20 Things You Never Knew About Star Trek: Insurrection

5. He's Back, Back, Back Again - Jerry Goldsmith To The Rescue

Star Trek: Insurrection was Jerry Goldsmith's fourth Star Trek score, and it reuses many of the themes that originated in The Motion Picture. The main Enterprise theme, along with the Klingon march, both make an appearance, so too does Alexander Courage's six-note motif. The soundtrack features a brand new theme for the Ba'ku, but no theme for the S'ona.

This was deliberate. Goldsmith wanted to include a clue in the score that the S'ona and Ba'ku were the same race. Therefore, there is only an action cue that plays over their scenes, one interchangeable with the rest of the action music in the film.

The Ba'ku theme that appears in the first scene sets the scene for the lighter tone of this film compared to Star Trek: First Contact, which opened with a sinister rendition of what would become the Borg theme. The Ba'ku theme then reappears at the end of the film, as things have been set to rights again. This would be Goldsmith's second-to-last project for Star Trek, as he would return for Star Trek: Nemesis.

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