Best Science Fiction Theme?

[darue]

The opening theme for the Original Star Trek series is still my all time favorite, and I can remember it from when the show was on the first time. After that, the opening theme to Deep Space Nine, and the Stars War Theme by Meco.

There is also the music to the movie, Forbidden Planet. Just determined that is available from the iTunes store.

There are actually lyrics for the star trek theme...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZZcNdGyvVc (disco-ish version 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrckNMfQj6c (Nichelle Nichols sings varient of lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v1J-kGxXds (disco-ish version 2)

Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wand'ring in star-flight
I know
He'll find in star-clustered reaches
Love,
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.

Two great names to look for on youtube...

Alexander Courage
Dominic Frontiere

listed in no particular order


but at the end of the day... I gotta put my money on UFO... UFO...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pRmy2NktRc

of course, for a pure injection of nostalgia...
Fireball XL-5

 

[Thanos]

Just a warning. Once you hear those disco versions, you can't unhear them.

 

[darue]

oh but star wars and star trek were not the only themes that can dance... Couple versions by legendary arranger/composers...

disco Battlestar Galactric

disco Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001 "theme")

John William's Disco Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind (MECO does a version of this too)

 

[madmike]

Goign to post some differering ones within a quick list.

Dr Who (all of them)
UFO
Battlestar Galactica (orginal series)
Babylon 5 (all of them) but in particular the Battle of the Line
Star Trek
Colonial March (new BSG series)
Imperial March from SW
ST original series
Stargate movie and Stargate SG1

 

[Spinward Scout]

Starblazers

http://youtu.be/0H5xz8alVfo

 

[darue]

Starblazers

http://youtu.be/0H5xz8alVfo

I used to have a midi version of that as my ringtone

some other memorable ones:
Space Runaway Ideon


and heck, if anyone hasn't caught Macross Frontier yet, it's must see quality... checkout this pivotal moment...
Macross Quarter Reentry Full Edit
some more Macross Quarter glory
and as long as I'm plugging anime, the traveller community would love Legend of the Galactic Heroes

 

[Spinward Scout]

The Spiderman cartoon theme song.

http://youtu.be/fjGStNrkC0M

 

[Timerover51]

The Spiderman cartoon theme song.

http://youtu.be/fjGStNrkC0M

Good choice for the music. I did like that version.

 

[leo knight]

There are actually lyrics for the star trek theme...

As I understand it, the theme originally had no lyrics. Roddenberry wrote the unasked for lyrics, and appended them to the music without composer Alexander Courage's knowledge. He could then claim half the royalties for the music, thus screwing Alexander Courage out of half the money he might receive.

The Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_from_Star_Trek

 

[Spinward Scout]

I wave my hands above the grave...

I feel like some thread Necromancy tonite.

I didn't see anyone post:

 

[Grav_Moped]

Blue Danube Waltz -- Strauss

(AKA Imperial Standard Orbital Station Proximity Alert Tone)

 

[ady]

Which science fiction show, whether movie or TV series, has the best main theme?

Star Wars, of course, comes to mind. That's an amazing main theme.

I think Goldsmith's theme for Star Trek The Motion Picture is, likewise, amazing.

Star Trek has has some other very good themes--the title themes to Deep Space Nine and Voyager are exceptional. And, I love what Horner did with Star Trek II and III. Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country has a neat, dark, brooding theme. And Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home has an interesting theme, though not of the quality of these others I'm mentioning.

Of all the great sci-fi themes that exist, if I had to pick one as my favorite, I'd have to go with the main title them of the original Battlestar Galactica.

I just love that piece. Bold. Majestic. A suitable theme for a group of warriors battleing the odds against survival.

How about you.

Which sci-fi theme is your favorite?

I quite liked Battle Beyond the Stars as a setting for a Traveller campaign. I have run it a number of times set during the Long Night, a group of plucky adventurers in their fathers or grandfathers starships, banding together to protect a barely surviving colony against an bunch of Space Viking raiders. Exploring the ruins of a lost Empire (Rule of Man) and dealing with the oftne hostile and barely surviving remanants offers a lot of plot hooks.

 

[Condottiere]

Thundercats Intro 1985 8K (Remastered with Neural Network AI)

 

[kilemall]

The boys with all the toys- Thunderbirds are go! Repetition of launch sequences? Yes please!

Speaking of launch sequences, another countdown theme Lost in Space. 1960s moon shot zeitgeist!

 

[Dragoner]

Sea Wall from BR2049 was an awesome scene, and had great music to it:

Sunshine's Adagio in D Minor

Mars Theme by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

 

[RossWinn]

Not derivative at all…