Star Trek: Variations

Covers - Cover version collection -

This is the list of cover songs of the Star Trek music.
Newly added or updated items are listed first.
Comments for each piece are my personal opinion.

Star Trek (The Original Series)
List of the cover tunes of the original series main theme. Newly added or updated.

Theme from Star Trek / THE AMERICAN MILITARY BAND
	Music of the Air Force / THE AMERICAN MILITARY BAND [detail]
	1996 Documentary Recordings : No.690CD
	Amazon.com
	"ST4: The Voyage Home" main title and TOS theme medley played by the American military brass band.

Star Trek / HOUSE OF SWANK
	Ladies and Gentlemen / HOUSE OF SWANK [detail]
	2001 House of Swank : HOS1593
	Amazon.com
	TOS theme in bossanova/swing version.

Star Trek / PAUSE CAFE
	Pause Cafe / PAUSE CAFE [detail]
	2002 Crepuscule : TWI 1113
	Amazon.com
	Pause Cafe consists of French jazz studio musicians. Quite standard jazz style.

Theme from "Star Trek" / JUDY ROBERTS
	Watercolors / JUDY ROBERTS [detail]
	2000 Planet Jazz Records : CD3816
	Amazon.com
	The vocal version with lyric by Gene Roddenberry. The tune is in the style of jazz/contemporary. There is another vocal version by Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), but its lyric isn't by Roddenberry.

Surf Trek (Star Trek Theme) / THE RUBINOOS
	Paleophonic / THE RUBINOOS [detail]
	2000 Varese Sarabande : 302 066 133 2
	Amazon.com \| Amazon.co.jp
	Surf music version of TOS theme. (Thanks to Scott Carrier)

Star Trek / UTOPIA
	Demos and Lost Albums / TODD RUNDGUREN [detail]
	2001 Nippon Crown : CRCL-7707/08
	Amazon.com
	A disco/rock version by Todd Rundgren's old band "Utopia." It was recorded in 1976, but has not been released until 2001. (Thanks to Bill Simoneau)

Star Trek Movies
Cover versions of the music from the soundtrack of Star Trek Movies.

Theme from Star Trek / BOB JAMES
	Hands Down [+1] / BOB JAMES [detail]
	2002 Victor Entertainment, Inc., Japan : VICJ-60980
	Amazon.com
	A fusion/disco version of "ST: The Motion Picture" main title covered by Bob James. The tune was originally released as EP single in 1979. The piece that contained in CD album is a long version of EP single. (Thanks to Ajito)

Star Trek Main Title / FRANK SERAFINE
	(single) Star Trek Main Title / FRANK SERAFINE
	1980 Discomate : DSP-204

	Frank Serafine, who is a special sound effects artist of the movie "ST: The Motion Picture", covered Jerry Goldsmith's main title. The tune was arranged by Ken Shima and played mainly with the synthesizers. (Thanks to Ajito)

A Star Beyond Time / SHAUN CASSIDY
	(single) A Star Beyond Time / SHAUN CASSIDY
	1980 WB/CURB : P-541W

	A vocal cover version of "Ilia's Theme" from the movie "ST: The Motion Picture." Featuring lyrics written by L. Kusik. According to liner notes of "ST:TMP 20th Anniversary Collectors' Edition Soundtrack," the recording was released only as a promotional single. But in Japan, this song was commercially released. (Thanks to Ajito)

Star Beyond Time / SILVER SCREEN ORCHESTRA (?)
	Star Tracks / SILVER SCREEN ORCHESTRA [detail]
	1997 Disky Communications Europe B.V. : DC881572
	Amazon.de
	Film Musik Sound Tracks / STARFIELD ORCHESTRA
	Gallery Collection : 45-008

	A different version of "A Star Beyond Time." (see above) Featuring female singer.

Theme from Star Trek / THE AMERICAN MILITARY BAND
	Music of the Air Force / THE AMERICAN MILITARY BAND [detail]
	1996 Documentary Recordings : No.690CD
	Amazon.com
	"ST4: The Voyage Home" main title and TOS theme medley played by the American military brass band.

Theme from Star Trek: First Contact / GRADY NICHOLS
	Mysterious Intentions / GRADY NICHOLS [detail]
	1997 Grady Nichols, LTD.
	Amazon.com
	A sax player Grady Nichols covered "ST: First Contact" main theme. A very romantic and beautiful version in smooth-jazz/new-age style.

Sorry, the list below is still in old format.

