Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan: "Epilogue” by James Horner (Score Reduction and Analysis)

[@DavidMcCaulley]

For more in-depth notes on the themes and motifs used in this cue, I'd check out this blog: cuebycue.blogspot.com/2016/03/star-trek-ii-wrath-of-khan-horner-1982.html.

[@r.i.p.volodya]

Please please please do Jerry Goldsmith's original "Alien" score!

[@DavidMcCaulley]

@@r.i.p.volodya I already have 6 cues from the original Alien score up! You can find them in this Jerry Goldsmith playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLTppbPjPyBSQ3joHONFfyjUAxfT7kWpH9

[@r.i.p.volodya]

@@DavidMcCaulley Thank you so much for the link!

[@notlobparrot3057]

When I want to *feel* music and disconnect my brain, I listen to this "Epilogue" cue straight through the "End Credits". Horner always wrote End Credit music that makes you want to stay to the end. His Rocketeer End Credits music is similarly incredible.

[@johntracy72]

I always get goosebumps when Leonard Nimoy speaks the Star Trek preamble beginning with "Space. The final frontier."

[@tomwheeler1082]

Pls make more of Star Trek! James Horner was such an incredible composer!

[@ComposerConductor]

I hope we get more James Horner! "The Perfect Storm," "A Beautiful Mind," "Titanic (Hard To Starboard, for example, great escape music), just to name a few.

[@johntracy72]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn will always be the best Star Trek movie ever, if not the best movie of all time. One does not have to be a Star Trek fan to appreciate how great this movie is.

[@stevenwatchorn9816]

One of the scores which started by love of the genre when my parents bought it and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" on cassette for me for Christmas in '82. Great to see it here.

[@psychokitty444]

Perfect score for a perfect ending. The use of a tritone in a heroic context for Spock's theme is especially brilliant.

[@galaxyclassvoyager]

Still one of the best sounding orchestral scores ever produced. The mix is phenomenal. Definitely my favorite score of Horner's, even though he directly took elements from his previous (and far lesser known) sci-fi endeavors.

[@johntracy72]

His score for Battle Beyond the Stars is also phenomenal.

[@enricoo.dastous6096]

Thank you David for this one, such a great score by Horner!

[@oscarmike1131]

0:19 how about that celli writing. Will forever be my favorite section of the orchestra. And some Krull would be great if you had that too

[@baptiste667]

1:53 too!

[@johntracy72]

I saw Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at the theater when in premiered in 1982. Great memories.

[@edmasters4454]

Just a quick "thank you" for the time and effort you put into preparing these. Really enjoy each and learn in the process - fantastic!

[@fnogueirascomposer]

Such a beautiful piece from the late James Horner!! Love the textures, simple but very emotional, thank you for sharing this!!

[@PL-px3gw]

Thank you thank you thank you! I'd love to see more star trek analyzed.

[@matthewdoebler6278]

More STAR TREK please!! James Horner’s “Wrath of Khan” score immediately got me hooked. After a while, I was like, “You know, underneath this incredible music is a pretty good movie, too!” All of the movies have fantastic scores, and a couple (like Jerry Goldsmith’s Star Trek V) rise WAY above the quality of the movie.

[@michaelfenn3531]

Hoping you might do the Genesis Countdown someday...?

[@publishscore1543]

At 1:53 the cellos notes are so amazing !

[@chrisridenhour]

Your doing the Lord's work

[@cbspock1701]

Do more Star Trek movie scores. My pick would be the enterprise cue from Star Trek the motion picture

[@jeffarwady]

This is great! Please do the end credits!

[@lewisinkpress]

Nicely done David!

[@Mikhael_bureau]

RIP, Brass master.

[@marcel_schweder-composer]

OMG!!! Thank you so much for this! I think I love you! ♥ :-)

[@dgmullin1]

1:54 - "Many Meetings" from Lord of the Rings - cello line inspired by this?

[@nano9285]

No. It's an extremely common motif in music

[@GuyVignati]

We want Michael Giacchino also! He did a marvelous work especially in Star Trek Beyond.

[@adamtrons]

Great job. So hauntingly beautiful. Thank you for your hard work on this. I always wanted to see the The Wrath of Khan epilogue in sheet music form. Unfortunately, the commercially available sheet music for STAR TREK is kind of poor or lacking. So it is great to see it here! I hope you can do the End Credits following this!!

[@brycerosenwald2915]

All the b6s at 1:53 really remind me of star wars.

[@MentalPictureMaker]

Awwww, the fast part is the part I really wanted to see. :(

[@AndrewBarracloughComposer]

This is fantastic thank you.

[@joeylodes]

Amazing

[@andreiter]

amazing! I would pay large to see you do the entire 1979 film "Amityville Horror" :-)

[@OrisStories]

Thank you so much!

[@tedsheridan8725]

Thank you! Please do the Main Title and/or End Credits!

[@iantaylor2331]

Nice work. Can you do genesis countdown please?

[@AdamBalasis]

Gah! Where is the rest?!? Seriously, though, awesome writing by Horner, and thorough analysis.

[@johnpaulchapman8937]

I love it.

[@calebjivamusic]

Hey, I know you probably have stuff lined up, but would you be able to do an analysis for Rescue from Cloud City / Hyperspace from The Empire Strikes Back? You may not even have it, but if you do, it would be really cool to see.

[@ikschrijflangenamen]

Don't let your Star Wars fanboy prevent you from joining Star Trek :) Just start with this movie, Wrath of Khan. Popularly established as one of if not the best Star Trek movie, and quite accessible for a first time viewer. It does its best to ignore the first movie, which is essentially an episode of the television series played at 50% speed with no further continuity whatsoever.

[@DavidMcCaulley]

Definitely! Just need to find some time to sit down to watch it. ;)

[@consonaadversapars]

But the first movie is the best one!

[@johntracy72]

I'm a unicorn in that I really like both Star Trek and Star Wars. I just wish that Disney had not screwed up the Star Wars franchise. I hope Paramount never sells Star Trek to Disney. It would suffer the same fate as Star Wars has.

[@tedsheridan8725]

How about Stealing the Enterprise from ST3?

[@historyloveriii2949]

Beautiful. Can we have eliminated the monologue?

[@AnthonyOTooleMusic]

Very nice! Never seen any of the Star Trek movies

[@sorartificial]

You cut at the best part, thanks though I know is a lot of work

[@lomion79]

Never seen Trek? Pfft. Even Lucas acknowledges the importance of Trek.

[@derekbates4316]

You don't get this from the Next Generation

[@TheLibrarianUU]

Ook!

[@Noontoons]

First

[@CTRNCC1701A]

Please more of anyone other than John Williams, he's not the end all be all of composers! More Horner! More Goldsmith!! More Newton Howard (The Fugitive would be nice) and even more Zimmer! And Star Wars sucks...

[@imfsresidentotaku9699]

No, it doesn't.