Star Trek XI - Enterprising Young Men video

Michael Giacchino, composer of considerable talent takes on the new Star Trek film which is a reboot for the franchise. It's not abandoning the previous stories as the movie is both a sequel and a prequel, and there is enough in the film to probably to confuse anyone. It was almost a forgone conclusion that Giacchino would be given the assignment of scoring the new Star Trek movie as soon as JJ Abrams was announced to be directing a new Trek film. Giacchino has worked on several of Abrams television projects, and on his directorial debut with Mission Impossible. Giacchino has had a busy career as of lately so it's amazing that he actually found time to score this movie, and to be honest I'm a little disappointed by it. I've never been very impressed with Giacchino's work but I never thought he was a bad composer, I just have never been able to get into his work. Maybe it's because it's a Star Trek I expected so much more, something that would truly blow me away, and I didn't get that with this score. As heard here in "Enterprising Young Men" (one of the albums highlights I believe) Giacchino uses his main theme for Star Trek, and it does sound very similar to Alexander Courages' original main theme. It sounds like a mutated form of Courages' theme, and I do like it quite a bit, but it's not quite as memorable as Goldsmiths, Horner's, or even Eidelman's themes. Giacchino would incorporate the original Courage theme into the score but like David Arnold did for "Casino Royal ...