Star Trek, The Original Series, had a genuinely weird theme "song" which at first I thought was hilariously inapropos. In recent years, I have come to appreciate some merit to its unholy fusion of a furtive swing beat, run-of-the-mill fanfare, and a primary level scales exercise. The ambition of the Trek universe, after all, was to showcase worlds we had never seen before, so it is but proper that its theme music be in a style no one had heard before. Besides, it arguably is as educated an estimation of 23rd century music as the house music of Mos Eisley Cantina is of longtime-ago-in-far-far-away-galaxy music.
It has been reported today that Alexander Courage, the man who composed the Star Trek theme in 1966, had died a few weeks ago. He had a distinguished career in film and television, but it will be for Star Trek that he will be remembered, especially if they continue coming out with reiterations such as this, from the 2005 Emmy Awards:
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