The significance of composition in supplementing extratextual narrative: a topical cue analysis of Star Trek: discovery to provide narrative meaning within instrumentation
Journal: Open University of Cape Town (University of Cape Town)
Year: 2025

This dissertation is an exploration of the latest instalment of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Discovery. In its most rudimentary form, this is a study of the characteristics of the soundtrack, but intrinsically, it is an investigation into the extratextual narratives which the music conveys – the story the music tells – through its musical design. In a great sense, the narrative bases itself on the “Star Trek vision” which perpetuates progressive ideals, at times obstinately against the gr