versions arrive from the Official Starships Collection in the coming months.
Here’s a comparison of the test model ship next to the Shenzhou featured in the most recent Star Trek: Discovery trailer:
Keep checking back with TrekCore for more news on Star Trek: Discovery as it breaks!
Thanks to fan Jesse Davis for sharing these photos with us.
For all you aspiring filmmakers out there, some surprising news about Ticonderoga, NY’s Star Trek: The Original Series Set Tour broke this past weekend at the Las Vegas convention, where CBS and Set Tour founder James Cawley announced plans to open the elaborate TOS set recreation to fans for both study and production in the coming year.
STAR TREK™ FILM ACADEMY TO LAUNCH AT STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES SET TOUR
Learn the art of Star Trek film making from those who made it!
Ticonderoga, New York, August 6, 2017 – Star Trek: The Original™ Series Set Tour is proud to announce the launch of its Star Trek Film Academy this Fall 2017. Located in historic Ticonderoga, New York, and under license by CBS Consumer Products, the set will come to life once more as fans join founder James Cawley and Star Trek luminaries like Mike and Denise Okuda, Doug Drexler and more in learning how Star Trek was developed.
The ultimate Star Trek film camp for fans, all aspects of filmmaking will be discussed – from gaffing to costuming to special effects. Fans will work side by side with talented Star Trek artists to create short vignettes from beginning to end. The adventure for attendees will start with preproduction meetings, go through rehearsal, lighting, costuming and makeup, all the way through to filming. Fans can participate in front of or behind the camera.
With original scripts, and contributions by series’ artists, propmakers, directors, actors, and more, this is the opportunity to become fully immersed in the Star Trek universe.
If you ever dreamed of being on Star Trek – or working with the Star Trek greats – this is the experience for you! YOURStar Trek script awaits!
For more information on the Star Trek Film Academy or Star Trek the Original Series™ Set Tour, please visit www.startrektour.com.
In the STLV panel this past Saturday, Cawley revealed that not only will Trek alumni like the Okudas and Doug Drexler be involved in the “film camp,” but he’s also hoping to get buy-ins from Trek actors-turned-directors, mentioning that he’s started to reach out to the likes of Jonathan Frakes to possibly participate.
The “Star Trek Original Series Set Tour” bridge recreation.
While TrekCore does not generally cover the world of Trek fan productions, this seems to be quite an interesting use for the New York-based set tour which we toured in June – while there’s not information yet available on pricing or other specifics on this new venture, we’ll certainly keep watch and bring you updates as we have them.
2031: United States Air Force fighter jets shoot down an unidentified spacecraft and take its crew into custody.
Soon, it’s learned that the ship is one of several dispatched across space by an alien species, the Eizand, to search for a new home before their own world becomes uninhabitable.
Fearing extraterrestrial invasion, government and military agencies which for more than eighty years have operated in secret swing into action, charged with protecting humanity no matter the cost…
2386: Continuing their exploration of the Odyssean Pass, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise discover what they at first believe is a previously uncharted world, with a civilization still recovering from the effects of global nuclear war.
An astonishing priority message from Starfleet Command warns that there’s more to this planet than meets the eye, and Picard soon realizes that the mysteries of this world may well weave through centuries of undisclosed human history…
Failed television shows rarely, if ever, demonstrate the afterlife the Star Trek franchise has — so it should come as no surprise that a failed television pilot, which also masqueraded as a Season Two episode of the Original Series, is enjoying a literary revival thanks to the mind of novelist Dayton Ward. It is remarkable what Ward has done with the premise of “Assignment: Earth.”
After successive TOS novels based on the episode, Ward has now woven these elements into Simon and Schuster’s ongoing 23rd-century narrative with his latest Star Trek: The Next Generation book, Hearts and Minds.
Possibilities were endless when Gary Seven, Isis and Roberta first met Kirk and Spock in the episode, which began as the Enterprise’s mission to conduct historical research on Earth in 1968. The idea of a mysterious agency interacting on humanity’s behalf in the guise of actor Robert Lansing’s agent has now provided the fodder for three of Ward’s most recent Star Trek novels.
Roberta played an instrumental role in Ward’s last TOS novel, Elusive Salvation. While working with Kirk and Spock, the Enterprise duo are introduced to Mestral, the 20th Century stowaway from Vulcan, who first appeared Enterprise’s season two episode, “Carbon Creek.” Interestingly enough, it is Mestral’s turn to take on a larger role in Hearts and Minds, serving as the reader’s eyes during the novel’s flashbacks to the 21st Century – which occurs from 2031-2067.
20th Century Vulcan, the marooned Mestral from “Carbon Creek,” returns.
United States Air Force jets shoot down a UFO in the year 2031, and before Aegis’ clandestine agents can intercede, a secret Earth organization called Majestic 12 takes possession of the craft. Three hundred and fifty-five years later, the Enterprise-E is assigned a secret “need-to-know” mission to contact the Eizand, a species who survived a similar nuclear cataclysm to that of Earth’s third world war.
