Search And Restore

Film Score Monthly and Screen Archives Entertainment are following up last year's expanded score of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan by doing the same for James Horner’s work on Star Trek III: The Search for Spock score

Star Trek III: The Expanded Soundtrack front cover

The original release of the Star Trek III score was on a single 43-minute LP/cassette. The FSM edition is on 2 CDs , both newly mastered from recording engineer Dan Wallin's first-generation digital film mixes.

Disc one features the complete score as intended for the film itself, including such long-desired cues as “Grissom Destroyed,” “A Fighting Chance to Live” (featuring the Enterprise’s self-destruct countdown and immolation in Genesis’s atmosphere) and “Genesis Destroyed.” In addition, previously unreleased film versions of cues such as “Klingons” and “Stealing the Enterprise” make their premiere, with differences that are subtle but noticeable to devoted fans.

Disc two features a recreation (in better sound quality) of the familiar LP sequence—complete with GROUP 87’s pop version of “The Search for Spock.”

There's also a 20-page booklet that features liner notes....

Star Trek III: The Expanded Soundtrack inside back cover uses original LP cover

DISC 1: Film Score

1. Prologue and Main Title 6:30
2. Klingons 5:57
3. Spock's Cabin 1:40
4. The Klingon's Plan 1:01
5. The Mind-Meld 2:31
6. Stealing the Enterprise 8:39
7. Grissom Destroyed 1:02
8. Sunset on Genesis 2:17
9. Spock Endures Pon Farr 3:04
10. Bird of Prey Decloaks 3:47
11. A Fighting Chance to Live 3:52
12. Genesis Destroyed 2:42
13. Returning to Vulcan 4:56
14. The Katra Ritual 4:30
15. End Titles 6:13
16. That Old Black Magic/Tangerine/I Remember You (Bar Source) 10:32

    Total Time: 69:45

DISC 2: Soundtrack Album

1. Prologue and Main Title* 6:29
2. Klingons* 5:56
3. Stealing the Enterprise* 8:34
4. The Mind-Meld 2:31
5. Bird of Prey Decloaks 3:46
6. Returning to Vulcan* 4:53
7. The Katra Ritual 4:30
8. End Titles 6:13
9. The Search for Spock: Theme From Star Trek III (Performed by Group 87) 3:42

This complete Star Trek III: The Search for Spock CD set begins shipping on June 1st, and can be pre-ordered now at www.screenarchives.com.

Not quite as good as the music from TWOK but still a must have for the as yet unreleased material and new sound mix--Can't Wait!