This is awesome! I'd been thinking lately that maybe TOS's soundtrack took some inspiration from Gustav Holst's Jupiter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-LNkuqq6g), but I wasn't sure why-- after reading this I was like, hah, it is the fourths! They really are evocative of Star Trek and knowing they weren't in the new movie soundtrack explains a lot about why it felt off.

Thanks for writing this!

(aolian on LJ)