{"id":7383,"date":"2009-09-24T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T19:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2009-09-24T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T19:20:33","slug":"star-wars-score-edges-star-trek-in-music-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/09\/star-wars-score-edges-star-trek-in-music-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Score Edges Star Trek In Music Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Total Sci-Fi<\/em>&#8216;s Best Sci-Fi Movie Soundtrack Of All Time is out and a <em>Star Trek<\/em> score finished second to <em>Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Williams<\/strong>&#8216; score for the original <em>Star Wars<\/em> has been named the best sci-fi movie soundtrack of all time in a new <em>Total Sci-Fi<\/em> poll.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Star Trek<\/em> fans can take heart, as <strong>James Horner<\/strong>&#8216;s score for <em>Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan<\/em> took second place, followed by <strong>Vangelis<\/strong>&#8216; <em>Blade Runner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With his score for <em>Star Wars<\/em>, John Williams created one of the most iconic and unforgettable soundtracks of all time,&#8221; said <em>Total Sci-Fi<\/em> Editor <strong>Matt McAllister<\/strong>. &#8220;Most people could identify the movie from just a few bars of the main title music, and Williams&#8217; work across all of the <em>Star War<\/em>s movies really does create a palpable sense of intergalactic space battles and galaxy-spanning adventures. For many moviegoers, this is now the definitive sound of science fiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerry Goldsmith<\/strong>&#8216;s score from <em>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em> placed fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The top ten scores were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Star Wars<\/em> &#8211; <strong>John Williams<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan<\/em> &#8211; <strong>James Horner <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Blade Runner<\/em> &#8211; Vangelis<\/li>\n<li><em>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Jerry Goldsmith<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Flash Gordon<\/em> &#8211; Queen<\/li>\n<li><em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Richard and Johann Strauss, Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Bernard Herrmann <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em> &#8211; <strong>John Williams <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Aliens <\/em>&#8211; James Horner<\/li>\n<li><em>Transformers the Movie<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Vince DiCola, Stan Bush<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total Sci-Fi&#8216;s Best Sci-Fi Movie Soundtrack Of All Time is out and a Star Trek&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2933,2932,2930,2931],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-goldsmith","tag-horner","tag-music","tag-williams"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7386,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}