Of course, both of these events are linked, and Ward appears to take much glee in shifting back and forth, building his story throughout the years as Picard must now pay the price for the crimes of humanity; whose sins of the past include paranoia, fear and control.
Two plot points stand out above the rest in Hearts and Minds. In the Enterprise-E timeframe, Liutenant Commander Taurik has been assigned as the eyes and ears of Starfleet Admiral Akaar. Turns out, Taurik has been given operational orders and information on the ship’s new assignment, and is only to fetter out what Akaar deems necessary to Picard and crew.
This puts the Captain and Taurik’s shipmates at odds with one of their own. Mistrust is not a common element to the interactions of Starfleet officers among each other, and Ward introduces and toys with this idea masterfully.
Meanwhile on Earth, Ward might have readers considering whether Hearts and Minds is a cautionary tale of the time humanity occupies currently, or if it is just escapist enjoyment? The reader will have to decide for themselves, but Ward’s disappointment from the country’s lack of space travel since the space shuttle program was shuttered is clearly evident in some of his prose.
Young Taurik, now a Lt. Commander, faces off with Captain Picard under Akaar’s orders.
Fans of Ward’s previous Star Trek novels will revel in the fact that the author has once again populated his book with references to previous books and episodes set in the franchise. Ward rewards readers with connections to his novels in this setting, but also returns once again to his self-professed favorites – Greg Cox’s novels The Eugenics War and The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh. Ward even throws in a mention of one of the organization’s that audiences were introduced to in Star Trek: First Contact.
Plus, as an added bonus, Simon and Schuster’s prior novel release, David Mack’s Section 31 – Control, is also referenced and puts a cherry on top of Hearts and Minds’ conclusion.
In his acknowledgments at the end of Hearts and Minds, Ward thanks the fans for their joy of his “Assignment: Earth” tales – “I wondered if I had one more of these stories in me before moving on to something else, and it was you all who made me decide to give it one more go.”
Opportunities to juggle and play in multiple sandboxes seem to show Ward at his best when it comes to Star Trek. Allegory and time travel are two tropes Star Trek does extremely well and when it comes to utilizing both in novel form no one does it better than Ward — and it helps that the author takes a fan glee when exploring opportunities presented in episodes from the series.
We reported back in July that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan would be returning to theaters for a short time in September for its 35th anniversary – but now we’ve got more details about the two-night-only revival next month!
‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’ Receives Special Encore Screenings in Select Cinemas on September 21 Only
WHAT: The epic science-fiction adventure “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” returns to the big screen for one more day on Thursday, September 21. This encore presentation of the 1982 classic comes to select cinemas nationwide in response to the overwhelmingly positive fan response to the initial 35th anniversary screenings.
“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” will be presented in a digitally remastered Director’s Cut and, as an added bonus for Star Trek and movie fans, William Shatner appears in a newly produced in-depth interview that will play before each screening.
WHO: Fathom Events and Paramount Pictures
WHEN: Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (local time)
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August 30 update: Here’s Fathom’s official trailer for the event:
Fathom Events – the same company who put on the Star Trek: The Next Generation theatrical screenings during the Blu-ray releases – is bringing The Wrath of Khan to theaters on September 10 and September 13, along with a “special introduction” by Captain Kirk actor William Shatner.
“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” the epic science-fiction adventure that continues to captivate audiences, marks its 35th anniversary with a two-day-only return to cinemas nationwide. “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” will be presented in a digitally remastered Director’s Cut and, as an added bonus for Star Trek and movie fans, William Shatner will appear in a newly produced in-depth interview that will play before each screening.
Fathom Events and Paramount Pictures will present “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” on Sunday, September 10, and Wednesday, September 13, at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time each day.
Tickets for “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 35th Anniversary” can be purchased online by visiting www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices. Moviegoers throughout the U.S. will be able to enjoy this event in more than 600 select movie theaters. For a complete list of theater locations visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change).
“Making Star Trek II seems like only yesterday,” Shatner said. “Even back then, we knew we were creating something really special, and to have The Wrath of Khan back on the big screen 35 years later is a wonderful testament both to the film itself and to the incredible passion of Star Trek fans.”
Director Nicholas Meyer’s “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” was a box-office hit upon its release – the sixth highest-grossing film of 1982 – and continues to be revered and quoted by fans. The film, a continuation of the original Star Trek series episode “The Space Seed,” finds longtime Starfleet nemesis Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) alive and well, marooned on a seemingly lifeless planet. When he’s discovered by Chekov (Walter Koenig), Khan will stop at nothing to exact revenge against the man who exiled him on the barren world: Admiral James T. Kirk.
