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Originally Posted by Blaster86
I'm rewatching tng and I must say, the score as Picard is being revealed as Locutus is just super duper. The distorted TNG theme. The ominous monastery choir. I don't think I've ever paid this much attention to it and I dig it.
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
And right after this season they fired the composer of Star Trek seasons 1-3 and replaced it with Rick Berman's idea that Star Trek music should all be the music equivalent of beige.
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Ron Jones was the composer in question, and he was still around until near the end of season 4; his last work on the show was the score for season 4 episode 21, "The Drumhead".
But yeah, after that he was effectively replaced by Jay Chattaway, and he and Dennis McCarthy's scores in seasons 5-7 were almost universally bland and boring ("The Inner Light" being a pretty big exception). It continued through pretty much all of DS9 and Voyager too; a shame, because otherwise Star Trek was well known for the work of its composers.