Star Trek Star Trek: The Next Generation / ANGIAKY: album: Startrek Strikes Back; Italian DJ's remix.
Star Trek Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Voyager: / APOLLO 2000; album: Out of This World; All four TV series themes played with synthesizers are in one album. But these are terrible. I don't recommend.
Theme from Star Trek / THE AURATONES: single: Theme from Star Trek; Funky danceable version.
Star Trek Voyager: 808's in Space / BASS TUBE: album: Television's Greatest Bass Volume 2; This is a low-frequency-enhanced Voyager theme. There is no specific arrangement. Just a loud sound of bass.
Theme from Star Trek / DEODATO: album: Very Together; Brazilian composer/arranger Deodato covered Star Trek theme in 1976. It's a nice fusion/disco style dance tune.
Theme from "Star Trek" / CHARLES R. GREAN: album: Leonard Nimoy presents Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space; Pop version of 60's psychedelic taste.
Star Trek Theme / CRAIG HUXLEY: album: Genesis Project; Craig Huxley was a child actor who played Kirk's nephew Peter in an episode of original TV show. Years after that, he composed additional music for the scene of Genesis Project in the movie "Star Trek II" and "Star Trek III". He performs Star Trek theme with synthesizers and his self-made instrument called "Blaster Beam".
Star Trek: The Next Generation / DANIEL CAINE: album: Fantastic Television Themes; An orchestra version by Daniel Caine featuring Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Star Trek: The Next Generation / DAVIE ALLAN AND THE ARROWS: album: The Wild Angels and Other Themes; Instrumental rock version of The Next Generation main title. Check out this CD's jacket photo! You can hardly believe that this album contains Star Trek music. :-)
Star Trek / DR. FINK: album: Best of Sci-Fi; Medley of TOS and TNG performed with synthesizers. It's better to listen MIDI files with good sound card.
Starship Edelweiss / EDELWEISS: album: Wonderful World of Edelweiss; Eurobeat version of theme from the original series. This piece is not pure Star Trek theme but mixture with song called "Beam Me Up". Nevertheless, this is a nice performance full of sound effects.
Beam Me Up -Warp Factor- Beam Me Up -NPi- / EDELWEISS: single: Beam Me Up; Two remixes of the song "Beam Me Up" contain theme from Star Trek. Design of this CD's jacket is very funny. Check it out!
Star Trek / THE FEDERATION: album: Themes from the 60's Volume Three; Pop version in which keyboard plays main melody.
Star Trek / G.S.O.: album: Science Fiction Movie Themes
Theme from 'Star Trek' / GEOFF LOVE and His Orchestra: album: Star Wars and Other Space Themes
Theme from Star Trek / HENRY MANCINI AND HIS ORCHESTRA: album: Batman - TV Theme Song Collection; Played by Henry Mancini.
Theme from Star Trek / HIEROGLYPHS: album: Ani-Dance USA
Star Trek:Voyager - in the style of R. STRAUSS: / HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER SYMPHONY; album: Mozart TV; On this album, several TV themes were played in the style of great classical composers. Main title from Voyager was arranged to sounds-like Richart Strauss.
Star Trek / JOHN KEATING: album: Space Experience / Space Experience 2
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Main Title Star Trek: The Television Show - Main Theme: / JOHN WILLIAMS conducting THE BOSTON POPS; album: Space-Taculars; John Williams's performance. I like his music very much, but I don't like he plays Star Trek.
Star Trek / KOTO: album: Plays Science-Fiction Movie Themes; An electric pop version. Some dialogues were sampled from original TV, and used in this piece.
Ultra Quiz Main Theme (Theme from Star Trek)
Ultra Quiz Theme March (Theme from Star Trek): / KUNIO YOSHIDA(arr.); album: America-oudan Ultra Quiz Original Soundtrack; "America-oudan(Trans-America) Ultra Quiz" was a successful Japanese TV program. In early days of the show, "Maynard Ferguson's Star Trek" was used as theme music, and later, replaced by this tune.
Star Trek / LICK: album: TV Terror; Definitely, most bizarre version of Star Trek theme. It sounds like some horror movie soundtrack. Yes, of course, it's the concept of this album.
Star Trek/ LOOP GURU
Star Trek (Doomsday Theme) / INFORMATION SOCIETY: album: Sci-Fi Cafe; This album is a compilation of TV/Movie themes in ambient-house style, and contains two Star Trek materials. The one is the original series theme done by Loop Guru. The other is based on a piece from the original series episode "The Doomsday Machine", performed by Information Society.
Star Trek Theme / MARTY RIFKIN: album: Steelin' the Hits; album: Totally Hot Nashville Steel Guitar
Theme From Star Trek / MAYNARD FERGUSON: album: Conquistador; Maynard Ferguson is a Jazz/Fusion trumpet player. This album's producer Jay Chattaway became one of the composers of continuing Star Trek TV series.

