The soundtrack to "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", and beyond

Trekmovie.com has a nice tribute to the soundtrack of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" as part of their week-long celebrations of the first Star Trek movie.

Jerry Goldsmith was, frankly, an amazing composer with a wide range and willingness to experiment with new instruments and techniques (with regards to "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", the blaster beam). Amongst the Star Trek films, Jerry Goldsmith's scores crowd the top soundtracks in the film franchise ("The Motion Picture", "The Final Frontier", "First Contact", "Insurrection", and even "Nemesis"). His work outside Star Trek was also outstanding. (Two very different and effective soundtracks for two very different movies from the top of my head include "Mulan" and "The Omen".)

Aside from the movies (Star Trek or otherwise) that were blessed with Goldsmith's music, the Star Trek franchise has been lucky to have good to excellent music for all of its movies.