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That's Massacre from Season 4 (E19) and the final 4 episodes of Season 5, really good episodes.

I created a double playlist with both Delerue and Horner scores back to back. I called it Some Things Wicked This Way Come. 😂
 
Karol

Enrico Nicola Mancini
*16th April 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio
 

Managed to dig out the original 1986 CD recently, new edition is glorious 

I LOVED the ending. But the film wasn't quite worth the payoff. Oh, and that truck chase! OK, two things I loved about the film.

That kind of talk is what kept us from getting Doctor Who season 10!

Would they be re-releasing Brainstorm with the original score recordings?
 
I can dream ...

I'll be honest, with most scores, I tend to be perfectly fine with dropping the score's associated songs.
 
NIMH, though, is the exception.  Flying Dreams is as beautiful as the rest of the score, and I can't see myself ever listening to the score and skipping either of its iterations.  (It probably helps that I really only listen to it on special occasions.  I have plenty of other "comfort food" scores...  NIMH's a special treat that I don't want to over-listen to!)

STID: Star Trek Into Darkness. Popular enough to get a sequel. Beyond was the (good) movie that tanked Star Trek.

Featuring another excellent performance by Karen Allen!

I’ll watch it because it’s Star Trek and if it’s good then I’ll be happy.
 
The thing is, origin stories for certain aspects of Star Trek mythology would almost certainly be better as flashback episodes of shows set in TNG and beyond era. Even if the reason for the flashback was a bit cheesy… some “contemporary” issue where the origin provides a parallel that informs the “present” being the most obvious approach. Or time travel. Or a long lived alien they encounter. Or whatever someone with more imagination than me can think of. 
 
That way you get little glimpses of the history of the Star Trek universe without it being  the sole reason for the show or film’s existence. I mean First Contact effectively did that with the first warp flight and meeting the Vulcans. It didn’t need to be an entire show or film set in that era (ie with a brand new cast). 

That's not a bad take.
 
 
That puts them right into James Cromwell territory. Best of luck!

That's not a bad take.
 
 
That puts them right into James Cromwell territory. Best of luck!

Although I'm sure Lucas had a lot of input into this book - and especially the prologue - the book was principally the work of Alan Dean Foster and was only credited to Lucas to keep the appearance of the single visionary. In fact, the requirement to have the book credited to Lucas deterred his first choice of writer, Dan Glut.
 
All the "Whills" stuff is from Lucas' early drafts. Its basically his version of Burroughs' "Girdley Wave."
 
None of which is to go against your basic argument, of course.
 
Oh, and just one more thing I can't resist:
 
 
This is supposed to be in the background of the movie: The whole idea is that the Emperor is the lackey of the Imperial officers and, specifically, Tarkin, not the other way around. Tarkin's line "regional governors now have direct control over their territories" was obviously mean to be read more smug than it does in the film, being that Tarkin is a regional governor.

I see a lot of Star Wars Lucas in Andor, and I think just like Nicholas Meyer on Star Trek, Tony Gilroy did his research by going back to the beginning… the 1977 Star Wars. Or actually, maybe even earlier… the very first Star Wars media to be commercially released. The 1976 novel by… George Lucas:

 
And if we look at the very opening pages of Lucas’s most early published words about the world of Star Wars, we get the sense of an original conception not quite THX, but much more Andor than the prequel trilogy:


 
The Jedi Knights are mentioned for this setting, but in the background. Not a single one is named. There is no Darth Vader, supposedly the guy Lucas’s six-film saga is about, the prophesied one to bring balance to the Force? Hell, there is no “The Force” even mentioned here! (Compare that to the kinda similar crawls at the beginning of the movies.) Instead we get the vague “Journal of the Whills”… what the heck the whills?
 
Oh now wait a second… there is exactly ONE other piece of Star Wars media I’ve encountered where I’ve heard that term referenced again. What was it? Oh yeah! I think Tony Gilroy had a little something to do with this…
 
Okay so now we are getting somewhere. Notice the Leia Organa quote at the end as well — she is a “senator”, not a “princess”. And her quote *perfectly* fits… well, Andor himself! Don’t you think?
 