This piece is also contained in "The Best of Maynard Ferguson"(Columbia CK-36361), "Maynard Ferguson Greatest Hits"(CBS/SONY 25AP-2026), "Gonna Fly Now"(CBS/SONY FCCP 301184) and "Army-Reserve-Maynard Ferguson"(bootleg?). (Thanks to Yutaka Tsutsumi who runs a website about Maynard Ferguson)
Theme From "Star Trek" / MAYNARD FERGUSON: album: Hot; Another version by Maynard Ferguson. This album isn't released as CD. (Thanks to Yutaka Tsutsumi)
Star Trek Medley, Pt.1 / MECO: album: The Best of Meco; The Motion Picture main title and The Original Series theme medley in 80's disco sound. TMP theme takes almost part of this piece, so we can hear only short phrase of TOS theme. This song was originally issued in the album "Music from Star Trek and The Black Hole"(1980).

The LP "Music from Star Trek and The Black Hole" also contains classical-disco versions of "Klingon theme","Ilia's theme" (these two are from first film) and "Theme from Star Trek (TOS)". (Thanks to Fred Nelson)
Theme from Star Trek / MONTEFIORI COCKTAIL: album: Raccolta N^o 1; A version in the style of lounge music. Sweet sax and colorful electric sound matched together and made a nice atmosphere. In latter part of the song, the rhythm changed to rumba. Interesting.
Where No Mandolin Has Gone Before - a/k/a Star Trek: / NASHVILLE MANDOLIN ENSEMBLE; album: Plectrasonics; Can you image Star Trek theme played by mandolins? It sounds like Tribble's coo, and makes listener at ease. Quite a nice piece.
Star Trek / NEIL NORMAN & His Cosmic Orchestra: album: Greatest Science Fiction Hits
Star Trek The Motion Picture: / NEIL NORMAN & His Cosmic Orchestra; album: Greatest Science Fiction Hits II
Vina's Dance / NEIL NORMAN & His Cosmic Orchestra: album: Greatest Science Fiction Hits III; single: Star Trek: Encounters
Star Trek: Encounters: / NEIL NORMAN & His Cosmic Orchestra; album: Greatest Science Fiction Hits IV; single: Star Trek: Encounters
Theme From "Star Trek" / NICHELLE NICHOLS: album: Out of This World; Uhura sings Star Trek theme with the lyric.
Star Trek -Tekkno Radio Version- Star Trek -The Tekkno Mix- / ORION: single: "Star Trek" Tekkno Mix; Jacket photo comes from the original series, but this song is a remix of TNG theme.
Star Trek / P. DE SEVILLE & O. TOUSSAINT: album: Lo Mejor del Sintetizador
Theme from Star Trek / THE PHIL WOODS QUINTET: album: Bouquet; This album was recorded at a jazz concert. Therefore, major part of this piece is improvisation. I'm not jazz fan, so I was bored.
Star Trek for Jazz Guitar / THE POSH: album: Instrumentally Yours
Star Trek / RICHARD HAMMILTON ORCHESTRA: album: Ougon-Jidai Series - Gaikoku TV Theme Hen; album: Themes from the Un-X-Pected; album: Invasion Day
Star Trek I / RICHIE COLE: album: Popbop; Richie Cole is an alto-sax player of jazz field.
Fanfare from Star Trek / REMIX CO.: album: Cine Remix
Star Trek The Wrath of Khan The Search for Spock: / Silver Screen Orchestra; album: Star Tracks
Star Beyond Time: / Silver Screen Orchestra; album: Star Tracks; / Starfield Orchestra; album: Film Music Sound Tracks
Startrek (Raumschiff Enterprise)
Medley (Batman/Startrek/Jeannie/Simon Templar): / STEVEN D. CLARK; album: SAT.1 presents TV's Greatest Hits II
Theme from Star Trek - Dream Version / TWO OF GALAXY: single: Theme from Star Trek - Dream Version; A version in dream-house style. Only the phrase of intro part of Star Trek theme was used.
Theme from Star Trek / VAN McCOY: album: The Hustle and the Best of Van McCoy; A 70's disco style version. This tune was originally released in vinyl album "The Real McCoy"(1976).
Star Trek / THE VENTURES: album: NASA's 25th Anniversary Commemorative Album; The Ventures played Star Trek. Let's surf on the shore of galaxy!
Theme from "Star Trek" / THE VENTURES: album: Tele-Ventures; The Ventures' another version.
Star Trek: Voyager - Main Title / LE VOYAGE: album: Star Trek 30 Years A Tribute; single: Star Trek: Voyager - Main Title; Pop version of Voyager main title.
Theme from Star Trek / WALTER MURPHY: album: Themes from ET the Extra-Terrestrial; Walter Murphy had a classical-disco hit in 1975 with "A Fifth of Beethoven". His original series theme is a slightly jazzed up disco style. I've been told that it is like Meco's version. (Thanks to Fred Nelson)
Theme from Enterprise / WARP 7: album: Techno Goes to Hollywood; Techno remix of TOS theme.
Star Trek TV Theme Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Star Trek: The Next Generation / (unknown): album: Science Fiction Themes
Star Trek the Movie Star Trek / (unknown): album: Hallelujah Hollywood!
Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek / (unknown): album: TV America

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