From: davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Same for DS9 intro (was Re: TNG music trax suck)
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:47:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: eburke@csugrad.cs.vt.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 05:45:11 GMT
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>>>>> On 25 Jan 93 05:45:11 GMT, eburke@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Eli Burke) said:

> Several comments: 

> First, Gene is dead now. DSN is a departure from his strict "vision" of how
> ST must work. (Mainly the no contention between Big E crew members rule).

What is that "vision"?  Does this mean that DS9 has no "vision"?  Although I
mentioned Gene, what I meant was that DS9's opening sequence should lay out
what its vision of the future is (good, bad, or indifferent).

> Second, you think that the DSN music is not up to par with TNG music. Well,
> have you ever listened carefully to the music instead of going for the
> disection straight away? The deep bass overtones give it a grandeur and
> darkness not present in TNG. It still sends chills up and down my arms.

The DS9 music is all right, but (so far as I can hear) it seems to lack the
"catch phrase" that makes it truly memorable (in the way STTOS, Star Wars,
Close Encounters or Superman had that short musical phrase by which you
immediately knew it).

> Third, why a voice over?  It gets a tad bit stale hearing it over and over.
> Just like the same variations on TOS music through the movies and TNG.

Don't you think the music will become stale real quick?  I mean, why even have
such an opening sequence?  Why not just put up a picture showing the title of
the series and then go right into the show?  Kung Fu tried a totally musical
opening, but it had the back drop of real scenes from the show to offset
(somewhat!) the boring nature of the opening.

>>Space -- the final frontier,
>>but even in the final frontier,
>>there are ... frontiers.
>>These are the stories of
>>the crew of Deep Space Nine.
>>The shining sentinel between
>>a world almost lost to despair
>>and a galaxy full of possibilities.
>>Its mission -- to find a balance
>>between the realities of the past
>>and the greatness that is yet to be...

> cute, but really now... ;-)

Hey, I tried  :-)

I was just looking for something that would state the vision of DS9.  In my
mind, that vision differs from STTOS/STTNG.  The vision of the other shows
seemed to be that there are lots of fantastic possibilities out there waiting
to be discovered and we all should continue to look to a better future.  DS9's
vision, on the other hand, seemed to be saying that, yeah there are great
possibilities for the future, but we shouldn't forget that we have to balance
that with the here and now.  All right -- so I'm a fanatic...  ;-)
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