I'm very fond of the first two Jon & Vangelis albums, and about half of the third. "So Long Ago, So Clear" from Vangelis' Heaven and Hell is a marvelous, underrated ballad in full '70s synth glory.

Here's another one for ya:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Funnily enough, getting Estelle Getty's likeness rights is the object of the forthcoming Entertainment & Celebrity Licensing Lawyer's Clue board game.

Yup.

Maybe Freddie was talking to his brownie.

Huh. Sure looks like it is. Oh well, I ain't fickle.

If they make it abundantly clear that this is in the Kelvin timeline, rather than trying to shoehorn it into the Prime, I'm fine with the aesthetic choices. Regardless, I'll give it a shot.

I considered my wording when I wrote the post, and I chose "dated" rather than "outdated" for that reason. Marrying the two together to me has a peculiar effect.

The remainder being Mairzy Doats dubstep.

Hail, hail, fire and snow
Call the Mayor, we will go
Far away, for to see
Crack pipe Mayor, come to me

I actually kinda like "The Cage"-era designs. It seems pretty clear that an executive took one look at the monochromatic and muted bridge and costume colour schemes and said, "We gotta sell colour TVs, so change all of this." Also: everyone's in pants; no miniskirts here (Susan Oliver excepted).

There's shooting Discovery in Toronto. So, I guess more alien…escarpments? And I presume the standard backlot for the post-apocalyptic city will be played by Scarborough.

Share your pain. Share your pain with me, and gain strength from the sharing.

Coming this fall to CBS:

I do like both, but I get what you mean. Probably speaks to a larger trend in contemporary film scoring as well.

I distinctly remember when a friend and I saw the Tom Hanks and John Candy movie Volunteers 30 years ago, and our biggest laugh came when James Horner once again trotted out the Khan horn flourish for something as mundane as a helicopter appearing.

That's takin' the Mickey One out of ol' Beatty and Penn.

Although this does kind of make me want to do a cut of Tron: Legacy with Wendy Carlos music.

Paradoxically, this has the effect of making both the film and the score feeling even more dated, and the Legacy score's only what, six years old?

And shootin' up banks and gas stations while doing so.