Gonna Nerd out for a Bit

I’m watching J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek at the moment (certain to become a Thanksgiving tradition in whatever house I wind up living in), and I’m paying extra attention to the film score by Michael Giacchino, and it really is a fucking marvel.  It’s modern, and it’s epic, but it’s filled with these little touches of the original series’ music without ever being too on the nose.  For instance, in the opening scene, when Nero orders the captain of the USS Kelvin onto his ship, there’s this little burst of drums, a classic Star Trek musical cue.  This sort of thing is scattered all through the movie, but it never becomes a “greatest hits” piece of Star Trek music.  Just like the film itself it is a delicate balance of old and new, tradition and reinvention, and it’s one of the finest film scores I’ve heard in a long, long time.  It it weren’t the music to a Star Trek movie, a lot more people would be talking about it, I think.

That is all.  Sorry for getting nerd-juice all over you.