Sir Hilary Bray

See, I wish I could've met the original Baltar -John Colicos. His roles on Star Trek and BSG78 leave a mark. I saw somewhere someone from BSG78 saying that he got so into the role and a bit over the top he had to scraped off the ceiling. I sort of met James Callis. I was in a post office on Baker Street when at university queuing up. This bloke walked away from the counter spilling pound coins which he had scooped up. Deffo James Callis. And I've only seen one or two Twilight Zone episodes sadly.

Capricon One- Goldsmith. Dirty Harry -Schifrin Found the Strip Club track catchier than usual and love The Cross but the best is the final track/Dawn Discovery. Sad sounding, meaningful somehow and at the time assuming that was going to be the only film, perfect way to end Harry's film life.

It's the best of a bad bunch though if features one of Glen A. Larson's favoured go-to actresses (seen her in Magnum etc). But the low budget tells by that point, that one panel of computers on Galactica you see when Boomer speaks to Adama. Like the late Mr Hatch I'd prefer to ignore BSG80 ever happened. I wrote on some other site once about my theories post BSG78 if the show had managed to keep going. Sent people asleep. But I loved BSG78 as a kid and I still do now. I know it's not the best thing but that and Star Trek were my things. Just wish I got the chance to meet him like everyone else on the net seemed to. Almost had the chance to meet Benedict but the Collectormania thing cancelled and I don't have money to come Stateside. Spaceball is hilarious as is, slightly less so, Night the Cylons Landed -Larson supposedly wrote a line about meatballs to wind up the censor. I will one day. If Hatch could've slipped into it I can. He joked about having Benedict appear in it as a drunk priest or something I think.

Quietly devastating to someone who grew up watching the show. As I've said elsewhere, the show left quite a mark on me as a kid -blind as I was to the Star Wars influence. At its heart the partnership of Apollo and Starbuck inspired me a little. Watching Saga of a Star World there's a sense of what might have been. Apollo had some great moments for Hatch -how he told Boxey of Serina's death, talking to the Alliance council in Experiment in Terra ("We thought the opposite of war was peace, instead we found it was slavery.") and a few others inbetween. I only saw up to Season 2 of the new BSG but his face was a welcome one. RIP.

In light of the sad news about Richard Hatch during the night, revisiting the original Battlestar Galactica with Saga of a Star World. The movie that started it all. When I was first saw this nigh on fifteen years ago now it left such a mark. Well, here's to Apollo.

Not too shabby as far as Trek TV music to come. As far as Voyager goes, music from Equinox would be enough.

Force 10 from Navarone/Operation Crossbow- Goodwin Some bits from Airwolf- Sylvester Levay and selected tracks from Star Trek III expanded. Stealing the Enterprise never fails, considering how often I've heard it this is a small miracle. Always that build up to the Enterprise breaking out of space-dock ("You're just going to walk through them?"/"Calm yourself doctor.") and the triumphant exiting. Oh, and James Bond with Bongos [from] From Russia With Love

John Barry- The Dove and The Knack. The former had that certain effect that I can't elaborate on. I've never seen the Dove but the score conjured images of Alpine scenery, the Med and so on. Nelson Riddle's Batman the Movie. Quincy Jones' The Italian Job -Getta Bloomin' Move On/Self Preservation Society always infectious. Airplane II- Richard Hazard/Elmer Bernstein Hard to guage -half Bernstein's material from the first film and half, more or less, Stu Phillips' Battlestar work from Saga of a Star World.

Definitely Parsons. Paul Merton says he's been around since the Stone Age so must be Parsons. Rumour has it he and Larry King interviewed Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Eden.

Galaxy Quest, Newman Robin & Marian, Barry The Swarm, Stagecoach- Goldsmith Heroes of Telemark, Arnold Dirty Harry & Magnum Force- Lalo Schifrin Listening to Rogue One after buying it Friday, not bad on the initial listen. Hope is probably my pick so far but, without reading the thread, the AT-ACT assault track sounded like shades of Battle in the Snow. That clanking sound in Empire... A man has to know his limitations.

Does it count if you dream listening to something? Robin & Marian's Love Theme (John Barry) seemed etched in my sleep. That and it lingers in the mind anyway.

One of the greats this country's produced. For me, his roles in Tinker Tailor and I, Claudius will stay in the memory for years. Surely had one of the finest voices. Great shame. RIP

Keep them. Still have my Bond and Trek OST's in spite of spending more on expanded's. Can't imagine anyone would buy the original's really. Or in the case of Star Trek Beyond, curse the fact that the day you buy the OST, the expanded is announced.

Batman The Movie- Nelson Riddle Rogue One- Giacchino fantastically expensive for Beyond Deluxe right now but that'll follow.

Talk about Cardassian oppression for sixty seconds without deviation, hesitation or repetition

Mind boggles really.

Thanks, I'll be sure to try and find the Blu. -- Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Herrmann. High Road to China -John Barry and Jerry Fielding's Gray Lady Down Always seemed indifferent to Fielding. I don't mind him as such but sometimes the score doesn't sit right first off and then bam, it does. Swings and roundabouts.

Poledouris -Free Willy, Robocop Goldsmith, Night Crossing, Planet of the Apes and Escape from the Planet of the Apes Russell Garcia's The Time Machine and after having it almost a month, Ben-Hur. Mine is a 2CD release which must pale to the massive release from FSM, five discs I think it is. Great soundtrack though.

BEST SCORES OF 2016: Only listened to Beyond TOP 10 BEST TRACKS OF 2016: Night on the Yorktown. BEST CATALOG TITLES OF 2016: N/A FILM SCORE LABEL OF THE YEAR: Intrada BEST FILMS OF 2016 Rogue One (this and Beyond were my only '16 films) SPECIFIC HIGHLIGHTS OF 2016: Rogue One (at that, a brand new Star Wars movie outside of the trilogies) SPECIFIC DISAPPOINTMENTS OF 2016: Star Trek Beyond

Basil Poledouris' Robocop and parts of Star Trek Enterprise Collection. ENT had some good bits but as with DS9/VOY, the difference to Ron Jones' work on TNG is great.

Always.

The Empire Strikes Back planned on doing so as I ended 2015 the same way but it took on a certain resonance with the news this week. Still the best of the bunch.

original Return of the Jedi. Been ages since I heard the Yub-nub bit (and so accustomed had I become to the Special Edition version) that it came as a bit of a surprise. Bemused surprise at that. Followed up with the original Episode IV and as with ROTJ have gotten so used to how it was presented on the Special Edition releases. Empire takes me back as when I was little, my Dad leant me his cassette he brought of the score in 1980 (always strike me as odd for his collection was predominantly John Barry and to this day I've not known anyone else slip into that collection, well, bewilderingly Horner's Iris) for me to listen on my new player. Thus borne an everlasting love for the Han Solo & The Princess Theme. Sort of miss the days when soundtracks were fresh to my ears before I knackered them repeatedly.

Selection of tracks from the original Star Wars trilogy* plus Geoff Love's rendition of Princess Leia's Theme. *Episode IV- Hologram/Binary Sunset, Burning Homestead, Ben Kenobi's Death/TIE Fighter Attack, Battle of Yavin, Throne Room Episode V- Aboard the Executor, Battle of Hoth/Battle in the Snow, Asteroid Field, Carbon Freeze, Clash of Lightsabers, Rescue from Cloud City, End Titles Episode VI- Main Title, Pit of Carkoon, The Emperor Arrives, Luke & Leia, Battle of Endor II, Battle of Endor III, Leia's News/Light of the Force

"Well, so long princess."