Kirk must lead his loyal crew – including Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Bones (DeForest Kelley), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Sulu (George Takei), Scotty (James Doohan) – and an unprepared group of trainees led by half-human, half-Klingon Lt. Saavik (Kirstie Alley) in a race against time to stop Khan from deploying a device that threatens the entire universe. Bibi Besch, Paul Winfield and Merritt Butrick also star in the film, which features an unforgettable musical score by the late James Horner. The Director’s Cut of “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” is currently available on Blu-ray™, with more than two hours of in-depth bonus features.
“Star Trek II holds a special place in the hearts of Star Trek fans,” Tom Lucas, Fathom Events VP of Studio Relations, said. “Fathom is proud to work with Paramount Pictures to present it again on the big screen, with all of its excitement, action, drama and emotion.”
We’ve just beamed back from Las Vegas after a week of fun at the annual Trek convention, with a heavy focus on Star Trek: Discovery featuring both cast, crew, and prop appearances.
But CBS isn’t letting us rest just yet! Along with a series of character animations released on Twitter over the last few days…
…a new, highly-stylized web promo just arrived for the upcoming series, echoing the classic Star Trek monologue from Captains Kirk and Picard, with a new twist for the 21st Century read by Sonequa Martin-Green (Michael Burnham).
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXgR01SA_qd/
Michael Burnham: As we stand at the edge of an unknown universe, we know our greatest challenges lie before us – that our future is not bound by fear, and that our mission is not to conquer, but to discover.
That is our destiny: a destiny written in the stars… and so we boldly go where we have never gone before.
That’s an opening-credits Star Trek monologue if we ever heard one – but will it be featured in Star Trek: Discovery‘s episodes? We’ll find out September 24.
It’s the final day of 2017’s Las Vegas Star Trek convention, and one of the highlights is our first look at the in-development What We Left Behind documentary centered around the legacy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Hosted by documentary director Adam Nimoy, the panel featured producers Ira Stephen Behr, Kai De Mello-Folsom, David Zappone, and more — all wearing Behr-esque blue goatees and sunglasses on the big stage in Vegas — first rolling out a short preview video of the upcoming film showcasing interviews with DS9 cast members Nana Visitor, Terry Ferrell, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Armin Shimerman, Cirroc Lofton, James Darren, as well as a number of fans.
Behr and Mello-Folsom discuss the unexpected success of the fundraising campaign.
While there is still no confirmation that the documentary will contain high-definition Deep Space Nine content quite yet, the team is still working to make that happen and Behr commented while on stage that he’s been speaking with Mike Okuda – who worked on the TNG remastering project – and has been hearing “very positive” comments about the possibility of that happening.
In addition, on the topic of the CGI elements used in the series, the team revealed that there have been discussions with some people who still have some of the digital content from the 1990s, and specifically called out that there “will” be HD clips of the “Sacrifice of Angels” space battle sequences in the documentary.
Nearly 100 hours of interview content has been amassed over the last four years of the documentary’s development, revealed David Zappone, with more fan interviews happening through this week’s STLV event. They have a goal of completing projection around January 2018, with release to the public later in 2018 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Deep Space Nine.
Director Adam Nimoy (far right) hears a fan speak his mind about DEEP SPACE NINE.
Behr also spoke with great anticipation on the “DS9 Season 8” feature, where he and former DS9 writers Ron Moore, Hans Beimler, and more get together and pitch their ideas for what a premiere episode following “What You Leave Behind” may find the DS9 crew – and hopes to somehow make the full “six to seven hours” of filmed discussion available to fans.
Regarding the participation of series lead Avery Brooks, there is still at this time no on-camera involvement from the station commander – and the documentary team says Brooks feels he has nothing new to contribute. He has, however, been provided several clips from the documentary, and Behr maintains that Brooks has given the project his “full support.”
The full panel, hosted by documentary director Adam Nimoy.
In terms of archival content featuring Brooks, the documentary team revealed that they not only have access to past interviews with the actor from The Captains and other documentary interview – but they also have film of all of Brooks’ on-stage appearances at Creation Entertainment Star Trek conventions to mine for clips to include.
Director Adam Nimoy also shared praise the documentary team has received from CBS, sharing that the studio not only supports the project but has also opened up their archives (photos, etc.) for the team to access – and in their quest to dig into the CBS vaults, the team is also planning to include original DS9 cast audition tapes in the documentary, and also expressed their hopes at digging up possible cut scenes and other deleted episodic content as part of the process.
Another fan at the STLV convention shares her feelings about DS9.
Just like many of you, we’re extremely excited at the prospects of all the opportunity to see this Deep Space Nine content when the documentary premieres next year – so keep checking back here to TrekCore for all the latest news on this project!
Star Trek™: Operation Enterprise – Der Offizielle Soundtrack” combines renown themes from the successful TV series and movies, with new pieces of music, exclusively composed for Movie Park German’s rollercoaster “Star Trek: Operation Enterprise.”
