Interesting Musical Note on "Aliens"

Rating: Null/10 (9 October 1999)

IMDB user Collins writes about Aliens: ...On top of that, the pulsing music that plays while Bishop is speeding them away from the exploding compound and while Ripley is booting the Queen Alien out into space is beyond comparison...
I did a little research, and a lot of the music from Aliens is in fact borrowed from Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982). The original music for that film was also done by James Horner, who is credited as having done music for Aliens. The music from the scene Collins describes where Bishop is piloting the ship away from the exploding nuclear plant is the same music used in several key chase scenes in ST II. It worked equally as well in that movie. I've also heard that particular piece in a numerous action-movie trailers, even though the piece was not actually used in the film it was promoting. I do agree that it's a great suspense-building piece of music, and apparently so do a lot of movie producers.
Also, the slower music used at the beginning and over the credits of Aliens is from "Ballet Suite Gayaneh" by Aram Khachaturyan, a piece which was also used in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Patriot Games (1992).
Just an interesting sidebar, I thought.