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I'm currently at music school (where I'm not a music major, but EVERYONE I KNOW is), and so the first thing that struck me about the new movie's score was how...unmemorable it was. I literally can't remember a single line from it, and I usually walk out of theatres humming. So I'm assuming that it was Typical Action Movie Score, which is kind of unfortunate.

I did read somewhere (I can't remember where, sorry) that the composer had been asked to stay away from the TOS theme, explicitly if not stylistically. I'm not sure what the decision-makers in that scenario thought they were accomplishing by that, but apparently it upset the fans enough that the next movie's music will be closer to the older ST scores.

My one gripe with the new movie is the lack of "OMG, space is big!" feeling that TOS was so suffused with. I'm kind of glad the score didn't try to reflect that (since it WASN'T THERE) but I'm hoping that future movies go back to the theme of exploration.