And also notice her fellow Senator, Palpatine, is NOT an evil wizard! He’s just a politician! A power-hungry politician who in fact isn’t some great mastermind, but once he takes power, gradually has it taken away *from* him by those he elevated, eventually ending up as little more than a figurehead of the Empire itself — the system he enabled eventually even consumed the Emperor, himself! Man, this sounds so much more like political sci-fi rather than space fantasy! It sounds so much more like… Andor.
 
And after the absolutely horrible prequels which attempted to cover this same time period, and the messy sequel trilogy that ended with an equally dumb (if far more entertaining) film to the prequels… MAN, do I kinda wish George Lucas had continued with his original, more Foundationy, vision for this world. And what Tony Gilroy has achieved with Andor is to somehow move more towards that while also reconciling it somewhat with all the filmed Star Wars world we’ve seen. It’s really an incredibly impressive feat, especially since the writing and the drama and the character development and the acting are all so powerful.
 
Yavar

I dunno. I loved Thor: The Dark World.

This could be funny. The Kelvin timeline was a kind of "eat your cake and have it" so they could say "No! We didn't get rid of classic Trek! Or TNG! It's ALL there. Just in another timeline!"
 
Well, if you go to before the Kelvin then that has to be Star Trek: Enterprise. (Or some time after.) Right where we left it. Right?

Well that's just bad parenting.

The simple truth is that, in every case, release order is the preferred order for watching a film series for the first time. 
 

That's only the comeback because it's true. Technically Darth Vader didn't kill Luke Skywalker, he only cut off his hand.
 
Alderaan's destruction is physically not very dramatic. It's a popping balloon. Even from the surface it would be a flash and then nothing.
 
Jedha was horrific devastation. But it was devastation that could be run from and escaped. If you watch Rogue One before Star Wars then, well, you need better friends who wouldn't let you do that. But if you did, then Alderaan is what is teased at in Rogue One. There's a whole planet left in Rogue One. In Star Wars it's just rubble. In an instant.
 
"The entire star fleet couldn't destroy the whole planet..." But I bet the entire star fleet could paste the hell out of a good chunk of it. What happens to Alderaan is unique.
 
Also we're told from the first moments of Star Wars that the Death Star can destroy a planet. That's not the drama. The drama is that this is the Princess' home planet.
 
Of course all of this is done away with if you accept the simple truth that the first Star Wars movie that one should ever watch is Star Wars. No one has made a film that could naturally be seen before it.

The difference between Nicholas Meyer's Wrath of Khan and Gilroy's Andor and to a lesser extent Rogue One: Meyer made a Star Trek movie that was in many ways more Star Trek than Star Trek. It wasn't trying to go in another direction. It was trying to get back to basics.
 
Andor is addressing the Star Wars universe and presenting it in a different way. Andor is like if Star Wars was a real place and Coppola or Fincher decided to make a movie there instead of Lucas.
 
Oh, and Starfleet is definitely a military. Before TNG that wasn't even a question. (Dammit. I slipped back into Star Trek.)

I did say "maybe". All I know is that whichever one I had I would be missing the other one.
 
Yes, II is bigger. 1 is spectacular in it's smallness.

The difference between Nicholas Meyer's Wrath of Khan and Gilroy's Andor and to a lesser extent Rogue One: Meyer made a Star Trek movie that was in many ways more Star Trek than Star Trek. It wasn't trying to go in another direction. It was trying to get back to basics.
 
Andor is addressing the Star Wars universe and presenting it in a different way. Andor is like if Star Wars was a real place and Coppola or Fincher decided to make a movie there instead of Lucas.
 
Oh, and Starfleet is definitely a military. Before TNG that wasn't even a question. (Dammit. I slipped back into Star Trek.)

Yes. Hellraiser II might be better. Or at least should be heard as a companion piece.